THE PREMIERE SHOW OF "NEWS 10 @ 9"............

In 1973, KXTV Channel 10, in Sacramento / Stockton, in Northern California premiered a daily public affairs program titled, "At 9 on 10", hosted by their Public Service Director, Jean LaMotte.  Over the following seventeen years the show continued in different time slots and manifestations, with LaMotte as moderator, and as a college student and young adult I appeared with her on the program seventeen times, including as a final show audience guest in 1990.  Today, Channel 10 is premiering a new locally produced program in time slot following "Good Morning America", named "News 10 @ 9", which is being moderated by anchors Dan Elliott and Keeva Arnold.  It is a live, unscripted, discussion of the day's news using ipads, and social networking, following trending news on Facebook and Twitter.  I am feeling a sense of deja vu, not only for the similarity in show titles, "At 9 on 10"; "News 10 @ 9"; and with the hosts, Jean LaMotte, then - who became a close friend of mine, and Dan Elliott, now - who I have come to know as a good friend, as well as watch as an avid viewer.  I wish Dan and his colleagues the best in their new endeavor, as news, insught, and public affairs are essential programming to the betterment of the lives of our community............Fr.  Troy