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3 hours ago, IceManNYR said:

Emily West did the traffic reports today.

As expected for now.

2 hours ago, B2r4a6n said:

Just saw Adelle Caballero, who was a traffic reporter on NY1,  do a traffic report during a Today Show cut in this morning...Wonder if she will be the new traffic reporter when Lauren leaves? 

I would think it is up to Emily West to decide if she wants the full time job considering she is the often used sub today.  Back several years, all the traffic reporters used to work for the former Shadow Traffic as well, which made substitutes and replacements easy.  I'm not sure if that is still the case other than stations subscribing to the current vendors for traffic information in the entire tri-state region.

I always found them helpful.  I used to commute on major highways so it gave me what to avoid as I left for work.  I actually find the SXM traffic channel not very useful.  I’m not sure how many times an hour they update it. 

21 minutes ago, iron_lion said:

It's just odd! One morning Michel or Darlene are anchoring alone with no subsititute, on 3 hour broadcast.

 

NBC 4 and Fox 5 are having some odd anchor situations at the moment. WCBS and WABC have been consistent for the most part with anchor arrangements, and making sure each broadcast has two hosts. 

 

Do you know if the anchors are complaining when they are solo?  I'm sure if they were (and it would not be public), something would happen.  Note that one of the usual substitute anchors is out on family leave, and I'm sure upon return is not going to want to do early mornings.  From a viewer perspective, a short intro is fine, who the anchor is is fine as long as the news is provided in a clear and detailed manner free from mispronunciations and ongoing mistakes.  There is no law of having to have two anchors, nor is there a law that one has to male, one has to be female and any other permutation.  At the end of the day, it is about how the newscasts are received by most viewers and making them as impactful as possible.  If solo anchors dragged down the ratings, you would see a change.

4 hours ago, ref1997 said:

Seems like the double anchor arrangement is permanent. Yesterday's 5PM news have Adam Kuperstein and Gilma Avalos anchoring too... Gilma is still anchoring the 6PM and 11PM every weekend too.

 

It only seems a couple of days a week.  Today (Friday) Adam is alone as Gilma cohosted the 4.

16 minutes ago, MisterBill said:

 

Some interesting stuff in that press release. I did not know that she was considered a co-anchor, nor do I see any evidence in her Linkedin that she is a meteorologist. Maybe she got it on the side like Reagan Medgie did? Also, how does one forecast traffic?

 

Since 2014, she has been forecasting early morning weather and traffic for WPIX, elevating to co-anchor of the PIX11 Morning News program.

She is also an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and an accredited Meteorologist.

Fox News PR embellishment.  Question is, does this streaming service have any chance of succeeding, considering the size and history of TWC.

11 hours ago, ref1997 said:

WRC is STILL in Look N but hey it seems they've started to import little tid bits of Look S graphics into their rundown templates... Take a look at the Look S banner below the top bar from this morning... Feels like they're switching to Look S very very soon...

 

Just curious, with the network moving form Nebraska Ave, could WRC be building a new studio in the old MTP space, for instance, and will roll out the new graphics at the sea time as launching a new studio?  Just wondering out loud....

5 hours ago, DMA said:

I want to preface this by saying I don't mean this in a particularly inflammatory way, and I do not intend to delve into my personal views on policing in New York, I just want to neutrally note recent changes to WABC's editorial output. 

 

I have noticed that there have been a lot of NYPD public relations stories fairly high up in the running order of WABC's newscasts, sometimes multiple times a day. Things like NYPD funding basketball courts, hosting a dance party (seemingly attended by 5 people), NYPD-sponsored haunted houses (https://abc7ny.com/nypd-haunted-house-willets-point-fort-totten/11103618/) etc. Other stations (WNBC, WCBS) do not seem to be including this volume of reporting on this subject matter. 

 

While individually I don't think it's problematic to include community interest pieces like this (these are events happening in the viewing area after all), the disproportionate volume and prominence of such pieces are difficult to view as anything other than propagandistic in intent. Again, I do not mean this to be inflammatory but rather observational - peer stations in the market have been making other editorial choices so I thought this was worth noting here. 

