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berniek
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Still waiting on the TL or CV to do a follow up with former employees...their coverage this weekend was horrible.
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berniek
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The first television station in the market to do a newscast. Hell it is wasn't for guys like Jack Scannella there would be no footage of The Knox Mine, President Kennedy's visits to the area and many other important events. I give you that no one was watching the current WYOU, but still the demise of news deserved more than just a press release re-write.
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But why the demise? The answer is quite plain...NexStar just didn't care and let it fall apart. Companies set priorities, and a decent news effort was not a NexStar priority. They could have made a good effort with a simulcast between the two stations, they could have done better promotion, there were any number of things they could have done..IF..it was a priority. It wasn't and they let it die. It's sad, but there's not much you can do, when the company just doesn't care about it.
berniek said:
You are very right about the Knox footage, but it needs to be noted that there is precious little of it. I doubt there's a total of three minutes worth of film from the day itself.
Kennedy footage is another matter. While there is some of his motorcade from Hazleton to W-B, the footage of JFK in Scranton is (or at least was) owned by WBRE. They bought it from the family of the man who actually shot the only known film of JFK inside the Watres Armory. His appearance there was shot on 16mm film without audio. Agreed about Mr. Scannella, but for whatever reason, the Kennedy visit to NE PA wasn't exactly over-covered, if you know what I mean.
As to WYOU's vast film library - it belongs in one of our local colleges. I'm a bit dumbfounded that one of them, especially the UofS, hasn't already requested to take possession of it. Another possibility is Steamtown, since they do have an on-site "official" historian and keeper of artifacts. Wherever it goes, it sure as hell doesn't belong in the basement of WBRE/WYOU.
Have you ever known a station that has a sense of history?
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WCCO, Minneapolis.
WCCO, Minneapolis.
BaltimoreJack said:
Didn't KSTP completely bury them within a book or two back in the 70s? Seems to me that it was one of the quickest dethronements in radio history. Now, of course, does it matter at all? Really, no, it does not, sad to say.
To broaden the history question, padre, Americans have no sense of history when it comes to so many things. How many buildings can you find in NE PA that date back to even the mid-19th century? We were here literally driving and fueling the Industrial Revolution and finding a trace of that today is difficult. Europeans routinely live in buildings from the 14th century. We Americans, as a people, do a lot right...we also do a lot wrong.
Yeah. Look how fast the Old Fell House came down when General Hospital ha ha needed a parking lot ha ha overnight, like "take it out yesterday." Did someone say "asbestos" and/or "get rid of it fast"?
History takes second place to everything.
History takes second place to everything.
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In a word No. In the 1970's WCCO was a powerhouse that only few could imagine. During times of bad weather and such, WCCO would be where 95% of people in Minnesota as well as North & South Dakota turned to before they would even listen to a local station. When books came out they were often the #1 station in cities like Fargo which were hundreds of miles away. In the 1970's KSTP was slugging it out with KDWB, U-100 & WDGY in the Top-40 world. At that time, WCCO ate the lion's share of all the audience, leaving only crumbs for everyone else. Now later on, Midwest Radio & TV (the owners of CCO) sold out to CBS who went on a cost-cutting rampage and did a ton of damage to the "Good Neighbor To The Northwest". During that time, WCCO didn't do anywhere as good as they had in the past and sort of sank from Mt. Olympus down to the ranks of mere mortals..but they still come out #1 or #2 overall in each book. However..and I think it has to do with the people at working at CCO..they have preserved their history and are proud of it.masterg said:
To answer a previous question:
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090404/NEWS/904040342
The Federal Communications Commission requires broadcast companies to provide local programming that serves the public. How will WYOU fulfill this requirement without local news?
"We are talking about local programming that will hopefully fill that need. We can always produce local public affairs programming," Thatcher said, but local programming has not been determined.
WYOU's old news slots will be filled with syndicated programs such as "Judge Judy," "Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight."
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090404/NEWS/904040342
The Federal Communications Commission requires broadcast companies to provide local programming that serves the public. How will WYOU fulfill this requirement without local news?
"We are talking about local programming that will hopefully fill that need. We can always produce local public affairs programming," Thatcher said, but local programming has not been determined.
WYOU's old news slots will be filled with syndicated programs such as "Judge Judy," "Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight."
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