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To Much News?

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azenergyfan

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OK lets take a look Ch 3 430-630Ch 5 500-700Ch10 500-630Ch12 430-630Ch15 500-630Now do you think there is over saturation of evening news, whether the live local or the three hour tape delayed national news? I wonder if it would be too much of a gamble if one of our stations tried something different than just straight ahead news for 2-2 1/2 hours in the early evening.
 
Then you take KTVK, who get's a half hour jump on most of the competition (except KPNX) and the first three or four stories are fluff. On a day when a auto repair shop owner is gunned down by a former employee, all sorts or stupid stories and finally at 4:50 the story on the shooting.Why come on earlier than the rest if you don't do serious news until 5pm? ???
 
Re: Too Much News?

My only problem with all the news in the early evening is that I work extremely long hours. Very rarely do I get home before 6:20pm. So, even though there are 5 stations doing news, my only choice is CBS 5 at 6:30pm.At 7pm and 8pm, I'm usually watching primetime programming. Then, at 9pm, when I would like to see a solid 30 minute newscast with news, sports, and weather, the only choice is FOX 10 who drags all the news, sports, and weather out for a whole hour. This market has the most newscasts that don't fit my schedule. With 5 stations having full news teams, we should have almost personalized news times running all day and all evening.
 
Uh, VCR?

Use a VCR to record the news. FF through the fluff. FWIW, KPHO has launched their "Everything you need to know in the first 5 minutes" promo for the 10PM news. Maybe that will work for ya.
 
How anyone can watch the brainless, sensationalistic dreck that they call "news" is beyond me.Pure garbage, makes Entertainment Tonite seem like a semester at Harvard in comparison.
 
Re: Uh, VCR?

SanDiegoInExile said:
Use a VCR to record the news. FF through the fluff. FWIW, KPHO has launched their "Everything you need to know in the first 5 minutes" promo for the 10PM news. Maybe that will work for ya.
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I don't like watching pre-recorded news. Therefore, I won't use my VCR on live news programming. I'd rather complain about the stupid news times! :)
 
You know what was funny when I lived in Buffalo, NY. We had NBC, CBS, and ABC doing news our local fox station didn't have a news dept. Well for the Noon News CBS and ABC would have their Noon News, you want to know what NBC ran??????? The Flintstones and guess what????? They beat out the news on ABC and CBS! How genius is that??
 
Re: Uh, VCR?

formeraa said:
I don't like watching pre-recorded news. Therefore, I won't use my VCR on live news programming. I'd rather complain about the stupid news times! :)
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Well, if you live outside of Eastern time, the national news you see is recorded anyway.
 
Re: Uh, VCR?

KJCB said:
Well, if you live outside of Eastern time, the national news you see is recorded anyway.
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If you are referring to the evening 'casts, they are also live in(the vast majority of) Central time zone markets which air at5:30pm CT.And in the interest of full disclosure, both Mc12 and ch. 15 tooklive left coast feeds at 5:30 on Monday after da Prez at 5:00.The feed ch. 5 aired at 6:00 was no more than 30 min. old as italso recapped the speech.
 
Re: Uh, VCR?

KJCB said:
formeraa said:
I don't like watching pre-recorded news. Therefore, I won't use my VCR on live news programming. I'd rather complain about the stupid news times! :)
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Well, if you live outside of Eastern time, the national news you see is recorded anyway.
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As I said earlier, I don't get home in time to watch the national news. Typically, I watch the Valley's only local newscast at 6:30pm -- CBS 5 News at 6:30pm with Kent Dana and Catherine Anaya.
 
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