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Whatever happened to WKBW in Buffalo?(great read)

The fall of Channel 7 is living proof what happens when idiots take over a broadcasting operation. Granite makes Gordon Brown look like a broadcasting genius.
 
It's the same company and the same downfall that's been witnessed at Syracuse's WTVH over the past several years.

WTVH is now running news image promos WITH CLIPS OF EX-EMPLOYEES leading up to today's staff, in a lame effort to draw some sort of connection between the high-quality talent of the 70s and 80s with the mediocre skeleton crew working the newsroom these days. Old clips of folks like the late Ron Curtis, Kathy Orr, Mike Tirico and Tracy Davidson appear -- from the days when WTVH actually WAS a ratings leader -- long, long ago.

Today, I'm surprised Granite even bothers with local news at WTVH. In the May book, some newscasts posted a ZERO rating. Even their noon show -- which eventually became the ONLY timeslot WTVH used to win, and has a great lead-in with The Price is Right -- is now eclipsed by the competition.

But perhaps we'll look back a year from now and say WTVH was just ahead of its time. WSTM just laid off a bunch of people a few weeks ago, and there's buzz that several people will be walking out of WSYR-TV for their very last time later today.
 
I had to laugh when I read Bob Ross' reply. This is the 50th year of broadcasting for WKBW-TV and they're doing the same thing...showing various promos from the past when Ch. 7 was actually what a tv station was supposed to be...

The sad thing is that the man who started WTVH on it's sad decline did such a wonderful job of it that Granite rewarded him by making him GM at WKBW...Bill Ransom. He does all of corporate's bidding but seems to want to outdo them to enhance his own stature. His people skills are a joke unless he wants something from somebody. Most of the time he looks like he just bit into a lemon...

The union negotiations are at a standstill and the members have been without a contract since the end of January. Granite did such a wonderful job of running its properties that it wound up over $600 million in the red. They went Chapter 11 and were eventually taken over by a hedge fund from CT called Silver Point. So now you have owners who don't know what they're doing being owned by people who know even less...

I could go on and on but I only have so much time...
 
BobRoss said:
But perhaps we'll look back a year from now and say WTVH was just ahead of its time. WSTM just laid off a bunch of people a few weeks ago, and there's buzz that several people will be walking out of WSYR-TV for their very last time later today.
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I don't expect for the buzz of people leaving WSYR-TV to be true. They've just recently gone on a hiring blitz.
 
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