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Who Do You Prefer For Local News In The Phoenix Area.

Channel 5, followed by 15 or 3 when KPHO isn't running news (like 6 PM and weekend mornings). Channels 10 and 12 have been almost total non-entities in my house for quite a few years now. Other than the Sunday morning babble-fests and live sports, I don't watch either channel.
 
I am a weekday watcher of the Fox10 morning show so I catch Ron Hoon's on-the-half-hour news.

If I am eating lunch at noon I flip on CBS5 since Fox10 is a virtual repeat of the earlier morning.

Dinnertime finds me watching 12 Nightly News to catch the very few important national stories.
 
I've become a loyal viewer of KTVK and KNXV and more recently KPHO
since those stations have found a way to bring Northern AZ High Definition
and worthwhile subchannels.... Slanted News on FOX 10 and KPNX----NEVER!!!!!!!!
 
Mornings I perfer ABC 15
Evenings I perfer CBS 5

Every so often I will check out Fox 10 or AZ Family. I hardly ever check out 12.. just not my thing!
 
Mornings until 7am -- ABC15
Mornings after 7am -- 3TV
Noon and Early Evenings -- usually not home
Evenings -- CBS 5 at 6:30pm; 3TV at 9pm; ABC15 at 10pm
Weekend Mornings -- 3TV
Weekend Early Evenings -- 12News
Weekend 9pm -- 3TV
Weekend 10pm -- ABC15
 
12 News has pretty much become a TV version of the Repulsive :mad:
 
I watch 5 the most, followed by 3. I like both station's minimalist approach to on-screen clutter, but prefer 5's to-the-point reporting. 10 would be my third choice. 12 and 15 are in the back. 15 really lost me as a viewer this past year with cluttered graphics and boneheaded programming decisions. They're not good at viewer relations, either.
 
If I get to watch local news at all, it's the late news. If I'm around at 10 pm, I prefer KNXV, although sometimes I can also catch KSAZ at 9 pm. Won't touch KTVK - just feels like one of those fluff morning shows.

If I miss the 9/10 pm newscasts, KPHO rebroadcasts its late news at 12:35 am, KNXV at 1:10 am, and KSAZ at 2 am. KPNX used to run theirs at 1:40 am, but has replaced it with paid programming now. Or should I say, a different form of paid programming?
 
I also pick #6 None of the Above.

CBS News has more NEWS than ABC or NBC, so I prefer that. I can't take local news at all.

By the way, what's with channel 5 with news promos INSIDE their newscast? It irks me to see that (whenever my wife has it on).

TV news ain't like it used to be.
 
3TV is primary. Anchors are active on social networks and will correspond with viewers.

ABC15 secondary, mainly because I've watched ABC News since I was a kid and is still my go-to for national and (World) news.

I used to switch channels every year to get a different perspective but haven't done that in a while.
 
KTVK-3 and KPHO -5 are primary because best local AZ coverage and interaction with viewers. Ch. 3 & Ch. 5 are not afraid to ask the local politicians pointed questions; pursuing better answers than plain old "word salad." 8)
We like to check out Ch. 15 now and then to get added perspective.
Ch. 12 has done a steady decline and is not appreciated much. ;)
Ch. 10 is a nearly never status due to its Fox Noise bias (FAUX not News bologna). :'(
 
fusejockey said:
KTVK-3 and KPHO -5 are primary because best local AZ coverage and interaction with viewers. Ch. 3 & Ch. 5 are not afraid to ask the local politicians pointed questions; pursuing better answers than plain old "word salad." 8)
We like to check out Ch. 15 now and then to get added perspective.
Ch. 12 has done a steady decline and is not appreciated much. ;)
Ch. 10 is a nearly never status due to its Fox Noise bias (FAUX not News bologna). :'(
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In other words, you think the 3 and 5 are "telling it like it is"! :D

I actually liked ABC15's weather during the cold snap, because I felt than Amber and company often went beyond just reading the temperatures.

Channel 12 is a hot mess right now...
 
formeraa said:
I actually liked ABC15's weather during the cold snap, because I felt than Amber and company often went beyond just reading the temperatures.
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I find Amber goes into hyper mode too easily when it comes to weather. She has lived here long enough to know that it is typically windy in Kingman and Bullhead City because of the mountains in their area. The overdone, monsoon coverage for the dust storms (when the real people who needed to know this were in their vehicles driving in or near the dust).
Finally, the hype about "Most Accurate Weather" as rated by WeatherRate only shows that the ABC15 management will even pay the service fee to WeatherRate to get this award (The former chief met at CBS5 got this when they started it here in town. Once he was gone, the KPHO management would not pay the fee and they found another sucker award winner. This for a station that has a morning personality that cannot get the weather computer to display the correct information in the graphics. I love the way they hype the "5 sweeps of radar". The current doppler radar systems show the best data for just over 100 miles. The Las Vegas and Yuma radar might be good for watching a storm moving into Arizona from the west but it does almost nothing for the Phoenix area. And by the way, doppler radar is digital and does not have a sweep like the old analog systems. Those sweeps you see are put in by their weather computer system.
 
Weather sweeps are now just SFX?

But....but.....but.....what about those teletype sounds in the background? They still have TTY's, right?

And Dave Muncey is still alive, right? (He does look a little stiff these days)
 
ihEARDtHAT said:
formeraa said:
I actually liked ABC15's weather during the cold snap, because I felt than Amber and company often went beyond just reading the temperatures.
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I find Amber goes into hyper mode too easily when it comes to weather. She has lived here long enough to know that it is typically windy in Kingman and Bullhead City because of the mountains in their area. The overdone, monsoon coverage for the dust storms (when the real people who needed to know this were in their vehicles driving in or near the dust).
Finally, the hype about "Most Accurate Weather" as rated by WeatherRate only shows that the ABC15 management will even pay the service fee to WeatherRate to get this award (The former chief met at CBS5 got this when they started it here in town. Once he was gone, the KPHO management would not pay the fee and they found another sucker award winner. This for a station that has a morning personality that cannot get the weather computer to display the correct information in the graphics. I love the way they hype the "5 sweeps of radar". The current doppler radar systems show the best data for just over 100 miles. The Las Vegas and Yuma radar might be good for watching a storm moving into Arizona from the west but it does almost nothing for the Phoenix area. And by the way, doppler radar is digital and does not have a sweep like the old analog systems. Those sweeps you see are put in by their weather computer system.
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WeatheRate is also locally more relevant since it is run out of an Ahwatukee Foothills home (no joke). It is a "pay to play" deal where stations have passed up certification or station groups have pushed to get it in their markets (Scripps would be one of them).
 
As for weather, I miss (really miss) Jayme King. At first, I thought he was a bit egotistical. But I quickly warmed up to him. He was the only local met who could really give a decent, professional forecast. I'm tired of temperature readers -- give us a detailed Northern Arizona forecast for viewers up there -- don't just read the temperatures.

As a side note, I found it humorous during the recent cold snap. At 10pm, the current temps at the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, and Window Rock were often COLDER than the forecast overnight lows. Who puts together these maps, Bozo the clown???
 
formeraa said:
Who puts together these maps, Bozo the clown???
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Sure, why not? There's a precident. Since he was a long-time WGN staff announcer before playing The World's Most Famous ClownTM, Bob Bell did Chicago weather updates during Bozo's Circus commercial breaks - using his natural voice, of course.

We all know that there are plenty of "Bozos" in local media who could do that. Too bad the Bozo The Clown franchise has long run its course. ;D
 
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