Check your memory. Here is my original post:
I have a weather app that gives me all the details for weather in my zip code---or where I might be headed---and it's updated by the minute. I only go to the local TV news to see local news.
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Other than on this site, I've hardly seen any audience research that insists live and local is important to them. Listeners pretty much without fail just want a quality product. My formerly owned stations for years were 98% satellite-programmed. Occasionally someone would stop by the studio/offices by with a pie or cake for one of the jocks. When we told the pie listener who she heard was actually in Denver, the next question usually was to ask the address to send them the pie anyway. In other words, nobody cared because they liked the music and personalities.
No, but I have some pictures you asked to see this week.
My first radio job was in a medium market on the west coast. Being from the east coast I wasn't very familiar with some big names out west, including those who had syndicated national shows that weren't on where I grew up.
Sign of insanity or senility: answering your own posts!
I had that happen once.....I call that my "I ain't the Wolfman" moment
Yes, consultants did, and the ratings bore it out. Especially if the weather person was a well-known personality like Tom Jolls or Kevin O’Connell. Older people are weather junkies. And if weather could lead the show for any reason, that was a no-brainer.
It’s just words, you know that!
I’ve been gone from 7 a long time. So they finally did it and pulled the plug on Master. I suppose they laid off the whole department.
Funny story about always having somebody there to do the weather - 6pm show one night, last minute, don’t remember the weatherman and don’t remember why he wasn’t there. They threw Bob Koshinski on the Wx set, much against his will. He was not taking the whole thing terribly seriously and had not one clue what he was talking about. Control was just flipping the gfx for him and he was just reading what was there. When the Jet Stream came up, Bob said something like “and here’s a big snake going across the country.”
Usually that's how it works. I invented TV CentralCasting (MC Hub), so I'm pretty familiar with the end result. TV isn't a jobs program.
Actually breaking news happens much faster in automation than traditional new production control environments. One doesn't need to assemble a control room with TD, graphics, playout, and audio people. A single trained Director can sit down and run a live newscast, including breaking live news with no rundown. I think what you heard, were some anticipatory macros that can be created in advance which can provide multiple functions in order with one button push. An example could be: Roll breaking intro with music, fade music, cue camera 1, take camera 1, raise mic. 1, take anchor lower third. Then, if you have a liveshot, a separate macro button according to the REM can be pressed and taken which can create an OTS behind the anchor, push the space bar and take the REM live with lower third.
