Do you think KTLA has too much news?

[davideduardo]

I was just giving an example of why Big cities can air news 24/7 and midsize markets like West Michigan is all, and can't air news 24/7.

I'm in a market well outside the top 100, yet the "Desert's news leader" and its ABC, CBS, Fox and other channels have news on nearly every half hour all during the day. And this month they introduced streams on multiple content providers where you can see the latest newscast whenever you want.

KESQ and its co-owned channels have a full news department with multiple well equipped vehicles, a chain of live cams that show the weather here and in the surrounding mountains, and two anchors, a weather person and a sportscaster in nearly all newscasts.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I'm in a market well outside the top 100, yet the "Desert's news leader" and its ABC, CBS, Fox and other channels have news on nearly every half hour all during the day.

I am very much inclined to think that it's not market size which dictates the amount of news but what the viewing "appetite" is for it. I'd really like to see how far down the Nielsen market list you'd get before hitting even as low as 75% of the broadcast day being news on at least one station in said market per half-hour.

 

[kwthom]

I'm in a market well outside the top 100, yet the "Desert's news leader" and its ABC, CBS, Fox and other channels have news on nearly every half hour all during the day. And this month they introduced streams on multiple content providers where you can see the latest newscast whenever you want.

KESQ and its co-owned channels have a full news department with multiple well equipped vehicles, a chain of live cams that show the weather here and in the surrounding mountains, and two anchors, a weather person and a sportscaster in nearly all newscasts.

Seems to me that in your market (65+ age group...), that type of programming probably does pretty good.

For those that aren't 'tech savvy', being able to click from one channel to the next to watch the news seems to be a thing for Boomers and beyond.

 

[K.M. Richards]

For those that aren't 'tech savvy', being able to click from one channel to the next to watch the news seems to be a thing for Boomers and beyond.

Speak for yourself only, please. I turned 68 in May, which puts me at the tail end of the Boomers, and outside of special events (such as President Biden's speech stepping down from the campaign) and occasionally "breaking news" that could affect my immediate area, the only television news I watch is ABC World News Tonight and those parts of the Monday and Friday PBS NewsHour which are the political analysis by Walter/Keith and Brooks/Capehart.

 

[Dave1978]

They do air Two and a Half Men at 7:30 after all those damn newscasts.

 

[Dave1978]

When they aired Family Guy at 6:00 and 6:30 back then, I was thinking they couldn't afford a 6:00 newscast.

 

[DavinaR]

Now that CW has sports most weekends, they don't have much time on the weekend to add news during the day. Plus CW wants to add more sports on Sunday's.
I like that I can tune-in to KTLA anytime during the weekdays to get LA news.

 

[JTT2020]

Now that CW has sports most weekends, they don't have much time on the weekend to add news during the day. Plus CW wants to add more sports on Sunday's.
I like that I can tune-in to KTLA anytime during the weekdays to get LA news.

Even if the cw airs more sports on weekends, ktla can air news instead of local programming & infomercials.

 

[K.M. Richards]

They do air Two and a Half Men at 7:30 after all those damn newscasts.

And even that is gone now. The only non-news segments on weekdays is an hour of Friends at 11:35pm, an hour of Big Bang Theory, then one episode each of Two And A Half Men, The Conners, and The Goldbergs, then Court Cam and Judy Justice before the all-news format resumes at 4:00am.

(On Friday night, they go to infomercials after Two And A Half Men.)