Since NFL playoff games tend to run later than regular-season games, it got me thinking: how many local stations tape their late newscasts on nights when they get bumped back by say, an hour or more? I would think most stations wouldn't tend to do this because of live shots, breaking news, etc. But if it gets super late I could understand taping it.
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Taped local newscasts
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Back in the dark ages when I worked at an ABC affiliate, we had to wait until the end of Monday Night Football and never, ever, taped a late local newscast. I'd have to agree with TheRob on this one in that I could see a small-market (bush league) station pulling something like this - but any medium to large market station does this at their own peril. Taping a newscast without clearly identifying it as such is a recipe for damage to a station's credibility.
On the other hand, many (perhaps even most) early morning sportscasts are clearly taped the night before - usually after the late local news. And they rarely admit to that.
On the other hand, many (perhaps even most) early morning sportscasts are clearly taped the night before - usually after the late local news. And they rarely admit to that.
And, also, many reports/in-studio consumer segments/etc. are taped but they make it "seem" live by using the anchor's name or something.
I caught Seattle affiliate KING running taped hours of their 4-hour long Saturday morning newscast about 15 years ago. I watched the 6am hour and the anchor made a blunder during the newscast and reacted in a very unusual manner. I went out, came back for the 9am hour, and the anchor made the exact same blunder at the exact same time (minutes past the hour) and reacted in the exact same very unusual manner. Trust me, this wasn't some strange coincidence!
I confirmed with a friend who worked at KING that, yes, they did tape 2 hours of the newscast and repeat them. However, they did live weather cut-ins which were conveniently separated by commercials (i.e. when we come back, John Miller will have the latest forecast. Then, they come back directly to John. When John finishes, they go to another commercial break.)
I caught Seattle affiliate KING running taped hours of their 4-hour long Saturday morning newscast about 15 years ago. I watched the 6am hour and the anchor made a blunder during the newscast and reacted in a very unusual manner. I went out, came back for the 9am hour, and the anchor made the exact same blunder at the exact same time (minutes past the hour) and reacted in the exact same very unusual manner. Trust me, this wasn't some strange coincidence!
I confirmed with a friend who worked at KING that, yes, they did tape 2 hours of the newscast and repeat them. However, they did live weather cut-ins which were conveniently separated by commercials (i.e. when we come back, John Miller will have the latest forecast. Then, they come back directly to John. When John finishes, they go to another commercial break.)
There's only one station I am aware of that does this on a daily basis: Fisher Broadcasting's KLEW-3-CBS Lewiston, ID (the secondary CBS affiliate in the Spokane, WA DMA). They run a 5pm and 6pm newscast live, then rerun the 6 again at 11pm.
I considered sending my resume tape to them, back in the spring, when they had an opening for a meteorologist/weather anchor, but decided against it...primarily for that reason.
The station I work for feeds a pre-taped weather and sports segment (titled 10@10 on ABC Montana, the rest of the time slot is filled with "Two and a Half Men") to our sister stations in Missoula/Kalispell and Butte/Bozeman. We tape the intros and sign-offs after the 6pm in Great Falls, but wait until around 9:15 or 9:30 to tape and feed the main segments (including weather). I also pre-tape the morning weather cut-ins to air on during GMA Monday thru Friday. The only time I am aware that we pre-taped our late newscast in Great Falls was on the Saturday evening we had scheduled our Christmas party.
I will agree that a lot of small market stations could get by with a pre-taped late newscast, if they felt the need. Our 10pm newscast is generally a re-rack of our earlier shows...though on occasion we do have "late-breaking" news to add to it. Since September, when we expanded to a 5-6-10 line-up (from the market-traditional 5:30-10 line-up) we do go more "in-depth" at 10pm, usually on the story filed by our 10pm anchor/nightside repoter, to give that show a little extra.
I considered sending my resume tape to them, back in the spring, when they had an opening for a meteorologist/weather anchor, but decided against it...primarily for that reason.
The station I work for feeds a pre-taped weather and sports segment (titled 10@10 on ABC Montana, the rest of the time slot is filled with "Two and a Half Men") to our sister stations in Missoula/Kalispell and Butte/Bozeman. We tape the intros and sign-offs after the 6pm in Great Falls, but wait until around 9:15 or 9:30 to tape and feed the main segments (including weather). I also pre-tape the morning weather cut-ins to air on during GMA Monday thru Friday. The only time I am aware that we pre-taped our late newscast in Great Falls was on the Saturday evening we had scheduled our Christmas party.
I will agree that a lot of small market stations could get by with a pre-taped late newscast, if they felt the need. Our 10pm newscast is generally a re-rack of our earlier shows...though on occasion we do have "late-breaking" news to add to it. Since September, when we expanded to a 5-6-10 line-up (from the market-traditional 5:30-10 line-up) we do go more "in-depth" at 10pm, usually on the story filed by our 10pm anchor/nightside repoter, to give that show a little extra.
Tim-In-Houston said:
When your local was at 5:30 and 10, was ABC News aired at 5 (second NYC feed)?
I noticed prime time was 7-10 MT--how do you delay the network? Tape? Digital
delay server? Microwave feed from another market, such as Boise or SLC?
WYIN-DT tapes their news before they air it. Their news is low budget with only 1 anchor for the general news, a meteorologist, and a sports anchor. All on-site news is also taped in advance, as they don't have the money to do the news live. For those who don't live in South Chicagoland/NW Indiana, WYIN-DT is the PBS station that serves NW Indiana, and they don't have the budget to run their news like the 5 network stations in Chicago can run their news. Plus, their news serves NW Indiana more than it does for Chicagoland.
As for other stations, only NBC & ABC tape the 10pm news to reair it at 1:05am. WGN tapes the noon - 1pm portion of the mid-day news to re-air it on CLTV, Tribune Company's Chicago area cable channel, along with taping the 9pm news to re-air it at 11pm on CLTV.
As for other stations, only NBC & ABC tape the 10pm news to reair it at 1:05am. WGN tapes the noon - 1pm portion of the mid-day news to re-air it on CLTV, Tribune Company's Chicago area cable channel, along with taping the 9pm news to re-air it at 11pm on CLTV.
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Here in Lansing,Michigan , The NBC affiliate produced WSYM FOX47NEWS at 10 is taped should a sports event or awards show goes beyond 10pm
oldiesfan6479 said:
Yes, we aired "World News" at 5pm (the 7 ET live feed, which I believe is what we delay to 5:30 now). As far as I know, most stations in the mountain time zone air primetime from 7 -10pm. I honestly couldn't tell you how that is done, though! I will say that if there is a live news and/or sporting event beginning at 8 on the east coast, it usually blows out our 6pm hour.
The only time I have seen a station in the Number 1 market - i.e. New York - run a pre-recorded newscast, was WNYW/Fox 5, on a Saturday night/Sunday morning back in 2008 following a baseball playoff game that ended at just around 2 AM; the game started after a long rain delay. I don't blame Fox for pre-taping the newscast that night.
I know WFSB runs the 11pm news rerun at approx 2am,if i'm awake ,i will tune in.
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