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WBIN News Now @ 10 finally premiered

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MCarney

I caught it on my DVR at work and didn't check it until lunchtime. Still no word of it on their website, Twitter or Facebook pages. The set looks old, and no Al on weather.
 
Fybush says the newscast is being anchored by Amanda Decker. I believe this is the same Amanda Decker who had just recently (substitute) hosted "INN News".
 
DToTheJ said:
Fybush says the newscast is being anchored by Amanda Decker. I believe this is the same Amanda Decker who had just recently (substitute) hosted "INN News".
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She must have just left the Quad Cities then OR INN produces the newscast from Davenport.
 
I watched last night, the thing I noticed is that they had no sports. Perhaps they think all the sports nuts are already watching ESPN so why bother. Also noticed much more national and international news than on most “local” newscasts.
 
Raymie said:
She must have just left the Quad Cities then OR INN produces the newscast from Davenport.
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http://twitter.com/#!/AmandaDecker

From Amanda Decker's Twitter feed...
"Great show in Boston again tonight. Headed to bean town on Wednesday to meet all my awesome coworkers!
4 Oct"

Decker left WCJB-TV in Gainesville, FL (owned by Diversified which also owns WABI-TV in Bangor, ME) in July for WNCF in Montgomery, AL which is affiliated with INN.

http://www.facebook.com/AmandaBDecker
 
Um, Amanda realizes that WBIN is in New Hampshire, and not Boston, right? ::)

I forget which state INN News is based in - somewhere in the Midwest - but indeed, Amanda contributed by way of the Montgomery, AL station.
 
INN's facilities are in Davenport IA. They produce all of their newscasts from there. I don't remember if they include any locally-produced segments or not.
 
I thought the point was to start a hyper-local newscast to compete head on with WMUR...not one from halfway across the country....?
 
BRNout said:
Derry, New Hampshire is Beantown now? News to me...... ::)
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They're barely 40 miles apart. Regardless of the fact that it's in another state, as far as most of the country is concerned, Derry is nothing but a suburb of Boston. Figuratively speaking. I doubt Ms. Decker took a flight out of Logan to get to Derry.
 
dhett said:
BRNout said:
Derry, New Hampshire is Beantown now? News to me...... ::)
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They're barely 40 miles apart. Regardless of the fact that it's in another state, as far as most of the country is concerned, Derry is nothing but a suburb of Boston. Figuratively speaking. I doubt Ms. Decker took a flight out of Logan to get to Derry.
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Nonsense! Absolute manure, in fact.

Derry, New Hampshire is NOT Boston. No more than Kenosha, Wisconsin is Chicago. 90+% of WBIN's viewers are in the Granite State - and most of them live in Hillsborough and western Rockingham Counties. If you've ever been there, you'd know that those areas look nothing like Boston.

And the geographically-challenged Ms. Decker could very easily take a flight that ends at Manchester Airport. That much of New Hampshire is within the catchment area of Logan Airport is meaningless. Much of CT is within the catchment area of New York airports (especially southern and western CT), yet that does not mean that Bridgeport is New York City!! Get real.

Her various "tweets" and "posts" about being "in Boston" make her sound like a dough-head. And a poser to those of us who know better.
 
BRNout said:
Nonsense! Absolute manure, in fact.

Derry, New Hampshire is NOT Boston. No more than Kenosha, Wisconsin is Chicago. 90+% of WBIN's viewers are in the Granite State - and most of them live in Hillsborough and western Rockingham Counties. If you've ever been there, you'd know that those areas look nothing like Boston.

And the geographically-challenged Ms. Decker could very easily take a flight that ends at Manchester Airport. That much of New Hampshire is within the catchment area of Logan Airport is meaningless. Much of CT is within the catchment area of New York airports (especially southern and western CT), yet that does not mean that Bridgeport is New York City!! Get real.
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Love the drama, BRNout. Your passion really strengthens your argument. You should try boldface, ALL CAPS, underlining, and italics too, or maybe a A COMBINATION OF ALL FOUR. I hear it's very effective at getting your point across.

I've lived in the northeast US, so I know that Derry is in New Hampshire, not Massachusetts. I know that Derry is rural, not urban like Boston. I'm sure the lifestyle there is relatively laid back, compared to the helter skelter pace of Beantown.

I don't care. It's 40 miles. 40 miles is insignificant. It's a commute. In most big cities in other parts of the country, 40 miles gets a person from one side of town to the other.

If I were going to Bridgeport, I would be going to NYC. Bridgeport is insignificant to anyone outside of New England.

Here's another example of different worlds: Tucson AZ is at 2300' elevation in Sonoran Desert with abundant Saguaro cacti, while Summerhaven AZ is at 8500' elevation in the middle of an alpine forest with a ski resort nearby. The two are nothing like each other - it's a far greater contrast than Derry and Boston. Yet the distance from downtown Tucson to Summerhaven is barely 40 miles by road. No one gets his nose bent out of shape if someone says he is going to Tucson when he's actually going to Summerhaven.

The art of approximation is a wonderful thing.
 
How far away is Derry, New Hampshire from Davenport, Iowa? WBIN's news originates in Davenport. The news studio is almost a thousand miles from Derry. That's an even farther commute than Derry to Boston.

And if you were going to Bridgeport CT you certainly wouldn't be going to New York NY. The two have nothing to do with each other. The state line makes a difference in this case, as does Derry to Boston. One would expect a NH station to cover NH politics and NH news, especially a Boston rimshotter like WBIN. Nobody is going to watch WBIN to get Boston news.
 
Depends where you're coming from. If you're in LA and you need to get to Bridgeport in a hurry, of course you're going to take a nonstop flight to JFK and then rent a car and drive the hour and change to Bridgeport. If you're going from Davenport to Derry, you're almost certainly going to fly from the Quad Cities Airport through Chicago to Logan. That much, I'd agree with.

There's certainly some degree of Derry-to-Boston commuting going on, at least judging by drivetime traffic on 93. There's some degree of Bridgeport-to-NYC commuting going on as well, though Bridgeport has a much larger local economy of its own (especially when you include the rest of southern Fairfield County in the mix) than does Derry.

For radio, Bridgeport is its own Arbitron market, separate from NYC - but three of the top ten stations in the Bridgeport ratings are NYC stations. Derry is just outside the Boston Arbitron market, but most of what's audible there comes from either Boston or Manchester.

For TV, Bridgeport is at the edge of the NYC Nielsen market, while Derry's solidly within the Boston Nielsen market, since that market includes most of New Hampshire.

And where WBIN is concerned, none of that really matters. Anyone who's actually watched the WBIN newscast (which I suspect excludes most of the participants in this thread) know that from 1000 miles away in Iowa, they're trying to play both sides of the fence: the news open includes both Boston and Manchester, the screen behind the anchor displays Boston landmarks, the weather forecasts are for both Boston and Manchester, the headline ticker at the bottom of the screen is Boston headlines from the Globe, and the stories come from both sides of the state line. Since the station's OTA signal is almost nonexistent, it's dependent on cable and satellite for most of its potential audience, and it's on cable across most of the market (including Boston proper) and on satellite across the entire market, from New Hampshire all the way out to Cape Cod.

One suspects that's a recipe for obscurity, in the end: the attempt to serve Boston dilutes the New Hampshire part of the product enough to guarantee WMUR continued leadership on that side of the border, and the newscast simply doesn't have the resources behind it to be a credible alternative to WFXT, WSBK/WBZ or WLVI/WHDH at 10 for viewers seeking a Boston newscast.
 
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