WABC Channel 7's top story on the 5pm Newscast was the Winslow Twp. / Camden County high school shooting plot. WNBC and WCBS also had live remotes between 5 and 5:10pm. They also had it listed as on of the top local stories on their websites. This makes sense to me if it happend in Essex, Middlesex, or Morris Counties, but Camden County, South Jersey, Philly DMA, live remotes? Here's my question? How did 3, 6, and 10 from Philly carry it? I did not see the story on any of there websites as of 5:30 last night. I live in Morris County (North Jersey, NYC DMA) so I had to unhook cable and put up my rabbit ears (I can only get the VHFs 3,6,10, and 12 from Philadelphia) to try to see if they were on top of the story. It seems NYC news beat them in their own backyard. Camden County is what, 10 miles or less from Philly? Maybe 70 miles from NYC? No one in Camden County even gets the NY networks. So my question is to Central Jersey folks who get both NYC and Philly stations can you comment on coverage or South Jersey / Philly folks how did ur local news cover the story compaired to NYC? And why are NYC station going all the way to South Jersey when there's plenty of stuff going on in North Jersey for them to cover.
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Local News Question?
- Thread starter Red_Bull_Ed
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toby
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This was also done in the case of the kids who got killed in the car trunk in Camden. It was heavily covered and covered well in New York. In that case it looked like WCBS and KYW were pooling resources, while 4, 5, 7, and 9 were going it alone.
That said, WNBC and WABC have some pretty good people on the New Jersey beat, with WNBC seeming to have a bit better coverage of the state than WABC.
I recall during the NJ Governor's election last year that there was this one event that only WNBC and NJN covered (you could tell from the mic flags) that was in sight of Philadelphia about some island that was proposed to become a park - something of more interest to those in southern New Jersey who wouldn't have been able to see Brian Thompson's report.<P ID="signature">______________
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That said, WNBC and WABC have some pretty good people on the New Jersey beat, with WNBC seeming to have a bit better coverage of the state than WABC.
I recall during the NJ Governor's election last year that there was this one event that only WNBC and NJN covered (you could tell from the mic flags) that was in sight of Philadelphia about some island that was proposed to become a park - something of more interest to those in southern New Jersey who wouldn't have been able to see Brian Thompson's report.<P ID="signature">______________
<a href=http://www.triborough.org/blog/>Random Observations on Life, the Universe and Television</a></P>
> WABC Channel 7's top story on the 5pm Newscast was the
> Winslow Twp. / Camden County high school shooting plot. WNBC
> and WCBS also had live remotes between 5 and 5:10pm. They
> also had it listed as on of the top local stories on their
> websites. This makes sense to me if it happend in Essex,
> Middlesex, or Morris Counties, but Camden County, South
> Jersey, Philly DMA, live remotes? Here's my question? How
> did 3, 6, and 10 from Philly carry it? I did not see the
> story on any of there websites as of 5:30 last night. I live
> in Morris County (North Jersey, NYC DMA) so I had to unhook
> cable and put up my rabbit ears (I can only get the VHFs
> 3,6,10, and 12 from Philadelphia) to try to see if they were
> on top of the story. It seems NYC news beat them in their
> own backyard. Camden County is what, 10 miles or less from
> Philly? Maybe 70 miles from NYC? No one in Camden County
> even gets the NY networks. So my question is to Central
> Jersey folks who get both NYC and Philly stations can you
> comment on coverage or South Jersey / Philly folks how did
> ur local news cover the story compaired to NYC? And why are
> NYC station going all the way to South Jersey when there's
> plenty of stuff going on in North Jersey for them to cover.
>
With due respect to toby, the decisions made in New York
City about which news stories to cover is not based on
their relevancy to anyone in New Jersey but to whether
it would be of interest to residents of New York City.
The story you cite has aspects of Columbine High School to
it, which makes it a story likely to attract the attention
of a New York City audience. As a story, it supercedes
attachment to a particular location. Besides, from the
perspective of those in New York, anything in New Jersey
is somewhere just across the Hudson River.
