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KXAS Channel 5 news at 5 on sunday evenings

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SirFreebie1975

this has been the 2nd sunday i have watched this newscast and they come back from a break and its about 5:27pm the anchor usually does one more story before the news ends but right in the middle of that story it is like somenoe throws the switch to commercial and the news doesnt come back it just goes right into NBC Nightly News(weekend) ..i wonder why they have done that twice..
 
Someone else will have to explain this more thoroughly, but from what I understand, the KXAS "control room" is actually at an NBC hub in Florida that runs multiple NBC O&O's newscasts. Could be that Ch 5 didn't hit their marks, and guess what, bye-bye whether you're done or not.
 
That appears to be it. Just another one of those cost cutting "efficency?" moves.
 
You're right about the NBC O&O's running hub Master Control Operations. It is horrible to do that. However, with that being said. It sounds like they also have a producer that can't time out a show properly. Most Newscasts have a hard out time that they hit. Some stations are flexible on the out time, others are not. I'm sure given NBC Hub Master Control situation, KXAS must be out by a certain time, or the news will get clipped.

I hate HUB Operations, it is very cheap (especially for a company that makes as much as GE/NBC-Universal does), but there's no excuse to have a producer in a Top 10 Market, Sunday show or not, that cannot time out a :30 minute show properly.
 
snoman said:
You're right about the NBC O&O's running hub Master Control Operations. It is horrible to do that. However, with that being said. It sounds like they also have a producer that can't time out a show properly. Most Newscasts have a hard out time that they hit. Some stations are flexible on the out time, others are not. I'm sure given NBC Hub Master Control situation, KXAS must be out by a certain time, or the news will get clipped.

I hate HUB Operations, it is very cheap (especially for a company that makes as much as GE/NBC-Universal does), but there's no excuse to have a producer in a Top 10 Market, Sunday show or not, that cannot time out a :30 minute show properly.
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On the Newslab website they give new producers advice on how to backtime their day so that they can accomplish everything they have to do prior to a newscast. (Wish I'd had that advice when I was producing!) Not a bad idea, even for a producer in a top 10 market.

As for why GE/NBC operates on the cheap, I got one word for you - stockholders. Gotta have that $0.17 a share dividend at the end of the year (or quarter, or whatever), especially if you've got hundreds of thousands of shares. The dividends come out of profits, so to maximize your profits you minimize your expenses. People are the easiest expense in the world to cut.
 
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