All three stations in Charleston are doing 15 minute high school shows. The Fox (who has the 10pm news) also shows highlights. One station will do an hour show with high school highlights mixed in with the college ones on Saturday nights.
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What needs to be fixed in television news most?
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formeraa said:
KTVK also has a Friday 10pm show of that sort. But it is completely unwatchable. The production values for channel 3's entire news department are very low...I think I could be a better news director there!
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gr8oldies said:
WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama will dedicate about half of the Friday newscasts at 10:00 PM to local high school football under the name "Sideline 2010". WALA-TV in Mobile, which has a newscast between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM, will dedicate the second half of the hour to football under the name "First and 10". WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, which has a newscast between 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM, will broadcast a separate program titled "Prep Football Final" for about 30 minutes at 11:00 PM, which means "Nightline", which has been broadcast on a delayed basis since the TV season of 1983-1984, will be broadcast about 30 minutes later than usual, followed by "The Insider" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live".
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This thread has turned into a "what do local stations do with high school football coverage", which might be another good thread. However, the OP originally asks what is wrong with TV news.
The posts so far have been good. Repetition, teasing, and stories that don't really matter seem to be the main theme. On the other hand, going in an opposite direction would probably result in poorer ratings. Local TV news is similar to McDonalds. You know what you are going to get. You know it will be the same. You know you can tolerate it. It really is what you want. You may not admit it, but you understand that this is the expected product, and you eat it up.
The posts so far have been good. Repetition, teasing, and stories that don't really matter seem to be the main theme. On the other hand, going in an opposite direction would probably result in poorer ratings. Local TV news is similar to McDonalds. You know what you are going to get. You know it will be the same. You know you can tolerate it. It really is what you want. You may not admit it, but you understand that this is the expected product, and you eat it up.
searadiofreak said:
Sadly right now it almost seems as if there is a disconnect between ratings and critics: need I say more than 2000's WBBM "Carol Marin Reports the News" experiment? Hailed by critics, but the ratings kept falling through the floor.
Raymie said:
And how many advertising dollars do "critics" generate? My guess is somewhere around $0.00.
I like a quality newscast with good investigative reporting, but I am in the minority. Commercial TV stations cannot cater to folks like me. They have a fiduciary duty to make money for their owners. We news-junkies will have to look to NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, and intelligent news sources. And they are there, just not on mainstream TV.
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