FTVLive: WOLF to produce its own 10pm newscast?

[mvcg66b3r]

It appears that a Pennsylvania station is getting ready to start up a news department.

WOLF-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Northeastern Pennsylvania has placed a number of job ads in publications around the country. Some of the jobs posted are for a full-time multimedia journalist and news photographer in Wilkes-Barre and a full-time news manager, meteorologist/community reporter and sales account executive and part-time sports photographer in Scranton.

WOLF had an arrangement with WBRE to use its newscasts at 10 p.m. but Bob Bee GM at WBRE said the Fox affiliate told him that WBRE's services are no longer needed.

Stay tuned....

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2016/10/5/want-to-work-for-the-wolf

 

[CurtisNEPA]

I've watched their new and improved newscast and according to a newspaper article(Times Leader or Citizens Voice), its operation is based out of a television studio somewhere in Indiana. So I think Fox 56 has outsourced their news operation and just hired their reporters and a meteorologist locally to save money, especially now that its owner Sinclair has laid off its employees across the country. On the weather reports, I think it was done in a separate studio inside the Fox 56 building off Rte 315. Also, their weekend anchor is also based from the same station in Indiana.

While other Sinclair stations does their newscasts from their respective studios, why on earth does Fox 56 outsource their newscast from hundreds of miles away? It's equivalent to a radio DJ voicetracking their shifts from its originating station in the same market to another station in another state.

So it appears that this could become the new reality for other TV stations to save money.

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

I've watched their new and improved newscast and according to a newspaper article(Times Leader or Citizens Voice), its operation is based out of a television studio somewhere in Indiana. So I think Fox 56 has outsourced their news operation and just hired their reporters and a meteorologist locally to save money, especially now that its owner Sinclair has laid off its employees across the country. On the weather reports, I think it was done in a separate studio inside the Fox 56 building off Rte 315. Also, their weekend anchor is also based from the same station in Indiana.

While other Sinclair stations does their newscasts from their respective studios, why on earth does Fox 56 outsource their newscast from hundreds of miles away? It's equivalent to a radio DJ voicetracking their shifts from its originating station in the same market to another station in another state.

So it appears that this could become the new reality for other TV stations to save money.

That station out of Indiana is Sinclair's South Bend station WSBT 22.