TV News is done. Let's aim for America

The writing has been on the wall for quite a while now. The television part of KCTV is not working right. The community has set itself against having a TV station in Klamath Falls and the views it gets shows that. It's feast or famine. One day we get a thousand views and then, next day, it's crickets.

In truth, I think I am a bit too old for broadcast news. While I can play at it, the truth is there just isn't enough support in this community to create a TV station with an aging anchor who does it all. Maybe if I had been diagnosed ADHD a little earlier in life, I could have been a TV anchor at some NBC affiliate, but it took me 8 long years to get back into journalism and maybe now that ship has sailed for me.

But rather than curse the darkness, let me light a candle. In truth, I get way more traffic to my website than I ever got for my newscast and in all honesty, it's a lot cheaper to run a website than it is to run a TV station. And while I am a good anchor and a fair to middlin' business owner, God has made it clear to me that I will not be successful going down this route.

So accordingly, I will suspend the newscast that I have done for the last year and focus my efforts on creating a news and information network that serves the News Deserts of America via a website and cell phone app. And I will call it the Local News Network.

Oh, sure there is News Break and Next Door, AP news and a dozen others that focus on National headlines. But there is no news service that I know of that covers the local community college or the local stories that make our hometown America tick. The local fires, and the business openings, the regional stories that make our bread and eggs get more expensive and the news that affects where we live.

That's what's being missed by these national news services that aim for the stars. They miss the stories that give our lives texture. And that my friends is where we find our sweet spot. KCTV has perfected news that serves the local community in a way that the big boys of news have forgotten. That is exactly where we live.

So I present to you, News, Weather, Sports and Roads, all for hometown America, where we live and where we raise our families. I invite you to follow along. https://www.klamathcommunity.tv/