It Takes About an Hour for Sunrise

On day 3 of watching KGMB9 Sunrise in the morning, I noticed some small improvements, especially with the interactions of the crew. It took about one hour, but there it was – fun banter between Grace Lee, Howard Dicus, Steve Uyehara, and Jeff Booth!

At 6:07, Howard was finishing up his business new segment commenting how Hawaii was special as the only US producer of chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. Grace then quipped how special Howard was. Going to commercial break, Steve intro-ed an upcoming comparison of OJ Simpson’s arrests noting that the “Juice has been in a jam before.” Nice alliteration. And finishing up, Jeff Booth added to the chocolate, vanilla, coffee comment saying those are his wife’s three favorite flavors of ice cream. Nice back-to-back-to-back combination.

So after shaking off the early morning grogginess and running through the scripted newscast for the first hour, the Sunrise crew woke up! Yay!

But as a point of comparison, KHON2’s crew of Kirk, Kathy, Manolo, and displaced Justin Cruz got into it only after a few minutes of starting their newscast. Before 5:10 (I think), Manolo was explaining to Justin how he had the tough duties of reviewing restaurants and food establishments for the public’s benefit while everyone else had to stay in the newsroom. Justin was jealous and incredulous whereupon Manolo said, “You sound just like Trini!”

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