I have no idea what the national coverage brought. Local coverage had OSP thanking the helicopter pilot the day the family was found.
The point being, OSP aknowledged the help and expressed gratitude for it, whether FOX, CNN or others showed it.
I watched the feeds from KATV, CNET and KGW of the conferences while they occured. I did not see any coverage of this issue on CNN, Fox or other national news outlets except for what was online.
I remember them thanking the Kim family's choppers, but the pilot that was named for rescuing Kati and the girls is not the same one in this latest story.
This man went on his own, wasn't hired by the Kims, as far as I know. If he owns 8 Burger Kings, he has his own financial resources and wasn't "on hire."
He may also be one of those people who doesn't want any publicity, for obvious reasons, and may also adhere to the spiritual axiom that if you tell someone about a good deed, it doesn't count. I used to run into that a lot in charitable work.