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Special edition of World News Saturday

B

bpatrick

Noticed that ABC had a special edition of
World News Saturday at 7:30 (Eastern).
Normally, WNS doesn't run during football
season but hurricane-related news made it
almost an imperative tonight. West Coast
viewers will no doubt see it around 8 PM
(Pacific), following the primetime football
game (at least that should be the case in
LA, where KABC's local news ran from 4-5
local time, 7-8 Eastern). I also noticed
that KCBS, KNBC, and KABC all had local news
at 4 PM (Pacific), which they don't normally
do on Saturday. In KNBC's case NBC has a
NASCAR race at 5 PM (Pacific), so they wanted
to get both local and network news in. KCBS
is showing local news to 5:30 (Pacific), followed
by CBS News, then another local newscast at 6
(Pacific).

I have to believe every station and network's
news ratings have been through the roof this week.
 
>
> I have to believe every station and network's
> news ratings have been through the roof this week.
>

Which makes WXYZ in Detroit's decision all the more puzzling. After the Michigan game they ran local news as usual for half an hour. Then they ran...an infomercial. Yes, the week after the most devastating natural disaster in US history they deem an infomercial more important.
 
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> > I have to believe every station and network's
> > news ratings have been through the roof this week.
> >
>
> Which makes WXYZ in Detroit's decision all the more
> puzzling. After the Michigan game they ran local news as
> usual for half an hour. Then they ran...an infomercial. Yes,
> the week after the most devastating natural disaster in US
> history they deem an infomercial more important.
>
That is strange. Both ABC stations where I saw World News
Saturday are o&os: WABC and WTVD/11 Raleigh/Durham (WXYZ
is not an o&o, but that's no excuse). As Harry Reasoner
said in 1971 when he was trying to get full clearances for
ABC's news, which he anchored with Howard K. Smith at the
time, any network affiliate not carrying that network's news
is a disgrace (especially now--my words).

BTW, my local paper, the Greensboro News & Record, in its
Saturday TV insert, showed TBS planning to show The Waterboy
tomorrow at 9 AM and 4 PM (Eastern). I notice on the DirecTV
schedules that TBS is running Zoolander instead. Wise decision.
The Waterboy takes place in South Louisiana, and it would have
been in the worst of taste to show a movie where those people
are comic characters.
 
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