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JetBlue - whose coverage is it?

dhett

dhett

I turn on channel 12 news at 6, and like everybody else, they're showing live coverage of the JetBlue plane circling the LA area. Mark Curtis says something to the effect of, "You're looking at live coverage from our NBC station in LA." Except that the text in the upper right-hand corner reads KTTV. Last I checked, KTTV was Fox's O&O from LA, not NBC's. Next, they showed another angle of the plane, this time with the text KABC. For the 15-20 minutes I watched, never once did I see coverage from KNBC.

Just something I couldn't help noticing. You would think the talking heads at 12 News would have noticed.
 
> I turn on channel 12 news at 6, and like everybody else,
> they're showing live coverage of the JetBlue plane circling
> the LA area. Mark Curtis says something to the effect of,
> "You're looking at live coverage from our NBC station in
> LA." Except that the text in the upper right-hand corner
> reads KTTV. Last I checked, KTTV was Fox's O&O from LA, not
> NBC's. Next, they showed another angle of the plane, this
> time with the text KABC. For the 15-20 minutes I watched,
> never once did I see coverage from KNBC.
>
> Just something I couldn't help noticing. You would think
> the talking heads at 12 News would have noticed.

I was watching Fox News Channel during the coverage, who carried video from KABC and KTTV simultaneously while Hannity & Colmes droned on. Maybe KNBC wasn't set up to deliver a feed to the NBC affiliates for some reason.

At least 5, 10 (they extended their newscast past 6 PM), 12, and 15 were covering it. When I decided to flip channels at around 6:10, StuffChannel 3 was runnning 3 On Your Side.
 
I think that they coordinate the helo coverage of this stuff. I'm not sure about this but in the last 15 years or so, unfortunately, LA has had an astonishing number of high speed/freeway chases to cover. I think what they do now is coordinate the helo coverage and hand off from one to another so you don't have fifteen helocopters jostling for position, which would likely create another problem. So I assume they have developed some sort of protocol for airborne coverage. Just a guess but I've seen it more than once too where they're going from one station's copter to the next.
 
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