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ABC Stations wth a 6:30pm Newscast

You Mean Local newscast? I know KGO-tv has a 6:30 Newscast but its part of the 1 hour newscast of ABC7 News at 6pm.
 
Likewise, WSB, which carries local news until 7 and is
the only ABC affiliate in the Eastern time zone not to
carry "World News" ar 6:30.

KTRK Houston and (I believe) KSTP Minneapolis-St. Paul
do local news from 6-7 (CT); any other station that might
be doing a 6:30 local news is probably in the Pacific time zone.
 
WSB/Atlanta has local news from 4:00pm-7:00pm. A solid 3hours of the same stories being repeated every 30 mintues.
 
recto101 said:
You Mean Local newscast? I know KGO-tv has a 6:30 Newscast but its part of the 1 hour newscast of ABC7 News at 6pm.
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That's not two separate newscasts; it's just KGO timing the broadcast so that they can come out of a break and have the anchors re-introduce themselves and recap the top story. Stations with hour-long newscasts have done that for years, it just took someone at KGO to think it would be 'cool' to make it look like they had two different, but consecutive, newscasts.
 
onairb said:
recto101 said:
You Mean Local newscast? I know KGO-tv has a 6:30 Newscast but its part of the 1 hour newscast of ABC7 News at 6pm.
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That's not two separate newscasts; it's just KGO timing the broadcast so that they can come out of a break and have the anchors re-introduce themselves and recap the top story. Stations with hour-long newscasts have done that for years, it just took someone at KGO to think it would be 'cool' to make it look like they had two different, but consecutive, newscasts.
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I know that the 6:30 part is really ABC7 News at 6pm but they go to the national headlines at 6:30 and Assignment 7 segments at 6:30.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Some Sunday nights WSOC-TV has one. Usually they have ABC News.
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WHAS-11 in Louisville air their Sunday night local news at 6:30, and World News at 6pm. Not sure why, but might have been for the sports pre-emptions back when ABC carried more sports programming.
 
So does KCTV5 with CBS at 6;pm and Local at 6:30pm Sunday's.
Also KMCI/Live Well Network repeat 11am Newscast at Noon to 1pm.
 
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of this question. It really depends on the timezone. In the Pacific timezone, there is lots of local news at 6:30pm (either an individual newscast or a continuation of the 6pm newscast). In the Mountain and Central timezones, it is rare because 6:30pm is the half-hour right before primetime (usually reserved for Wheel of Forture, ET, TMZ, etc.). In the Eastern timezone, the national news is often on at 6:30pm.
 
formeraa said:
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of this question. It really depends on the timezone. In the Pacific timezone, there is lots of local news at 6:30pm (either an individual newscast or a continuation of the 6pm newscast). In the Mountain and Central timezones, it is rare because 6:30pm is the half-hour right before primetime (usually reserved for Wheel of Forture, ET, TMZ, etc.). In the Eastern timezone, the national news is often on at 6:30pm.
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Here in Nashville, two out of the big three have news (still) on at 6:30. But the third one does indeed have Wheel on at half-past six! ;D All three now begin their afternoon/evening newscasts at 4:00 p.m. now that Oprah is gone.
 
In Phoenix, only one station (KPHO) out of five stations with news departments has a 6:30pm newscast. Only two stations (KNXV for 30 minutes and KPNX has a fluffy news program) start news at 4pm.
 
Before Freedom management shut it down and moved it to Kalamazoo the ABC Affiliate in Lansing used to have a 6:30pm newscast called ABC3NEWS LIVE AT 6:30
 
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