Different owner now. Probably more concerned about bottom line rather than image. I believe WBTV concentrates more on investigative long form reporting rather than spot news coverage.
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My TiVo finally realizes this is no longer a CW affiliate
Some of the newscasts aren't recording. I'll have to find a way to figure out what's going on. It's not like CW programming is pre-empting the newscasts. I do have manual recordings at 6 so I do see that soccer or other sports are the problem there.
Some of the newscasts aren't recording. I'll have to find a way to figure out what's going on. It's not like CW programming is pre-empting the newscasts. I do have manual recordings at 6 so I do see that soccer or other sports are the problem there.
On a radio station I listen to online there was a song about the heroic act of Casey Jones when a train wrecked.
Is it a coincidence that Kaci Jones does train stories?
Is it a coincidence that Kaci Jones does train stories?
WSOC-TV has been #1 in news for all but 3 or 4 books since February 1990. You’d have to go back almost 40 years for the last time WBTV was #1 consistently. All of the stations are well established in their positions. WSOC-TV is #1, WBTV is a solid #2, WCNC is a distant 3rd, and WCCB and WJZY battling it out for last place. Nothing has changed.
The chopper is nice to have, but high speed chases and weather events are the only time it’s used. Not that big of a deal.
WBTV has put a lot of emphasis on investigative reporting. They’ve moved to the sensationalist, gotcha type stories which are often poorly researched half truths. They don’t report the news, they create the news. I don’t watch it anymore. No credibility.
I have seen them use the chopper for many stories, somr in more remote sections of the viewing area.
I don't know how long this has been going on but I can't get WCCB from Spectrum.
I just noticed it for the first time last night because it's the one station I get news from on Saturdays. I didn't think anything about it when I saw "College football" at 6, but that was actually a different channel and when the 10:00 news came on, I tried to watch the recording and there was nothing there.
It was still early enough to watch with an antenna and I got lucky with the signal, but someone needs to fix this.
WMYT isn't working either. However, I decided to test the Greensboro CW affiliate and it worked. Someone had told me they moved their tower to where WXII has theirs, but I wouldn't be getting that good a signal.
I just noticed it for the first time last night because it's the one station I get news from on Saturdays. I didn't think anything about it when I saw "College football" at 6, but that was actually a different channel and when the 10:00 news came on, I tried to watch the recording and there was nothing there.
It was still early enough to watch with an antenna and I got lucky with the signal, but someone needs to fix this.
WMYT isn't working either. However, I decided to test the Greensboro CW affiliate and it worked. Someone had told me they moved their tower to where WXII has theirs, but I wouldn't be getting that good a signal.
WCWG is channel-shared with WXII, so your reception of both stations should be the same.
And yet I got a perfect signal when I tried WCWG. I didn't try WXII but I rarely got anything close to a watchable signal.
I was parked next to a WXII car yesterday when I ate lunch. Don't know what that was about.
WCCB works with an antenna (so far). But I got it back on cable. I'm not sure what was done.
I want to know where they're getting their news. I've watched and seen reporters in far off locations claiming they work for WCCB.
When it was CW that wouldn't have made any more sense than it does now. It did make sense when it was Fox.
When it was CW that wouldn't have made any more sense than it does now. It did make sense when it was Fox.
And now they have a reporter covering a story in England? I don't think so. That person doesn't work for WCCB.
They likely utilize some sort of contracted news gathering service. Or news network of some sort.
I want James Scott's suit from last night.
Too many commercials and not enough parade. I don't know what we missed if weren't there.
Too many commercials and not enough parade. I don't know what we missed if weren't there.
Three Hallmark type movies (based on the titles) aired after the parade but one was apparently joined in progress. However, I record the newscast manually and it wasn't on last night. One of those movies was. So I checked the listings and they are showing those movies over and over. I didn't see whether that was just in prime time, but I should check tonight. I like those movies.
I'm not sure how I feel about the change to the nighttime parade. I was used to the old Carousel parade all those years on WBTV, on Thanksgiving Day, not the night before. And supposedly now the LGBT parade is now the largest in Charlotte. I wonder when some station will start televising that event. But I don't want to derail into a political discussion, just noting the changing times.