ChiCubsFan 34 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Post your election comments here! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Quick observations: WGN is humorously pessimistic, fully prepared to be on the air til the morning hours as several poll locations won't close til 9pm. I have a feeling 9's coverage, airing for so long (7pm on), will be a lot lighter than some of their competitors. Really, as always, this will be WLS and WGN's night. Ron Magers and Mark Suppelsa were built for extended coverage. Their ability to ad lib makes them invaluable on nights like this. WGN will do well til 10 (likely winning), and 7 will win the ratings after that. It's hard to describe, but WMAQ seems to be trying too hard. Everything I've seen of their coverage so far seems to be a little over the top. Way too serious and flashy, without the personality and substance. Carol Marin might save them. I will say, though, I do like NBC5's election graphics almost as much as ABC7's, but the former's is ruined by the use of Helvetica compared to the regular Gotham, while the latter's was designed with Helvetica in mind. WBBM and WFLD will likely not factor much into the ratings, especially with WGN in the mix late. NBC5 is scheduling an hour at 10, ABC7 til 11:35, but CBS2 will screw their viewers by being scheduled for the normal 35 minutes, even though they'll likely go passed that. Luckily, Letterman isn't really big in this market. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Apparently FOX32 is streaming online all night. Who knew? Who cares? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 1056 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Apparently FOX32 is streaming online all night. Who knew? Who cares? Fox32 also changed out the backdrop durans for video/graphic monitors (which is a bit of a surprise). I'm not sure WGN 4-5 hour long live coverage is necessary. Nothing can be gained until 9 anyway. WMAQ has always gone big (using both the tower studio and Studio 5 one year) so no surprise there. I agree that CBS 2 will be a non-factor, but its of their own doing. We have to wait to see how things unfold once everyone is going head to head. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Fox32 also changed out the backdrop durans for video/graphic monitors (which is a bit of a surprise). Actually, this was done months ago, but when no one watches, these things don't get noticed. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 1056 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Actually, this was done months ago, but when no one watches, these things don't get noticed. I know the durans changed (I mentioned that awhile back), but they didn't have/use a looping graphic/video element until tonight. It's a bit of a throwback to what they used prior to the complete set overhaul years ago. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex979 119 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I have a feeling 9's coverage, airing for so long (7pm on), will be a lot lighter than some of their competitors. It certainly is. Patrick Elwood, who's an excellent reporter that WGN really should hire full-time (he'd fit in great with the goofy morning crew), just had some random kid at one of the canidate's parties do the toss back to Mark and Micah. The kid, who was probably about eight years old, also happened to be Suppelsa's former neighbor. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-117993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 ABC 7 just wrapped up their 9pm webcast, and Ron Magers closed by saying that we, the viewers, could have had the decency to put some clothes on before watching. It cannot be stressed enough how awesome he is. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 945 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 ABC 7 just wrapped up their 9pm webcast, and Ron Magers closed by saying that we, the viewers, could have had the decency to put some clothes on before watching. It cannot be stressed enough how awesome he is. That is priceless. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 ABC 7 is still going strong. CBS 2 is running on fumes. WGN just turned out the lights. Everyone else went to bed. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 WLS just went off the air. WBBM finished a little before 12. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 1056 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Once again, WLS led the way with the most comprehensive coverage. Really can't say enough about them. WMAQ was solid as usual, but the first to wrap things up. WBBM hasn't really shown they are capable of going beyond the norm and had two of the worse guests of the night. The lack of a Political Editor/solid political team shows. WGN was alright. A little too light for my taste and Micah is the worse. And last, and rightly so, is WFLD. They were a complete mess. Numerous technical issues throughout and Dawn Hasbrook was as clueless as they come. Not worthly to succeed Robin Robinson on any level. I'll give Herndon a pass given he did seem to be more knowledgeable than Dawn and didn't interrupt the guests every 5 seconds. 'Chicago's News Station' they are not. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I gotta say it. Linda Yu looked like she was going to die on-camera around 11:30. Why in God's name did she do 'WCL' on Tuesday morning? