As 37-year TV career ends, Dan Lucy reflects on the Ozarks, new media
Longtime Ozarks sports director Dan Lucy has left KOLR as the station eliminates the position amid changing media trends.
In November 1988, Dan Lucy, a sports anchor for the University of Missouri's news station KOMU in Columbia, met with KYTV reporter Ned Reynolds in Springfield to discuss coverage of the Missouri-Southwest Missouri State men's basketball preseason game.The two NBC-affiliate stations planned to broadcast the game and Lucy thought this was a good opportunity to establish a connection with someone who — unbeknownst to Reynolds — could soon be a regional colleague.Lucy didn't mention he was visiting Springfield to interview with KOLR10 for what would be his first job after college, but Reynolds somehow caught wind of it."
When he was leaving, he goes, 'Oh, by the way, I know you're interviewing for a job across the street,'" Lucy recalled. "I said, 'Well, we'll see what happens with that.'""Why else would he be down here?
," Reynolds said. "We'll put two and two together, and I knew that the job opening would be at Channel 10 ... The rivalries in a small market are nowhere near as intense as they are in bigger cities, so everybody knows what everybody else is doing."
What came next was a 37-year career covering some of the biggest sporting moments in the Ozarks area. In that time, Lucy rode the waves of the ever-changing media industry — until earlier this month, when one of those waves forced an early exit.Lucy spent the first five years of his OzarksFirst tenure as a weekday sports reporter and a weekend anchor before being promoted to sports director in 1993.
He occupied that role until his contract officially ended June 2. Lucy knew in advance the end was coming but didn't announce it to the public until his time ran out.In addition to not renewing his contract, Lucy said the news station is eliminating its sports director position entirely as it looks toward a new system for its sports coverage."
The philosophical approach has changed, and when you're dealing in many cases with corporate America, then your decisions are being made from elsewhere and not locally," Reynol
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