When more than seven hours of continuous news is too much....

[Mark Roberts]

A great moment in local TV this morning on KDVR, "Fox 85 31", toward the end of its very long morning news block, someone didn't read closely enough.

 

[radiofan2023]

"Hey, THAT'S not an allergy pill..."

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Well local tv has to somehow manage to hold on to an audience in the era of streaming apps. If it’s the most clickbait sounding then it is going to hold an audience.

 

[PTBoardOp93]

Show up for the school closings, stay for the public indecency

 

[Weiserguy]

There's something seriously wrong at Fox. Either they have eliminated all literacy within the ranks of their chyron operators, or they're in some weird competition to see who can slip the most bizarre (or offensive) typos past the director. Witness this one, which I was quick enough to screen-grab a couple of years ago. They aired this same mistake over multiple consecutive hours (because they were too lazy or oblivious to edit it out of repeat hours).

 

[Mark Roberts]

For avoidance of doubt, KDVR is owned by Nexstar.

 

[Mark Roberts]

Show up for the school closings, stay for the public indecency

Not that most of you would care, but there was a storm overnight. There was heavy snow west of Denver, south of Denver, and especially east of Denver with blizzard conditions. But from Denver and points north, there was just rain. Apparently a downslope condition with winds from Wyoming set up, leaving Denver and the northern Front Range a bit warmer than everywhere else in the region. So there were some school closings or late starts this morning in the station's broadcast area but, anywhere north of about Centennial, everything was normal, if windy.

 

[Gregg.]

I hope anyone fishing in Jersey catch those black sea bass with a net instead of a hook.

 

[Weiserguy]

For avoidance of doubt, KDVR is owned by Nexstar.

Apologies, I presumed your local Fox station was owned by Fox. But I've seen jaw-dropping mistakes on Fox stations -- O&O and affiliates -- around the country, and on their News, Business and Weather channels. That one just happened while I had the phone in my hand and could grab it before it evaporated. (Though it stayed up on screen for way too long, indicating they weren't even paying attention to their own live program, or cared enough to fix it before it repeated an hour later, and then another hour after that.)

 

[Mark Roberts]

Apologies, I presumed your local Fox station was owned by Fox. But I've seen jaw-dropping mistakes on Fox stations -- O&O and affiliates -- around the country, and on their News, Business and Weather channels. That one just happened while I had the phone in my hand and could grab it before it evaporated. (Though it stayed up on screen for way too long, indicating they weren't even paying attention to their own live program, or cared enough to fix it before it repeated an hour later, and then another hour after that.)

No need to apologize. The only O&O in the Denver market is KCNC, "CBS Colorado", which is kind of an embarassment. It has the concept of assigning reporters to specific cities or counties, which wouldn't be so bad except that half the reporter's air time is taken up with folderol such as "Jasmine Arenas is Your Reporter in Denver; please call her with your stories at 303-etc-etc". I'm not picking on Ms. Arenas, and I have nothing against her; she's just a victim of misguided station management who really should lay off from begging viewers for story tips in each and every package or live shot from each and every reporter. Weekends on "CBS News Colorado" are especially painful to watch.

Oh, where were we? Oh, yeah. Supers have turned into crap on most stations. The attention to detail has gone missing. In addition, anchors seem to stumble on copy more and more. Are things so tight that no one can pre-read anything any more?

 

[CTListener]

I hope anyone fishing in Jersey catch those black sea bass with a net instead of a hook.

Can sea bass be substituted for whitefish in gefilte fish in Jew Jersey?

 

[Weiserguy]

Can sea bass be substituted for whitefish in gefilte fish in Jew Jersey?

Only in Lakewood proper.

 

[JeeperOne]

For avoidance of doubt, KDVR is owned by Nexstar.

Fox DID own it back in the 1990;s but they sold it to Local TV (Which was then a startup run by Randy Michaels & later merged with Tribune)

Nexstar inherited it & sibling KWGN 2 when Tribune (After avoiding what amounted to a shady DISMANTLING of it by Sinclair) merged with it (Nexstar later bought The CW Network from CBS/Paramount & aligned as many stations as they could with it)

And the rest (As they say) is history

 

[Mark Roberts]

Fox DID own it back in the 1990;s but they sold it to Local TV (Which was then a startup run by Randy Michaels & later merged with Tribune)

Nexstar inherited it & sibling KWGN 2 when Tribune (After avoiding what amounted to a shady DISMANTLING of it by Sinclair) merged with it (Nexstar later bought The CW Network from CBS/Paramount & aligned as many stations as they could with it)

And the rest (As they say) is history

That's fine, but the relevance here is that KDVR and KWGN are not currently Fox O&Os.