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Univision Says "ADIOS" To Local Newscasts

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JayR

From News-Press.com:

UNIVISION SAYS 'ADIOS' TO LOCAL NEWSCASTS

Things are up in the air on the region's Spanish language news scene after WUVF-TV, the local Univision affiliate, ceased offering its semi-local* daily newscasts.

The station's owner, Equity Broadcasting, canceled the shows due to the slumping economy and falling revenue.
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*The author referred to it as "semi-local" because the newscasts were produced and transmitted from Little Rock, Ark., but featured several reports videotaped in Southwest Florida.
 
This is not the Univision O&Os. This is just WUVF in Fort Myers, owned by Equity Broadcasting (of RTN fame) that is dropping newscasts. Not only is news produced in Little Rock, but the station (and all Equity owned stations and RTN affiliate feeds) are controlled out of Little Rock.

KMEX Los Angeles beats all of the English-language stations with news constantly, and I suspect the Univision stations in Miami and along the Mexican border do quite well also. I don't think Univision will be discontinuing any local news at their O&Os anytime soon.
 
Obviously, reading a little futher...I thought that Univison's owned and operated stations were cancelling local news. The title of the thread of a little misleading. In many markets (Los Angeles and Miami immediately come to mind), Univision's local news often beats some of the English-language competition in their respective markets.
 
Yeah, if anything, most Univision affiliates are EXPANDING their local newscasts. Case in point: Philadelphia's WUVP, which has recently expanded their local news to full newscasts that air weekdays at 6 and 11 pm. This is true elsewhere too.

The cited example has to do with the station owner (Equity) and their other holdings (of which, ONE is a small UNI affiliate in tiny Fort Myers, FL), rather than reflecting any pattern or trend associated with Univision. Very misleading and inaccurate thread title.....
 
BRNout said:
The cited example has to do with the station owner (Equity) and their other holdings (of which, ONE is a small UNI affiliate in tiny Fort Myers, FL)...
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Not to hijack, but by no means is Fort Myers "tiny". In fact, their population has consistently grown over the last several years - even the Hispanic population in the area. In radio, Fort Myers/Naples is ranked somewhere in the 60's.
 
I've seen news updates before on WUVN-TV (UNI) chnnel 18 of Hartford. They're obviously produced by WUNI-TV (UNI) channel 27 of Worcester, which is meant for the Boston market.
 
Re: Equity Says "ADIOS" To Local Newscasts

I notice the Detroit station, WUDT-CA/23 is among the stations losing news. Just what Detroit needs, one less newscast...

Does Detroit have much of a Hispanic population?
 
What about WUVP in Philly, are they affected too. They just started the 6 and 11 PM newscasts Monday-Friday this year.
 
WUVP is owned by Univision, not Equity.

- Trip
 
Just heard the same thing from our radio engineer (Spanish speaking) who helps out at several Spanish LPTVs....KUTH-TV (programmed out of Equity/Little Rock) is eliminating their local staff.
 
kenglish said:
KUTH-TV (programmed out of Equity/Little Rock) is eliminating their local staff.
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Didn't even know Equity stations had any local staff outside of Little Rock, other than those for ad sales and those who file news reports.
 
They have a small staff of reporters/stringers that go out and gather the local stuff in each market. The anchors are all in LR.
 
That formula doesn't ever seem to work when tried. I was going to compare Equity's operations with that of International News Network (INN), as they are strikingly similar, but lo and behold! Equity didn't do the newscast - they farmed it out to INN. So the "local" news isn't even coming out of Little Rock - try Davenport, Iowa instead. Max Media in Montana did the same thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTGF), as did LAT TV. America One still does. Same formula, same lousy product, same failure. And the beat goes on.

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I'm not even in the industry, but I'm of the opinion that if you're going to do news, spend the money and do it all the way. Don't offer a canned product with an occasional local reporter and call it "local". We in the unwashed masses aren't fooled. We're not buying it and we're voting with our remotes.
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