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I don’t think NY1 should be merged with WNBC. NY1 should only be meant as a news channel. Although I wish they had coverage for all cable companies and not just Time Warner Cable and Optimum.

As I'm going through stuff on discs and looking for newscasts I know I have (somewhere on tape...), I wish I could go back in time to my early newscast recording self and give myself a few pieces of advice: 1) ,Record the entire newscast - I spent too much time recording the open and close, ignoring the middle... 2) Label the Video Tape right after it's recorded - with details - not just "Detroit" or "Programs"... 3) Put the full date and time and the station on the tape... 4) Keep detailed records in a simple spreadsheet (and occasionally print it out)... I have details in a database that I can no longer open - and can no longer find... Since the last thing printed was in 2006, no telling which computer it was on... (and I no longer have said computer...). Anyway, more stuff coming with the new week... Jim

Sports is expensive to cover. Access to game highlights is expensive, access to technical facilities at NY/NJ stadiums and arenas is expensive and the NY teams and leagues have their own channels and networks so they virtually spit on the locals. Add to that, the locals are barred from using any of it online. Local stations everywhere have been cutting back on Sports for years because it's a pain in the ass and a (local) money pit. Viewers who care can get what they want elsewhere. And despite the predictions of doom, no station has fallen off the Nielsen map because they cut back or eliminated Sports. NY1 has made a decision to concentrate on what their core viewers seem to turn to them for the most: Intense transit and commuter coverage; and hyper-local neighborhood and borough news that the broadcast locals can't/don't offer. NY1 has a very loyal and committed New York audience that doesn't place Sports high on their priority list. I don't know what Charter has in mind for its future, but don't assume the end of Sports is a death knell. It could be quite the opposite: A decision to concentrate on why the channel has been successful for so long.

I kinda wish Fios expanded their FIOS 1 operation to NYC but I doubt that would happen they expanded to Hudson Valley in 2014 besides Fios 1 is a partnership with WRNN TV

I think he meant that it could be tri state operation.News 12 is carried on TWC in Brooklyn also

What kind of helicopter does WISN have? In a recent article it appears they have an R44 registered to MetroNetworks while some recent YouTube videos have a Bell JetRanger 206B registered to Helicopters Inc. Here’s an image from OnMilwaulkee: And here’s one of many videos of the Bell 206 lifting off on WISN’s YouTube channel.

Well, you're right. I'm from Staten Island and I don't even have News12 on my cable package. So it doesn't really cover all of the boroughs in NYC.

I don't know eat, better to be a WIMP than a KUNT... Well, maybe in this business, it might not be such a bad thing...

This. Didn't we already have a "localized" news wheel diginet? Granted, TouchVision was misguided to target "millennials", but still... This seems like an interesting idea, but I'm a bit confused who the market is for carrying this network. Diginets like WeatherNation "work" because it's able to be localized without needing any additional staff. Like the products sold in diginet infomercials, it's very much "SET IT and FORGET IT!" The core of the LNN concept seems to be operating a local news department, which most diginet-happy stations don't have the budget for. I can't imagine many existing news-producing stations buying into this format when there are dozens of other diginets out there with stronger programming. I don't see the generic "regional" headlines in place of local news being much of a draw for viewers. MI News 26 and NewsChannel Nebraska are two unique operations, too, so I'm not sure why they're being compared and brought up. NCN is NOT a full time "news wheel" and heavily focuses on local sports, which is apparently working out well enough for them that they can now buy brand new production trucks to produce these broadcasts. Also, I have a hunch the "affiliates" already signed onto this are NCN and a certain independent station in Wichita that already has about 16 subs on it. Would I like to see this succeed? Absolutely. I just don't know if it's going to work in this day and age. People already have dwindling trust in the "media" in general, and slapping a generic "local news" channel between the ones airing reruns of I Love Lucy and Laugh In just doesn't seem like a good move.

Hubbard was behind the All News Channel and it still couldn’t compete. Maybe it was years ahead of its time and could have had a chance in the diginet era. We’ll never know.

So, three weeks before the show launches and anybody has seen it, you've decided you don't like it and won't watch it. Yeah. That makes sense. Oh, and punctuation is still relevant

So pleased to see a full newscast from WTSP's 1992-94 era, a real enigma. I really liked that set, which was way more attractive than the one they debuted when they made the switch to CBS. The red/white/blue graphics were also better coordinated than what they used the rest of the decade. They also appear to have used three voiceover artists: Ed O'Brien (6 months!), Jeff Lawrence, and Brian James came in about late '93/early '94. It seems like the goal was a 'feel good' newscast. Very consultant driven.

I heard Northern CT near Mass. does not get it

Yeah. Considering they report on anything within the five boroughs.

FIOS 1 NYC could work on small budget I mean they running a tri state operation from WRNN TV in Westchester County

Well yeah, but hopefully they have coverage for northwest Connecticut.

I say Queens and Staten Island get underserved by the local Newscasts NY1 does a great job covering those areas for TV only way to get Queens or Staten Island News besides NY1 is the Staten Island Advance or Queens Tribune

Here's my opinion of WFLD, Their product and talent has improved over that last years. I sometimes watch GDC over my usual ABC7. GDC has Mike Caplan(which he is excellent). WFLD made awesome decisions by picking up Mike, Sylvia, and Rafer and making Corey lead anchor.

[MEDIA=twitter]906203638850138112[/MEDIA] She made her debut tonight.

From 2000, an edition of WBBM's ill-fated "alternative" 10 p.m. news with Carol Marin. (Let's hope that KUSA's 6 p.m. experiment is more successful and that it proves that local news doesn't have to be formulaic to be successful):

Here's my Today Show people they should get rid of: •Megyn Kelly (worst ratings) •Matt Lauer (leaving soon) •Carson Daly (say goodbye to Orange Room) •Al Roker (no reason) Thanks to Megyn Kelly's arrival on NBC, she has caused Today the worst ratings EVER.

Finally, the FIRST version of WTSP's 1992 weeknight talent bump!