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WJAR 7PM newscast beats "Wheel" in February sweeps

Wow, that really is very good of them. No station here in Boston has a 7pm newscast as of yet, but I think if there were to be one, it would be WCVB. Like WJAR, WCVB has been the #1 rated national and local newscasts, and runs some of the top-rated syndicated programs. Interestingly enough, WJAR has always had a very similar lineup of syndicated programming to WCVB. But neither of these stations seemed to want to deal with Wheel and Jeopardy. I wonder if this means that WPRI will have to give up Wheel for a 7pm newscast (WLNE has one too), and maybe put Wheel on WNAC.
 
ssetta said:
Wow, that really is very good of them. No station here in Boston has a 7pm newscast as of yet, but I think if there were to be one, it would be WCVB. Like WJAR, WCVB has been the #1 rated national and local newscasts, and runs some of the top-rated syndicated programs. Interestingly enough, WJAR has always had a very similar lineup of syndicated programming to WCVB. But neither of these stations seemed to want to deal with Wheel and Jeopardy. I wonder if this means that WPRI will have to give up Wheel for a 7pm newscast (WLNE has one too), and maybe put Wheel on WNAC.
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WNAC has TMZ on at 7pm. Maybe WPRI will move Wheel and Jeopardy to Anderson's current time slot.
 
They wouldn't move Wheel and Jeopardy to the afternoon. Those shows always air from 7pm to 8pm (Prime Access) throughout the east coast.
 
alg2468 said:
WLNE has Insider at 7PM.
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I think he meant back when they did have a 7:00 PM newscast (that is when it wasn't preempted for bra infomercials) during the Global reign of error. Why Citadel nuked that and the 4:00 PM news when they came in was somewhat dumb in hindsight.
 
As long as WLNE has to pay thier news staff anyway, wouldn't it have been more economical to squeeze an extra couple of newscasts out of them per day?

Maybe I'm a little behind the curve here, but...I thought there was some really "careful" budgeting going on over at Channel 6......Or has that changed now that Global is gone?
 
I honestly think it was a fluke. The past few months have been a heavy News cycle. School shooting in Connecticut was big. Lots of Storms too. So more people have been keeping track of Weather. I'll bet you than WJAR falls back to second place when the next ratings book comes out.
 
Skynet74 said:
I honestly think it was a fluke. The past few months have been a heavy News cycle. School shooting in Connecticut was big. Lots of Storms too. So more people have been keeping track of Weather. I'll bet you than WJAR falls back to second place when the next ratings book comes out.
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I agree. And I like how the article says that they beat WPRI and WLNE combined in most newscasts. Given that WLNE's ratings are anemic, it's not really saying much.
 
It's no secret that many people are now working more hours.

The traditional "9 to 5" workday and even the five-day workweek are distant memories for many workers.

I suspect much of WJAR-10's audience for local news at 7 P.M. comes from viewers who don't get home in-time for local 6 P.M. news programs.

I also think that this Fall, someone in Boston will try a 7 P.M. local news, and I think WCVB-5 is most likely (although I could also see WSBK-38 move it's local newscast produced by sister station WBZ-4 from 10 to 7 P.M.).
 
I believe one of the "big three" Boston stations did do a 7 PM newscast years ago (and I'm not counting 5's "Chronicle" series).
 
The biggest loser in this is the person who decided to buy WLNE. That can't be a happy situation at all when your ratings combined with WPRI still don't equal WJAR's ratings. How many people are watching WLNE News. 70? LoL
 
DToTheJ said:
I believe one of the "big three" Boston stations did do a 7 PM newscast years ago (and I'm not counting 5's "Chronicle" series).
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The only one I remember was back in 2001 when CBS Boston acquired Wheel and Jeopardy! and put them on WSBK at 6 and 6:30, they were followed by a newscast at 7pm for a short period of time.
 
DToTheJ said:
I believe one of the "big three" Boston stations did do a 7 PM newscast years ago (and I'm not counting 5's "Chronicle" series).
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After the cancellation of "Evening Magazine" in 1991?, WBZ ran "The 7:30 Report."
 
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