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CBS Atlanta schedule release

RadioDoogie said:
I have noticed the CBS News website hasn’t been adjusted yet to include Atlanta.
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The debut the local news Monday, 9/15. I also looked a couple of days ago and assume we will see the change Monday.

I noticed WANF has given the cbsatlanta.com web address to CBS. For the first week or so of All News WANF (my made-up name) cbsatlanta.com was still forwarding to the WANF website.
 
Watched both newscasts and they left a lot to be desired. The weather segments were done remotely from San Francisco. The meteorologist posted on social media that they were live but they might as well been taped. There was no interaction between her and the anchor. The segments were preceded by a live look at the Beltline at 6:00 and a Earthcam view of Centennial Park at 11:00.

They re-aired the segment above from CBS Mornings during the 6:00 PM newscast, chewing up over 6 minutes. There were no live shots (other than the b-roll of the Beltline before weather at 6:00) on either newscast and no real local news of the day stories at 6:00 other than CDC workers going back to the office with what may have been file footage from CBS National. They added a few stories for 11:00.

Both newscasts featured sports segments with long time Atlanta sports anchor/reporter Sam Crenshaw.
 
I poked around the net and could not find a recording of the first newscast. I would have thought that the CBS Atlanta section of the CBS app would have the newscasts available for replay as most other local news apps do.
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
I don't think they were ready to launch a local newscast just yet 😒. Jobina did an excellent job anchoring.
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Which makes no sense. They only had one shot to launch. I’m not sure why they didn’t take time to assemble a staff, advertise, and launch at full strength.

Perhaps they plan on doing everything on the cheap and not competing.
 
BoboKnight said:
Which makes no sense. They only had one shot to launch. I’m not sure why they didn’t take time to assemble a staff, advertise, and launch at full strength.

Perhaps they plan on doing everything on the cheap and not competing.
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I am thinking that they possibly want to start out slow, and get to the air with some kind of newscast as soon as they can, with the possibility of expanding their scope as they go along. Having a virtual newsroom doesn't have to be awful. And nobody is used to watching news on WUPA yet. And there were probably some people who were accustomed to ANF, and aren't really going to care whether the station is a network affiliate or not. As I always say, people watch programs, not channels or networks.
 
BoboKnight said:
Which makes no sense. They only had one shot to launch. I’m not sure why they didn’t take time to assemble a staff, advertise, and launch at full strength.

Perhaps they plan on doing everything on the cheap and not competing.
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You do know that WUPA's parent company is planning on massive layoffs across the board in the coming weeks, right?
 
MGD135 said:
Next Monday's Buffalo-Atlanta football game is on ESPN but WUPA is simulcasting it. Now how does that work?
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Every MNF game has to be made available OTA in the home markets (and only the home markets) of the teams playing.

Local stations bid for those rights the same way they would for any other syndicated programming, and apparently WUPA won those rights.
 
fybush said:
Every MNF game has to be made available OTA in the home markets (and only the home markets) of the teams playing.

Local stations bid for those rights the same way they would for any other syndicated programming, and apparently WUPA won those rights.
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A couple points. Every NFL game has to be available OTA in home markets (not just ESPN MNF games).

ABC O&O stations and Hearst stations have right of first refusal on ESPN MNF games in home markets. There is no bidding in those markets when they exercise their right to air games.
 


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