Spring Rubber 614 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I tuned in to their breaking news coverage of Maggie Daley's death since WGN is already off the air for their holiday programming, and I noticed that the solo camera on the anchor was embarrassingly tilted so that the horizontal lines on the backdrop were slanted a good 15-20 degrees, and the anchor looked as if she was going to "fall off" the left side of the shot. This isn't the first time I've seen this on the rare occasions I've tuned into WFLD. I've even seen it on business days when you can't use the "Oh well, it's a holiday" excuse. It saddens me that Fox corporate decided to let this travesty of a news operation continue rather than cleaning house with the local management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Someone needs to post footage of this station online because I have a hard time believing that any one station can be this terrible. WTXF is bad, but it was at least sort of decent when Renda was there. This just sounds like nobody cares about the product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 It's amazing that there's just no one left who cares. The people who are left are just fine with putting out a sub sub-par product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Someone needs to post footage of this station online because I have a hard time believing that any one station can be this terrible. WTXF is bad, but it was at least sort of decent when Renda was there. This just sounds like nobody cares about the product. It's the combination of having a horrible ND and a GM with a high level of ineptitude that has dragged this station down. Plus, they can't seem to properly set a consistent aspect ratio. Newscasts are in a letterbox format, some commercials jump to a pillarbox.format and so on. Stuff like this happens all the time (like right now) @ WFLD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5276 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 http://timeoutchicag...-time-and-money It’s a good thing there’s no one watching Fox Chicago’s noon newscast. Otherwise, there might be hell to pay for the train wreck that aired Wednesday. It was one embarrassing blunder, miscue and snafu after another. (Never mind the hypocrisy that one of the stories ridiculed NBC Nightly News’ Brian Williams for maintaining his composure during a fire drill in his studio.) The Fox disaster culminated a few seconds into a live interview with TMZ’s Harvey Levin when the satellite “window” closed, Levin was cut off midsentence, and the screen went to color bars. “Please give us a chance tomorrow,” an exasperated anchor Patrick Elwood pleaded with viewers at the end of the show. Added co-anchor Jan Jeffcoat: “We promise we’ll be better.” For the record, the noon news averaged a dismal 0.7 rating in November — down 42 percent from a year ago. It's gotten so bad that they're actually apologizing to viewers for their mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5276 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Not to beat a dead horse, but you could not make this stuff up... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wfld-anchor-says-santa-doesnt-exist-apologizes-following-night_b30972 Open mouth. Insert foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Not to beat a dead horse, but you could not make this stuff up... http://www.mediabist...ng-night_b30972 Open mouth. Insert foot. This is the worst segment. It's not hard to figure out why this channel is doing so badly. I was ready for the apology video to be over before it was halfway done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 614 Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 I go to college in market #116, and I bet our Fox affiliate puts out a similar or better quality newscast than WFLD. I'd rather have a 30 minute 5-days-a-week small market newscast than whatever the heck WFLD calls a newscast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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