KGMB9 Sunrise is Boring

It’s only the second day of KGMB9’s Sunrise morning news broadcast, and already I’m getting a little bored with its professionalism. I watched about 45 minutes worth this morning and couldn’t resist the urge to channel surf to see what Kirk and the KHON2 crew were up to. Here’s what it felt like watching Sunrise – lead off with weather and traffic, top stories of The Boat, Superferry troubles, OJ Simpson’s bizarre arrest, weather and traffic, commercial, weather and traffic, Howard Dicus segment, then repeat starting with weather and traffic. You get the idea.

And I think there’s too much use of that high tech island map fly through especially during the news segments. The fly through is appropriate for the Traffic Tracker, but when there’s a report of a stabbing, do I really need to see where the stabbing geographically occurred on the island? I don’t think so.

Instead, I think KGMB should showcase the fresh faces of their talent while reporting these stories. I’d rather see more of Grace Lee and even Steve Uyehara (yes, I have enough testosterone to admit Steve ain’t a shabby looking dude) reporting the story than watching a flying map. All around, the cast of Sunrise might have the most attractive lineup of all the morning news shows. Hmmm, do I sense another Pulpconnection Hottest Local Newscasters contest? Grace, Steve, Howard, Jeff Booth, and Ramsay Wharton are all pretty good looking, especially with the absence of Mahealani Richardson (KITV) and Trini Kaopuiki (KHON).

Now if only the entire Sunrise cast can work on relaxing things a bit. Howard is Howard and is always entertaining. Jeff Booth is getting comfortable, squeezing in comments and remarks. Ramsay looked like she was having fun doing her live, on-site reporting. Grace and Steve got to get in the act. And you know it’s in them. At the end of Tuesday’s broadcast, the crew was gathered around reading fan mail and only then did the viewers get a sense of their personalities and a feel of their enthusiasm and excitement.

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