My wife read my blog from yesterday and thought it was a bit negative. When you're talking about the undoing of America, thanks to the greed of fat cat television execs, I can't really see how you can be positive. But giving the devil his due, maybe I should explain the benefits of TV in small town America.
I was at a meeting this morning with Healthy Klamath, and they told me about a 12-foot-long dinosaur that was stolen from a Sinclair gas station. Apparently the gas station issued a reward for $500, then upped it to $1000 then upped it to $1500. And in response, a good Samaritan loaded the dinosaur onto a flatbed trailer and brought it back, but only after they painted it to look like a zebra.
Now, I am not saying that story deserved top of the fold news coverage on the CBS Nightly News in New York, but that certainly should have been covered as a current event in Klamath Falls. It has all the markings of a good video story. A zebra striped dinosaur on a flat bed rolling down the highway would have made a great open to the Klamath Nightly Newscast because that's what real news is in small town America, because small town America is quiet.
We all love the hometown feel of Klamath County. The parades down Main St, the restoration of the Hirvi Building, the proverbial firefighter saving the proverbial kitten from the proverbial oak tree. These are the news stories that give our community color. They are the things that give our lives meaning. And while covering the gang land murders and the fentanyl trade get the Emmy, that is not what living in hometown America is about.
We live in a simpler place than Portland or Bend. We live in a place where you turn your head when you hear a siren, and you pay attention when the local high-school wins a state championship. And while we are not as busy as Medford, we still have news that people want to hear. We still have teams that deserve to make the local sports highlight reel. We still live life one day at a time, even if the ad revenue isn't enough to justify a full-time cable news channel.
KCTV can reach all the quiet corners of Klamath County. We can offer the people of Klamath County a chance to hear the stories from Merrill or Bly. We can follow the OIT Owls in Bonanza and watch the stories from our neighbors in Gilchrist.
Furthermore, we can become one county with a shared media experience that is made for the people of Klamath County by the people of Klamath County with all the news, sports and videos our neighbors create. All while having a community wide network of communication so that when there is a winter weather advisory or fire watch issued for one part of the county, we all are informed through a shared community wide system of communication on your cell phone.
There is nothing wrong with living a small town life. While many might think the big city has all the culture, nightlife and breaking news, living in small town America has everything we need to live full, well-rounded lives with meaning-even if we don't move at the breakneck pace of the big city.
And if the big TV news stations need the big ad buys to justify their microwave truck and Doppler radar, so be it. That is not what KCTV is for.
KCTV can cover all the news of the day in Klamath County without any of those bells and whistles and tell the stories of small town America, because we love small town America too. But we need your help to make it happen. Thanks
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