...in the Buffalo news last Sunday. Three or four complaint letters on the WECK format change!
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Mark_Giardina
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Newspaper coverage of electronic media sucks
> ...in the Buffalo news last Sunday. Three or four complaint
> letters on the WECK format change!
>
At least the Buffalo News reports on the electronic media. Here in Rochester the Democrat & Chronicle ignores the electronic media as much as possible.
For example recently a veteran TV reporter and weekend anchor left the station she worked at for years because of a contract dispute with management. Not one word was written about it in the local paper. Or was anything mentioned that this same station lost four other reporters/anchors in the past year.
If it wasn’t for Scott Fybush’s web site, we wouldn’t be informed about the broadcasting media here in Rochester at all.
In the D&C's Sunday supplement the TV listing has one page dedicated to radio stations and programs. That page is so out of date that it still lists Howard Stern's show on the Nerve. WXXI-AM has not featured a jazz format in at least ten years after the management eliminated the afternoon jazz program and made the host the local newsreader for Morning Edition.
I’ve written to the D&C numerous times requesting that they update that radio guide. I've never received a response. But I sure do get letters in the mail and phone calls asking me if I want to subscribe to their paper on a daily basis.
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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>
> ...in the Buffalo news last Sunday. Three or four complaint
> letters on the WECK format change!
>
At least the Buffalo News reports on the electronic media. Here in Rochester the Democrat & Chronicle ignores the electronic media as much as possible.
For example recently a veteran TV reporter and weekend anchor left the station she worked at for years because of a contract dispute with management. Not one word was written about it in the local paper. Or was anything mentioned that this same station lost four other reporters/anchors in the past year.
If it wasn’t for Scott Fybush’s web site, we wouldn’t be informed about the broadcasting media here in Rochester at all.
In the D&C's Sunday supplement the TV listing has one page dedicated to radio stations and programs. That page is so out of date that it still lists Howard Stern's show on the Nerve. WXXI-AM has not featured a jazz format in at least ten years after the management eliminated the afternoon jazz program and made the host the local newsreader for Morning Edition.
I’ve written to the D&C numerous times requesting that they update that radio guide. I've never received a response. But I sure do get letters in the mail and phone calls asking me if I want to subscribe to their paper on a daily basis.
<P ID="signature">______________
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>
Re: Newspaper coverage of electronic media sucks
>
> In the D&C's Sunday supplement the TV listing has one page
> dedicated to radio stations and programs. That page is so
> out of date that it still lists Howard Stern's show on the
> Nerve. WXXI-AM has not featured a jazz format in at least
> ten years after the management eliminated the afternoon
> jazz program and made the host the local newsreader for
> Morning Edition.
>
It has been my experience that the D&C did update their radio listings when they were contacted by the stations. I think it is just an oversight or laziness of the local stations. However, I am surprised the D & C still bothers to run the radio listings at all.
I started out in the Utica area and the main local paper there, The Observer Dispatch, was also a Gannett paper. A radio or TV station could have burned down (in fact one did) and it wouldn't make the paper. Being a small city we would have a few cocktails with some of the reporters and staff of the O. D. at local watering holes. I remember the topic coming up a few times on why there wasn't more reporting about TV & radio in the paper. The answer was, why should we? What do you guys do for us other than steal our news for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising revenue? Point taken.
>
> In the D&C's Sunday supplement the TV listing has one page
> dedicated to radio stations and programs. That page is so
> out of date that it still lists Howard Stern's show on the
> Nerve. WXXI-AM has not featured a jazz format in at least
> ten years after the management eliminated the afternoon
> jazz program and made the host the local newsreader for
> Morning Edition.
>
It has been my experience that the D&C did update their radio listings when they were contacted by the stations. I think it is just an oversight or laziness of the local stations. However, I am surprised the D & C still bothers to run the radio listings at all.
I started out in the Utica area and the main local paper there, The Observer Dispatch, was also a Gannett paper. A radio or TV station could have burned down (in fact one did) and it wouldn't make the paper. Being a small city we would have a few cocktails with some of the reporters and staff of the O. D. at local watering holes. I remember the topic coming up a few times on why there wasn't more reporting about TV & radio in the paper. The answer was, why should we? What do you guys do for us other than steal our news for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising revenue? Point taken.
Paper vs. Plastic
> What do you guys do for us other than steal our news
> for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising
> revenue?
Some people call it stealing. I prefer the term "editing".
> What do you guys do for us other than steal our news
> for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising
> revenue?
Some people call it stealing. I prefer the term "editing".
J
JazzEd
Guest
Re: Newspaper coverage of electronic media sucks
> But
> I sure do get letters in the mail and phone calls asking me
> if I want to subscribe to their paper on a daily basis.
>
My old boss used to tell the paper when they called him to subscribe that he didn't need the paper, because he didn't own a puppy or a parakeet.
> But
> I sure do get letters in the mail and phone calls asking me
> if I want to subscribe to their paper on a daily basis.
>
My old boss used to tell the paper when they called him to subscribe that he didn't need the paper, because he didn't own a puppy or a parakeet.
M
mike704
Guest
Re: Newspaper coverage of electronic media sucks
> > ...in the Buffalo news last Sunday. Three or four
> complaint
> > letters on the WECK format change!
> >
> At least the Buffalo News reports on the electronic media.
> Here in Rochester the Democrat & Chronicle ignores the
> electronic media as much as possible.
ha! The coverage used to be even better back when the Courrier onwed WEBR AM/FM and the News owned WBEN AM-FM-TV.
Those were the days! I remember the daily radio program listings were right next to the TV listings.
Showing my age!
MikeM
> > ...in the Buffalo news last Sunday. Three or four
> complaint
> > letters on the WECK format change!
> >
> At least the Buffalo News reports on the electronic media.
> Here in Rochester the Democrat & Chronicle ignores the
> electronic media as much as possible.
ha! The coverage used to be even better back when the Courrier onwed WEBR AM/FM and the News owned WBEN AM-FM-TV.
Those were the days! I remember the daily radio program listings were right next to the TV listings.
Showing my age!
MikeM
D
dj_niceshot
Guest
Or a revenue stream
> > What do you guys do for us other than steal our news
> > for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising
> > revenue?
>
> Some people call it stealing. I prefer the term "editing".
>
Some may actually say we help sell papers, since we direct listeners to read more information, either on the web or pluck down 50 cents for a paper. I have personally picked up a paper based on a broadcast referring to an article in the "Buffalo News"
> > What do you guys do for us other than steal our news
> > for your morning newscasts and take away our advertising
> > revenue?
>
> Some people call it stealing. I prefer the term "editing".
>
Some may actually say we help sell papers, since we direct listeners to read more information, either on the web or pluck down 50 cents for a paper. I have personally picked up a paper based on a broadcast referring to an article in the "Buffalo News"
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