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I watch this channel because of Sonia Gantt and Larry Sprinkle. Both have long-time connections to this area and they can actually pronounce the names of local towns, streets, etc.
I like Larry Sprinkle, maybe because he's a weatherman with the last name "Sprinkle"! In So Cal 2 of our local weathermen were Dallas Raines and Johnny Mountain.
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I like Larry Sprinkle, maybe because he's a weatherman with the last name "Sprinkle"! In So Cal 2 of our local weathermen were Dallas Raines and Johnny Mountain.
I watch this channel because of Sonia Gantt and Larry Sprinkle. Both have long-time connections to this area and they can actually pronounce the names of local towns, streets, etc.
I've noticed that too. They keep lingering on the same news over and over, sometimes months later you hear "an update". For example, when that plane crashed on the water in NYC. It was on the news for ever. Three months later, "Co-pilot comes to Charlotte"...."Plane was hit but Canada geese"....
I also believe some of their stories are "cooked up." Afterall, they do have a time slot to fill! Talk about pressure. They go in their meetings and say "Let's see, what can we do a story on today to fill our time?" One creative individual then says "Well, times are tough, so I bet people are returning to comfort foods. Let's do a story it." They don't really know that it's true, but they send their junior woodchuck reporter out to get one quote from one grocer and then voila, it's on the air and Joe Public believes it must be true because he saw it on the "news."
I like WBTV....Eric Thomas is by far the most accurate of the local weathermen, (I say that even though I'm friends w/ Brad Panovich who is a fellow Ohio State grad)...plus, WCNC was the last to still broadcast in standard def, the other channels went to HD long beforehand...plus, CBS is usually the station I watch the most anyways (I like the CSI shows, and Criminal Minds and Without a Trace), so it makes no sense to change the channel when they all show the same news anyway.
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WCNC. The owners appear to realize that Charlotte is going up in the market rankings & have staffed appropriately. It's the most like the Philly station that I watched for years (when I wasn't at work).
Having worked as a broadcast tech for many years, I just have to say that beating a story to death is what they do in the major markets, so I'm used to it.
Also, there's no worse critic that the broadcast techs. We know the nightmares that can happen onair & will allow for it when watching, but when you are a "captive audience" for years, you know when the onair talent is no good.
The usual pecking order is for the networks to take new people from the major markets & the major markets take new people from large markets, etc. The younger anchors on WCNC are not straight out of school.
As for the other newscasts, although Maureen O'Boyle is excellent, & her male counterpart is good, the rest of them were horrible.
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