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    Default Entertainment reporter Kirk Montgomery out at KUSA Channel 9, latest station to target an entertainment reporter

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    Kirk Montgomery, entertainment reporter-anchor at KUSA since 2001, is out at 9News. He will move to at WILX, the NBC affiliate in Lansing, Mich. (market No. 115), reportedly to become anchor of a new 4 p.m. newscast.

    Montgomery made the announcement via his Facebook page Wednesday after joking on the 4:30 p.m. broadcast about growing up in Michigan (and spending time on a llama farm).

    He had written previously about not being offered a full one-year contract at Channel 9. On Twitter he said, "Mixed emotion I say goodbye to CO and @9NEWS on 5/9/14."

    Montgomery did not return calls for comment.

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    Default Kirk Montgomery leaving 9News, latest station to target an entertainment reporter

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    Kirk Montgomery leaving 9News, latest station to target an entertainment reporter

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    Today brings word that Kirk Montgomery is leaving 9News, where he's worked since 2001. And while he's landed on his feet, albeit in a smaller market, the decision of 9News not to offer him a contract is indicative of an ongoing trend in the economically challenged TV-news business that threatens to turn Montgomery's specialty area -- entertainment reporting -- into a thing of the past on a local level.

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    Montgomery and friends on the 9News set in a photo from his Facebook page.


    Montgomery's Facebook page lists his new station as WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan, where he'll reportedly anchor a 4 p.m. newscast after not being offered a new full-year contract by 9News.
    He also confirmed his departure on his Twitter via two messages. Here's the first....

    Mixed emotion I say goodbye to CO and @9NEWS on 5/9/14 - but awesome adventure awaits will give dets when I can - Thank you for the love — Kirk Montgomery (@Kirk9News) April 17, 2014

    ...and the second, which quotes the Bible and/or the Byrds:

    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Thank you Colorado. — Kirk Montgomery (@Kirk9News) April 17, 2014

    Once upon a time, every station in markets the size of Denver or larger had an on-staff entertainment reporter. But as budgets tightened and revenues shrank, such journalists have been increasingly viewed as dispensable. Witness the January departure from CBS4 of Greg Moody, who'd been at the outlet for a quarter-century. Like Montgomery, he wasn't offered a contract.


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    At the time, Moody told the Denver Post he had no intention of leaving the Denver market, and he still makes the area home. But since then, he's been unable to find a full-time gig. His Twitter account describes him as a "freelance writer/producer." After Montgomery's announcement, Moody offered a tweet of support:

    @Kirk9News Keep well & keep smiling, little trouper. Know that you've got a lot to offer as anchor and storyteller. My mom will watch.— Greg Moody (@GregMoodyCritic) April 17, 2014


    With both Montgomery and Moody out, the only entertainment specialist left on local Denver TV is Chris Parente of Fox31/KWGN, who's managed to make himself more intrinsic to the outlet by hosting Everyday, a lighthearted, chat-heavy morning program. But the sort of arts-and-culture reporting that was a trademark of Moody and his predecessors over the years is little seen these days. Note that Montgomery's highest-profile segments on 9News of late have been updates about the ins and outs of contestants on The Voice.

    Like movie critics at newspapers, entertainment reporters on local TV are a rare breed -- and becoming rarer with each passing day.

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