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Anchorless TV News

TV News will eventually turn into the "Channel One News" they force fed on us in high school...at least Channel One gave us Lisa Ling and AC360!
 
TV 46 WGCL CBS Atlanta did this for about 10 minutes about a month ago and it really wasn't that bad. Kind of like NEWS TONIGHT instead of ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT.

On the other hand, WXIA TV 11 now calls their show NEWS THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU. Much of the crime has been replaced by how to.......did you know.....we're looking out for you segments.

I'm not sure it's helped WXIA in ratings, but they won the most Southern Emmy awards and for best all around newscast (go figure). I personally prefer NEWS TONIGHT over the GOOD NEWS concept.
 
Hey, when the 800-pound gorilla named WSB is sitting in the room, you can't help but get creative!
 
Lkeller said:
kenwood101 said:
WLNE in Providence, Rhode Island has announced Bankructcy and is now in Recievership.In the past year or two have lost contracts with King World and maybe something else and I could see this station trying something like this.
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Again, not likely, because the savings the bankrupt station would realize - 2 or 3 anchor's salaries - is not that substantial. Young Broadcasting's KRON-TV in San Francisco has been bleeding money for 7 or 8 years now, and Young is in bankruptcy. But here's what they've done:

They've laid-off all the big-bucks field-reporters, and replaced them with "VJ's" - "video-journalists" who go out alone and run their own cameras on top of reporting. Instead of paying high-salary field-reporters plus camera operators to accompany each reporter in the field, KRON is only paying salaries for single reporters, and they're usually young hungry novice reporters - practically Interns - who no doubt work for a lot less money.

KRON has been criticized for this, and some of their VJs' reports do look and sound amateurish, but the bottom line is - KRON is saving a lot more money than they would be if they fired 2 or 3 anchor people.
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Who in the hell even watches KRON 4 News in San Fran?
 
And that's why a good anchor provides a "credible presence" . We can all think of a few bad anchors who worked in our local markets over the years...you know, the 'Ted Baxter' or 'Ron Burgundy' types we all liked to ridicule. But those types seem to be long gone - I can think of only two bad anchors in the last 20 years in my local market (SF Bay Area). Both of them were on our new (somewhat struggling) NBC affiliate early in the last decade, and neither of them lasted very long.

In bringing up other media, like internet - sure, we all get "anchorless" news from those sources. We always did - needless to say, newspapers never had "anchors." But I think a credible anchor brings value, and I don't see them going away anytime soon.

The Bay Area hasn't had high-salary anchors for years now, so going "anchorless" would simply not save enough money to make the experiment worth trying.
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Lkeller I remember that bad anchor on KGO and KNTV anchor Terilyn Joe she seemed to me that she was a Ron Burgundy in female form.
 
I think the worst anchors are the ones who can't tell the news without
putting their own biased opinions and ideas all over it.

Usually with eyes popping, mouth snarling, tone changes, etc.
 
recto101 said:
I can think of only two bad anchors in the last 20 years in my local market (SF Bay Area). Both of them were on our new (somewhat struggling) NBC affiliate early in the last decade, and neither of them lasted very long.
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Lkeller I remember that bad anchor on KGO and KNTV anchor Terilyn Joe she seemed to me that she was a Ron Burgundy in female form.
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Good guess, Recto. When I said I could think of only 2 bad Bay Area anchors, one of the two I was thinking of was Terilyn Joe, who wore a weird 70s style cement hair-do and smiled inappropriately while reading the most tragic stories. The other was her co-anchor Allen Denton, WHO LIKED TO SHOUT ALL HIS STORIES!!!!
 
gregg: Would you say that all opinion is bad?

"A viscious quadruple-murder on the city's south side" deserves a certain tone of disgust, right? "General Motors is stopping production at a truck plant just outside Detroit" needs a certain tone. And "WXYZ's Tom Johnson was the grand marshal of the Fourth of July parade in Dearborn" should have another tone?

Would anyone disagree that the quadruple murder is disgusting? And that more people becoming unemployed is disheartening? And that everybody loves a parade?

Tone and expression become important where opinions diverge.
 
Lkeller said:
recto101 said:
I can think of only two bad anchors in the last 20 years in my local market (SF Bay Area). Both of them were on our new (somewhat struggling) NBC affiliate early in the last decade, and neither of them lasted very long.
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Lkeller I remember that bad anchor on KGO and KNTV anchor Terilyn Joe she seemed to me that she was a Ron Burgundy in female form.
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Good guess, Recto. When I said I could think of only 2 bad Bay Area anchors, one of the two I was thinking of was Terilyn Joe, who wore a weird 70s style cement hair-do and smiled inappropriately while reading the most tragic stories. The other was her co-anchor Allen Denton, WHO LIKED TO SHOUT ALL HIS STORIES!!!!
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Lkeller Lou Dobbs was the national version of Ron Burgundy on CNN.
 
Tribune is just trying to enhance publicity. KIAH sits behind KHOU, KTRK, KPRC, KRIV and the Spanish language stations in the pecking order. Why not try something different?
 
Lou Dobbs anchored the weekend news on NBC's KING-TV in Seattle in the late 70's and early 80's before moving to CNN. He certainly was no Ron Burgendy. Quite the opposite, he was quite serious. But then again, that was the KING-TV matra in those days.
 
DToTheJ said:
Looks like the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, La. is going full force into anchorless news:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/456208-KTBS_Embraces_File_Based_Future.php
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I didn't see anything regarding the anchors. That just looks like what Scripps and Gannett and other companies have done -- turn reporters into one-man bands (with cute names like VJ or MMJ) and play their stories from a server instead of a tape deck. And why on Earth was KTBS at the Super Bowl?
 
Raymie said:
TheRob said:
Raymie said:
Is Shreveport anywhere near a town called New...Orleans? (get the hint)
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Yes, it's close to New Orleans, but the Super Bowl referenced in the article was in Miami.
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...But New Orleans was in the Super Bowl??
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Okay, my apologies, I didn't take your hint correctly. I guess the Saints' first Super Bowl wasn't as memorable as they hoped. My brain was thinking cost instead of interest in the state's NFL team.
 
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