A Hartford firefighter died last week while on duty at the scene of a fire. His funeral was Monday and all 4 local News Station in Connecticut - WFSB 3 (CBS), WTNH 8 (ABC), WVIT 30 (NBC), and WTIC-TV 61 (FOX) all blew out their line-ups for 4 hours on Monday (10AM-2PM) to carry his funeral. IMO, this was a bit much. Yes, it's sad he died while fighting the fire and yeah he was the first Hartford Firefighter to die in the line of duty in more than 40 years, but did this really warrant Live Coverage of a 4 hour funeral on all 4 local stations? It would be different if he was a Fire Chief or Lieutenant, but he was a regular firefighter. I think one channel carrying his funeral would have been enough. I also think it was a bit much for it to last 4 hours.
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Connecticut Stations blow out their line-up for 4 hours Monday
- Thread starter MarcB
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Hey for four hours Hartford had four true independent stations that were live and local at least - Hey I think its lame preempting network shows - if a station is a CBS affiliate CBS IS WHAT THEY SHOULD run - same with ABC - NBC - and Fox... Still Network TV is getting less relevant - ABC blew up its lineup dumping All My Children and three months later One Life To Live. Here in NYC this equaled an overhaul for WABC TV as two syndicated shows ended around the same time. From the Summer of 2011 to the Spring of 2012 WABC TV lost All My Children, One LIfe To Live, Oprah Winfrey, and Regis & Kelly - replaced with the Spew, the Revolution (later ABC gave the hour back to affiliates where WABC TV added Katie Couric), Michael & Kelly, and an additional hour of local eyewitness news. Now WABC TV dumped Katie (which syndicators also dumped) in favor of a full hour of news at Noon, Spew stayed at 1, Millionaire which was known to be abreviated when News ran over moved to 2 (a better slot for the show), reruns of Jeopardy at 2:30, General Hospital at 3, and News from 4to 6:30...Yes Oprah canceled her show on her own...as did Regis..still I fault ABC for not holding to the soaps longer. They should bring them back eve in a 30 minute format each....
I don't see the soaps lasting much longer. They are not cheap to produce and the ratings are dropping. I would like to see the game shows make a return. I remember being a kid and you had 4 hours of game shows in the morning.
I don't have a issue with the locals blowing out programming for the funeral. It's not like they do it every day. When the capital city loses a firefighter on duty and it was the first time in over 40 years they should have given coverage to it. I am curious why they didn't preempt the programming.
I don't have a issue with the locals blowing out programming for the funeral. It's not like they do it every day. When the capital city loses a firefighter on duty and it was the first time in over 40 years they should have given coverage to it. I am curious why they didn't preempt the programming.
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