HanSolo

Aw, was that supposed to be an insult? When it comes to a track record of the complainers who seem to live to find imaginary fault or people with the actual data and accountability, the armchair QBs come up short.

Objectively, the people making the decisions have far more information than speculation. I don’t need to know every single piece of data to understand why station X decides it’s fitting to run their normal schedule, albeit with a reduced staff, while station Y tosses on filler material. Nobody is just burning the bosses’ money for kicks and giggles.

It likewise comes up repeatedly to nitpick when the newscasts do air as normal. The problem, to the extent there is one, seems to be with people who insist, repeatedly, what is or isn’t necessary based on their standards.

Noon to 1 something in the morning is all day, my friend. More than that.

Thus, “aside from morning.” And apart from that and the Disney parks commercial, it’s 13 something hours of NBA, so yeah, it’s all day.

AKA by whom? Aside from that, and aside from morning, what news? It’s all NBA all day and all night.

And why are we even speculating that is the case? Some things just are.

Decent filler choice until the new show is ready.

How about a proponent for understanding that the world moves quickly, audiences are more fragmented and diverse and it’s not 1995? I don’t have to like everything that changes, and quite frankly don’t. But I do understand my nostalgia is not a reason to ignore the reality now. My generation had different experiences and expectations than my parents. My kids have different ones than me. They don’t consume media the same way I did nor should they as they make their mark on the world.

I could have guessed that was coming. A flameout in a different industry in a different era that is quite obviously the exception to the norm, but we cling to it as if there aren’t a multitude of examples to the contrary.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter if that’s the way people hold a conversation in day to day life. Things change no matter what we all were bombarded with however many years ago. Production methods change. Approaches change. Viewers change. Viewing habits change. I’d be willing to bet they have oodles of data that inform all of the decisions and they go deeper than “it wasn’t what we were taught.” Not every decision is going to appeal to any one of us, but guaranteed they’re making those decisions based on measurable info.

Indeed. I was thinking about the GMA setup and how it could effectively be any studio anywhere. Heck, it could be a much more spacious and modern studio somewhere and that would (will?) be better for the production than needing to sit in Times Square just because. (Or Rockefeller, or wherever, not to make it only about ABC and GMA). Streetside is all well and good, but not make or break.

Outdatedness is a key point. J-school, like any discipline, can’t be frozen in time with the “this is the way it must always be” as if God Almighty decreed it as the 11th Commandment. It’s hard for all of us to change what we know and are comfortable with. It can downright suck, but sometimes it’s needed, even among the experts.

Sure they were there on the way and the way . It’s perhaps evidence the location is not relevant to a major degree.

Quality is subjective. Audiences are not looking for the same thing. If there was a big hole out there for something else each night, someone would have exploited it. The hangup over active tense that seems to permeate so often is kind of amusing. And that comes from someone old as darned dirt. Does it work for them? If not, they’d change. And the numbers bear it out. It isn’t what I was taught. It isn’t what I grew up with. That doesn’t make it wrong, and my professors weren’t god almighty. It sometime seems collectively that we’re “ok with change,” so long as it’s the change we deem to be ok. That’s not how life works, though.

“One of the most cited.” Which would suggest someone would thoroughly clean up by simply rolling back the clock. And yet, they don’t. Maybe because whatever is supposedly “cited” is rubbish. The entire world shifts around us. Technology, tastes, demographics…and “news” does not exist in an isolated bubble in which the same approaches from decades ago magically work. How many times did we hear “viewers told us they want a straight news approach”—no fluff or whatever one wishes to call it. Yet when tried, it fails. Because what people supposedly say in dubious polling isn’t what they do.

Everything is for sale at the right price. It’s not “just” going to be a standalone. Whether it is a buyer or seller or both over time is all crystal-ball stuff, but there’s no way there won’t be deals entertained if they’re serious viable offers.

My guess: because it’s not a quarter-century ago anymore? Related: what was being done a quarter-century ago differed from a quarter-century before that. Time moves on. Few things, particularly in any form of media or art, are the same over that time span. Audiences change. Styles change. Business realities change.

Meh, it seems fine with one anchor.

They’re different t than 10 years ago but don’t adapt. Maybe it’s a dislike of what they’ve adapted to, but that’s something different. And it’s subjective.

Well…that was a bit of a surprise

You know they all know these complications, right? They didn’t come into something like this without thinking through the complexities even if not every detail is laid out just yet.

He was also on the 4 am hour Friday; by the time I got back from the gym in the 6 am hour, they had Payton on. Makes sense to use him as needed if Karen is out sick or what have you. Flexibility in any job is an asset.

Indeed she did, and there was some weekday morning coverage in there somewhere for her, potentially the “make-good” for covering those shifts. Nonetheless, after a month, it has become fairly clear she’s not doing the 10 am. Maybe it’s a temporary thing. Maybe it’s permanent. We’ll see if they say anything either way. Also interesting is no afternoon traffic reporter on 10/21, having the anchors do brief updates. Maybe no one was available, including the coverage folks, but considering they have, or had, a bench several deep backing up Jessica Boyington, it’s interesting.

Good clickbait without any real substance. Someone could to this, or might do that. Ok…sure. Wake us when something actually transpires, not idle speculation or breathless reports on ideas that may or may not ever see the light of day. Just having a little good natured fun.