Available: Top-notch anchorwoman with 12 years’ experience in the Denver market.
So far, no takers.
Stephanie Riggs, meet Oprah Winfrey. In the game of musical chairs going on at KCNC-Channel 4 News ahead of the arrival of Oprah and her mega-ratings daytime talk show on May 29, the station’s 4 p.m. newscast is going away. So is Stephanie.
“Can you believe it? I don’t,” says Riggs. Be that as it may, after a dozen years, she’s a goner. “They don’t have an anchor spot for me anymore. They’re letting me go.”
She’ll be on-air until May 26 with Channel 4, but she wants to stay in town. “I love Colorado. I love this business. This is kind of a family.”
As a lovely parting gift, Riggs gets this press-release tribute from station GM Walt DeHaven: “With the (4 o’clock) newscast going away, we couldn’t find a suitable role for her at the station. Stephanie is an extraordinary journalist and she will be sorely missed.”
Put that on the résumé, Steph, and, by the way, don’t let the revolving door hit you on the way out.
TV Week fans
Where have you gone, TV Week?
Plenty of readers have opted out of getting the TV Week magazine in their Sunday paper, but plenty more want to keep it. The Post announced, several times, that it is dropping delivery of the weekly television magazine as a cost-cutting measure – unless subscribers call in and request that it be continued.
Some readers didn’t buy the “saving-the-trees” argument. Steve Fisher e-mailed, “I wonder what percentage of Post readers, if given the option, would vote to opt out of the ever-increasing pile of junk ads that come with the Sunday paper – 99 percent?”
Reader Stanley Plant wonders why, if we want to save trees, we don’t drop the want ads. “I realize The Post makes money off of the classified ads (but) think of all the trees that would be save when compared to the little TV Week!”
Write this down: If you want to keep getting TV Week, call 303-892-5467. They’ll make it happen.
Around the dial
Steffan Tubbs, co-host of “Colorado’s Morning News” (5 a.m., KOA 850-AM) talks about his time spent with U.S. troops in Iraq at a Denver Press Club luncheon on Thursday. Reservations, 303-571-5260. Tubbs’ drive to collect soccer balls for kids in Iraq has passed 7,000. … Peter Boyles gets his mind off Mexico’s invasion of the United States long enough to look at genocide around the world on “Colorado Inside Out Live” (8 p.m. Wednesday, KBDI-Channel 12). … Quotable: “Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Hodding Carter
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
