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Noon news on Saturday/Sunday?

Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 in Cleveland does a weekend noon cast.

No one else in the market does. In fact, all the other stations cancelled their weekend morning casts. All other stations only do the 6 and 11 on weekend evenings.
 
Phladelphia's WPVI has a noon broadcast on Sundays. An hour most weeks, except when ABC has an NBA double header with a pre game at 12:30.
 
WISH-TV/Indianapolis had a weekend noon newscast. That went away when CBS picked the NFL contract up in 1998. They're the only station I can remember having a Noon news on weekends.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 in Cleveland does a weekend noon cast.

No one else in the market does. In fact, all the other stations cancelled their weekend morning casts. All other stations only do the 6 and 11 on weekend evenings.
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Gannett's NBC pair in Maine (WCSH Portland, WLBZ Bangor) carried Noon weekend news until earlier this year/late last year and still does weekend morning newscasts as well in competition with WMTW, Hearst's ABC station (which cancelled it's weekday noon newscast to focus on weekend morning news)
 
Don't think I've ever seen that in Detroit. WXYZ for example is more likely to air Matlock at that hour on a Saturday or Sunday than anything else.
 
San Diego's NBC 7/39 since they were taken over by NBC Universal has been emasculated.

Weather is by-and-large outsourced from LA, newscasts shortened, weekend morning newscasts axed for infomercials. Meanwhile the indie stations here have picked up their audiences, their formerly popular talent are now at the other stations in town.

Why they even have any locally based newscasts is beyond me when they could simply produce them up in LA and beam it down. The station's master control is in Burbank anyway.
 
Noon news? We don't even have weekend news other than the 6 and 11pm newscasts (plus 10pm on Fox). WCIV did weekend morning news very briefly in the mid 1990s, but it failed, and nobody has tried it since.

None of the stations even run live updates on weekends. CBS tapes their two updates an hour after the 11:00 news on Friday night; NBC tapes a brief news and weather break and airs it (redoing it for Sunday), and ABC doesn't do anything at all. The NBC sometimes shows the previous week's weather.

With the growth of our market, weekend morning news could work, but nobody has tried. Noon news probably wouldn't, as our CBS is usually running sports at that time in the fall, while ABC and NBC don't have the money.

Columbia's WIS runs a Saturday morning news, and all of the Upstate stations run local morning news on weekends, but not at noon.

WSOC has one on Saturday and Sunday. I watched it, and they have a meteorologist and everything.
 
justthenumbers said:
I see that WFLA-TV in Tampa has a one-hour local newscast at Noon on Saturday (and Sunday).
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Kind of funny that they still do, considering that they cancelled its midday weekday newscast a couple of years back.
 
WSB Atlanta does 2 or 3 hours of it. Most content is repeated over and over
every 30 minutes. That way, when the nursing home folks fall asleep and wake
back up........they are right back where they left off. So nice.
 
Channel 4 (NBC) here in Nashville used to have an 11:00 a.m. newscast on Saturdays and, if I recall, Sundays as well. Since we're on central time, that would have probably been our equivalent of a noon newscast.

Channel 4 now comes back with an hour of news at 9:00 a.m., following the Saturday Today show.

Channel 2 (ABC) used to have Saturday and Sunday morning news, but dropped them in favor of infomercials on Saturday, and TV preachers on Sunday mornings. I don't think that they have ever had a 6:00 p.m. newscast on Saturday, even when not preempted by college football or something, preferring to air that syndicated movie review program instead.
 
KABC does it on Saturdays, barring any ESPN on ABC programming. Besides that, they do newscasts on Saturday and Sunday mornings, book-ending the weekend editions of Good Morning America, and This Week on Sundays.
 
I think there's a period of about two hours (10 AM-noon) when
WSB is airing ABC's kids' block before local news airs again at noon.

WCPO Cincinnati and WLKY Louisville have noon newscasts on Saturday.

My memory is a little hazy on this, since it was 1972; either WCVB in
Boston or WPLG in Miami may have been doing one, but the first weekend
noon newscasts that I distinctly remember were in Atlanta: WXIA (then
WQXI) had what was then "Pro News" on Saturdays and Sundays at noon.
The next year WSB decided to go head-to-head, and in the fall of '74 Ch. 11
folded, picking up ABC's "These Are The Days" on Saturdays (I don't remember
what they aired on Sundays, but they had "Issues And Answers" later in the
decade); in 1975 WAGA got into the act, and their weekend noon newscasts
lasted well into the '90s, even after the switch from CBS to Fox. But only WSB
continues the practice in Atlanta.

I'm not sure if they're still doing it but WBTV Charlotte also had weekend noon
newscasts in the '90s and maybe even into the early 2000s.
 
bpatrick said:
WCPO Cincinnati and WLKY Louisville have noon newscasts on Saturday.
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This is kind of odd, since WCPO's Scripps sister station in Cleveland, WEWS/5, has never (IIRC) had a Saturday noon cast. In fact, they, like all other stations in the market except Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3, don't have a weekend morning news presence.
 
I don't think the Scripps station in Baltimore, WMAR, does
a noon newscast on weekends either; I do believe WBAL
does, at least on Saturdays.
 
The 3 major Pittsburgh news stations do hours upon hours upon hours of
local news on Saturday and Sunday mornings. So by noon you are just not
in the mood for any more.
 
bpatrick said:
I think there's a period of about two hours (10 AM-noon) when
WSB is airing ABC's kids' block before local news airs again at noon.

WCPO Cincinnati and WLKY Louisville have noon newscasts on Saturday.

My memory is a little hazy on this, since it was 1972; either WCVB in
Boston or WPLG in Miami may have been doing one, but the first weekend
noon newscasts that I distinctly remember were in Atlanta: WXIA (then
WQXI) had what was then "Pro News" on Saturdays and Sundays at noon.
The next year WSB decided to go head-to-head, and in the fall of '74 Ch. 11
folded, picking up ABC's "These Are The Days" on Saturdays (I don't remember
what they aired on Sundays, but they had "Issues And Answers" later in the
decade); in 1975 WAGA got into the act, and their weekend noon newscasts
lasted well into the '90s, even after the switch from CBS to Fox. But only WSB
continues the practice in Atlanta.

I'm not sure if they're still doing it but WBTV Charlotte also had weekend noon
newscasts in the '90s and maybe even into the early 2000s.
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WBTV is no longer doing it. They definitely haven't done it since they were a Jefferson Pilot station. Usually infomercials are shown if there is no sports programming.
 
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