Portland Trib article from mid-August says he is OUT but he is still on the KOIN website. Anyone have some insight on this one?

Oregon Media Insiders had a pretty long thread about Ed's supposed departure from KOIN. While I was not a huge fan of his sports coverage, he has been in the PDX market for many years and has had a pretty loyal following...

For us downstaters who can't watch - is he on the air, or who has taken over?

Can I be the first to make a burnt biscuit joke?

i never realized that koin is still airing daily newscasts..........you learn something new everyday

KOIN is still on the air???
I thought it went tits up with KXL and KPAM....

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I like Dr. Phil in my car.

Kkb, Ed is no longer on the air. Generally Dan Christopherson has been doing the sports segment. I think they have another person as well, but I don't generally watch all the time. I live on a fringe area and don't have cable so I don't always get a clear signal...

You need to do something quickly or you won't get any signal at all!

On the weekends lately Ken Boddie has been doing sports in addition to his anchor duties.

It's sad really.

Whats up with KOIN...I dont live in Portland anymore, so whats the deal with channel 6?

Perhaps Ed didn't want to go the botox route (like Mike Donahue) so they showed him the door...

you hit the big "5-0H" and work in broadcast its the half century curse. Lot of times you need botox for your brain and a personality transplant into the gen X or dot.com generations.

I hope he hasn't had another stroke.

Here's the Trib article:

http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=118850550315981000

KOIN has blown chunks for years now. Their news is UNwatchable...

You know its all about money as usual. I read that link, thanks to Mz Merkin.

They did this to me over here last January @ the station group I have worked for at that time for 12.5 years. They didn't fire me. They took me off the air...said that I still had a job, doing nothing i guess??... I went back in a few times but nothing but management changes and excuses, I didnt go back in after about April or May...just gave up.

Its all about litigation and wrongful termination lawsuits. AND AGE DISCRIMINATION lawsuits...ha ha
when you think about it, corporate wants younger people on the air for a number of reasons, but federal laws prohibit discrimination based upon age for a long time now, especially when you have been employed by the company for many years, so its all about how the legal system can get around the federal law...Dont fire you, but take you off the air. Do you still get paid??? I havent been. So you are still on the rolls but thats all?

What a system !

I occasionally saw Ed when he came into the newsroom at KYXI. A real character...and full of character, too. Loved him on 6. When I got to come up to visit family in the Great Northwet, I'd always have a big wide smile on my face when I dialed across and found him doing the sports report.

This has ME singin' the blues like (the late) Gatemouth Brown...

You're a class act, Ed...May God bless...

Do you think his first broadcast at a new station will start with "Hello everybody, nice seeing you again"? It wouldn't make sense if it's his FIRST broadcast.

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Do you think his first broadcast at a new station will start with "Hello everybody, nice seeing you again"? It wouldn't make sense if it's his FIRST broadcast.

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Doug LaMear won a three-year reprieve with some fan-induced "sponsor pull." But that was 18 years ago ... eons in the biz.

While I'm not a sports fan, I like Ed because his voice (emphatic and distinctive as it is) doesn't hurt my ears, like the "excited" yelling of modern sportscasters.

If it's a position cut, well, "Ain't nobody to see about that" (paraphrasing Brimley-as-Wells in "Absence of Malice"; from what I'm reading, we can expect local TV news to be delivered by hand puppets within a couple years). But there's a reason the sports wrap is at the end of the newscast...

Griz1979,
Good point. I assumed the new station would be in a different market. OTherwise, you're right.

ed whelan will be missed.