Most NBC affiliates have expanded the evening news to 3 hours from 4 to 7, so they can handle it. They also get a lot of national coverage from NBC News, so they will have access to a lot of content for that time. Some Fox affiliates are able to fill two hours, from 10 to midnight.
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NBC Considers Cutting Back Programming Hours in Prime Time
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Most NBC affiliates have expanded the evening news to 3 hours from 4 to 7, so they can handle it. They also get a lot of national coverage from NBC News, so they will have access to a lot of content for that time. Some Fox affiliates are able to fill two hours, from 10 to midnight.
As I just wrote on another board, I think this makes perfect sense. In the Central and Mountain
time zones, people are more likely to watch the news at 10 than at 6; on the two coasts many
people are not home at 6 and, if not conditioned to watching the Fox station, might be inclined
to tune to the NBC station at 10. Some Fox stations have gotten incredible ratings and shares;
WBRC Birmingham, with a 9 PM (CT) newscast, gets around a 60 share. I don't think the affiliates
will cotton to moving Fallon to 11:05, however.
I've always said that if I owned a network I would follow the CBC's lead and do my national
news at 10, but I don't see ABC, CBS, or NBC ever doing that. Nor do I see starting primetime
at 7/6; you're cutting into local news in the Central and Mountain time zones and, in many
cases, in the Eastern and Pacific as well.
Would anyone care to comment on this thought: network television is going the way
of network radio?
time zones, people are more likely to watch the news at 10 than at 6; on the two coasts many
people are not home at 6 and, if not conditioned to watching the Fox station, might be inclined
to tune to the NBC station at 10. Some Fox stations have gotten incredible ratings and shares;
WBRC Birmingham, with a 9 PM (CT) newscast, gets around a 60 share. I don't think the affiliates
will cotton to moving Fallon to 11:05, however.
I've always said that if I owned a network I would follow the CBC's lead and do my national
news at 10, but I don't see ABC, CBS, or NBC ever doing that. Nor do I see starting primetime
at 7/6; you're cutting into local news in the Central and Mountain time zones and, in many
cases, in the Eastern and Pacific as well.
Would anyone care to comment on this thought: network television is going the way
of network radio?
Leno’s ratings absolutely plummeted after about the first couple weeks. It was a disaster for all involved and definitely not a smart move for the network. But that’s all I have to say for the Jeff Zucker era of NBC.
Back to the current topic at hand, it’ll be interesting to see if this gives either CBS and/or ABC similar ideas in the near future. Lord knows ABC has struggled with 10PM/9PM programming for quite a few years now.
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KSHB could do a Newscast if not adding one back to KMCI at 9pm.
Especially when there's a limited amount of news in any one place. 7 minutes of murder and mayhem then infotainment, often recycled. NBC (and other network) affiliates are often doing news for other either co-owned or contracted stations at 10/9.
Late night coming on earlier? Maybe. In the ancient of days, the nice thing about the times I lived on Central time was watching the news at 10, catching Carson's monologue and desk bit, still being in bed at 11.
That's an interesting observation. You're aware that "network radio" still exists today? It's just called something different, and it's done differently. Premiere Radio is in its own way a network, syndicating national talk & music shows. Same with Westwood One, United Stations, and all of the rest. CBS, NBC, and Fox all do network radio news. But it's done differently from the way it was done 50 years ago.
So yes, network TV is adapting to the changing marketplace and moving its content from broadcast to streaming. But for the most part it's still national distribution of content.
I knew there were stuff about NBC Owned stations releasing their local newscasts to Roku Channel and Peacock apps. Also Peacock was in the process of releasing Telemundo shows to Peacock app too. I know in cities where Comcast inc owns the Telemundo and NBC affiliate there will be a big push to go to the Peacock app. Some of this is true in areas where Xfinity is the Internet and TV provider in your area.
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I was referring to network radio as it was before television, with the same program formats that television adopted.
And in radio, Seacrest and Bobby Bones and Charlamgne are all network shows, too. And nearly all talk shows are network based... as is the latest news of alien landings in overnights.
Nearly every major sports team has a network, whether it's baseball, football, soccer, basketball or... And NASCA has a network, as do most major college teams.
Oh, and there is that huge network, with more radio affiliates than NBC or CBS or ABC or Mutual Radio ever had: NPR!
That already exists on the Me-TV subchannel.
I know for NBC Owned stations they can have a 10 pm Newscast by rebroadcasting ones from their Streaming news feed from Peacock or Roku Channel.
WRAL-TV the Capital owned NBC affiliate in Raleigh, NC just made WRAL News Streaming feed.
I am not sure how Gray, Nexstar, Hearst, Tegna, Scripps, Allen Media, Graham Media, Cox Media, Sinclair will respond to the changes yet if it's approved.
WPSD-TV the NBC affiliate in Paducah, Kentucky is one of a rare NBC affiliates where the owner only owns 1 TV station.
The other is KNBN.
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To say NOTHING of the impact it would have on those stations whose newsvasts are PRODUCED by NBC affiliates
Otherwise, I second the 90 minute local news block
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The NBC affiliatre which is the Daddy of a duopoly would just simply sinulcast the first 30 minutes & then send Junior off to bed as it were by directing viewers to go the NBC affiliate if they want to continue watching the newscast
That's basically what KUSA 9 does during the 9:00 PM hour here in Denver (But that's only when the Broncos are on either SNF or MNF & the game runs over (KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV) typically airs the MNF games as TEGNA owns the Preseason rights & those stations & ckusters withy the Preseason rights usually get first dibs on MNF OTA rights))
I think in the Eastern and Pacific zones, stations execs would kill before they'd give up the Wheel/Jeopardy hour at 7.
KHNL was Hawaii's first FOX affiliate from 1986-1995.
This may be awkward, but look who sounds dumb.
A case of linking a Wikipedia article without actually reading it? Or maybe he was just being sarcastic? 😅
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Lol NBC since 1996. Previously was Independent then Fox.
It’s about capturing the eyeballs when they want to watch you, not expecting people to watch the full block.
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