Y'all are weirdly invested in the lives of news anchors.
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These people are in the living rooms and become quite familiar.
And, especially when you have small children and are at home a lot, the tv tends to be on, especially around dinner time. Hence, the interest.
Now that everybody gets their news from the internet I guess there will be less interest permanently except by older generations.
But in case you missed the point, KTVU is truly a hometown kind of station, or has been prior to Fox acquisition, so there is an element of sentiment and memory lane involved, too. Even tho it's kind of fruitless, I feel invested a bit in that station because it's been around since I was a very little kid. From Captain Satellite to the present KTVU has been a part of the Bay Area's history and social culture. Especially since they broadcasted from Jack London Square, which they always made a point to say, while the SF stations didn't ever mention such a thing. Rung the bells of many of us East Bay folk. When i was a real little kid, I imagined crashing the studio there and thinking I'd find Roller Derby personalities and above-mentioned Capn Satellite and maybe even Jack LaLanne. Pretty sure they also broadcast the earliest wresting matches, too. Really a lot of random weave there.... But I think the interest in Somerville reflects a long tradition of KTVU watching. Most anchors from other stations weren't quite as famous, with a few exceptions.
KRON was a close second but once they lost the network franchise, they have kind of floated into oblivion. Since they were owned by the Chronicle at the time, they were also really interwoven with the local journalism and the old families.
I guess you had to live here to get it.
PS. The pilot thing just had to be the lowest point of all. I still can't believe it happened. We just happened to have left for Spain the week it happened so we didn't find out about the KTVU flub for a couple of weeks but did hear about the crash. I remember wondering whether the runways would be open by the time we were to return and was grateful they were.
