Posts Tagged ‘Mike Shipley’

KSDK, Channel 5′s Mike Owens is leaving Channel 5 to join a law firm, where he’ll clock in after Labor Day.  In a memo to staffers, news director Mike Shipley wrote, “It is therefore,with a heavy heart that I announce his impending departure from NewsChannel 5 where he has served the community knowledgeably, passionately and with aplomb since 1963!  Mike’s reputation as a challenging interviewer and tireless advocate for the community he serves is well-known not just here at KSDK but across two states he’s served from here in St. Louis.”  Shipley and Owens gathered news together since they both worked in small market radio – Owens in Sedalia and Shipley in Jefferson City. Mike’s last day at the station will be Friday, Sept. 3.  Good luck, counselor Mike Owens!

Since KSDK’s savvy Leisa Zigman‘s opus on the Vianney Renewal Center for the treatment of priests, the St. Louis Archdiocese mouthpiece, Anne Steffens, has requested of the station’s news director Mike Shipley to send a different reporter in the future.  Steffens said she will no longer work with Zigman.  The uber professional Shipley declined Steffens’ request.

Former television reporter Anne Steffens, now pufflicist for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, has shot out a missive to area priests about the Vianney Renewal Center aired this week by KSDK, Channel 5.  The story, helmed by Channel 5′s Leisa Zigman, reveals activities at the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Mo., a treatment center for priests and is run by the Servants of the Paracete.  Steffens scribed, “The story that aired is different than the story that appears in text online (lzigman@ksdk.com) and the reporter has a bias and made many fact errors.”  In the missive, Steffens asks priests – “if you are so inclined” – to contact Zigman and news director Mike Shipley (mshipley@ksdk.com) to share with them their thoughts about the story.  Steffens concluded, “The good news out of this is that KSDK’s 10 p.m. newscast. . .came in second to KMOV’s 10 p.m. newscast.”  For the record, Stephens once was education reporter for KMOV.

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At the annual Mid-America Emmy Gala at the Renaissance Grand Hotel, KETC (Channel 9) stalwart Patrick Murphy said the station has produced a number of documentaries that “we’re gearing up for national release.” Among them are: “Missouri Life 360″; “Circus Flora”; “St. Louis Marathon” and “Mardi Gras.”. May and Martin Duggan were accompanied by Mary and attorney Tim Leahy. The ever ebulient Tom O’Neal , who’s marking his 35th year on TV here, now at KTVI (Channel 2), but once at KSDK (Channel 5). O’Neal was inducted into the group’s “silver circle.” . . . Yesteryore KPLR (Channel 11) GM and currently

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senior veep of the CW Television Network (in Los Angeles) Hal Protter was presented “the President’s Award.” At the pre-awards reception, Protter talked about the economic downturn’s effect on television. “The networks are trying to do so much with so few people and they are each down about $100 million in revenue.” A technology expert, Protter noted that he had come up with a $9,000 camera “better than the $80,000 camera.” . Television magnate Ted Koplar, an old Protter boss, got kudos from his pals for his recent media acquisition in Osage Beach., dubbed KRBK-TV (the calls of a former Koplar station in

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Sacramento), which will hit the airwaves next month. The station will be an affiliate of Fox’s My Network. Koplar also said that “Voltron,” the successful series he created (and the last iconic brand of the 1980s still standing) is heading toward a future release as a full-length feature film. It will be under the helm of Chuck Roven, whose “The Dark Knight” garnered considerable critical and commercial success . Nancy and Ted’s heir, Robert Koplar, is now with the family’s World Events operation . Honoree Sharon Stevens was a no show, but  her bosses Lynn Beall and Lynn’s hub Paul Trelstad were there in full force.

The Beall-Trelstads were marking 20 years of wedded bliss. The two are both group chiefs of Gannett. With them was Channel 5′s affable news director Mike Shipley . Heidi and Don Wolff enthused that the city’s most prominent litigator still has plenty of irons in the fire, including hosting chores at HEC-TV and “I Love Jazz” on KFUO-FM, and as an expert on the Internet’s “Legally Speaking” . Three-time Emmy winner Laurna Godwin‘s Vector Communications has been tapped (again) to produce the video for the St. Louis Development Corp. City Business Celebration Awards Luncheon on Friday at America’s Center.