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Wisconsin Shooting Coverage in the National Media.

As someone in the Milwaukee market, those stations have done so much better than the nationals by a mile. Everyone cleared the decks, including WTMJ 4 with the Olympics, which went to their 4.2 weather channel until 6pm when the news coverage moved to 4.2 for the Games primetime. WISN 12 took an hour break to give their staff a break during AFHV and immediately came back after that, while WITI has been full-on since noon; no Fox tonight. Understandably WDJT 58 has also done well, though they went to CBS primetime at 6pm likely as the story went down a little (and they usually can't sustain because of their lower-tier status); all their weekday people were out in the field or the newsroom.

CNN and Fox News have already gone with the "Muslim misconception" angle, even as the local stations are playing that down deeply and are concentrating right now on the suspect's house in Cudahy and candlelight vigils rather than empty prognostication. MSNBC...understandably couldn't update except commercial break-ins, but there's no excuse for going to Lockdown and Betamaxed Dateline after the Games.

Radio coverage...WUWM's been good for it, along with WTMJ (helps that the weekday 'commentary' staff isn't there on a Sunday to shoot from the hip). That's all obviously since WISN is on their infomercial talk binge on the weekends.
 
mrschimpf said:
As someone in the Milwaukee market, those stations have done so much better than the nationals by a mile. Everyone cleared the decks, including WTMJ 4 with the Olympics, which went to their 4.2 weather channel until 6pm when the news coverage moved to 4.2 for the Games primetime. WISN 12 took an hour break to give their staff a break during AFHV and immediately came back after that, while WITI has been full-on since noon; no Fox tonight. Understandably WDJT 58 has also done well, though they went to CBS primetime at 6pm likely as the story went down a little (and they usually can't sustain because of their lower-tier status); all their weekday people were out in the field or the newsroom.

CNN and Fox News have already gone with the "Muslim misconception" angle, even as the local stations are playing that down deeply and are concentrating right now on the suspect's house in Cudahy and candlelight vigils rather than empty prognostication. MSNBC...understandably couldn't update except commercial break-ins, but there's no excuse for going to Lockdown and Betamaxed Dateline after the Games.

Radio coverage...WUWM's been good for it, along with WTMJ (helps that the weekday 'commentary' staff isn't there on a Sunday to shoot from the hip). That's all obviously since WISN is on their infomercial talk binge on the weekends.
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CBS did use their Affiliate's to cite that it was a shooting in a Sikh Temple.
 
mrschimpf said:
CNN and Fox News have already gone with the "Muslim misconception" angle, even as the local stations are playing that down deeply and are concentrating right now on the suspect's house in Cudahy and candlelight vigils rather than empty prognostication. MSNBC...understandably couldn't update except commercial break-ins, but there's no excuse for going to Lockdown and Betamaxed Dateline after the Games.
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What did you mean by "Betamaxed Dateline"?
 
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