Who's leaving the NewsChannel 4 morning show?

[Matt]

Starting seeing promos for this today--apparently someone's leaving. Heather Holeman, Kent Ogle, or David Payne. Of course, they won't announce who it is until Wednesday night--which is, coincidentally I'm sure, the last night of May sweeps. So I thought I'd see if anyone here has an inside track on it.

I'd hate to see Heather leave the market--she's quite a hottie and one of the only reasons to ever tune in to KFOR, in my opinion. But I bet it's her.

Any ideas?

[drumsncode]

Hotties? Did someone say hotties? You should be watching the Daily Buzz. There's something for everyone there. They've got the blonde bombshell Andrea Jackson, and the gorgeous Kia Malone. Believe me, if you haven't seen Kia lately you are missing out. She's twice as beautiful as she was in OKC. And when it comes to clothing, these women do not have to follow the rules you see in OKC. Watch a week and you'll see what I mean.

If you like humor in the morning, Mitch English will knock your head off, and you still get local weather from David Payne from KFOR on KAUT! Andy Campbell is their male anchor, and he writes some killer rants too.

So kiss Kent Ogle goodbye or whoever leaves, and come over to the wild side.

[Matt]

Hotties? Did someone say hotties? You should be watching the Daily Buzz. There's something for everyone there. They've got the blonde bombshell Andrea Jackson, and the gorgeous Kia Malone. Believe me, if you haven't seen Kia lately you are missing out. She's twice as beautiful as she was in OKC. And when it comes to clothing, these women do not have to follow the rules you see in OKC. Watch a week and you'll see what I mean.

If you like humor in the morning, Mitch English will knock your head off, and you still get local weather from David Payne from KFOR on KAUT! Andy Campbell is their male anchor, and he writes some killer rants too.

So kiss Kent Ogle goodbye or whoever leaves, and come over to the wild side.

Terrific.

Now. . . any thoughts on the topic at hand?

[Easy180]

My money is on Heather...It seems it's almost always the female anchor when someone is leaving

[jbrown84]

No way the Ogle is leaving.

[kmf563]

Hotties? Did someone say hotties? You should be watching the Daily Buzz. There's something for everyone there. They've got the blonde bombshell Andrea Jackson, and the gorgeous Kia Malone. Believe me, if you haven't seen Kia lately you are missing out. She's twice as beautiful as she was in OKC. And when it comes to clothing, these women do not have to follow the rules you see in OKC. Watch a week and you'll see what I mean.

If you like humor in the morning, Mitch English will knock your head off, and you still get local weather from David Payne from KFOR on KAUT! Andy Campbell is their male anchor, and he writes some killer rants too.

So kiss Kent Ogle goodbye or whoever leaves, and come over to the wild side.

Is that the crap on fox?? who would watch that? it's horrible.

I think it's a big deal so it has to be ogle or payne. they've both been there 100 years or so.

[Matt]

No way the Ogle is leaving.

You know, I don't think he'd ever leave this market, but I could see him moving to another station here. KOCO, perhaps. An Ogle on every channel. How wonderful would that be?

[jbrown84]

That would be possible, but I don't think he'd get a big sendoff if he was defecting to another station locally.

[Matt]

That would be possible, but I don't think he'd get a big sendoff if he was defecting to another station locally.

Probably not, but it could happen, especially if he took the summer off and didn't appear on another station for a couple months.

It's all just speculation, though--I still think it's Heather.

[jbrown84]

Most TV stations have contracts that don't allow on air talent to change stations without like a 6-9 month hiatus.

[Matt]

Most TV stations have contracts that don't allow on air talent to change stations without like a 6-9 month hiatus.

Since that's the case, it seems even more likely that they'd make a big to do about his leaving.

[SoonerDave]

Most TV stations have contracts that don't allow on air talent to change stations without like a 6-9 month hiatus

True, but those contract clauses are very difficult to enforce. That's because you can't have a contrat provision that constructively prevents someone from earning a living, even if that means going to work for a competitor. If someone *really* doesn't want to wait the nine months (or whatever), you can typically circumvent such clauses.

IIRC, Mike Morgan was involved in just such a fight with KOCO a few years back when he went to KFOR. May have been someone else, but I'm relatively sure that was the guy..

-soonerdave

[allseeingeye]

Everyone is saying to expect major changes at KFOR under the new owners. If that's the case, ANYBODY could be gone. It very well could be Payne or Ogle and, if so, that's just going to be the first in a bunch of surprises.

[SoonerDave]

New ownership usually spells trouble for long-standing figures. To me, the morning show is just the start: I smell trouble for folks like Linda Cavanaugh, Bob Barry, and maybe even the Ogle's. Local exposure or experience won't mean a thing to new owners, particularly if their the typical consultant-driven, cutesy-chitchat obsessed owners that have evolved over the last several years. Those would be pretty shocking departures.

-soonerdave

[Matt]

I'd love nothing more than for the new owners to clean house and get rid of Kevin Ogle, Mike Morgan, and especially Linda Cavanaugh. The Barrys I can tolerate, but I can't stand any of their other evening news "personalities."

[soonerborn]

I've got to disagree with you on the Linda Cavanaugh assessment (I guess that's what these forums are for). Linda and Tamara Pratt, who is sadly no longer on the air, are the only two women in OKC that are major market talents...in my opinion. Jennifer Reynolds is a very good journalist, too, whose talents are wasted on a tourism show. All the other women on local TV remind me of beauty pageant contestants, which isn't a bad thing if you're watching the news with the sound turned down.

My guess on the Channel 4 thing is that it's the woman and she's going to stay home with her kid. There's no way they'd give anyone a send off that's taking another job.

[mranderson]

I've got to disagree with you on the Linda Cavanaugh assessment (I guess that's what these forums are for). Linda and Tamara Pratt, who is sadly no longer on the air, are the only two women in OKC that are major market talents...in my opinion. Jennifer Reynolds is a very good journalist, too, whose talents are wasted on a tourism show. All the other women on local TV remind me of beauty pageant contestants, which isn't a bad thing if you're watching the news with the sound turned down.

My guess on the Channel 4 thing is that it's the woman and she's going to stay home with her kid. There's no way they'd give anyone a send off that's taking another job.

I hope it is Linda Cavanaugh and, actually, both of the Berry's. They all have no talent... Especially the Bob's.

[jbrown84]

If you read the original message, it's someone from the morning show that's leaving, mra.

[Raspberry]

It has to be Heather. I don't think either Payne or Ogle are hireable anywhere else.

[Patrick]

No way the Ogle is leaving.

Exactly what I was about to post.

[soonerliberal]

Didn't Heather Holeman just start on the morning show less than a couple years ago? I really don't see why they would hype this so much if it was just another one of the continually rotating morning ladies, but then again we are talking about "be careful, you're going to die from this" channel 4.

[BailJumper]

It's Heather. Husband is moving to work in Nevada.

[mranderson]

I bet when they announce it, it is someone behind the scenes and we all go "thud!" Afterall, it is sweeps, and stations are notorious for making a meaningless story sound like the biggest headline since God created Adam.

[Matt]

I bet when they announce it, it is someone behind the scenes and we all go "thud!" Afterall, it is sweeps, and stations are notorious for making a meaningless story sound like the biggest headline since God created Adam.

Um, no. The promos have made it pretty clear that one of the three on-air "talents" is leaving.

Anyway, good for Heather, bad for us.

But look on the bright side: Now there's more Kent Ogle to go around!

[BailJumper]

What ANDERSON, you thought I made my post up? (couldn't resist)

Heather's husband is relocating so she is leaving.