News 12 Long Island not really local news for mid island area

[Joylovepulse967]

Only care for south shore Long Island

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Now tell fcc https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
888-CALL-FCC
Thank you

 

[frankberry]

The FCC does not regulate news content.
Why not contact News 12 and complain. That would make more sense.

 

[Joylovepulse967]

I did.

The FCC does not regulate news content.
Why not contact News 12 and complain. That would make more sense.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Then they heard you. They don't owe anything beyond that.

 

[CTListener]

Also, many traffic accidents and fires happen on Long Island every day. It's unrealistic to expect any news organization, especially a cable broadcaster with limited resources, to cover all, or even most of them.

I assume no one died in the incidents listed in the original (quoted) post from Andrew Pollack, and that's why they weren't covered. I'm sure that if the accident on the Northern State Parkway that caused Pollack's father to take more time than usual to get to ShopRite had claimed two or three lives and closed the road for hours, it would have made the newscast, as would the fire in Mineola if people died or had to be rescued from the roof by helicopter.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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There is a group that made a similar argument about KOVR CBS 13 and why they don't do as many stories on San Joaquin Valley such as Stockton. Money and also focusing on the core city such as Sacramento is a bigger priority for CBS O&O KOVR 13.

In the case of the News 12 complaint the crew or director is putting higher priorities in the county seats in Nassau and Suffolk counties or the largest cities within these counties.

The switching of KOVR Channel 13 from Stockton to Sacramento has had an unfortunate impact on Stockton. It is true that Sacramento is a larger media market than Stockton, but it has enough of its own television stations to meet its need for local news and investigative reporting. Stockton doesn’t. The population of Stockton, which is around 316,000, is larger than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, and its metropolitan population is 300,000 larger than the entire state of Wyoming. Still it does not have a single television station in the city, only news bureaus at best.

The website KJQ.US.COM rightly insists “KOVR belongs to Stockton, always has. KOVR ownership loathes Stockton, but uses it because the license is here.” Channel 13 now identifies itself as CBS Sacramento, without a fare-thee-well to Stockton. This prompted me to engage in a respectful email exchange with the station’s former manager, Robert P. Hess, who used to work at the main studio when it was located on Miner Avenue.

I pointed out the KNTV, the Bay Area NBC affiliate, has its studios in San Jose and not San Francisco, and that WEAR, the ABC affiliate in the Mobile-Pensacola media market, has its studios in Pensacola, which is much smaller than Mobile. Even after Channel 13 moved its main operations to Sacramento, it still maintained a satellite studio in Stockton for a time. Hess argued that it was simply too expensive to maintain a studio in Stockton. I found this argument unconvincing because Channel 13 is currently owned by the CBS television network, which has ample financial resources.