Anchor-Go-Round

The talking heads are spinning at Channel 7 and Fox Sports Net.

A A A Comments By Michael Roberts Thursday, Jun 28 2001

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Clear Channel-Denver's Larsen urges patience. "Chemistry between different people on the air is critical, and you can't force it," he says. "Sometimes you just have to let it develop, and that's what's going on now. I believe what you'll hear Mark and Bob do today won't be the same as you'll hear them do a month from now."

Pray he's right.

Say cheese: Rocky Mountain Sports Report anchor Gordie Hershiser.

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Everything's Jake: After American Furniture Warehouse owner Jake Jabs's attempt to reverse the joint operating agreement between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News was guffawed out of U.S. District Court in mid-April, observers began to speculate about how long it would take Jabs to begin advertising in the newspapers again. Well, whoever had "barely two months" in the pool gets the tiger-striped kitty: In the June 21 Post, Jabs announced that he would re-enter the dailies.

Two days later, News editor John Temple made an announcement of his own. In a front-page letter, he wrote that the paper's Saturday broadsheet edition was "evolving" -- although he failed to mention that what it's evolving into is the Post. As predicted here last week, the ballyhooed Insight section was gone. But more to the point, the issue's organization essentially duplicated that of the Post, destroying most of the News's personality in the process.

In his latest bit of spin, Temple claimed that the broadsheet format was being used because "production limitations make it impossible for us to print the quantity of tabloid papers needed on Saturday" -- at least the second different explanation he's given. In truth, the JOA agreement imposed the Saturday broadsheet on the News, and the News is stuck with it. Temple just can't bring himself to admit it.

C'mon, John. Confession is good for the soul.