KYW 1060 airing recorded newscasts during overnight hours again?

[bigman]

As a listener of KYW in the early morning hours when coming to work, I like catching up on the news of the overnight. Obviously, if there's nothing earthshaking that transpired during the night, its okay with me if the news is packaged and pre-recorded.

OTOH....shouldn't one of the leading news stations in the US be on 24/7.

Time to get a life.....

 

[ixnay]

i am fast losing respect for KYW. they don't seem to take pride in a quality product anymore. airing late time tones due to the digital thing.

The digital thing? Please explain. I'm not a radio techie. ???

i'd expect pre-recorded news from a small market news station like WDEL, WEEU, or WAEB. Not KYW.

How about WCBS, WINS, WBBM, or WTOP (or whatever it's called now)? How much canned traffic do they have?

ixnay

 

[Evangelist]

There are people on duty as has been pointed out. They're just not live the whole time. It's almost comical that someone who has never worked in broadcasting, let alone news, is so obsessed with this and is suddenly an expert on all things radio.

 

[Jul]

There are people on duty as has been pointed out. They're just not live the whole time. It's almost comical that someone who has never worked in broadcasting, let alone news, is so obsessed with this and is suddenly an expert on all things radio.

Listen, all I'm trying to say is that whatever they are doing, they need to stop it now. I love KYW but bad decisions like this make me want to stop listening to KYW and get my local news elsewhere.

 

[imhomerjay]

So how often do you listen to KYW in the dead of the night?

Seriously though, I fail to see how it's such a bad decision. Someone is on hand in the rare case when news breaks overnight.

 

[Evangelist]

So how often do you listen to KYW in the dead of the night?

Seriously though, I fail to see how it's such a bad decision. Someone is on hand in the rare case when news breaks overnight.

Excellent question and excellent point.

It sounds like someone who doesn't know much about radio has a strange obsession with this station.

 

[threecount]

I know the other night, like many nights, they tape the sports segments at :15 and :45 and then update it afterwards with the "late scores" from the west coast. Well, there were some games that ended about 2:00 AM our time, and they did give the final score, so somebody had to be there live to be giving the news.

 

[Jul]

So how often do you listen to KYW in the dead of the night?

Seriously though, I fail to see how it's such a bad decision. Someone is on hand in the rare case when news breaks overnight.

About every night. This is a bad decision, bottom line.

 

[WTUX]

We found out this morning how KYW will handle an out of ordinary traffic problem. From at least 3:30am, maybe before, an accident caused a bridge to be shut down one direction between PA and NJ. Wally Kennedy made sure to give a "heads-up" during the :00 and :30 live breaks. At 4:05 he dropped in the time and a mention of the traffic problem. As a true professional, he knows how to make automation work for him, not against him.

Those worrying about KYW recording overnight news can relax.

 

[Jul]

We found out this morning how KYW will handle an out of ordinary traffic problem. From at least 3:30am, maybe before, an accident caused a bridge to be shut down one direction between PA and NJ. Wally Kennedy made sure to give a "heads-up" during the :00 and :30 live breaks. At 4:05 he dropped in the time and a mention of the traffic problem. As a true professional, he knows how to make automation work for him, not against him.

Those worrying about KYW recording overnight news can relax.

That was good but they still should stop airing recorded newscasts period. I don't what was the PD and GM thinking?

 

[THE_VIKING]

It has been well established in this thread that the resources to cover important overnight breaking news ARE in place at KYW.

Perhaps if you ever become a PD and understand what it means to work with a finite budget, you'll understand why things are the way they are at most radio stations.

 

[Jul]

It has been well established in this thread that the resources to cover important overnight breaking news ARE in place at KYW.

Perhaps if you ever become a PD and understand what it means to work with a finite budget, you'll understand why things are the way they are at most radio stations.

then why is WCBS, WINS are still live for real during the overnights? Explain that to me?

 

[imhomerjay]

No one can explain something to someone whose opinion is set in stone. The facts are that KYW has the ability to go live in the rare event some huge story happens at 2:30 in the morning. Whether that's good, bad or indifferent to the handful of people who (1) are awake and listening to KYW at that hour for anything other than traffic and/or (2) could care less about such things, is a different story.

 

[Evangelist]

I have to agree with homerjay and Viking. All the fantasies and sniping at KYW are just that and are not rooted in reality.

 

[WTUX]

Julius,

Have you been following the broadcasting financial news recently?

CBS has taken a hugh hit this year. First Stern, then Imus. Spots on CBS owned WFAN which went for $1,500+ during "Imus In The Morning" are now going for around $200 according to insiders. This is in addition to lack luster revenue in general for their stations.

Mangement at all CBS stations is getting the message to cut costs. If technology allows live assist operation during the overnights, why not use it and cut costs during an extremely low listening period? As I pointed out yesterday, they can and do go live when conditions warrent.


At WINS, they are currently off the air on many over nights while installing HD. At least KYW is on the air!

 

[threecount]

Thought you may like to see this...


http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/220-08142007-1392477.html

Channel Surfing
by Laura Nachman
Bucks County Courier Times
August 14, 2007



With the recent retirement of overnight anchor Bill Shuster, KYW 1060-AM is tweaking its overnight presentation, which means less live voices, and more recorded material.

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[Jul]

Thought you may like to see this...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/220-08142007-1392477.html

Channel Surfing
by Laura Nachman
Bucks County Courier Times
August 14, 2007



With the recent retirement of overnight anchor Bill Shuster, KYW 1060-AM is tweaking its overnight presentation, which means less live voices, and more recorded material.

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The station could have avoided all of this if they had just hired a replacement for Shusta.

 

[QzarDE]

From the article quoted above:

"There is a live announcer working all night, updating the news every half-hour with any new developments on breaking news. And all of the traffic reports are live".

Meaning the info is current. There's someone on call. The traffic is live. Nothing is (or should be) outdated.

LET. IT. GO.

 

[imhomerjay]

The station could have avoided all of this if they had just hired a replacement for Shusta.

If by “all of this” you mean one listener on a message board complaining loudly, sure. Somehow I doubt they’re second-guessing the big mess they made.

 

[BlueHen]

KYW has definitely been deterorating. I've noticed some very irrelevant "stories" mixed in, and it's disappointing.

I can't say much for their sports coverage. Yesterday morning I wanted to hear if the Georgia team beat Japan in the Little League World Series. Never heard a word, so I turned on WDEL for the story. I think Len Holmquist & company do a nice job with the "minor" stories.