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WPVI channel 6 and Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards

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I'm very disappointed that for years, WPVI doesn't want to participate in the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. I hope that in 2008, the station will be in this event because winning the emmys would show everyone that channel 6 is really that good. Being number 1 in the ratings don't prove anything unless you have the hardware like the Emmy award to back it up. I'm tired of 3, 10, and 29 winning all the emmys, its time for 6 ABC to get involved in this event.
 
I'm so upset about this, I think I'm going to cry. If WPVI does'nt win an emmy soon, life will end as I know it. How will I go on? Seriously it really does'nt matter, CBS 3 is better anyway.
 
Let me see if I have this straight. Being #1, having the most viewers since about the time God was born....that doesn't prove anything unless you have a meaningless popularity contest tropy to shove in a display case?

That could be the most comical assertion yet.
 
Julius May said:
I'm very disappointed that for years, WPVI doesn't want to participate in the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. I hope that in 2008, the station will be in this event because winning the emmys would show everyone that channel 6 is really that good. Being number 1 in the ratings don't prove anything unless you have the hardware like the Emmy award to back it up. I'm tired of 3, 10, and 29 winning all the emmys, its time for 6 ABC to get involved in this event.
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I recall hearing the reason they are not involved is because they are a non union shop. Perhaps you can get a job there and do a little union organising.
 
Never mind the Emmys. I think the bigger problem is that the late-night replay of Action News isn't live. Why should a TV station in a large market like this replay a recorded newscast? They should be live at that hour!

;D
 
imhomerjay said:
Never mind the Emmys. I think the bigger problem is that the late-night replay of Action News isn't live. Why should a TV station in a large market like this replay a recorded newscast? They should be live at that hour!

;D
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By the way, does WPVI still air an hour long newscast at noon on Sundays following This Week? I always thought that was strange.
 
dustintv said:
By the way, does WPVI still air an hour long newscast at noon on Sundays following This Week? I always thought that was strange.
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Yes, unless there is a sporting event. In that case the news is either cut to a half hour or not shown at all.
 
I like that hour long show--usually watch it most of the way through.

Technically it now follows "Inside Story," not "This Week."
 
dustintv said:
imhomerjay said:
Never mind the Emmys. I think the bigger problem is that the late-night replay of Action News isn't live. Why should a TV station in a large market like this replay a recorded newscast? They should be live at that hour!

;D
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By the way, does WPVI still air an hour long newscast at noon on Sundays following This Week? I always thought that was strange.
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RJ is that you ???
 
dustintv said:
By the way, does WPVI still air an hour long newscast at noon on Sundays following This Week? I always thought that was strange.
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Not really when you think about it. Most of ABC's sports programs on Sundays start at 1:00. Better to have news on, then say what CBS 3 often does when there is nomore football (paid programing). Also, during football season, they provide a good alternative to the network pregame shows. Ussally with Gary Papa reporting live. Other repoters will often be reporting from the parking lot during home games...altough you often can't here them because of the fans.
 
RJ? Sorry I'm not the person you're looking for.

I seem to remember the sunday morning schedules at one point in time for KYW and WPVI going like this:

KYW:
6:00-9:00AM: Eyewitness News
9:00-10:30AM:CBS Sunday Morning
10:30-11:00AM: Face the Nation
11:00-12:00PM: Eye on Philadelphia

WPVI:
6:00AM-8:00AM Action News
8:00-9:00AM Sunday Live
9:00-11:00AM Action News
11:00-12:00PM This Week
12:00PM-1:00PM Action News

I don't know about WCAU because my grandparents get WGAL from Lancaster as their NBC station.(They also get WHP and WHTM.)


Of course it's  changed some since I last actually paid attention to either station.
 
I don't recall Eye on Philadelphia ever being an 11-12 show; I thought it was the Beverly Williams show that was somewhere around 8 or 8:30.

WPVI has had Inside Story for years now; it had been 10:30-11 followed by This Week, but for whatever reason they were flipped.

IIRC, when Sunday Live was killed to make way for the new Sunday Good Morning America (the show Sunday Live had replaced years before in the first place), and at that point the first Action News of the day expanded to 6 am. I may be off on that point, but either way, there was never in recent memory a schedule that didn't include Inside Story in the mix.
 
I seem to recall at one point it was simply a typical newscast on KYW from 11-12, but then I recall reading a TV Guide from like 4-5 years ago and they labeled it as Eye on Philadelphia. And while I know Inside Story has always been there, I don't recall Inside Story ever being actually listed on it's own in TV Guide, they always show a two hour news block.

In fact, Titan TV shows This Week lasts from 10:30-12, thus not actually showing Inside Story.

I remeber Sunday Live being hosted by the same guy who did AM Live and Philly After Midnight. Kennedy wasn't it?
 
It was Wally Kennedy. Sunday Live was a significant improvement over Philly After Midnight and the wretched final years of AM Live (AKA the OJ show for a while).

I don't check TitanTV, but they're way off if they don't break out Inside Story. And while I wouldn't say TV Guide never made a mistake, if there was a prepetual wrong listing by not including Inside Story as its own show, then the quality there really slipped. For at least the past 3-4 years they've had it right based on my digital cable on-screen guide, and from around 1997-2000, there's no way I would believe they had it wrong because I know the person who worked on the Philadelphia listings then.
 
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