• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Note to KTVK: Bruce Haffner is NOT a reporter!

F

formeraa

I'm sure that Bruce is one heckuva helicopter pilot. However, I'm growing VERY tired of his horrible live reporting on GMAZ. His reports have the charm of a middle school English class, where the kids are first being introduced to speaking in front of the class. Bruce rambles on and on, repeating the same thing over again, has clumsy delivery at best, and simply is not a reporter.

Belo needs to get their own chopper back in the air or give Bruce an off-camera assignment. Perhaps Bruce should be the traffic reporter and Gina should do live reporting!!
 
I have to agree with you. Bruce seems like a very nice / likable guy, but he IS NOT a news reporter. A good Pilot, a good airborne traffic guy, LOUSY On Scene Reporter. Yesterday's story on the missing treasure hunters at Lost Dutchman's Mine for example, he himself seemed lost at times. Along with stating the obvious, "the terrain is rugged, and the heat is dangerous" He proceeded to tell the story about the history of how the lost dutchman got it's name... NOT the best time to tell viewers about the LOST DUTCHMAN, when search crews are trying their best to find folks who are likely in danger. If Bruce doesn't have a story about cars, traffic, or planes, then we in the valley can expect more awkwardness, and more time filling non-sense from someone who needs to take some classes in TV news journalism. This is NOT a knock on Bruce, it's CH 3 who gave the position to Bruce by default when the Helicopter was taken away. In the end, we as viewers will have to deal with Bruce's Internship in entry level news. Tomorrow's lesson: Brevity.

PS: On a side note, Gina's does a good job doing traffic, but why in the hell do they not give her any more time to announce it? Her 5am report yesterday I swear must have been 20 seconds, and she did it so fast, I couldn't understand her, which is a shame because I'd rather hear real-time traffic announced more often than the weather, where the very cute April spends nearly 8 minutes announcing weather in her texas twang, and repeats the process every other 8 minutes... The Best Format for morning news in the valley is CH 5, and I've made the switch.
 
VU@zero said:
PS: On a side note, Gina's does a good job doing traffic, but why in the hell do they not give her any more time to announce it?
Click to expand...

Apparently, so Bruce has time to repeat himself for the THIRD time!!! The other thing with GMAZ is that you never really get a good summary of local headlines. You only get the stories where they have a live reporter. I actually prefer ABC15 now that Rebecca is back on in the mornings. Now, if they would just put Susan Casper back on in the mornings, I would completely switch to 15.
 
Sorry guys. I read this a long time ago and never replied...

Recently I've had the opportunity to watch more GMAZ. Normally I only view from 4:30-6:00. I've listened to multiple Bruce Haffner segments. Like you VU and Former, Bruce seems like a nice guy and I don't want for him to lose his job, but they can't have him do live stories when he isn't trained to do so! I'm not sure why the group of stations didn't pick him as one of their pilots, and I respect that KTVK wanted to keep him on the payroll (after firing Brad and Dan) but Bruce needs some serious work.

Also, I hope either Bruce has 100 hats or Lisa is washing that one because it must be filthy! We know you're going bald. Embrace it.

VU@zero said:
PS: On a side note, Gina's does a good job doing traffic, but why in the hell do they not give her any more time to announce it? Her 5am report yesterday I swear must have been 20 seconds, and she did it so fast, I couldn't understand her, which is a shame because I'd rather hear real-time traffic announced more often than the weather, where the very cute April spends nearly 8 minutes announcing weather in her texas twang, and repeats the process every other 8 minutes... The Best Format for morning news in the valley is CH 5, and I've made the switch.
Click to expand...

When I watch, there isn't much traffic so I never noticed, but Gina talks a mile a minute! One morning there were 4 accidents/problems on the US-60 Superstition freeway. Gina barely had time to cover the rest of the Valley. And she can throw to commercial seamlessly. GMAZ needs to give Gina more time during her segments
 
I think Gina's time adjusts with whatever else is going on. Some mornings Gina has plenty of time. Other mornings she rushes through the traffic reports. It probably depends on the amount of breaking news. I really enjoy Kaley doing the weather when April is away. Kaley does a great job!

I've also altered my watching to make sure I watch from 6:55 to 7:10pm. Scott actually does a solid block of news at that point (unless there is breaking news).

Ironically, when the plane crashed at Deer Valley airport last week, they had sent Bruce up north somewhere. The one time that they could actually use his expertise, he was away from the action! However, Scott is a pilot and did a very credible job explaining the aviation patterns at Deer Valley.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom