Catlan Nguyen’s demonstrates how she can make breaking news look as big and urgent as possible with how she built up the reporter toss showcasing. A major power outage was happening in the Uptown Neighborhood of New Orleans and a reporter was moved to it 5 minutes before the 5 a.m. started. She made use of a power outage map in the monitors next to the anchors and putting her live reporter in the monitors for the toss.
Weekday Morning Show – 5 a.m. show (6/20/24)
Catlan Nguyen’s building up showcasing for Hurricane Tracking coverage for Hurricane Alberto. She made use of different video and putting her live reporter in the monitors for the toss to build the coverage up
Weekend Morning Show – 7 a.m. show (9/23/23)
Catlan Nguyen’s first time producing the weekend morning show solo. KING 5 won breaking news that morning and got the Bellevue Strangled Officer story verified and on air before all other stations.
Weekend Morning Show – Field Producing (9/17/23)
For Hispanic Heritage Month, the KING 5 weekend morning team brought live Mexican Folklórico to our viewers. This was Catlan Nguyen’s first time field producing and adapting to every curveball, including the performers not bringing a speaker to play their music.
KONG – 7 a.m. Show (9/6/23)
Back-to-school team coverage with three live reporters at different school districts around Washington.
KONG – 7:00 a.m. Show (8/21/23)
Live coverage from Miami, FL following the aftermath of Tokitae’s death. Tokitae was an orca stolen from Washington’s Puget Sound and held at SeaWorld in Florida.
KING 5 – 4:30 a.m. Show (7/4/23)
The A Block of a 4:30 a.m. show Catlan produced on The Fourth of July amid red flag warnings, fire concerns and more ahead of firework shows.
Highlights: Fourth of July, Fire risk, Wildfires, Brushfires, Firework bans, Residential fires
KING 5 – 4:30 a.m. Show (12/23/22)
The A Block of a 4:30 a.m. show Catlan produced two days away from Christmas. Stacking and stories were jam-packed with how freezing rain was affecting holiday travel and causing power outages.