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1956 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I gotta say it. Linda Yu looked like she was going to die on-camera around 11:30. Why in God's name did she do 'WCL' on Tuesday morning? SMH. Yeah, by looking at her eyes, you can clearly tell she was tired as hell. I dunno how she can pull it off. At times, I don't know why I think that Linda (by her age) feels like she's Superman or something. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5589 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 WGN will do well til 10 (likely winning), and 7 will win the ratings after that. It's hard to describe, but WMAQ seems to be trying too hard. Everything I've seen of their coverage so far seems to be a little over the top. Way too serious and flashy, without the personality and substance. Carol Marin might save them. I will say, though, I do like NBC5's election graphics almost as much as ABC7's, but the former's is ruined by the use of Helvetica compared to the regular Gotham, while the latter's was designed with Helvetica in mind. WBBM and WFLD will likely not factor much into the ratings, especially with WGN in the mix late. NBC5 is scheduling an hour at 10, ABC7 til 11:35, but CBS2 will screw their viewers by being scheduled for the normal 35 minutes, even though they'll likely go passed that. Luckily, Letterman isn't really big in this market. I'm going to chalk this up as a personal victory. It should be noted that WGN was tops in the 9PM hour against the networks. Sure enough, WBBM and WFLD weren't a factor, as they couldn't even combine to match 3rd place WGN. I do, however, have a few questions about these numbers. I wonder if WMAQ's numbers were boosted because they were airing 'Tonight' in the final 30 minutes of this period, once the results were becoming clear. WMAQ also won the demo, and I wonder if the Fallon numbers contributed to that, as well. Never mind, I had only seen that Fallon ended on time at 12AM, but it turns out that NBC stayed on til 11:30 and joined 'Tonight' in-progress...which is kind of a d*ck move, by the way. The ratings from 10-11:30PM, according to Feder: ABC 7- 6.5 rating (226,024 households) 11.7 share NBC 5- 6.0 rating (208,638 households) 11.0 share WGN- 4.9 rating (170,387 households) 9.2 share CBS 2- 3.4 rating (118,228 households) 6.3 share Fox 32- 1.2 rating (41,727 households) 2.3 share - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, WGN did take primetime by a mile, but I'm rather surprised at how strong CBS was at 9, but I bet the NCIS lead-in helped them out. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 705 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 NBC 5 just had really terrible coverage of Pat Quinn's concession speech. It looked like they were using really terrible cellular coverage to handle the feed - tons of pixelation and constant video freezes and muddy audio due to low bandwidth. After a while, they gave up and went to an alternate feed for video, but they kept using the audio from the original feed, so the a/v sync wound up being a good 3 seconds off. Very messy. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 945 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I'm going to chalk this up as a personal victory. It should be noted that WGN was tops in the 9PM hour against the networks. Sure enough, WBBM and WFLD weren't a factor, as they couldn't even combine to match 3rd place WGN. I do, however, have a few questions about these numbers. I wonder if WMAQ's numbers were boosted because they were airing 'Tonight' in the final 30 minutes of this period, once the results were becoming clear. WMAQ also won the demo, and I wonder if the Fallon numbers contributed to that, as well. Never mind, I had only seen that Fallon ended on time at 12AM, but it turns out that NBC stayed on til 11:30 and joined 'Tonight' in-progress...which is kind of a d*ck move, by the way. The ratings from 10-11:30PM, according to Feder: ABC 7- 6.5 rating (226,024 households) 11.7 share NBC 5- 6.0 rating (208,638 households) 11.0 share WGN- 4.9 rating (170,387 households) 9.2 share CBS 2- 3.4 rating (118,228 households) 6.3 share Fox 32- 1.2 rating (41,727 households) 2.3 share - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, WGN did take primetime by a mile, but I'm rather surprised at how strong CBS was at 9, but I bet the NCIS lead-in helped them out. It's interesting that 5 was that close to 7 from 10-1130. Was 7 missing some of it's normal audience, or what might account for that tightness? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiCubsFan 34 Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 ABC7 was ahead in audio. Video looked awful. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 1056 Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 It's interesting that 5 was that close to 7 from 10-1130. Was 7 missing some of it's normal audience, or what might account for that tightness? NBC won the 9P hr. followed closely by CBS and then ABC which may have helped the local NBC O&Os/affiliates a bit. However, WMAQ must be kicking themselves for being the first to end their coverage. Had they stayed on, they may have either tied or beaten WLS. Definitely a missed opportunity. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickp 337 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 good job for Mark Suppelsa and Clarence Page for WGN Election Coverage Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14016-election-coverage-2014/#findComment-118106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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