"Late Breaking News"...

[Sunfox]

[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'May 11 2004, 01:34 PM\'] [quote name=\'Sunfox\' date=\'May 11 2004, 03:16 AM\'] If I see that blasted "Special News Report" banner ONE more time this week, I'm going to scream! [/quote]
Lose your gameshow centric-ways, and learn that there are more important things in the world....besides "Hollywood Squares". [/quote]
 LOL, you must be on the wrong forum!

[Sunfox]

A simple press briefing should be more than adequatly covered by a crawling line at the bottom of the screen until one of the myrid of news opportunities comes along. ESPECIALLY during a first-run show during the most important bit!

If I wanted news at 11:53AM, I'd be watching CNN, not CBS or NBC.

It's not like they don't have enough other opportunities to tell me about what's happening in the world, what with the local stations having 6 hours of news daily on NBC, 5.5 hours on CBS and 7 hours on ABC. Then there's Fox, with 0.0 hours of news - why can't they play gameshows? ;-)

[gameshowguy2000]

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 11 2004, 04:55 PM\'] Ya know, gsg2000, the screwy thing is that 4PM has been cancelled once in favor of "Millionaire" and H2. [/quote]
I actually remember that.

And here's another thing: In Fall 2000, CBS 11 premiered the 4 PM newscast, and what's even better, is that it actually KEPT the Noon newscast, which debuted in 1996.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'May 11 2004, 11:09 PM\'] [quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 11 2004, 04:55 PM\'] Ya know, gsg2000, the screwy thing is that 4PM has been cancelled once in favor of "Millionaire" and H2. [/quote]
I actually remember that.

And here's another thing: In Fall 2000, CBS 11 premiered the 4 PM newscast, and what's even better, is that it actually KEPT the Noon newscast, which debuted in 1996. [/quote]
 Is this the noon newscast that replaced "Cosby Show" reruns on Channel 11?

[drmusic_99]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'May 11 2004, 04:07 PM\'] [quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 11 2004, 03:06 PM\']
While I think that News is definately important, I always wondered why a station would need a solid three-hour block of it.  I guess ratings must have proved it to be viable. [/quote]
The answer is simple : revenue. If we air a half hour syndicated show, we have to split the ad time with the syndicator. If we air a half hour news show, we get all the ads, and hence, all the revenue...

My station has added 7 hours of news weekly in the last year and a half....totalling 6 hours a day.... Too much? Maybe for some. Profitable? You better believe it...

Matt [/quote]
 We're really straying off topic, but since I kinda started it, it's worth pointing out... the CBS station I get, WWJ 62 Detroit -- a CBS O&O -- carries NO local news. All that time is filled with... yup, syndicated programming. Mostly courtroom shows, some game shows like Millionaire and H2... and the other half of the duopoly, WKBD 50 (UPN) carries only a 10pm newscast produced by ABC affiliate WXYZ. (I don't get WKBD, but I think they're the ones that carry Feud in Detroit.) So, the nation's 10th largest market is served by only three television news operations.

[Craig Karlberg]

My area's CBS affiliate(KYW-TV3) in Philadelphia dumped Millionaire in Fall '03 to make room for its hour-long affternoon news at the 4PM ET slot.  It used to be on at 5PM but is now replaced by Dr.Phil(which used to be on at 3PM ET before it aqcuired Pyramid(originally at 4:30PM) & Inside Edition at that slot).

As far as the Sinclair stations go, I wonder how many other than the 8 Ohio stations to "dump" Nightline on April 30th as a "political agenda"?  What bothers me is WHAT IS THAT AGENDA?  GEEZ!

[rugrats1]

As far as the Sinclair stations go, I wonder how many other than the 8 Ohio stations to "dump" Nightline on April 30th as a "political agenda"?

As far as I know, there's only two Sinclair ABC stations that serve any part of Ohio -- WSYX ch.6 in Columbus and, now, WKEF ch.22 in Dayton (who was among 3 Sinclair stations who were kicked out of NBC), plus WCHS ch.8 in Charleston.

the CBS station I get, WWJ 62 Detroit -- a CBS O&O -- carries NO local news. All that time is filled with... yup, syndicated programming.

