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Eyewitness News at 4:00...coming in May

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Rollo-Smokes

It looks like WABC-TV will follow the path of its sister station down the Turnpike and add an hour of news at 4:00 PM, according to the Daily News. (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/02/18/2011-02-18_a_clear_edge_in_ch_7_facelift.html)

The long-awaited local answer to the "Who'll replace Oprah" question was a sidebar to the article's main focus: the station will construct a street-level studio on Columbus and 66th for all its newscasts. It could be ready in time for the debut of the two-and-a-half-hour Eyewitness News block, slated to begin on May 26.
 
A good move, especially to try and give it a variable not existent on other newscasts, to give viewers the impression that it's not going to be just another newscast.

Though I would wonder if the new 4 PM newscast would be heavily targeted at the female viewers who have tuned into Channel 7 for 25 years at 4 PM.

A May 26 start? There's not even going to be summer reruns of "Oprah"? It's just goodbye and that's all, folks?
 
DToTheJ said:
A good move, especially to try and give it a variable not existent on other newscasts, to give viewers the impression that it's not going to be just another newscast.

Though I would wonder if the new 4 PM newscast would be heavily targeted at the female viewers who have tuned into Channel 7 for 25 years at 4 PM.

A May 26 start? There's not even going to be summer reruns of "Oprah"? It's just goodbye and that's all, folks?
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Now that the other ABC O&O's like KABC, WLS and WABC all have post Oprah plans but what will happen to KGO-TV in SF. I doubt KGO could do a 4pm Newscast. Either they get a New show or extend 7live. the local Talk show in SF. Who knew that WABC's News schedule is now similar to KABC's news schedule. also the Street level newscast is very similar to WLS-TV.
 
That makes no sense at all for WABC not to run Oprah repeats during the summer. Hey, Oprah repeats usually beat the first run competition. I'm sure many Oprah fans who are at work during the year would like to see those repeats when they're on vacation.

Glad to hear Channel 7 will be using a street level studio at the ABC complex on Columbus and 66 Street. (I won $16,000 in that building where Millionaire tapes!) Do I remember correctly that WNBC used to use a street level studio in Rockefeller Center for its 5pm newscast? Was it the Today Show studio or one near it?


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Gregg said:
That makes no sense at all for WABC not to run Oprah repeats during the summer. Hey, Oprah repeats usually beat the first run competition. I'm sure many Oprah fans who are at work during the year would like to see those repeats when they're on vacation.

Glad to hear Channel 7 will be using a street level studio at the ABC complex on Columbus and 66 Street. (I won $16,000 in that building where Millionaire tapes!) Do I remember correctly that WNBC used to use a street level studio in Rockefeller Center for its 5pm newscast? Was it the Today Show studio or one near it?
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Could it be possible that the syndicator may not be offering summer reruns?

While I personally don't think that will be the case, it is very possible that some stations will move Oprah to late night slots, if they can. In the case of channel 7, they already have the 1:05 AM replay. Also, it is very important to give the new 4:00 newscast a chance to build an audience during the summer. Can't really complain about the move.

The street-level studio WABC-TV is constructing is the location of a former Disney Store, on the northwest corner of Columbus and 66th. And it was the Today show street studio where Live at Five used to tape.
 
I was watch her last show on my way home, but I've heard that WABC is premiering the 4 PM newscast starting tomorrow. That's a waste of running a newscast. Let's hope that this is going to last 5 months until this fall when Rosie O'Donnell returns to the airwaves at 4 PM.

Remember WCBS-TV used to have a 4 PM newscast a long time ago, but it got tanked, but we'll see if channel 7's 4 PM newscast will go down the drain until fall. It will last 5 months to make way for the return of Rosie.
 
I heard many stations that previously ran Oprah were going to slot in "Dr. Oz" in that time slot. I wonder if it will help or her the doctor's ratings.
 
disney fanatic said:
I was watch her last show on my way home, but I've heard that WABC is premiering the 4 PM newscast starting tomorrow. That's a waste of running a newscast. Let's hope that this is going to last 5 months until this fall when Rosie O'Donnell returns to the airwaves at 4 PM.

Remember WCBS-TV used to have a 4 PM newscast a long time ago, but it got tanked, but we'll see if channel 7's 4 PM newscast will go down the drain until fall. It will last 5 months to make way for the return of Rosie.
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First off, O'Donnell's new show will be on OWN, not in broadcast syndication.

Secondly, it's not fair to predict an early doom to the new Eyewitness News at 4:00. WCBS-TV tried 20 years ago -- a long time ago in TV years -- to do a 4:00 newscast and it didn't work (even with Brian Williams as a co-anchor), but that was then. Back in 1991, the local morning shows weren't as long as they are today. Times have changed, and perhaps the market and viewers are ready for successful newscast in that hour.

