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I think calling NYC a lazy market is unfair. Anybody who has worked in that market knows the lazy do not survive, whether as an individual or a station. What IS true, is that the business and competition have changed. First, prime-access syndication brings in a lot of dollars. Even the non-King World shows bring in heavy revenue. New York is a news hungry market. Counting Westchester, New Jersey and Long Island, there are six daily newspapers, two all news radio stations and two 24-hour cable news operations. Those cable news channels are enormously popular. Just because you don’t see them on the Nielsen breakdowns doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Just try to find a New Yorker who doesn’t watch them, even if only occasionally. Then add the classic English language broadcast stations and the two Hispanic stations, which all have respectable audiences. And then there are the websites and apps. News hungry New Yorkers are already finding their news in those places throughout the day. And don’t forget: most stations are starting morning news at 4:30AM. Some have expanded midday news to an hour and are starting evening shows at 4:00PM. You didn’t see that 20 or 30 years ago. By 7:00, viewers are ready to move on. And, if they do want more, NY1 and News12 are there. That’s not a lazy news market. Name one other market in the country that produces that much product each day. But, perhaps more importantly, every station has down-sized significantly since the days of news after 6:00. Back then, stations had news staffs as much as 40% bigger than they are today. Many more people to produce less total product than you will find now. Today, stations barely have enough people to do what they’re doing. There are probably hundreds of posts in this website alone about being stretched so thin and doing more with less. Could stations hire more people to do more evening newscasts? Well, they could, but stations haven’t been in the staff-expansion mode anywhere, in years. And, as history has shown, prime-access newscasts against Wheel & Jeopardy tend not to be very successful or profitable. Those are just cold, hard business office realities. Stations aren’t printing profit dollars in the basement like they used to. Comparing news programming in 2018 to news programming in 1988 and thinking all things are equal, is off base.

Roger Ailes set up Fox as a network that carved out a definitive niche and imaged themselves as THE news outlet for conservatives, regardless of the age demo. And it worked... so much so that there any competition in the conservative TV news field (OANN, NewsMaxTV) cannot logically compete. It just so happens that the majority of Fox's audience skews old, but at the same time, the vast majority of people with conservative viewpoints will be predisposed to watch Fox or access their digital properties. It's all about brand loyalty and cumulative audience.

Oooh ahhh **clap clap** Seriously, though, it could be worse. I'd say it's a few steps above soul-crushing generic.

They won't be moving until the new building is completed. And that's a few years out.

Longtime NBC News and WTVJ Miami reporter Ike Seamans has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 80. This man was GOOD. Really GOOD. I know because I watched him for years at WTVJ and was lucky enough to watch his craft with his amazing news voice. A stellar news reporter, excellent at best and legendary at the most. He will be missed. https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/legendary-miami-reporter-ike-seamans-dies/207918

In memory of KUSI anchor David Davis. Killed in a car crash too soon. (Sadly couldn’t find a pre-2008 vid of him - how long was he at KUSI??)

Only because Friends was the top-rated sitcom (and, for that matter, the top-rated show) on broadcast television at the time. It was totally unnecessary and a cheap marketing ploy that no other broadcast network has tried since. Who is in the White House right now? A 72-year old attention whore. Who runs CNN? An attention whore. Come on now. MSNBC and Fox are also guilty of overcoverage, for the obvious reasons... MSNBC is seen as having taken the anti-Trump bent (despite having quite a few conservatives as pundits and hosts, their prime-time lineup is still decidedly liberal). Fox has always taken a mostly pro-Trump bent, and water is wet. What really has CNN done but make a mockery of that polemic coverage? Consistently having six talking heads arguing back and forth and talking over each other is an outright parody and a train wreck of the worst sort. And that's just one facet of their overall coverage that is an embarrassment to the industry. Anyone can see that CNN has a big-time credibility problem. Thing is, it's totally overshadowed by Trump supporters mocking the network out of this perception that CNN "isn't fair" to Trump.

WVUE/N.O. Fox 8 5pm 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=NdNo8cyVuP0;t=486

Watching the 10PM news, I've noticed their stingers have more prominent music with them that sound like they're trying to sneak in--gasp!--new cuts with the Move Closer hook.

[QUOTE="Info Junkie, post: 219864, member: 3593"]Lest we not forget how badass “News 15” was until Michael Kronley snaked his way in there in 1996... Also, @NESTLEH has got some compilations up his sleeve too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdwXWduavvk[/QUOTE] Thank you. I might be uploading 3 more compilations in the future. The next ones will be the CBS tag-team from Detroit (WKBD-WWJ), and in the Boston DMA, WMUR (technically in Boston, but serves New Hampshire) and the NBC tag team of NECN & WBTS. @Info Junkie I know you don't take requests and that's fine, but I was wondering, when you update the stations that already have their compilations made, I wonder if you might do WTTV (maybe a tag-team with WXIN?) and/or WSBK soon.

"Whitevllie" "Whiteville"

What are we looking for?

A KPLR news update from 1989: And then there's...Mark Curtis at KTVI!

Very nice background. They are finally making use of the tech they have! . But I guess not for long as they are moving buildings soon... Why did she not stay for the full broadcast? I guess they are slowly getting her back in the groove.

I have some good news/bad news on changes in Texas= Good news in Tyler, TX...KYTX CBS19 since Monday debuted the ONLY news at noon. Bad news is tomorrow in Dallas and Houston...KDAF and KIAH, both CW affiliates are ending newscasts effective. (Feel bad for the staff)

Supersized episodes worked, not sure what you're complaining about there. Your collaboration theory is way out there. Do you realize how idiotic that sounds? The Malaysian Air fiasco was a true news story. Did they overdo it with coverage? Probably. I wouldn't label it as suicide though. CNN's ratings downturn are likely a result of overcoverage of the current President, nothing more.

Trump and Zucker are kindred spirits. They both failed their way upward, both specialize in outrageous stunts for attention (Zucker with "supersized" episodes of Friends, doubling the length of Today, making a mockery of NBC's late night lineup, and just being at CNN ... and Trump simply by his very existing. I really wouldn't be surprised if Zucker and Trump have been collaborating on Trump's anti-CNN schtick. For someone with Zucker's mentality, he has to be relishing the free pub CNN gets every time. Who cares if Trump's supporters threaten the life of Jim Acosta when Acosta can milk that pub on Colbert, furthering CNN's brand awareness? If we're talking about when CNN "committed suicide," it was with the Malaysian Air fiasco. That was a deliberate admission that they no longer wanted to be the credible news outlet they long promoted themselves as, but as a goddam circus instead. And judging by the ratings, people aren't falling for it. Good.

If that's the case, then I hope there's a special place in hell for both of them....

For supposed "ombudsmans," Brian Stelter and Howard Kurtz fail spectacularly at those job positions. Kurtz gets ratings simply because of inertia: Fox could put in that timeslot a tap-dancing seal and a poodle riding a unicycle with a carnival music loop playing throughout ... and the ratings would still trounce CNN. They should be promoted and identified as who they really are: opinion hosts.