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Local News in E. WA is in a sad state

crainbebo said:
KVEW just returned to weekend news!
Apple Valley News Now Weekend, airing Saturday afternoons (usually at 4:30 before sports, or 5) and also 6/11pm on weekends...and these are full-length newscasts, even the 11:00. A sign that full 11PM news could return to weeknights as well? It would displace the Friends repeat if so.

This is the first time KAPP/KVEW has had weekend news since layoffs and cuts in 2008.
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For the record, since I checked the schedule, its half-hour at 5:00 and 6:00 on weekends and half-hour at 11:00 on Sundays only, following KXLY's lead.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned two MASSIVE developments in central WA TV news:

Alan Sillence (KIMA) retiring next week after 31 years. The longtime sports director, and one of the last holdouts from the Fisher/Retlaw era. Mike McCabe would be the other. The City of Yakima marked December 23rd as Alan Sillence Day, for his decades-long efforts to celebrate Yakima's athletic achievements: Yakima celebrates Alan Sillence day, honoring 31 years of sports broadcasting excellence

Also, Monty Webb (KNDU) is retiring on January 3rd after 35 years in various markets...and KNDO is where he started. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article297548678.html

Both will be well-missed on TV airwaves, for equal reasons.
 
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crainbebo said:
"If it bleeds, it leads" still applies today. Especially if it involves certain races, the LGBTQ community, police brutality, etc. That's what sells in today's news world. Often, TV news (especially cable) is there to cause you to react negatively, not to inform you like it was in the good ole' days of Uncle Walter and Huntley/Brinkley.
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And it's even extended to what used to be newsmagazines, but are more suited for having that term in quotation marks-- back when Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were on 20/20 on ABC, they used to have (as I recall hearing Hugh putting it one time from one 1979 broadcast that was on YouTube) "a mix of stories on a wide range of subjects" (one Feb. 1990 broadcast that is on YouTube had an investigation into how people were suffering on Perdue chicken lines in North Carolina, a profile of a down-to-Earth drug treatment program in the New York area, and a deep dive into how Tourette's syndrome affects those who suffer from it):


Nowadays, each broadcast is a 2-hour bloated junkfest about one specific topic, usually crime (and many a time, even when we know about a certain thing, they'd still keep going back to that thing for ratings [like with Larry Nassar; we know what he did to those women, and that he is justly punished for same, but yet, for quite a while, IIRC, they'd bring those same women on every single show on all networks, and they'd repeat the same things they said over and over again, and it was like the brain trust was saying, we don't care if you know, you need to KNOW!]).

Basically, the "newsmagazines" these days are anything but, and it's sad.
 
bmasters1981 said:
And it's even extended to what used to be newsmagazines, but are more suited for having that term in quotation marks-- back when Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were on 20/20 on ABC, they used to have (as I recall hearing Hugh putting it one time from one 1979 broadcast that was on YouTube) "a mix of stories on a wide range of subjects" (one Feb. 1990 broadcast that is on YouTube had an investigation into how people were suffering on Perdue chicken lines in North Carolina, a profile of a down-to-Earth drug treatment program in the New York area, and a deep dive into how Tourette's syndrome affects those who suffer from it):


Nowadays, each broadcast is a 2-hour bloated junkfest about one specific topic, usually crime (and many a time, even when we know about a certain thing, they'd still keep going back to that thing for ratings [like with Larry Nassar; we know what he did to those women, and that he is justly punished for same, but yet, for quite a while, IIRC, they'd bring those same women on every single show on all networks, and they'd repeat the same things they said over and over again, and it was like the brain trust was saying, we don't care if you know, you need to KNOW!]).

Basically, the "newsmagazines" these days are anything but, and it's sad.
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60 Minutes and Nightline are still good
 
crainbebo said:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned two MASSIVE developments in central WA TV news:

Alan Sillence (KIMA) retiring next week after 31 years. The longtime sports director, and one of the last holdouts from the Fisher/Retlaw era. Mike McCabe would be the other. The City of Yakima marked December 23rd as Alan Sillence Day, for his decades-long efforts to celebrate Yakima's athletic achievements: Yakima celebrates Alan Sillence day, honoring 31 years of sports broadcasting excellence

Also, Monty Webb (KNDU) is retiring on January 3rd after 35 years in various markets...and KNDO is where he started. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article297548678.html

Both will be well-missed on TV airwaves, for equal reasons.
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Just seeing your post. I remember Monty's time in Seattle. He had a great on-air presence. Best wishes in his next chapter in life.
 


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