Jefferson Ward said:Julius: I know you don't care how TV or radio works (you have clearly stated that many times over the years), and you just want stations to do what you demand. However, your outlandish demands will not be met (except for WCAU cancelling The 10! Show). As I have stated before on here, it would stupid for Fox 29 to cut back the newscast to 30 minutes, just because you don't like their newscasts. With the newscast being an hour long, in terms of revenue for the station, they can sell more commerical spots for that hour of news. Stations with newscasts draw most of their revenue from companies that advertise during newscasts. Also, they can provide more news and information if the show is an hour long or longer. What part of this don't you understand? You post all these opinions but do not elaborate on those opinions backed up with facts to support your arguments. Please stop it. Just stop.
Jefferson Lee Eng said:Last night's Phillies away game with the Mets where the bats went on the offensive right from the start of the first inning was aired on channel 17 with the game running to about 10:25PM. Some observations and a recap of what was aired postgame...
1. 6ABC News at Ten was pushed back a half hour to 10:30 on the schedule to accomodate the Phillies postgame show (usually broadcast live from Sugar House casino). Not a big deal I guess.
2. Well, I guess it looks like John Clark (along with Mike Missanelli) are still doing the postgame on PHL17 at least through the end of the season. I surmise this is more of the fact I think the postgame show is produced by Xfininty/Comcast and whatever channel broadcasts the game, gets the postgame show. (I think 6ABC favors heavy advertising for the sorta competition of Verizon Fios, but then again...)
3. The postgame show was a full 30 minutes after the game broadcast ended. I suppose the talent liked blowing smoke up the collective Phillies rear ends, because of the seemingly big deal 16 to 1 win last night.
4. About that 6ABC News at Ten...for obvious reasons, that didn't get aired until 11PM. There was a "Previously Recorded" indicator in the top left corner of the picture and of course, the regular 11PM news airing on channel 6 with Jim Gardner was going out live. I don't recall if this ever was the case for NBC10 was doing the news on PHL17...somehow, I seem to recall that if the Phillies ran late, they didn't bother recording a news segment...
Same thing happened when NBC 10 had the 10 PM newscast. They need to stop this. PHL-17 is hurting channel 6's ratings at 11 PM, when they do something like this.Jefferson Lee Eng said:4. About that 6ABC News at Ten...for obvious reasons, that didn't get aired until 11PM. There was a "Previously Recorded" indicator in the top left corner of the picture and of course, the regular 11PM news airing on channel 6 with Jim Gardner was going out live. I don't recall if this ever was the case for NBC10 was doing the news on PHL17...somehow, I seem to recall that if the Phillies ran late, they didn't bother recording a news segment...
If Channel 6 is airing Action News live at 11pm and Channel 17 is airing a taped Action News at the same time, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to click down to Jim Garder live on Channel 6. How would a taped show hurt channel 6's ratings?Julius May said:Same thing happened when NBC 10 had the 10 PM newscast. They need to stop this. PHL-17 is hurting channel 6's ratings at 11 PM, when they do something like this.Jefferson Lee Eng said:4. About that 6ABC News at Ten...for obvious reasons, that didn't get aired until 11PM. There was a "Previously Recorded" indicator in the top left corner of the picture and of course, the regular 11PM news airing on channel 6 with Jim Gardner was going out live. I don't recall if this ever was the case for NBC10 was doing the news on PHL17...somehow, I seem to recall that if the Phillies ran late, they didn't bother recording a news segment...
It doesn't even take a regular scientist (like a chemist which I am).WCAUTVNBC10 said:Bill you're not talking to a rocket scientist ;D
PHL 17 should not be running tape delayed newscasts anymore. Viewers won't mind if the newscast has to be skipped on some nights because of sports.Flyer78 said:Last night, (9/27) tape delayed due to Phillies again noticed that the time/temp bug showed time as if it were live from 10PM, instead of 11PM... that seems like something they should avoid when delaying the broadcast (perhaps just have it stay on the phl17.com setting)