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What's going on with this channel? Seems as if CBS does not know what to do with CBSNY+. The news updates at the quarter hour (recorded and reused over and over) are gone. Seems as if traffic and weather are all automated and features are repeated many times over. Is CBS still interested in CNN? It would be nice if they could improve what they already have.
 
I guess they really want to reduce the cost of running it to the point it really isn't worth watching. The channel was automated originally but with capsules of real newscasts taken from the early morning, noon, evening and 11pm reports. Now they don't even do that. No anchors, no videotape. It's all just maps and written headlines and weather. No voices at all. No humans at all.

What a shame. In Portland Maine, the NBC and ABC stations both have .2 subchannels with continuous capsules of their most recent newscasts. The NBC station does it over and over. The ABC station does it several times per hour, mixed with national weather from Accuweather and with some sports reports, also done by their local sportscasters. I'm sure it costs very little.

WCBS-TV wants to make it even cheaper by not even airing anything that needs to be edited by a human. When 2.2 first started, they even had a 1010 WINS news anchor do a one minute voice-over of world news, with video of the news stories playing at the same time. The idea was it was supposed to be CBS's version of NY 1 but that apparently costs too much and takes too much effort. Yet they still run some commercials on 2.2. If I were Empire Today or another advertiser, I'd ask for my money back.
 
ansky212 said:
Did CBSNY+ ever get cable carriage? I know Verizon Fios never carried it.
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Cablevision never added it. I don't think any cable/telco/sat service has it. I think they would get more viewers if they repeated the last newscast, and inserted the automated weather, sports and traffic updates. The lack of any humans makes it really dull as it is now.
 
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