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Tribune "Fixes" The News

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Tribune Broadcasting has recently announced plans to start a new news initiative called "Newsfix". The first market that it will be utilized is Houston, where KIAH will air the restructured newscast format:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/7122045.html

Meanwhile, in Miami, Tribune's WSFL has just yanked its live, local four-hour morning show, titled "The Morning Show." A joint venture with the Sun-Sentinel, it launched just last year. Could that station be another prime candidate for "Newsfix"?
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/Station_to_Station/31455-WSFL_Scraps_Morning_Program.php

And you'd have to wonder if, should "Newsfix" be successful, it will eventually end up in larger markets on stations like New York's WPIX (which just recently announced a new live, local 4 AM newscast) and Chicago's WGN.
 
Sounds like something you'd see on PBS. Like a drab 16-hour documentary about "America's National Parks."
 
This "fix" is to save money...nothing more. They can hire camerapeople at minimum wage, and avoid paying six-figure anchor salaries and five-figure reporter salaries.

Sam Zell in action again. This will fail. KIAH will have no news department, because Zell will not want to open his wallet up after he has clamped it shut.
 
Considering WGN's morning show is one of the most popular in Chicago, I don't see them changing that in a hurry. And they spent a small fortune to get Mark Suppelsa, I don't see him leaving.

Most of WGN's anchors are well known so if they did lose their jobs, well I see WBBM (CBS) getting most of them :)
 
Tribune has said NewsFix is only intended for their stations that don't have a heritage news operation. So ... WGN, WPIX and KTLA should be safe.
 
It would be easy to condemn this but I think I'll reserve judgement until I see it. For better or worse, people are just not getting their news, or entertainment for that matter, in ways of last century. Maybe it will bring more eyeballs back to traditional broadcast, who knows?
 
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