Mere months after decamping from its longtime St. Louis home in favor of the hustle and bustle of *checks notes* Maryland Heights, KMOV (Channel 4) saw fit to return to the mean streets of downtown this week to film a promo in the part of the city where the big buildings can be found, which presumably makes for a better backdrop than the sea of strip malls for which its new HQ is better known.
The
trademarked champs of First Alerting
had set up shop in the temporarily closed 1300 block of Washington Avenue on Monday afternoon when ace
Post-Dispatch
photographer David Carson, who was in the neighborhood at the time, decided to fire some shots of the non-photographic variety across their bow.
“Also nice they had people’s cars towed from the street to do the shoot, builds viewership,” he added cheekily while attaching a series of photos of the scene, including one of a temporary “No Parking” order taped to a parking meter.
We reached out to Carson for clarification as to whether he’d actually seen any cars being towed or if he was just exhibiting some of the classic Carson wit for which he is well known. Befitting a Pulitzer winner, he confirmed his reporting as fully factual.