Would you rather have channel 7 go with a modern variant of their pre-Oprah early fringe schedule and run Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in the 4:00 hour, re-extend the 6:00 news to an hour, and push the network news back to 7:00? It's not going to happen.

Bill DeFelice said:
I heard many stations that previously ran Oprah were going to slot in "Dr. Oz" in that time slot. I wonder if it will help or her the doctor's ratings.
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We'll see about that, especially now that they are no longer bound by the contract clause which prohibited stations from running Dr. Oz (or Dr. Phil and, I think Rachael Ray as well) opposite Oprah in the same market. Channel 5/WNYW is moving its afternoon run of The Dr. Oz Show to 4:00 starting today (Thurs). We'll find out if that works by the end of the summer.
 
I can't see a 4pm newscast being successful. I used to work in NYC and most people don't even leave the office until after 5pm. And if you have a long commute you may not be home til 7pm or even later. Even for stay at home moms, 4pm is a busy time picking kids up from school, driving them to sports practices and games, etc. We'll see what happens. I don't understand the logic behind this move.
 
I think the problem ABC O&O's have is that all the PD want to make a schedule and Format like KABC. THe problem here is that KABC has done 4pm Newscasts for 30 years and it worked in Los Angeles and all of the other ABC O&O's like KGO and WABC are just putting newscasts there at 4pm just to imitate KABC's strategy of 30 years ago. I don't get this how about put 7live on KGO at 4pm and 7live on WABC at 4pm like PM San Francisco or PM New York.
 
recto101 said:
I think the problem ABC O&O's have is that all the PD want to make a schedule and Format like KABC. THe problem here is that KABC has done 4pm Newscasts for 30 years and it worked in Los Angeles and all of the other ABC O&O's like KGO and WABC are just putting newscasts there at 4pm just to imitate KABC's strategy of 30 years ago. I don't get this how about put 7live on KGO at 4pm and 7live on WABC at 4pm like PM San Francisco or PM New York.
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That makes no sense. ABC has clearly let their GMs make the decisions -- choosing how best to serve their audiences at the local level (unlike, say, the NBC o&os), not based on what one station is doing.

If what you say were true how do you explain KFSN-TV in Fresno, which is keeping Oprah reruns at 4:00 through the summer?
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
Eyewitness News at 4:00[/i]. WCBS-TV tried 20 years ago -- a long time ago in TV years -- to do a 4:00 newscast and it didn't work (even with Brian Williams as a co-anchor), but that was then. Back in 1991, the local morning shows weren't as long as they are today. Times have changed, and perhaps the market and viewers are ready for successful newscast in that hour.
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I hope WCBS-TV should bring back the 4 PM newscast someday if the Summer ends.
 
ansky212 said:
I can't see a 4pm newscast being successful. I used to work in NYC and most people don't even leave the office until after 5pm. And if you have a long commute you may not be home til 7pm or even later. Even for stay at home moms, 4pm is a busy time picking kids up from school, driving them to sports practices and games, etc. We'll see what happens. I don't understand the logic behind this move.
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I think it's also a lack of programming that interested WABC and other O&Os at the time, so they went with a 4pm newscast in NY on WABC. For whatever reason, WABC wasn't interested in Anderson Cooper's planned daytime show, and it is going to a weaker station, WPIX instead.

ABC anyways feels it will make out ok by canning expensive daytime soaps. Katie Couric will become the daytime fixture eventually, likely at 3pm Eastern.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
recto101 said:
I think the problem ABC O&O's have is that all the PD want to make a schedule and Format like KABC. THe problem here is that KABC has done 4pm Newscasts for 30 years and it worked in Los Angeles and all of the other ABC O&O's like KGO and WABC are just putting newscasts there at 4pm just to imitate KABC's strategy of 30 years ago. I don't get this how about put 7live on KGO at 4pm and 7live on WABC at 4pm like PM San Francisco or PM New York.
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That makes no sense. ABC has clearly let their GMs make the decisions -- choosing how best to serve their audiences at the local level (unlike, say, the NBC o&os), not based on what one station is doing.

If what you say were true how do you explain KFSN-TV in Fresno, which is keeping Oprah reruns at 4:00 through the summer?
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Yeah you are correct that ABC O&O's do give the ND and GM's better leeway than Fox O&O's and NBC O&O's
 
Mike said:
katies show should be at 4pm on ABC

in philly 6abc has a 4pm newscast and it stinks
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You're right! I didn't like the 4PM newscast at all. I hope WABC-TV will drop that this fall to make way for Katie Couric with her new talk show to replace "Oprah". WCBS-TV tried it a long time ago, it didn't work, I hope WABC-TV will stick with the 4PM newscast for the summer until they will go back to talk shows this fall.
 
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