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Chile Earthquake/Hawaii Tsunami Network Coverage
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Give it up to the Spanish networks (both Univision and Telemundo) who have been nonstop virtually all day. I specifically appreciate that they're not one-sided and just focusing on Chile. They are indeed covering the Hawaii angle. Kudos.
And give a big middle finger to Univision 18 in Hartford. At 4:08PM they cut-off the anchor in mid-sentence and put up the Univision 18 slide to do the legal ID and then went back to network coverage. They should've just put in small letters at the bottom of the screen "Univision 18 WUVN Hartford/New haven"
Ethan_Lopez said:
I'm not sure if it was a local or national issue, but the Telemundo affiliate in the Fort Myers/Naples market (WWDT 43) cut away at 10:00 am...for paid programming!
I'm not sure when they cut back to the Chile earthquake coverage but they are covering it once again.
Univision has been covering this wall-to-wall (including our local affiliate).
JayR said:Ethan_Lopez said:
I'm not sure if it was a local or national issue, but the Telemundo affiliate in the Fort Myers/Naples market (WWDT 43) cut away at 10:00 am...for paid programming!
This (and the Hartford example above) is why there should be a legal FCC requirement for at least one local engineer at all times able to intercede and kill automation for their stations in situations like this. Both cases were just the master control in who-knows-where having people who either didn't know what was going on or owners who think "Spanish network=we can keep the feed running 24/7 and throw on an infomercial whenever we want because they don't care about news unless it's at 6:30 or 11:30!" Hopefully this should prove them wrong and they will get the point for the next breaking story.
Telemundo also was part of NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympic games. Most of Telemundo's coverage was on the overnights. Hartford (and Springfield) viewers got screwed out of that because the local station WRDM-CA leases overnights to Jewelery Television. In fact the only time they didn't show JTV on the overnight since they began leasing time to JTV was during the events of 9-11-01. That's when they ran non-stop coverage from Telemundo.
Yep, I have to add my kudos to Univision and Telemundo for going wall to wall with earthquake coverage and for both doing a FINE job of it. We watched some of that coverage too - and it was (and is) excellent. Particularly Univision's coverage. Fine mix of using Chilean TV coverage/video and their own reporters.
No oddball interruptions of their coverage here in Chicagoland. Thank goodness!
No oddball interruptions of their coverage here in Chicagoland. Thank goodness!
This (and the Hartford example above) is why there should be a legal FCC requirement for at least one local engineer at all times able to intercede and kill automation for their stations in situations like this.
It will never happen because you'll have some GM or other TV Honcho saying "Who the hell do you, a lowly TV engineer, think YOU are deciding when to interrupt MY programming choices without MY explicit say-so??"
It will never happen because you'll have some GM or other TV Honcho saying "Who the hell do you, a lowly TV engineer, think YOU are deciding when to interrupt MY programming choices without MY explicit say-so??"
Unfortunately, such disasters like this one wasn't enough for Captain Janks to gain a conscience and refrain from cranking a news outlet. Sadly, his latest victim was Honolulu TV station KHON, who was fooled by Janks posing as a reporter, who not only slammed a head of Sirius XM, but managed to utter the "C" word, not once, not twice, but three times.
JayR said:Ethan_Lopez said:
I'm not sure if it was a local or national issue, but the Telemundo affiliate in the Fort Myers/Naples market (WWDT 43) cut away at 10:00 am...for paid programming!
I'm not sure when they cut back to the Chile earthquake coverage but they are covering it once again.
Nashville's 4.2 broke away for 30 minutes too...probably because all affiliates who don't have local programming were flying off "the bird" aka Telemundo's satellite feed
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