TV Q&A: Does KDKA-TV have another new sportscaster?

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review.

Q: Does Suzie Cool now work for KDKA-TV? She reports on their high school and college football broadcasts, Nightly Sports Call and she is a co-host of their new YouTube sports show, “Every Blade of Grass with Cool and Cass.”

— Barb & Jerry

Rob: Per KDKA news director Shawn Hoder, “Suzie is a freelancer for us. Saw her on our ‘Nightly Sports Call’ and want to explore more with her and are giving her some more on-air opportunities.”

Cool, who worked as a Pirates Ball Girl in 2014, is a 2015 graduate of Saint Vincent College, where she studied broadcast journalism. She has a master of arts in digital communication/multimedia from Point Park University. Cool previously worked for Audacy, including on KDKA radio. In addition to her work at KDKA, Cool covers high school football on Fridays for the Steelers’ “High School Showcase Game of the Week” as their sideline reporter and she’s a host for the Steelers’ pro shop.

“Every Blade of Grass” episodes, hosted by Cool and Cassidy Wood, debut Thursdays at 11 a.m. on KDKA’s YouTube channel and a portion of the program airs Friday on “Pittsburgh Today Live.”

Q: Does PCNC have any plans to do new episodes of “Chiller Theater” again this year?

— Randy, Butler

Rob: My understanding is there will be no new episodes of the revived “Chiller Theater” on PCNC or WPXI-TV this fall.

Q: During NFL season, most late games on KDKA-TV run over until 7:30 p.m. or after if KDKA airs a late game. Why does KDKA then air every Sunday evening primetime show, resulting in the KDKA late news airing at 11:30 p.m. or later when this occurs?

— Denny, via email

Rob: None of this is KDKA’s doing. It’s all on the network, CBS. KDKA just passes through CBS’s programming. And it’s not a new phenomenon. I wrote about it back in 2010. For a while, you could even sign up for “Eye-lerts” where CBS would email viewers to let them know an accurate start time for Sunday night shows once the football game ended. But with the rise of streaming, that service seems to have disappeared. I think CBS still posts notices on its social media channels about delayed start times.

As for why CBS continues to allow the overruns, NFL games draw a huge audience and are the best lead-in many prime-time shows can have. I think CBS’s view is: Why diminish that by dropping a show? They’d rather encourage viewers to keep watching CBS later into the night.

It’s also worth noting that while delayed programming is pernicious on the East Coast, the further west you go, the less of an impact it has, with CBS shows on the West Coast generally starting on time.

Q: Hubby and I watch “Tulsa King” on CBS Sunday night at 8 p.m. We love the show! We do not stream but have Comcast as our cable provider. When the second season starts this month, is CBS going to carry the second season on Sundays at 8 p.m.?

— Norine, Coraopolis

Rob: “Tulsa King” is a Paramount+ series and the second season will not be on CBS, at least not anytime soon. CBS aired season one in an effort to get more people to sign up for Paramount+ to see season two. It’s possible that Paramount+ could loan out “Tulsa King” season two to CBS next summer. But in the past, when streamers put their shows on a sister broadcast network, it’s almost always been limited to just the first season and nothing beyond that.