Re(1): Scripps Continues To Die A Slow Death Posted on December 12, 2023 at 05:54:42 AM by Sympathies and hope ya can hang in there
Welcome to the first sign that affiliate TV stations are in trouble and in markets with three or 4 TV stations, most audiences just don't need that much news. Especially if Weather doesn't change much.
I"ll tell you, since I got you. In the 3 years I've been down South, I've had FOUR tornados touch down within 100 yards of my house. Last one was day before yesterday. My neighbor got this one on his security cams, and I saw him carry a big piece of roofing material across the street, saw another one a hundred yards away,a nd saw damage on TV tonight. Yup they're blaming me because this town hasn't had tornadoes in years til 2 years ago this month. 500 homes were destroyed that night. My wife had a stress stroke thatnight so we dodged down lines and trees to get to the ER, with help from the county fire dept. She recovered fine, hospital handled the walk ins, drive ins, ambulances and my wife perfectly.
Too much radon gas here tho so nobody has basements and I hate taking shelter in an inside hallway!
I will tell you tho, our young meerorologists are utter amateurs. Never left the comfort of their screens. I never heard a sheriff scanner in the newsroom all afternoon, they just don't know how to do it like we all do in Kansas And KC. They didn't even send a crew out to see the damage today undil daybreak and yesterday, the warnings were in midafternoon. They had no fresh video that somebody didn't put on social media! It was disgusting and I've seen em malpractice each storm. THey yak and sit there speculating on which red spot might be rotating. But I expect there was 50 deputies out and the two TV stations weren't reporting anything going on.
Its all budget cuts. If ya aint got no staff, you can't newsgather. Simple as that. THis market does mostly handout news by kids fresh out of college. None of them apprenticed in a top drawer news operation in a place like KC or Wichita who know how to do this. Yup one old retired morning deejay whose done weather on TV just HERE, asnd the other's obviously fresh out of school.
On KC's WORST weather day, they're better than the prime time staff here. I can't stand it.
But I'm just saying, you'd need to be really good to keep a 40 year TV news career today. There's always somebody more eager, better looking, deeper voice and ability do elections or marathon weather coverage. Cable TV killed the affiliates and out of state corporate ownership means its not about professionalism, its about getting the most ad dollars for the least expenses. What town needs 4 stations doing 6 newscasts a day? I dont know either. Replies: There have been no replies.
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