Former Alabama PBS Executive Director Sues

[mrlayne]

What APTV programming originates from Mobile/WEIQ?

On a side note, I've recently noticed Georgia public tv programming on APTV and APTV programming on WSRE in Pensacola, FL. It's about time these stations started working together.

I'm refering to the pledge drive cut ins.

 

[kilamanjero]

Raycom is actually the BEST thing to happen to TV stations in a long time, in Montgomery they have made flasgship station WSFA to be a political powerhouse and able to show the story from both sides of the an issue.

The biggest problem with Alabama Publci television is that they closed their Montogmery Office and WAIQ, all APT programming is aired Via Satellite from B'ham or Mobile.

APT's Montgomery Station was a huge player in coverage of state politics and had great programming, but the now ex-director decided that wasn't needed.

WSFA is like WBTV Charlotte, flagships to Raycom. Nowadays, WBRC basically uses everything WSFA allows them to use and as a result a smaller market and city wind up with a better and bigger news operation (where does that make any sense ???). I actually enjoyed the autonomy that WBRC had prior to it being swap with WTVR/Richmond. Also the fact that Raycom cancelled both 5:00PM weekend newscasts on WBRC made things actually worse.

Would you have opted for "the FOX way" of news (WBRC was a FOX O&O from 1994-2008)?

No, I would have opted they did the Local TV way of doing news like KDVR, KTVI, and WJW, where it doesn't remind you of them being a small shop operation when in reality they are not...

Local TV's WDAF was the last in the market to go HD

Sorry to hear that, but at least the station has all its bells and whistles aside from the SkyFOX helicopter which I heard was sold in 2009 by Local TV

 

[mrlayne]

WSFA is like WBTV Charlotte, flagships to Raycom. Nowadays, WBRC basically uses everything WSFA allows them to use and as a result a smaller market and city wind up with a better and bigger news operation (where does that make any sense ???). I actually enjoyed the autonomy that WBRC had prior to it being swap with WTVR/Richmond. Also the fact that Raycom cancelled both 5:00PM weekend newscasts on WBRC made things actually worse.

True WBTV was their flagship, but not anymore, since raycom is HQ'ed in Montgomery, Alabama, WSFA has become the default flagship station and a central hub for news operations in the state.