Texas born and raised, traffic reporter Niku Kazori arrived this week in Seattle to add her personality to the KIRO 7 news team. Her earlier work includes stints at KENS 5 San Antonio, WVLT 8 Knoxville, WCBD News 2 Charleston, and KCBD 11 Lubbock. 
Texas born and raised, traffic reporter Niku Kazori arrived this week in Seattle to add her personality to the KIRO 7 news team. Her earlier work includes stints at KENS 5 San Antonio, WVLT 8 Knoxville, WCBD News 2 Charleston, and KCBD 11 Lubbock.
April 10, 2022 at QZVX
Rudy says:
One man that broke thru the image is everything barrier was Wayne Cody. Sports reporting genius that could eat an entire pot roast with an ice cold CocaCola with a smile on his face.
April 10, 2022 at QZVX
T.K. says:
Sports is serious business now. Someone like Wayne Cody or even Tony Ventrella would never be given a shot today. They were unpredictable.
The same goes for weather. Of course Harry Wappler was knowledgeable, but even he had a bit of showmanship that wouldn’t be welcome. I remember when Andy Wappler was first starting out on the morning news in the mid-’90s, he was pretty goofy making one-liners and puns all the time. At some point he must have been told to tone it down, because he changed pretty abruptly.
April 5, 2022 at QZVX
John Lyman says:
I would prefer Julia Child.
March 30, 2022 at QZVX
John Lyman says:
I wonder if she knows anything about journalism. Ok stupid question.
March 29, 2022 at QZVX
radiofollower says:
So now KIRO is getting their “on-air” personality’s from San Antonio.AAron Wright worked at the same station that she did…do they know each other?….since she was in Japan maybe not.
There just has been so much changing in the news media in the Seattle area the past year or more.It use to be much more stable but then KING, KOMO, were locally owned…KIRO wasn’t then and isn’t now.
March 31, 2022 at QZVX
T.K. says:
KING hasn’t been locally owned in 30 years.
I think the quickened pace of the revolving door at these stations is a sign that television news is in a terminal phase. If it was still lucrative, a large market like Seattle would be a lot more stable.
I see these nameless pretty faces and feel sorry that no one has told them TV has jumped the shark.
March 31, 2022 at QZVX
Peter says:
Exactly. TV, radio and even celebrity are old tech. No one needs it anymore.
March 29, 2022 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
News has gone Hollywood. Blame it on the short attention span of viewers. They may tune in longer to see someone like her. Yeah, not many fugly wenches on tv. Unless you watch The View.
March 30, 2022 at QZVX
Louis says:
For a medium that daily preaches about inclusion and equality for all, it always leaves me shaking my head at how the hiring decisions increasingly are made more by appearance than any substance. This is true especially in the weather/traffic departments where the “sausage dress” seems to be the most important qualification. Made me think of Christine Craft. (The View? not on my watch lol)
March 30, 2022 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Nothing new and not just “the girls”. . . remember the “perfection in masculinity” that such as Dan Lewis and Gary Justice wore to work every day?
March 29, 2022 at QZVX
louis says:
Un-attractive or people of girth need not apply.
(Doesn’t sound very inclusive)
March 29, 2022 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
These ladies would be far prettier if three or four coats of paint were chipped off.
March 29, 2022 at QZVX
Peter says:
So these beauty things are journalism right?
March 31, 2022 at QZVX
Jack D. Bell says:
It will be interesting to see if she can drop the Southern accent, given the fact that all of her experience has been in the South…oh well, she will be moving elsewhere within a few months.