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How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

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Last night (October 25th), Game 3 of the World Series ended around 2:15 A.M. EDT (actually on the morning of the 26th).

I turned off my TV set and hit the sack immediately after the game ended, so I don't know if WFXT-25 here in Boston broadcast their late evening newscast (normally broadcast at 10 P.M. ET) or not.

I did see promos for the newscast and headline updates during the earlier part of the game, but I did not see any promos during the latter portions of the game telecast; nor did I see near the end of the game a crawl saying that WFXT's news would follow the game (they ran such a crawl at 10 P.M. ET and a couple of times not long after that).

I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central) time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour. I would think the Fox stations in Chicago (WFLD-32) and Houston (KRIV-26), the two cities whose local teams were playing, probably did late local newscasts to wrap-up the game. But I think many other Eastern and Central time zone Fox stations simply said "The Heck With It!" and sent their news and production staffs home without doing a late newscast.
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> Last night (October 25th), Game 3 of the World Series ended
> around 2:15 A.M. EDT (actually on the morning of the 26th).
>
> I turned off my TV set and hit the sack immediately after
> the game ended, so I don't know if WFXT-25 here in Boston
> broadcast their late evening newscast (normally broadcast at
> 10 P.M. ET) or not.
>
> I did see promos for the newscast and headline updates
> during the earlier part of the game, but I did not see any
> promos during the latter portions of the game telecast; nor
> did I see near the end of the game a crawl saying that
> WFXT's news would follow the game (they ran such a crawl at
> 10 P.M. ET and a couple of times not long after that).
>
> I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central)
> time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last
> night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour. I
> would think the Fox stations in Chicago (WFLD-32) and
> Houston (KRIV-26), the two cities whose local teams were
> playing, probably did late local newscasts to wrap-up the
> game. But I think many other Eastern and Central time zone
> Fox stations simply said "The Heck With It!" and sent their
> news and production staffs home without doing a late
> newscast.

I would bet all of them did as newscasts = $$$. I would just bet that most of them (especially ones where the news is produced by a sister station or another station in the market) taped their newscasts and then played them back following the conclusion of the game.

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Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> Last night (October 25th), Game 3 of the World Series ended
> around 2:15 A.M. EDT (actually on the morning of the 26th).
>
> ...
>
> I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central)
> time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last
> night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour. I
> would think the Fox stations in Chicago (WFLD-32) and
> Houston (KRIV-26), the two cities whose local teams were
> playing, probably did late local newscasts to wrap-up the
> game. But I think many other Eastern and Central time zone
> Fox stations simply said "The Heck With It!" and sent their
> news and production staffs home without doing a late
> newscast.

I would also think WFLD and KRIV would have done their late news due to the fact that both Chicago and Houston (the affiliates' respective cities) are in the Central Time Zone -- one advantage being that it's one hour earlier there and not making it seem as late as in the Eastern Time Zone.

I'm not sure if WAWS 30 in Jacksonville did or not -- I was asleep in bed and didn't even bother to stay up to see the end of the World Series. This also has me thinking whether or not they aired the Tuesday night UPN programming. WAWS airs UPN programming after the late local news (normally broadcast from 10-11 p.m.) -- and in pattern with the UPN network lineup, too.
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> Last night (October 25th), Game 3 of the World Series ended
> around 2:15 A.M. EDT (actually on the morning of the 26th).
>
> I turned off my TV set and hit the sack immediately after
> the game ended, so I don't know if WFXT-25 here in Boston
> broadcast their late evening newscast (normally broadcast at
> 10 P.M. ET) or not.


Yes, Fox25 ran a live half-hour cast right after the game. There were about 25 people in the newsroom by the time it got done around 3am. The morning news crew were arriving while the '10pm' cast was rolling and the night news crew
was still there.

Boston is #3 in WS ratings nationally, behind Chitown and Houston.
Normally, Boston is somewhere at the bottom of the list but this year
it's out of wack numbers.

By the way, there were promo scrolls running for the early/late
newscast during all the extra innings. You must've been really into the game,
Joseph, or too busy typing your 6,986th post.

