Monday, October 24, 2016

Then there is Miss Vowell from KSL TV 5 Salt Lake City.

In broadcasting you don't just watch a newscast for the news or watch a TV show about the industry, you pick it apart bit by bit. To find flaws if any and or to see who just might be rising up the ladder to becoming a not just a reporter but a celebrity in the wings of broadcast journalism. 
Back in the early part of 2014 I started watching with regularity this new reporter by the name of Nicole Vowell of KSL TV-5 out of Salt Lake City. Not only did she report with poise, but with determination. No matter the story or weather she churned out some great pieces. Short in length, and some small despite her extreme talent, but she's hung in there.
In mid 2014 , the towing industry had , had enough of our brethren and sister in towing being killed in line of duty. So I approached KSL to do a story, hoping that it'd be Nicole doing the piece. KSL then turned a deaf ear, and put blinders on. Each week in this nation at least 5 towing owner operators and drivers loose their lives in the execution of our profession, recovering and pulling to safety many motorists to the point there's a Towers Memorial Wall, in Tennessee to honor our fallen brethren. But KSL just didn't care. Even though Allstate Insurance had a public service ad running and would underwrite the project of ads to alert drivers to slow down and move over when they see lights on the side of the highway. 
When the Utah Highway Patrol was loosing troopers by being hit when doing their duty by people not tending to driving, I again went to Utah's media saying how about running a story or two on the other unsung heros of the highway , us in towing. Again crickets chirped but that's all that was heard. But enough of that, except to say the mission of Iron Knytes(knights) Radio online, is so that we can report and tell the stories of us out batteling the motoring public every day. 
Since then through a few posts on Facebook, Nicole and I have a sort of associated friendship. I have invited her many times to come up and show us off on a story about the radio gig here as well as why we do it. Even if she never does, the reason I watch KSL TV's news here in Evanston Wyoming is so that maybe I'll be able to catch a story from Nicole. She's undervalued at KSL, and our story, might just be that story the moves her up a rung of the TV news ladder. 
 and who knows maybe some day she will take me up on my offer of coming up and doing a story of us here on HazzardAyre/IronKnytes Radio.
TTYLY

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