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CBS will revamp 'Evening News' on weekends
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Or like a way to save money by letting the streaming service take over the evening news or weekends.
Or use the broadcast to promote the existence of the streaming service. Since that obviously is going to be the future of their news distribution.
For years CBS has toyed with the idea of starting its own cable news channel, and a couple years ago, the decided they'd do streaming rather than a cable channel.
It sounds forward thinking. One of the reasons I have not yet "cut-the-cord" - and I'd speculate it's true for others as well - is that I like to watch broadcast news, especially when there's a breaking news story. Most of my local stations are already streaming their top news stories - if not yet entire broadcasts. As more and more news outlets stream, and regular (non-news) programming becomes more and more available on the web - cable and satellite will become irrelevant. Though some services require monthly fees (HBO-Go, Netflix, Hulu), I've figured out that I could stream virtually all of the programming I want and save at least $80 per month over what I now pay for DirecTV.
I don't know how this works in the west, but in the fall, CBS affiliates where I live rarely have evening news on weekends. If there is not a 4:00 football game then the broadcast does air.
Weekend network news barely exists today. So much of this programming gets replaced by sporting events. The anchors are generally weak, and these shows are not high priority for CBS, NBC, and ABC. That being said, any "revamping" is just a gimmick and nothing more. Heck even in market 200 most of these shows are pre-empted by anything from infomericals, or in my market, an automobile infomercial that actually scores well in the ratings!
As I read this discussion, I wonder if the next step is for the streaming service to take over the early morning (before the local morning show) newscast and the overnight newscast.
Does anyone know for sure: Is CBSN non-union? That would explain much of this move. NBC's last attempt at overnight news came from a non-union shop in Charlotte, NC.
If Charlie Rose doesn't turn around the current CBS morning show, look for it to go to be CBSN. CBS was actually most successful doing a network/local hybrid show with network material inserted into local shows. Network ego got in the way and that killed it. But that kind of hybrid show would be a perfect to go with CBSN feeds. Where I am, the local CBS morning show continues after 7am on the CW station (co-owned with the CBS station) in competition with Charlie Rose from the network (the local news segments for the CBS show are simulcast on both).
How much longer for CBS News? For all practical purposes, radio was spun off. 60 Minutes operates as an independent unit. Same with Marketplace. That leaves the Evening News and it's only a matter of time before stations figure out they can do better without it. They get more than enough material to include national news in local newscasts. In markets where former CBS affiliates were taken over by Fox, those stations seem to do as well or better without local news. And, of course, stations get a much bigger take from local newscasts.
If Charlie Rose doesn't turn around the current CBS morning show, look for it to go to be CBSN. CBS was actually most successful doing a network/local hybrid show with network material inserted into local shows. Network ego got in the way and that killed it. But that kind of hybrid show would be a perfect to go with CBSN feeds. Where I am, the local CBS morning show continues after 7am on the CW station (co-owned with the CBS station) in competition with Charlie Rose from the network (the local news segments for the CBS show are simulcast on both).
How much longer for CBS News? For all practical purposes, radio was spun off. 60 Minutes operates as an independent unit. Same with Marketplace. That leaves the Evening News and it's only a matter of time before stations figure out they can do better without it. They get more than enough material to include national news in local newscasts. In markets where former CBS affiliates were taken over by Fox, those stations seem to do as well or better without local news. And, of course, stations get a much bigger take from local newscasts.
Huh? CBS News Radio was not spun off. It is part of CBS News and is actually located just down the hall from where Scott Pelly sits. If CBS Radio gets sold or spun off, CBS News Radio remains with the CBS Corporation. Yes 60 Minutes is across the street, but the show reports to the President of CBS News. The financial reporting group is called MarketWatch, not Marketplace. Marketplace is a public radio show. Also reports to the President of CBS News. These are all functioning parts of the same organization. There are several other divisions, including the archival film division. Yes, it's a big company. As I said earlier in this thread, there's a big move in the TV business towards something less linear than traditional 1950s-style TV. The result will be more, not less, network news for people who want it. The difference is platform. Rather than being available from local affiliates, you'll get it from the source.
Local affiliates have problems of their own. Staffing is expensive, and replacing national shows with local staff costs money. CBS News offers these services because the affiliates want them. BTW the local Fox affiliates do local news. They just do it at 10PM rather than 11. Fox doesn't offer traditional network news, but they have the Fox News Channel, which CBS doesn't have. Fox News offers affiliates lots of live breaking news just like the other nets, plus a more detailed platform of inserts for use in local news. Many of the hosts of Fox News Channels Shows also do these segments for local stations. This new unit at CBS News seems to be heading in that direction.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, all the affiliates (actually, they're all O&Os now) air local news in the evening, and their network's national news.
CBS Radio, alone with other so-called radio "networks" is under Westwood One.
You go high enough up any corporate totem pole and any two operating divisions ultimately have the same boss, no matter how disparate their operations.
Additional costs of an extra half-hour of local news are minimal, certainly far less than the added revenue from local sales in said half hour. It's far better for the bottom line than a 10pm newscast on CW or some other stations, which many major network affiliates produce already. Probably even better than front-loading half-hours on the early morning local show, which has been pushed back to as early as 4:30am.
You go high enough up any corporate totem pole and any two operating divisions ultimately have the same boss, no matter how disparate their operations.
Additional costs of an extra half-hour of local news are minimal, certainly far less than the added revenue from local sales in said half hour. It's far better for the bottom line than a 10pm newscast on CW or some other stations, which many major network affiliates produce already. Probably even better than front-loading half-hours on the early morning local show, which has been pushed back to as early as 4:30am.
Nope. CBS Radio News is distributed by Westwood One. Big difference. But CBS Radio News is still owned by CBS.
But completely separate from "CBS News." They also produce content for the other "branded" WW1 "networks."
Again, not true. CBS News Radio is not separate in any way. They're in the same building, on the same floor, they use the same resources, and they work to the same standards. How are they completely separate other than they don't do video?
And CNN provides the content for the WW1 news service. However, if you think that's an issue, watch the credits for the PBS Newshour, and see who provides them content. You may be surprised.
The 4:00 football games would be over where you live. You also don't have the problem of every show that airs on Sunday evening getting delayed.
Saturday, there's usually some football game keeping the news from airing.
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