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GMA Weekend on WSB?
- Thread starter jimbo722
- Start date
I'd suspect the first possibility, that ABC was willing
to up the comp to get WSB, WSOC, and WFTV to
carry GMA Weekend, as well as Kimmel. All three
stations are too strong in their markets (yes, that
includes Charlotte, where WSOC has made some
marked inroads on WBTV in recent years) for ABC
to want to dump them. But so far I've been happy
with the way things have been going at Channel 2
since they got a new g.m.
to up the comp to get WSB, WSOC, and WFTV to
carry GMA Weekend, as well as Kimmel. All three
stations are too strong in their markets (yes, that
includes Charlotte, where WSOC has made some
marked inroads on WBTV in recent years) for ABC
to want to dump them. But so far I've been happy
with the way things have been going at Channel 2
since they got a new g.m.
Well it appears that it has spread to WFTV as well as it aired at 8 AM last saturday. Their program schedule does not reflect it though.
Neither does WSB's, if you go to www.titantv.com,
but it is indeed there on WFTV, which was the first of the
Cox stations to pick it up (as was the case with
Kimmel).
Now I'd like to see WSB move World News to 6:30 and
put a local newscast against WXIA's at 7. There was
a time when Channel 2 would do something like that;
I remember back in 1972 Channel 11 started a noon
newscast on weekends. A year later Channel 2 followed
suit. Channel 2 Action News still airs at noon on weekends,
while Channel 11 canceled its weekend noon news around
1974. Also, given Atlanta's traffic patterns, more people
would be home to catch the local news at 7.
but it is indeed there on WFTV, which was the first of the
Cox stations to pick it up (as was the case with
Kimmel).
Now I'd like to see WSB move World News to 6:30 and
put a local newscast against WXIA's at 7. There was
a time when Channel 2 would do something like that;
I remember back in 1972 Channel 11 started a noon
newscast on weekends. A year later Channel 2 followed
suit. Channel 2 Action News still airs at noon on weekends,
while Channel 11 canceled its weekend noon news around
1974. Also, given Atlanta's traffic patterns, more people
would be home to catch the local news at 7.
Channel 2 is closing in on 40 years with an hour long 6pm newscast so I hope they wont change that anytime soon. There maybe room for another 7pm local news but I dont see 5 doing it though 46 might. I dont see why channel 2 is cutting local news programing to carry a weekend Good Morning America. If it wasn't for Charles Gibson on ABC World News I would say that 2 should have dumped it if they would have stayed with Peter Jennings replacement.
46 did do a 7:00 newscast when it first became
a CBS affiliate, and you probably know how that
came out. As for 5, Fox stations have always done
extremely well with entertainment shows at that
time (perhaps one reason Fox doesn't do a network
newscast on its broadcast outlets).
But I've seen other stations switch the time of the
network broadcast from 7 to 6:30 and insert local
news at 7 (WUSA/9 Washington, DC, and WXYZ/7
Detroit come immediately to mind) and done just fine.
(You could get me on Washington: WRC/4 runs NBC
Nightly News at 7 and has for years, so there's an
analogy with Atlanta.) Moving Charlie Gibson to 6:30
in Atlanta is something I'd like to see, not that I expect
to.
BTW, Bill Hoffman is the first g.m. in Atlanta that I've
been enthusiastic about since Jeff Davidson at Channel
11 in the late '70s. Jeff implemented the "11 Alive" moniker
and worked overtime to make the market aware of Channel 11
(plus, he was the first g.m. to make that station profitable).
It wasn't enough to keep ABC, but you have to admit, 11 is
not the also-ran it was in the '50s, '60s, and early '70s.
Hoffman, as I said in a previous post, seems to be listening
to his audience. In his case, I indirectly quote one of his
predecessors, Fred Barber, the g.m. who switched Channel 2
to ABC: managers of number-one stations have a tendency to
not want to rock the boat. That, says Barber, is the fastest
way to lose your number-one ranking. I don't think Hoffman
is going to be one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind
of people.
a CBS affiliate, and you probably know how that
came out. As for 5, Fox stations have always done
extremely well with entertainment shows at that
time (perhaps one reason Fox doesn't do a network
newscast on its broadcast outlets).
But I've seen other stations switch the time of the
network broadcast from 7 to 6:30 and insert local
news at 7 (WUSA/9 Washington, DC, and WXYZ/7
Detroit come immediately to mind) and done just fine.
(You could get me on Washington: WRC/4 runs NBC
Nightly News at 7 and has for years, so there's an
analogy with Atlanta.) Moving Charlie Gibson to 6:30
in Atlanta is something I'd like to see, not that I expect
to.
BTW, Bill Hoffman is the first g.m. in Atlanta that I've
been enthusiastic about since Jeff Davidson at Channel
11 in the late '70s. Jeff implemented the "11 Alive" moniker
and worked overtime to make the market aware of Channel 11
(plus, he was the first g.m. to make that station profitable).
It wasn't enough to keep ABC, but you have to admit, 11 is
not the also-ran it was in the '50s, '60s, and early '70s.
Hoffman, as I said in a previous post, seems to be listening
to his audience. In his case, I indirectly quote one of his
predecessors, Fred Barber, the g.m. who switched Channel 2
to ABC: managers of number-one stations have a tendency to
not want to rock the boat. That, says Barber, is the fastest
way to lose your number-one ranking. I don't think Hoffman
is going to be one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind
of people.
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