First it was the midday newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays. Now the late news after the Sunday NFL overrun has been replaced by "Whacked Out Sports." Also, all of Gannett's stations are expected to consolidate traffic at its Denver station next year, which would likely mean another round of layoffs in Maine. Stay tuned...
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WCSH, WLBZ eliminate another newscast
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Actually WMUR 9 in Manchester airs traffic reports from Metro Traffic in Boston... but I guess Portland stations don't. Before Metro supplied the reports, WMUR would put a state police trooper on the phone to do traffic reports on weekday afternoons.
I'm surprised WCSH/WLBZ have given up the noon newscast on weekends. They've been doing a noon newscast for as long as I can remember, even in the days before many local network station started to add newscasts on Sat. and Sun. mornings adjacent to the network AM shows like Today and GMA.
And will Sunday's 11pm news return after the football season is over?
We've had economic downturns before. Why is this slump a reason for TV stations to throw everything overboard that isn't nailed down, if it costs money?
Or is weekend news on Maine's two NBC affiliates a casualty of the Leno Experiment? Are Channel 6 and 2's 11pm newscasts so poorly rated now, thanks to the Leno lead-in, that the news department is FORCED to make these cutbacks?
Gregg
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I'm surprised WCSH/WLBZ have given up the noon newscast on weekends. They've been doing a noon newscast for as long as I can remember, even in the days before many local network station started to add newscasts on Sat. and Sun. mornings adjacent to the network AM shows like Today and GMA.
And will Sunday's 11pm news return after the football season is over?
We've had economic downturns before. Why is this slump a reason for TV stations to throw everything overboard that isn't nailed down, if it costs money?
Or is weekend news on Maine's two NBC affiliates a casualty of the Leno Experiment? Are Channel 6 and 2's 11pm newscasts so poorly rated now, thanks to the Leno lead-in, that the news department is FORCED to make these cutbacks?
Gregg
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Leno has nothing to do with the cutbacks. The weekend midday newscasts went away last year when ad revenue starting slipping badly and political spending didn't make up for it. I imagine it's the same with the NFL overrun; a number of other NBC affiliates around the country have scuttled their late Sunday newscasts for the same reason. I fully expect the Sunday 11PM newscasts to return after football season. As for the obvious on-air cutbacks, a number of broadcasting executives are convinced that revenues will never return to pre-recession levels, so now is the time to make permanent structural changes in the way they do business. Thus we see two-person crews replaced by videographers playing at being journalists, to cite but one example.
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