Overnight ratings for Houston 39's new news?

[mmnassour]

That sounds like the KVUE of 15 years ago.................? ;D

 

[compubit]

Channel 39 tried a 7 pm newscast years ago. The 7 pm newscast would conflict with the CW programming though, so it is not a possibility as long as 39 is a CW station.

KWGN in Denver and KPLR in St. Louis have 7pm local news and run CW from 8-10pm - both stations are tied to Tribune & Local Media - and share news resources with the respective Fox station in each market.

The 7pm/11pm news on 39 in 1990 was a little ahead of it's time (7pm) and way behind (11pm)... Commutes are getting longer and a decent newscast at 7pm would do better than NewsBroke at 9pm...

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[fredcantu]

We're forgetting we live in DVR ties. People can easily record their favorite 6:00pm news and it will be waiting for them when they get home.

 

[mikerichardson]

We're forgetting we live in DVR ties. People can easily record their favorite 6:00pm news and it will be waiting for them when they get home.

Do a lot of people DVR news though?

 

[compubit]

When visiting my parents in Dallas, I like the fact that (at least during the week and when TXA21 doesn't have a Basketball game), there is local news on from 4pm - 11:30pm (excepting the 10:35-11:00 period before KFWD repeats News 8).

As for the quality of some of the newscasts...

 

[JHBrandt]

We're forgetting we live in DVR ties. People can easily record their favorite 6:00pm news and it will be waiting for them when they get home.

Folks have been able to do that since the VCR era. Of course DVRs are much easier to use than those old VCRs, but most require monthly fees on top of any cable or satellite subscription. (The DTVPal and its Channel Master successor are a wonderful, but little-known and hard-to-find, exception.) So there could still be a market for 7PM news.

 

[HoustonListener]

I wonder if the Denver and St Louis CW stations benefit ratings wise for the CW shows by delaying them to run until 8-10 pm instead of 7-9 pm.

 

[intx]

The Local TV/Tribune stations in those 2 cities are run together and changed timeslots so they wouldn't compete against each other. Fox, obviously, is going to do better at 9, so they rolled the dice and tried to see if the CW news would have a better shot with no competition at 7.

 

[KERCAlum]

If local news operations that also have iPhone apps would update their feeds more often than twice a day, TV news would be relegated to irrelevance very quickly. Frankly, the internet and iPhone are how I get the majority of my news, weather, and sports. No happy talk. And I don't have to sit through commercials, and I can "channel-flip" (look at different apps) to get different takes on the weather forecast and certain important local stories. I also have the CNN and Fox News apps, in order to get a "consensus" on the news.

I still like to watch local news on occasion, but it's not a must-have for me anymore (which is sad, because I worked in the business about 20 or so years ago).

 

[fredcantu]

It takes staff hours and equipment to put those news web sites together. Are they able to sell enough advertising to keep themselves afloat? Or will they start charging like the Dallas Morning News site? They can't keep giving it away. That's not a sound business model.