> I did see promos for the newscast and headline updates
> during the earlier part of the game, but I did not see any
> promos during the latter portions of the game telecast; nor
> did I see near the end of the game a crawl saying that
> WFXT's news would follow the game (they ran such a crawl at
> 10 P.M. ET and a couple of times not long after that).
>
> I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central)
> time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last
> night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour. I
> would think the Fox stations in Chicago (WFLD-32) and
> Houston (KRIV-26), the two cities whose local teams were
> playing, probably did late local newscasts to wrap-up the
> game. But I think many other Eastern and Central time zone
> Fox stations simply said "The Heck With It!" and sent their
> news and production staffs home without doing a late
> newscast.
>
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> By the way, there were promo scrolls running for the
> early/late
> newscast during all the extra innings. You must've been
> really into the game,
> Joseph, or too busy typing your 6,986th post.

I'd say too busy typing starting around the bottom of the 11th inning.

It's "events" like these that allow him to think up stuff for his next 700 posts or so.
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> I'd say too busy typing starting around the bottom of the
> 11th inning.
>
> It's "events" like these that allow him to think up stuff
> for his next 700 posts or so.

Geez guys...cut this guy some slack at least this time around. This is a valid question. I was even wondering the same thing when I got up this morning (not that my life would've been different LOL). I've been in situations where I've been stuck at the TV station SEVERAL HOURS after some sporting events were to end.

Plus, the lack of responses of people who actually DO KNOW should tell you that most people on the east coast didn't stick around to find out, either.
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

>
> Plus, the lack of responses of people who actually DO KNOW
> should tell you that most people on the east coast didn't
> stick around to find out, either.
>
Or maybe they did but were then too tired to make an internet post about it. ;o)


I didnt watch the game last night. On the drive into work this morning, I heard on the radio that the game went into extra innings last night. The first thing I did NOT say to myself was "Gosh, I wonder if Fox25 ran their late local news? David and Maria must have been really tired!"

So....since I mentioned it....how DID David and Maria look last night at 2 in the mornning?? Anyone? Anyone??
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> > By the way, there were promo scrolls running for the
> > early/late
> > newscast during all the extra innings. You must've been
> > really into the game,
> > Joseph, or too busy typing your 6,986th post.
>
> I'd say too busy typing starting around the bottom of the
> 11th inning.
>
> It's "events" like these that allow him to think up stuff
> for his next 700 posts or so.
>

You're a sick man, Joseph. A very sick man.

:eek:

:)

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Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> >
> > Plus, the lack of responses of people who actually DO KNOW
>
> > should tell you that most people on the east coast didn't
> > stick around to find out, either.
> >
> Or maybe they did but were then too tired to make an
> internet post about it. ;o)
>
>
> I didnt watch the game last night. On the drive into work
> this morning, I heard on the radio that the game went into
> extra innings last night. The first thing I did NOT say to
> myself was "Gosh, I wonder if Fox25 ran their late local
> news? David and Maria must have been really tired!"
>
> So....since I mentioned it....how DID David and Maria look
> last night at 2 in the mornning?? Anyone? Anyone??
>

Maria is out this week. Molly Line was subbing for her last night.
(Dave's better half Bianca was working Monday night but
she won't anchor on game nights for obvious reasons). For 2:20 in
the morning, they looked pretty damn good.
 
Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

There was a very interesting scenario here in Dallas last night/this morning.

The MLB Playoffs have aired on ESPN Radio (KESN-FM) throughout the playoffs, but last night, they had to carry the Dallas Mavericks game. The World Sereis game was broadcast on WBAP 820. This is interesting for two reasons:

1) WBAP is in no way affiliated with KESN. The deal was that it was ESPN Sports who had the radio contract for the game. WBAP is the local carrier for ABC News. So, since ESPN Radio in Dallas was not able to carry it, it transfered to ABC in this market (Disney). Thus allowing WBAP, who has no affiliation with KESN, to broadcast the WS game.

2) WBAP-AM 820 is Dallas' biggest station, transmitter-wise. Known as "The Big BAP", it is one of 4 stations on 50,000 watts (one of 3 that are 50k 24/7). It can be heard from across the south (ATL) and up the Midwest (CIN), as I have heard on these boards.

WBAP anchors The Midnight Trucking Radio Network, a nationally-syndicated show on many major stations from 12-5 (CT). It is run from the Big BAP studios in Dallas, and run by hosts who also host for BAP. So, the interesting thing came after midnight.

For 1 1/2 hours, The Midnight Trucking Radio Network was being broadcast from the WBAP studios in Dallas, and it was not even on WBAP. Just syndicated. Not even on the air in the very studio is was in.

