News and notes from the first weekend of Nebraska football coverage:KETV (Cox Channnel 9) was the only station to provide live coverage of the post-game press conference following the Huskers' 49-10 victory over Louisiana Tech. The station's live truck operators acted quickly to overcome an obstacle created when HuskerVision (the University's audio/visual network) failed to provide a feed of the presser to broadcast outlets.
In non-sports coverage of the game, KMTV (Cox Channel 5) followed up on security enhancements at Memorial Stadium, while WOWT (Cox Channel 8) focused on tailgating.
KETV is tweaking its format for its 10 p.m. newscast on Husker gamedays. Since ABC is broadcasting football games on Saturday nights, the station's 10 p.m. newscast has not been starting until at least 10:15.
In an effort to capitalize on the football audience, KETV leads off its newscast with 10 minutes of "Big Red Zone" coverage that includes highlights, statistics, a post-game feature story and an "extra point" of commentary or unusual fact or statistic. Saturday's "extra point" was Governor Dave Heineman's score prediction from earlier in the week, which was 49-7.
"He may be replacing me in the Big Red Zone soon," said KETV weekend sports anchor Matt Schick.
1 comment:
Sean, What a meaningless insight.While lauding KETV you fail to mention that they were the only station with a newscast after the game. What were the other stations supposed to do--break in with live coverage of the big win over Louisiana Tech ? Lets see if KETV has live coverage of the newser this week. Game should be over around 3:30
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