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The wife and I currently watch NBC in the morning. I am starting to get fed up with the advertising of the show The Voice (or whatever the singing show is on that station) and the referencing Facebook and Twitter. If I cared about the show I'd watch it and if I cared what people said on Twitter I would create a Twitter account. I only care about weather and traffic. Are there any local news stations available that do not gossip and just do news? The only one I can think of that might meet my criteria is the TWC channel News14. Are there any other stations out there that do news with no gossip?
If you want the news and nothing but the news, then you may be better off getting your fix online. The same goes for weather. www.wunderground.com is my preferred weather channel but there are many others. I have an app on my phone too that gives me a weather feed.
The problem with TV news channels is that they need to yap endlessly so that people can tune in anytime they are on and after a while they will get at least, some news. The prospect of a 2 hours show that just repeats the current few daily news items is just too hard for TV channel producers to swallow.
Believe me when I tell you that this is a global problem. All countries seem to want to do folksy, yappin' morning shows. It is almost as if reading the news in a straightforward "talking head" format is nowadays just too horrible to comprehend. I guess it is the teenage show producers.
This may not be exactly what you are looking for since you asked for TV channels but today you are not limited to the TV for news weather and traffic delivery media choices.
WSOC doesn't mess around and just gives you the news. No pets of the week, no fishing photos, etc. Pretty straightforward stuff, hard news but at least it's not the goofy stuff.
The only reason for watching the NBC station is weather. Brad Panovich is a scientist first and a TV personality second. I'm a weather nerd and he's the best in the area - not to take anything away from the certified meteorologists on the other stations. We've just about given up on the NBC station. We have timed two "stories" they aired about mansions in the area. Of a 30 minute newscast at 11:00 meaning only 20 minutes for news, weather, and sports, they used over three minutes to do a feature on mansions -twice. Pointless. Then, doing hard news would require work and a challenge. There was a time when news organizations could hold government accountable at the local and state level. No more. That's why there's so much crap going on at the local government center and in Raleigh. Never mind getting any news of value out of Washington from the national news organizations.
News 14 does seem to have the best hard news. They really did a great job with the snow forecasts (I know that some of it is based on the models that other stations had also). Channel 3 seems solid as well.
WBTV Channel 3 and WSOC Channel 9 have always been the 2 main news stations. Overall they do a very good job. WCNC Channel 36 has always been 3rd rated but they go through phases when they improve. And now there is WCCB Channel 18 and recently WJZY-46. WCCB can do some good work, but overall I still prefer Channel 3 and Channel 9. But I do not care for the strange format on 46. They have a long way to go. I have seen other FOX stations that are much, much better.
Eric Thomas on WBTV creeps me out. Every night he does a weather promo during a commercial, and when he's done talking, he just leaves his mouth open. Never closes it.
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