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CBS 19 Expanded Newscast

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nuzguy

CBS 19 Tyler revealed the particulars of its revamped newscast format in today's (07/17) Longview newspaper.

The story says the 6PM news will in effect be expanded by 30 minutes with the added half-hour focusing on Longview-Tyler-area coverage. Tyler anchors will remain the same with added reporting and anchoring live from 19's Longview studio.

It begins tomorrow evening (Monday 07/18). Could be interesting.
 
KYTX will also simulcast the newscast on what was their UPN subchannel.....and also simulcast their 5PM newscast on 18.

and speaking also, as of today, UPN 18 has reverted to a schedule as "My Texas TV" that includes simulcasts of the Price is Right and the Young and the Restless along with the local news. And very little other programming. They carry the same shows, but with a shuffling around of the programs.

You'd think in the nine months since CW was announced Phil Hurley would have come up with a better lineup of syndicated programming. C'mon....there's plenty of classic syndicated shows that are available for broadcast. Instead, he's picked up very little classics, added redundant simulcasts of a couple of network shows and their own news and has filled in the rest of the time with that gawd-awful Mercado Fabulouso. And what about the movies? I haven't seen a movie on there other than what movies UPN carried.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hurley up and decides to pull the plug on KYTX-UP by the end of the year.
 
Tonight's debut of the expanded format looked fairly smooth, although it's basically just a half-hour extension of the 6PM news with a shift in the back :30 to local emphasis. Some interesting graphics and other production for window dressing, no attempt at being too showy just visual material to move the show along.

Technically it's the status quo; the defining point will come when the fickle finger of fate waves, in due time either sending the show onward and upward or down and out.

So, one may ask, what will be the reaction from across town at 7 and 56?
 
nuzguy said:
Tonight's debut of the expanded format looked fairly smooth, although it's basically just a half-hour extension of the 6PM news with a shift in the back :30 to local emphasis. Some interesting graphics and other production for window dressing, no attempt at being too showy just visual material to move the show along.

Technically it's the status quo; the defining point will come when the fickle finger of fate waves, in due time either sending the show onward and upward or down and out.

So, one may ask, what will be the reaction from across town at 7 and 56?
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I'm not a TV guy, per se, but my prediction is that of the two, 56 would make a countermove. 7 already, IMO, does a good enough job covering all of East Texas to not need a second :30 to get in what they didn't in the first :30. Besides, I think Wheel carries enough numbers for them not to mess with it.

For 19's COL to be Nacogdoches, they sure have up and left them high and dry. When's the last time you heard a news story on 19 from Nac? Or did I just happen to miss it? Seems to me that if I were to cater to a particular market, I'd offer at least something to my COL. Thoughts?
 
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