 

 

 

 News4NY also covered the basketball courts story.  I'm sure the NYPD public affairs office is working overtime to help improve their image.  The PC actually admitted this is one reason for these efforts while being interviewed.

1 hour ago, abc7 Man said:

In NY when ABC had an owned radio station, they had 770 which I assume was obtained for the 7’s. WABC is still at 770 today but not owned by ABC anymore.

In 1941, What was WJZ moved from 760 to 770, per FCC frequency realignment.  It was then owned by RCA/NBC and was the flagship of NBC Blue Radio Network.  Later the FCC ruled a company could not own m re than one AM, one FM and one TV station in a market.   NBC spun off the Blue Network as a separate company in 1941.  A year later the Blue Network including WJZ was purchased by Edward Noble, who created ABC from what was the Blue Network.  After merging with  United Paramount Theaters in 1953, ABC changed the call letters to WABC.  In effect, the radio operation was on 770 before the TV operation or even before ABC was born. (source, Wikipedia and a book on NY radio).  I believe I read somewhere ABC did try to get the same channel number for their initial owned stations in NY, Chi, SF and LA.  

11 minutes ago, MisterBill said:

 

Actually, I am not concerned about them working overtime (well I guess it's a pain) and you completely missed the point of my post/rant (which I guess I had not mentioned) I hate that they run late because it screws up the shows that follow it, and my DVR recording of those shows. If the games are never going to end on time, they should just schedule additional time so there is at least a chance of the following shows starting on time.

WNBC 6 pm news will be late tonight due to Notre Dame football overage.  Big deal.  It happens this time of year.  What you should do if a show is so important, is change your DVR settings to go an extra 30 minutes.  It's an easy fix.  Or stream the show the next day on Hulu, Peacock, WB or whatever.  

19 hours ago, MisterBill said:

 

Ugh, and it's 11:06 and the game still has "six" minutes left, which probably means it won't be over until at least 11:30. Amusingly, the news was supposed to be on at the regular time. I hate football season with the late running games.

 

Update - the game ended over an hour late. Almost as pathetic as the Giants losing again.

Football often runs over.  Sundays.  Sunday nights.  Thursdays.  And even college games on Saturday.  Nothing unusual about that.

4 hours ago, NYTV said:

The home station for the Giants is WNBC and the Jets are on WCBS-TV. The only way WNYW would carry it if it's airing on the Fox network. This year through 2023, TNF is exclusive to Amazon Prime with simulcast on OTA TV Stations in the local teams' DMA

 The local team contracts for pre-season now include any games exclusive to cable or streaming (NFLN, ESPN or Amazon).  In the past those used to be bid locally separate which is why they ended up on PIX 11.  That has changed.  I believe this is the last year Fox will produce the TNF games and broadcast a limited number of them.

13 minutes ago, freelanceproducer said:

BREAKING: Nightly News is moving into studio 1A along with the Today Show - starting tonight. 
 

Several sources have confirmed the news, including a NN producer on Twitter.  
 

https://twitter.com/jasoncalabretta/status/1437536515383611393?s=21

The 6 pm tease on WNBC was in front of the curved wall.  He has also been mostly standing for months, just like News4NY.  The question is whether this is permanent or is 3C being renovated again.

4 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Media General simply traded up to WPRI/WNAC for the same reason NBC dumped WJAR in the first place....it was a solo station without a duopoly opportunity, (and one of their smallest markets at the time). 

 

Even though it was a heritage station, the allure of having a grandfathered duopoly persuaded Media General to sell out.  I believe it was part of a trade between Sinclair & Media General as well.  Maybe when WTTA was traded to Media General after being Tampa's lone Sinclair property?

Thing is when NBC sold the station in 2006, the Telemundo  stations were operated independent of any NBC O&Os, they merged many operations later on.  The sale was more of NBC getting out of smaller markets, essentially reversing the merger with Outlet 10 years earlier.   NBC does not operate any fully English speaking duopolies.  Even here in the NY area, most of Telemundo' 47s operations are completely separate from WNBC.  It is not the same as CBS owning WCBS and WLNY.  At the time when Nexstar bought MG, it was mentioned a key driver in Providence was that both WNAC and WPRI carried Sunday football, which was a major money maker.  It outweighed WJAR's then significant dominance in news.  Sadly, Nexstar sold WJAR to one of the worst options out there.