And it was practically like thst since the end of 1995. WWJ-TV did have a newscast produced by WKBD in 2002 and/or 2003, but that ended when Viacom closed WKBD's news operations and decided to keep local news off WWJ-TV.

[adamjk]

(I don't get WKBD, but I think they're the ones that carry Feud in Detroit)


They do indeed

[gameshowguy2000]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'May 11 2004, 11:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'May 11 2004, 11:09 PM\'] [quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 11 2004, 04:55 PM\'] Ya know, gsg2000, the screwy thing is that 4PM has been cancelled once in favor of "Millionaire" and H2. [/quote]
I actually remember that.

And here's another thing: In Fall 2000, CBS 11 premiered the 4 PM newscast, and what's even better, is that it actually KEPT the Noon newscast, which debuted in 1996. [/quote]
Is this the noon newscast that replaced "Cosby Show" reruns on Channel 11? [/quote]
 Yep. And out of curiosity, how'd you figure that out?

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'drmusic_99\' date=\'May 12 2004, 12:11 AM\'] the CBS station I get, WWJ 62 Detroit -- a CBS O&O -- carries NO local news. [/quote]
 Which I find fascinating as WWJ Radio is one of the best all-news stations around.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'May 12 2004, 10:17 AM\'] Yep. And out of curiosity, how'd you figure that out? [/quote]
 I lived in Dallas during the mid-80s and still visit often. I remembered thinking it was odd that there wasn't a 12:00 news for a "big 3 station," and IIRC, Young and Restless was on at 11 am.

ObGameShow: The Y&R cast did Combs Feud a number of times.

[DrBear]

Just a reminder. Stations will do what they think is in their best interest. If they think they can make more money with news, they will do news. If they think they can make more money by showing rabbits having sex, get ready for the bunny hop. (And if you wonder how breaking into a sponsored program for unsponsored news can make the station money, remember that they're trying to lure viewers to their regular newscasts by showing how well they cover news). For ANY commercial station, programming is just the filler between the ads, and they want to get as many eyes on those ads as they can.

[Fedya]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'May 11 2004, 07:40 PM\'] Here in NY, WCBS was always an innovator as far as local news goes...they were the first in the area to launch a noon newscast back in 1987, the first after WABC to move network news from 7 to 6:30, and experimented w/the whole early afternoon news concept in early 1992 w/their "Ch. 2 First News", which aired at 4...it only lasted until Sep of that year, but paved the way for their current 4:30 newscast, launched in fall 01. [/quote]
 WCBS has "The People's Court" from 4-5pm, which is when their 90 minutes of blood and scare stories about how businesses are going to kill you comes on.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'May 12 2004, 10:38 AM\'] [quote name=\'drmusic_99\' date=\'May 12 2004, 12:11 AM\'] the CBS station I get, WWJ 62 Detroit -- a CBS O&O -- carries NO local news. [/quote]
Which I find fascinating as WWJ Radio is one of the best all-news stations around. [/quote]
 Weren't WWJ the original call letters for the TV outlet now known as WDIV?

Doug -- and the countdown to 500 continues

[gameshowguy2000]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'May 12 2004, 10:53 AM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'May 12 2004, 10:17 AM\'] Yep. And out of curiosity, how'd you figure that out? [/quote]
I lived in Dallas during the mid-80s and still visit often. I remembered thinking it was odd that there wasn't a 12:00 news for a "big 3 station," and IIRC, Young and Restless was on at 11 am.

ObGameShow: The Y&R cast did Combs Feud a number of times. [/quote]
 And during the late 40's to late 90's, the CBS affiliate was KDFW-4, until 1995, when it got Fox, and sent the CBS stuff to KTVT-11, which in Fall 1994, got B&B and TPIR, and the remaining CBS stuff went over there in Spring 1995.