Weird, huh?

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Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> There was a very interesting scenario here in Dallas last
> night/this morning.
>
> The MLB Playoffs have aired on ESPN Radio (KESN-FM)
> throughout the playoffs, but last night, they had to carry
> the Dallas Mavericks game. The World Sereis game was
> broadcast on WBAP 820. This is interesting for two reasons:
>
>
> 1) WBAP is in no way affiliated with KESN. The deal was
> that it was ESPN Sports who had the radio contract for the
> game. WBAP is the local carrier for ABC News. So, since
> ESPN Radio in Dallas was not able to carry it, it transfered
> to ABC in this market (Disney). Thus allowing WBAP, who has
> no affiliation with KESN, to broadcast the WS game.

Uh, Chris?

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> I would bet all of them did as newscasts = $$$. I would
> just bet that most of them (especially ones where the news
> is produced by a sister station or another station in the
> market) taped their newscasts and then played them back
> following the conclusion of the game.

Trouble with that is, how do you know when to start taping? You don't want to get 20 minutes into taping the show and then suddenly there's a walk-off homer to end the game. (Though I suppose if you're using a modern fileserver system, you could be playing the show back even as you're taping it.)

In any case, we don't have local news this week at WUHF in Rochester (it launches next week), so no issue there. Over in Syracuse, where CBS affiliate WTVH produces the 10 PM show for Sinclair's WSYT, there was some sort of newscast after the game.

It was tough to tell, though - they stopped switching anything local on WSYT-DT (which puts a rock-solid signal in here, 80 miles away) after about 1 AM, so we saw Fox network slates during local breaks, and it just went to black on the DTV signal after the game. (I saw some network slates on WUHF-DT as well.)

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> I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central)
> time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last
> night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour.

First of all, there should be a question mark at the end of this sentence. :)

Second, Ohio Media Watch reports that Fox-Owned WJW in Cleveland decided to scrap their newscast, replacing it with a rerun of "Seinfeld". Meanwhile, Lin-owned WUPW (Fox Toledo) decided to press on with a shortened newscast. Of course, they don't have a morning show to worry about; their next newscast wasn't until 4pm this afternoon.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

Randy Simon noted that for this year's World Series so far:

> Boston is #3 in WS ratings nationally, behind Chitown and
> Houston. Normally, Boston is somewhere at the bottom of the list but
> this year it's out of whack numbers.

Not really. While Boston usually ranks near the bottom of the list for average ratings of major sports events, there are two exceptions: One is the World Series; the other is the Stanley Cup Finals. Boston always leads the list of neutral markets as regards local TV ratings for these two events.

Randy Simon also noted:

> By the way, there were promo scrolls running for the
> early/late newscast during all the extra innings. You must've been
> really into the game, Joseph...

I was. I was paying so much attention to the center of the screen (and sometimes the "Fox Bar" on top of the screen) that I failed to pay attention to the crawls on the bottom of the screen in the late innings. I was also starting to get tired. If the game went much longer, I don't think I could have stayed awake.

Thanks for answering my question.
 
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Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

I think WCCB in Charlotte did.
 
Re: Late Local News Last Night in California

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> Maria is out this week. Molly Line was subbing for her last
> night.
> (Dave's better half Bianca was working Monday night but
> she won't anchor on game nights for obvious reasons). For
> 2:20 in
> the morning, they looked pretty damn good.

Maria's been out recovering from pneumonia... she should be back by the end of the week. As for Molly, well, I'm not surprised she looked good at 2am... she is positively radiant!
 
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> In California both KTXL FOX40 (sacramento) and KTTV FOX11
> (la) did not run newscast after the really long game.
>
Even though they would only be over an hour late from their scheduled time (10PM).

Apparently for them, they hate to compete with the other stations' 11PM newscasts.
 
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> > In California both KTXL FOX40 (sacramento) and KTTV FOX11
> > (la) did not run newscast after the really long game.
> >
> Even though they would only be over an hour late from their
> scheduled time (10PM).
>
> Apparently for them, they hate to compete with the other
> stations' 11PM newscasts.

Keep in mind that at 11, KTTV is producing the half-hour cast for sister station KCOP, which I believe they do with the same crew that does the 10 on KTTV. So they may not have had much of a choice.<P ID="signature">______________
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