New York City TV stations often misrepresent locations in
New Jersey and ignore any local relevancy. Indeed, the
entire state is treated as if it were a medium-sized city,
the governor considered analogous to New York City's mayor.
New York's media has an allegiance to its business interests
in that city. You wouldn't see New Jersey portrayed as anything
other than a generally undesireable place in which to live and
work.
> Winslow Twp. / Camden County high school shooting plot. WNBC
> and WCBS also had live remotes between 5 and 5:10pm. They
> also had it listed as on of the top local stories on their
> websites. This makes sense to me if it happend in Essex,
> Middlesex, or Morris Counties, but Camden County, South
> Jersey, Philly DMA, live remotes? Here's my question? How
> did 3, 6, and 10 from Philly carry it? I did not see the
> story on any of there websites as of 5:30 last night. I live
> in Morris County (North Jersey, NYC DMA) so I had to unhook
> cable and put up my rabbit ears (I can only get the VHFs
> 3,6,10, and 12 from Philadelphia) to try to see if they were
> on top of the story. It seems NYC news beat them in their
> own backyard. Camden County is what, 10 miles or less from
> Philly? Maybe 70 miles from NYC? No one in Camden County
> even gets the NY networks. So my question is to Central
> Jersey folks who get both NYC and Philly stations can you
> comment on coverage or South Jersey / Philly folks how did
> ur local news cover the story compaired to NYC? And why are
> NYC station going all the way to South Jersey when there's
> plenty of stuff going on in North Jersey for them to cover.
>
With due respect to toby, the decisions made in New York
City about which news stories to cover is not based on
their relevancy to anyone in New Jersey but to whether
it would be of interest to residents of New York City.
The story you cite has aspects of Columbine High School to
it, which makes it a story likely to attract the attention
of a New York City audience. As a story, it supercedes
attachment to a particular location. Besides, from the
perspective of those in New York, anything in New Jersey
is somewhere just across the Hudson River.
New York City TV stations often misrepresent locations in
New Jersey and ignore any local relevancy. Indeed, the
entire state is treated as if it were a medium-sized city,
the governor considered analogous to New York City's mayor.
New York's media has an allegiance to its business interests
in that city. You wouldn't see New Jersey portrayed as anything
other than a generally undesireable place in which to live and
work.
C
coops48
Guest
> This was also done in the case of the kids who got killed in
> the car trunk in Camden. It was heavily covered and covered
> well in New York. In that case it looked like WCBS and KYW
> were pooling resources, while 4, 5, 7, and 9 were going it
> alone.
>
> That said, WNBC and WABC have some pretty good people on the
> New Jersey beat, with WNBC seeming to have a bit better
> coverage of the state than WABC.
>
> I recall during the NJ Governor's election last year that
> there was this one event that only WNBC and NJN covered (you
> could tell from the mic flags) that was in sight of
> Philadelphia about some island that was proposed to become a
> park - something of more interest to those in southern New
> Jersey who wouldn't have been able to see Brian Thompson's
> report.
>
to be honest with you the new york stations picked up on the high school plot story almost two days after the philly stations aired it as breaking news. believe me...action news (6abc) was all over this story.
> the car trunk in Camden. It was heavily covered and covered
> well in New York. In that case it looked like WCBS and KYW
> were pooling resources, while 4, 5, 7, and 9 were going it
> alone.
>
> That said, WNBC and WABC have some pretty good people on the
> New Jersey beat, with WNBC seeming to have a bit better
> coverage of the state than WABC.
>
> I recall during the NJ Governor's election last year that
> there was this one event that only WNBC and NJN covered (you
> could tell from the mic flags) that was in sight of
> Philadelphia about some island that was proposed to become a
> park - something of more interest to those in southern New
> Jersey who wouldn't have been able to see Brian Thompson's
> report.
>
to be honest with you the new york stations picked up on the high school plot story almost two days after the philly stations aired it as breaking news. believe me...action news (6abc) was all over this story.
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