Kirk Varner
News Director at KSTP-TV (St Paul, MN)
News Director for 5 Eyewitness News on KSTP-TV5 and KSTC 45TV serving the Twin Cities, Central Minnesota and Western Wisconsin
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2 weeks ago |
thedesk.net | Kirk Varner
This column originally appeared on TVND.com, and is republished here with permission. Subscribe to TVND.com’s e-mail newsletter by clicking or tapping here. Remember when television stations use to tell you those words before delivering something of significance? These days, you are more likely to get dumped right into the midst of a special report, when the hub failed to make the switch to catch it from the beginning. But that rant is for another day.
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1 month ago |
thedesk.net | Kirk Varner
This column originally appeared at The Topline, and is republished here with permission. Subscribe to TVND.com’s e-mail newsletter by clicking or tapping here. —One of the hazards of spending decades watching local television newscasts is having little patience with real-world examples of missed opportunities to get the basics right. Since we were on the road this past weekend, we flipped on a local newscast and right from the top we were…disappointed.
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1 month ago |
thedesk.net | Kirk Varner
This column originally appeared at The Topline, and is republished here with permission. Subscribe to TVND.com’s e-mail newsletter by clicking or tapping here.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
tvnewscheck.com | Kirk Varner |Mark Miller
As someone who has dedicated their career to working in and leading local television newsrooms of various sizes and markets across this country, I’ve been reading with some interest Sean McLaughlin’s new series of columns here in TVNewsCheck titled “Reinventing the News.” Our industry faces some fundamental challenges to its very survival, so this topic isn’t one that anyone who cares about working in local television should take lightly.
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Great to have @TimBrando and his @FOXSports crew in Minneapolis to call the @GopherSports tilt with the Hawkeyes. It’s been a long trip since our days together in Bristol!
Incredibly honored to accept a 2021 DuPont-Columbia University award for @KSTP and its continuing coverage of The Death of George Floyd last year from @columbiajourn tonight.
No Minor League Baseball this year due to CoVID-19.
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