KPRC 2 Houston has expanded its 6pm newscast to 7pm during the Winter Olympics, replacing the long-running Entertainment Tonight.
And when I say long-running, ET has been in that time-slot since I was a kid back in the 1980s! Remember the John Tesh and Mary Hart days?
After receiving Channel 2 viewer questions about the newscast expansion, I reached out to the station, but never heard back. My guess is that the station brass are saying to me, "Hey, dunderpate, you can turn on the TV and figure it out yourself!"
I can take a hint, so last Friday, I did just that.
The half-hour extension with Keith Garvin and Stephania Jimenez covered the day's news and weather with Anthony Yanez, and around the 6:40pm mark, it shifted into Winter Olympic Coverage with Daniella Guzman.
Now I am no duPont-Columbia Award winner like investigator Amy Davis, but since I'm investigating all this on my own (by doing the hard labor of looking at online TV schedules), the KPRC 2 6:30pm expanded newscast continues to air this week...but here is the gotcha part! Next week, after the Olympics end, Entertainment Tonight will be back to its normal time.
Is that Murrow-worthy work or what? Actually, don't answer that...
Speaking of Amy Davis and not hearing back from KPRC, I heard that she and Bill Spencer were swapping schedules. I asked KPRC for comment weeks ago, and never heard back.
Stay tuned.
