Regular Local News Programs Recorded in Advance

[Mario500]

Here is a link to an article about a recent examine in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market:

WFGX-TV broadcasts recording of local news program instead of live version

 

[Mario500]

I meant to type "example" in the previous message, not "examine", and use quotation marks for the title of the article.

 

[dave73]

My local PBS station, WYIN in Merrillville Indiana (licensed to Gary, IN) tapes their news in advance. Their news is aimed at NW Indiana, rather than Chicago, & they do their best to offer news to NW Indiana, where Chicago concentrates more on their city (even then, doesn't cover all Chicago neighborhoods) & the nearby suburbs the most. WYIN only has the news on from Monday - Friday (except for holidays that fall during the week), & is low budget (most of their news comes from the NW Indiana Times newspaper). Reading into the story itself, if a station's normal newscast gets interrupted by network programming, then it only makes sense to tape it in advance (place a disclaimer that it was recorded), & let the news anchors get off work at their normal time, instead of waiting around for the program to end, then do the news live.

 

[umfan]

Granite Communications produces all of their local newscasts out of their Ft. Wayne, Indiana operation. In Detroit, they air a 10PM newscast on WMYD which is taped several hours earlier. Same deal for at least four or five other markets where they have stations.

I believe INN does this for at least some of the markets they produce news for.

 

[PirateJohnny]

Some employers won't pay the overtime to stay past normal hours.

 

[w00t]

I've seen this locally, where both WCTI/12 Greenville, NC and WRAL/5 Raleigh, NC produce 10pm newscasts for their Fox sister stations. If NFL, the race, whatever runs past 10 then the news goes live to tape. It gets funny if the overrun goes past 10:30 - at 11 you get to see the same personalities on two different channels, simultaneously, at different places...sometimes even in the same script.

 

[FredLeonard]

First off, you can't believe anything you read on Examiner.com. It is the "ministry of propaganda" for an extreme religious right oil tycoon named Philip Anschutz. Picture J.R. Ewing with a Bible.
Second, Mario is one of their bloggers and posts links to his own stuff here. He is paid by the number of hits his stuff generates and posting here puts money in his pocket.
Nice try, Dude.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

First off, you can't believe anything you read on Examiner.com. It is the "ministry of propaganda" for an extreme religious right oil tycoon named Philip Anschutz. Picture J.R. Ewing with a Bible.
Second, Mario is one of their bloggers and posts links to his own stuff here. He is paid by the number of hits his stuff generates and posting here puts money in his pocket.
Nice try, Dude.

Can you give more specific proof of inaccurate news coverage by this website?

 

[Morgan Wick]

First off, you can't believe anything you read on Examiner.com. It is the "ministry of propaganda" for an extreme religious right oil tycoon named Philip Anschutz. Picture J.R. Ewing with a Bible.
Second, Mario is one of their bloggers and posts links to his own stuff here. He is paid by the number of hits his stuff generates and posting here puts money in his pocket.
Nice try, Dude.

[citation needed]

FTFY

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

In this case, the news should have been done live after the game ended.

Besides, the sports segment could have included highlights of the game, and, if the game was a home contest played in the station's local city, there could have been a live shot from the ballpark with some post-game interviews as well.

 

[umfan]

I don't see the major issue with this unless the screen asserted it was live when it was not.

Recording local news or centralizing key aspects of it, like Weather, may allow multiple outlets in smaller and mid size markets, and additional stations in large markets to offer a local news product.

Without such cost savings, some stations will have to drop local news.

 

[michael hagerty]

First off, you can't believe anything you read on Examiner.com. It is the "ministry of propaganda" for an extreme religious right oil tycoon named Philip Anschutz. Picture J.R. Ewing with a Bible.
Second, Mario is one of their bloggers and posts links to his own stuff here. He is paid by the number of hits his stuff generates and posting here puts money in his pocket.
Nice try, Dude.

While it's true that accuracy is a big problem for Examiner pieces, it's not because of an institutional philosophy or agenda, but lack of oversight.

They take on writers who aren't trained journalists (and in some cases, it could be argued, can't write) and not only don't tell them what to cover or how, but don't even edit the submissions for content and accuracy (nor, as it appears from some Examiner pieces I've seen, spelling or punctuation).

This was revealed when issues of plagiarism arose a while back, with the executive editor giving this quote:

"They're blogs. They don't get edited. We don't give any direction to people on what to write in their blogs. And that's standard operating procedure."

As for putting money in Mario500's pocket, I've been wondering what to do with these pennies. Examiner is noted for having one of the worst compensation scales in the industry. If an article got a million hits, an Examiner writer might be able to treat himself to a Frappucino (but maybe not Venti size).

 

[nelsonincharlotte]

I've seen this locally, where both WCTI/12 Greenville, NC and WRAL/5 Raleigh, NC produce 10pm newscasts for their Fox sister stations. If NFL, the race, whatever runs past 10 then the news goes live to tape. It gets funny if the overrun goes past 10:30 - at 11 you get to see the same personalities on two different channels, simultaneously, at different places...sometimes even in the same script.

That happened last winter when WMYT aired the NC State at Duke basketball game at 9. WMYT aired the WBTV news at 10 at the same time WBTV was airing its OWN news at 11! Why compete against yourself? But that's not happening now that the WBTV 10:00 news is on WJZY. The news doesn't go past 10:30. If a sports overrun goes past 10, the newscast is abbreviated to last til 10:30. If the overrun lasts til 10:30 or later, no news on WJZY that night. I can see why Fox wouldn't want WBTV to air the 10:00 news at 11, but wish they would let them broadcast from 10:30 to 11.