Just now, Yankees4life said:

I wish MG and NBC kept this station. RI deserves better than Sincrap

I find I can no longer watch them.  It's the little comments and other stories pushing Sincrap's agenda.  The mostly young untested talent.  When I visit RI at least monthly, I have to watch another station for news or stream my local NBC flagship station.  Too many watch WJAR out of habit, and its time they get a new habit.

8 hours ago, AaronQ said:

So not sure if anyone saw this, but longtime WJAR NBC 10 meteorologist Kelly Bates is no longer working for the station, and it brought some outrage in Southern New England. NBC 10 claims that she turned down her contract, and there's a petition out to call NBC 10 to reinstate her.

https://www.golocalprov.com/business/wjar-10-general-manager-say-kelly-bates-turned-down-a-new-contract

 

https://www.newsweek.com/viewers-launch-petition-reinstate-meteorologist-kelly-bates-teary-video-1627352

Another degradation of WJAR's news by Sinclair.  Her Tik Tok video says it all.  I think everyone on this board can guess what kind of contract Sincrap gave her that she refused to sign.  It is clear she had no desire to leave.

38 minutes ago, nynewslover said:

Chris and Mary are anchoring from the World Trade Center sire all morning 

As are Darlene and Michael on New4NY (WNBC)

4 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

Just spotted Craig Allen doing weather on News 12..  I'm not sure if he's been there for a while. Good to see someone from the old Pix11 Weekend weather crew.

 Which News 12?

Many of us associate Craig Allen with CBS2 and WCBS 880.

I'm not an Eyewitness News junkie.  I'm a very casual ABC7 news viewer.  To me, it is not important.  It identifies WABC being an ABC station,.  Mission accomplished,.  Most viewers probably do not notice the bug to begin with.

2 hours ago, Liugrad2020 said:

So they went until 1?

It was interrupted by the network carrying President Biden's remarks and then went to Days.   At 5, Natalie joined Adam, and they are both doing the 6.  

2 hours ago, B2r4a6n said:

Natalie co-anchoring with Adam right now at 5pm. This is the first time the 5pm has had two anchors since Stacey Bell left in March 2020. 

 

Although, this could just be for today. No word this is permenant.

During bad weather they have done this before including a couple of weeks ago (including using Gilma).  No way would Natalie working 4,5,6,7 and 11 become permanent.

9 minutes ago, Liugrad2020 said:

 

Can y'all just stop!  This happens every year when staff take vacation.  They are entitled to vacation.  And for many with years of experience and high compensation, they get a lot of it.  When an anchor is missing they may be sick, may be on vacation or took a personal day for whatever reason.  We don't need 20 posts speculating they are gone or whatever. It is too often on WABC, and as was mentioned it spilled over to WNBC as well.   If someone leaves a station, you all find out anyhow.  No need to speculate.  Back to the topics.

2 hours ago, Drew said:

That was Tom llamas. He will be the prime time anchor of NBC News Now and he came from ABC. It wouldn’t have to do with Reno I bet they are burning off vacations since September they normally don’t get vacations since it’s the launch of the fall season 

It is a homecoming for Tom.  Prior to ABC News, he was at WNBC.  He is also NBC's national correspondent.

7 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

Romney Smith has made her first appearance on TINY & News at 11AM.

Jessica Cunnington from News 12 Bronx is now with NBC4. Her first report was yesterday.

Both actually reported on the 5 pm and 6 pm news since Monday.  Are they full time or per diem?

1 hour ago, Liugrad2020 said:

So I guess he didn’t leave WNBC after all.

Who said he did?  Anchors are humans.  They are allowed vacations.  They allowed sick days.  And they are allowed to keep their private lives private.  Throughout this time News4 was showing promos with David for the 11 pm show.

21 minutes ago, MidwestTV said:

 

This is bad production 101. How can anyone working in market #1 see this and think it's a good look? If you don't want her standing on a box because you don't want to see the box, either give them stools or cover the desk. The height differential also gives off a power disparity with the man towering over the woman.

Looks like real life to me.