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Am I the only one who is really sad that local TV markets and newscasts are suffering because of internet competition, and the global availability of all news content makes the local model obsolete? I find it kind of devastating.
Especially in a very small TV market like Erie PA, geez, I'm tired of seeing the same-old declining in quality crap that presents as local news. I wish the Erie TV market was like Pittsburgh.
It looks like we are doomed to see the end of local broadcast TV?
I'm seeing local channels going over to insane amounts of local newscasts. It's cheap and allows them to control all the revenue from the commercials...but really! There is NOT that much going on locally to merit this many newscasts in one day. One of my local channels features the following:
Local news from 5am to 7am, followed by a hybrid of local news and the network's morning news show(cuts back and forth) until 11am, when another hour of local news airs. At 4pm they start local news again, which airs through to 6:30pm, when they go to national news for the half-hour. They do another local newscast from 11pm to 11:35pm. Depending on how you look at it, that's more than six hours of local news coverage, and a finite amount of news to report.
I never thought I would say it, but I liked it better when they just showed sitcom reruns.
Iocal news from 5am to 7am, followed by a hybrid of local news and the network's morning news show(cuts back and forth) until 11am, when another hour of local news airs. At 4pm they start local news again, which airs through to 6:30pm, when they go to national news for the half-hour. They do another local newscast from 11pm to 11:35pm. Depending on how you look at it, that's more than six hours of local news coverage, and a finite amount of news to report.
One local station has their morning news from 3:30am-10am. I don't watch the morning news, but I'm guessing they just repeat the same 5 stories + weather/traffic for 6.5 hours. And if that wasn't enough, they come back for a noon news cast, another 1.5 hrs of news at 5pm and 9pm, and another half hour at 11pm. There is not enough news to talk about for 10.5 hours each and every day.
Most content, especially on the endless morning shows is repetitive and inane.
Even during the evenings, the emphasis on the weather and crime stories is out of control. There is very little critical news thought or reporting.
Style is more important than actual stories. Perhaps that garners ratings, but it is not serving the community. And that, (perhaps some have lost this truth), is the objective of local tv stations by law.
I watch the local news and on occasion PBS when there is a good docu or concert. Otherwise have not seen the big 3/4/5 (ABC,NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS) programming in years. Maybe two decades.
I think they could still produce a good mini-series if they wanted to. The much smaller History Channel bankrolled the Hatfield & McCoys miniseries which was very well received. TNT did the Into the West mini-series as far back as 2005 which was also excellent.
I just scanned a list of modern miniseries and see the smaller networks have done them as well.
Local stations, like radio, newspapers are mostly owned by the same huge corporations. Everything is formula, and B rolls sent to them. Really local stations died in the 80's.
Local stations, like radio, newspapers are mostly owned by the same huge corporations. Everything is formula, and B rolls sent to them. Really local stations died in the 80's.
I dont know if I agree with that. Our local stations all show local news from around the city
One local station has their morning news from 3:30am-10am. I don't watch the morning news, but I'm guessing they just repeat the same 5 stories + weather/traffic for 6.5 hours. And if that wasn't enough, they come back for a noon news cast, another 1.5 hrs of news at 5pm and 9pm, and another half hour at 11pm. There is not enough news to talk about for 10.5 hours each and every day.
The early morning news on both network and local is repeated over and over. I work over night and have to switch back and forth between stations.
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