Warning to stations cutting staff Posted on March 27, 2024 at 01:12:36 PM by observer
Well, That's a fair warning to the rest of TV media what happens when they automate and cut staff... when the shit hits the fan and all they have are crickets, the metro will be channel switching and landing on the best 1 or 2 stations and they'll remember where the news is.
In many parts of the country, it will be storm coverage. I remember how it felt when your leading competitor had a copter and nobody else could get one for hours. KC will remember that when they only 5-star station was 9.
Seems like I heard the GM's got together over lunch and decided none should invest in too much technology, then nobody would ever know what an aggressive station could do with commitment, causing everybody else to react.
8:30 am is a horrible time to have a major event, the stations arent ready to gear up, they dont know what happened, staff just wandering in to work, I feel for em.
For quite a while responders didn't know how many people were in the water, I presume...after watching ABC dramatize that 10 second collapse no less than 4 times--course by the late news, they had and learned only contractors fell into the water, apparently. That wasn't totally clear by late afternoon. Good thing it didnt' happen at rush hour!
Drama's always fun to watch but the real story I guess will be this afternoon when the traffic jams start happening with the bridge out. And not just in Baltimore That thru traffic will be dispursed this week.
I'd think they could clear some of that metal out of there fairly quickly in one spot, and get the port open--if they can throw enough people at it.
You're gonna see that 10 seconds of video as many times as we saw the twin towers collapse! What time did the stations get the night time collision to put up on the air?
It was a big story for Baltimore too and they'll relive that and glorify the first responders because that's all that happened.
The real big story was SCOTUS looking like women across the country can continue mail order abortions and maybe states are powerless to stop it. Oh the prayers going up to heaven from the pro-life crowd.
But TV stations will shut down the world for a drama they got on tape--which will be covered from every possible angle, every set of eyes.
How many people do you suppose tuned in to TV in the first few hours vs already enroute to work??
I didn't see much coverage on MSNBC til late afternoon because they were carrying SCOTUS audio. Replies: