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Vanessa Ruiz out at 12 News

formeraa said:
Perhaps it was a function of growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the rain, but my friends and I liked to listen to the news (of course, we were most interested in sports and weather). And, no, we weren't all nerdy types or intellectual types either! Even those friends who were less inclined to watch television news certainly did so by their early 20's. It's quite interesting to hear others' differing experiences.
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It was the same way in my hometown of Bloomington IN. Those of us that had family at Indiana University (students or employees) were more inclined to be news junkies -- especially in the 1960s and '70s, between Vietnam, Watergate, and the civil rights efforts. My friends that didn't have an IU connection weren't as concerned.

By the time I got out of college and moved to Chicago, the news was all about local (and NOT national) politics, and nobody cared much about anything else. While I was in college here in the mid '70s, few people cared much about anything at all, outside their own back yards. Apathy was king. Fortunately, that's disappeared for the most part.

But in the case of younger adults, they still don't care, just like 40+ years ago. No reason for any station or network to attempt to attract a target audience that will just not be there.
 
CTListener said:
I don't know if you recall a 1966 Top 40 hit by the Cyrkle called "Turn-Down Day." It describes, basically, a day spent doing practically nothing and the pleasure it brings. There's a line in it about hanging out on the beach: "Someone's radio has the news tuned in / but nobody cares what he's saying." As an 11-year-old, I could identify with that line completely. Nothing was more aggravating than listening to my favorite music station -- which, at that time, was WBZ -- only to hear the news come on at the top of each hour. A couple of years later, the "20/20 news" on WRKO was an instant trigger to flip to WMEX.
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We are on a totally non-TV subject, but it does relate to TV news. Particularly, it explains the puff-filled AM TV shows which are mostly entertainment and background noise for folks getting started on their day... much like radio morning shows but without the occasional song.

I was in my dial-flipping days a decade ahead of the Cyrkle's song which was a current when I already owned a Top 40 station and only could wish for a day of doing nothing. My home town of Cleveland seemed to have 3 Top 40's from the late 50's into the mid-60's. One of them always was playing a song.

That same period was before Top 40 radio really streamlined and, occasionally, sensationalized brief news. There were some early adopters of fast, agressive news such as KLIF, but most stations still had a Les Nessman kind of delivery. I split listening with those Top 40's (WERE, WKYC, WHK) and WCLV, the local classical station... which did not have any news in the times I listened!
 
Vanessa's bio is still up on the website. Reading it, she's had an interesting life.
 
As a pre-teen and through high school it was my habit to read the morning newspaper with breakfast. I had a large paper route in those years so was thoroughly awake when I returned home by 7AM to eat. Top-40 radio in those days had headlines at TOH and out of necessity I listened to those but otherwise I didn't watch or listen to news programs (although The 20th Century was my favorite TV show in those days).

In my navy days time was of the essence and despite being in the radio shack we usually didn't have time to listen to the civilian news programs. And, interestingly, the two entertainment radios were allowed throughout the ship - except in CIC and Radio Central. After deployment to Vietnam there was virtually nothing in English save for Radio Diffusion in Hong Kong but the atmospherics were usually so poor we could not receive that unless we were very close. AFTRS came in occasionally but usually unlistenable. After the navy I went back to school but, again, between school and work, time didn't allow listening.

Then I moved to New York and had a one-hour drive from my home to work which gave me plenty of time to listen, and I did. It was an all-news AM (probably WCBS but I don't remember exactly). It was WABC on the way home so no news there. I was brand new to the NYC area then and the big attraction to me was the majority of their news coverage was east of the Hudson River. Virtually no news from the West. Since I was a newbie I was trying to soak up everything I could....and it worked reasonably well. My housemate liked watching the evening news on TV and about that time Channel 7 started the "happy news" fluff and stuff. That annoyed me and basically ended my local TV news watching days.

Recently I have tuned in once again to the evening network news and as stated before found it shallow, too brief and filled with stories that do not affect me or are the equivalent of Internet click bait. Local TV news is even worse.
 
landtuna said:
After deployment to Vietnam there was virtually nothing in English save for Radio Diffusion in Hong Kong but the atmospherics were usually so poor we could not receive that unless we were very close.
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Here is the story of Rediffusion http://www.rediffusion.info/

At one time they provided wired radio, and then TV, across Great Britain and many of the Crown Colonies. It was only late in its life that they had over the air services in Hong Kong.
 
The AZ Republic is finally reporting that Vanessa Ruiz is leaving KPNX next month, when her contract expires. I wonder if they are planning to hire anyone to fill her position or if they are just going to use Caribe Devine.
 
Their leading anchor still doesn't know how to pronounce the name of the state correctly.
 
Their leading anchor still doesn't know how to pronounce the name of the state correctly.
 
landtuna said:
Their leading anchor still doesn't know how to pronounce the name of the state correctly.
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OK, landtuna, we get your point -- although I personally have never heard Curtis mispronounce "Arizona" and I do watch 12 News at 10 several times per week.
 
formeraa said:
OK, landtuna, we get your point -- although I personally have never heard Curtis mispronounce "Arizona" and I do watch 12 News at 10 several times per week.
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He says ARizona (like when a pirate says ARGH) instead of AIRizona as the majority of our citizens do.

Of course, he isn't the only one mispronouncing/mispelling Arizona names and places:

Consider muggy-ON versus the correct muggy-OWN (Moggollon Rim).

Tuscon versus the correct Tucson.
 
landtuna said:
He says ARizona (like when a pirate says ARGH) instead of AIRizona as the majority of our citizens do.

Of course, he isn't the only one mispronouncing/mispelling Arizona names and places:

Consider muggy-ON versus the correct muggy-OWN (Moggollon Rim).

Tuscon versus the correct Tucson.
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He may have said it once upon a time. But I have watched 12 News several times per week for the past 4 months and Mark has pronounced Arizona correctly every time.

As for Moggollon Rim, every state has some difficult to pronounce places. The smart weather forecasters just say "Rim". :)

Tuscon is more of a spelling issue, plus the airport code is TUS (which as a former airline employee always make me think a few extra seconds).
 
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