Top 30... Lucky Us!

[Eat News 4745]

A new daily news show aimed at millennials...

Holy crap!

 

Check out the suspects.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/95160/station-groups-taking-top-30-for-test-run

 

Can't wait to see this.

[NEOMatrix 1307]

A new daily news show aimed at millennials...

Holy crap!

 

Check out the suspects.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/95160/station-groups-taking-top-30-for-test-run

 

Can't wait to see this.

Sounds like a good idea, especially since Scripps isn't on board. The 30 Maryland, anyone?

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

Ugh... based at millennials. I'm a millennial myself but I promise you for sure that if this show reaches Miami, I'm not watching it.

 

SHORT RANT: I don't follow millennial-based feeds like Mashable or BuzzFeed or any of that. Those aren't real. CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, One America News, etc. NOW those are real.

 

So no viewer from me for The 30. Sorry.

[channel2 982]

I'm sure it's going to try too hard to be hip.

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

If anybody were to give me a list of syndicated shows (all of them), I'd tell you which ones I'd keep and which ones I'd say it has to go.

 

The 30 sounds like a show that would be gone from my radar.

[TVNewsLover 787]

The 30 Maryland, anyone?

So no viewer from me for The 30. Sorry.

The 30 sounds like a show that would be gone from my radar.

It's "Top 30", not "The 30".

[William1111 41]

So it's basically a rip off of Vice News. Except this one is available OTA instead of requiring an HBO subscription.

[C Block 1566]

Facebook page:

 

https://www.facebook.com/Top30TV/

 

Looks like Right This Minute but perhaps with less emphasis on viral video content and more on creative (ahem: clickbait-ified) presentation of traditional news platforms.

 

Interesting idea, but I doubt it'll actually get its target audience to watch.

[Samantha 2902]

Ugh... based at millennials. I'm a millennial myself but I promise you for sure that if this show reaches Miami, I'm not watching it.

 

SHORT RANT: I don't follow millennial-based feeds like Mashable or BuzzFeed or any of that. Those aren't real. CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, One America News, etc. NOW those are real.

 

So no viewer from me for The 30. Sorry.

 

This is a classic example of TV folks that are not millennials falling over each other to try and develop a TV show to reach the buzzword demographic in media.

 

I'm skeptical that this will succeed because it is a syndicated television show. I mean, really.

[tyrannical bastard 4033]

IMHO....they're going at this all wrong. They should be taking all of their good content and putting it OTT for us millenials (or a borderline one like myself;). With the way broadcast is heading, they'll have to do it sooner or later. It's just the content providers holding back because they know it's possible, they just want the retransmission dollars and the cable companines want the bundles as big as possible to drive a stake at the prospect of a-la-carte service.

 

Social media has destroyed news and vice versa. Facebook purposely screws up time and space to game a story for all it's worth. ACTUAL stories get buried this way and get screwed around with i.e. at the top of the feed.....TORNADO WARNING for your area.....hunker down now! (happened 9 hours ago) and scroll down a little....Tornado Warning has expired (happened 8.5 hours ago) And you have all of the viral clickbait and nobody experts that facebook worships that fills in the holes...facts be damned!

 

Ok... end rant here. But someone sooner or later has to come to their senses.

[rkolsen 1686]

Sounds like a good idea, especially since Scripps isn't on board. The 30 Maryland, anyone?

Thankfully WBFF isn't on the list.

 

Sounds like an interesting idea - kind of like the old 60 Seconds the BBC did on BBC Three. It's amazing how much you can fit into that time frame. That being said I think a half hour is a bit too long for millennials who like bite sized content (unlike me who will watch or listen to news hours on end even if the script is unchanged).

 

I think this could work if it were say a regular segment or block in a traditional newscast of about five minutes. It would be perfect for stations that air several hours of news in the evening.

[nathannah 2502]

This is pretty much TouchVision, but at least that spread a few stories through the half-hour AND had feature content. The 30 sounds like a disaster waiting to happen that won't get past the summer. It's an MTV presentation of news that doesn't have an audience to appeal to because the MTV style is now everyday in ABC and NBC's morning shows and newscasts.

 

And you have to love that Media General's "commitment" to this show is mainly in late-night timeslots you see Comics Unleashed in, along with the other MG stations that put Hollywood Today Live in late night because they know it does nothing in the ratings. And the moment Nexstar takes over MG, Perry Sook is going to side-eye this as costing actual money and throw it off.

[mardek1995 200]

This is pretty much TouchVision, but at least that spread a few stories through the half-hour AND had feature content. The 30 sounds like a disaster waiting to happen that won't get past the summer. It's an MTV presentation of news that doesn't have an audience to appeal to because the MTV style is now everyday in ABC and NBC's morning shows and newscasts.

 

And you have to love that Media General's "commitment" to this show is mainly in late-night timeslots you see Comics Unleashed in, along with the other MG stations that put Hollywood Today Live in late night because they know it does nothing in the ratings. And the moment Nexstar takes over MG, Perry Sook is going to side-eye this as costing actual money and throw it off.

Because not many people watch Hollywood Today Live on either Fox O&Os or the Media General stations

 

Thankfully WBFF isn't on the list.

 

Sounds like an interesting idea - kind of like the old 60 Seconds the BBC did on BBC Three. It's amazing how much you can fit into that time frame. That being said I think a half hour is a bit too long for millennials who like bite sized content (unlike me who will watch or listen to news hours on end even if the script is unchanged).

 

I think this could work if it were say a regular segment or block in a traditional newscast of about five minutes. It would be perfect for stations that air several hours of news in the evening.

And I'm willing to bet that none of the other Sinclair stations jumped in on it because they think it's a terrible idea

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

This is pretty much TouchVision, but at least that spread a few stories through the half-hour AND had feature content. The 30 sounds like a disaster waiting to happen that won't get past the summer. It's an MTV presentation of news that doesn't have an audience to appeal to because the MTV style is now everyday in ABC and NBC's morning shows and newscasts.

 

And you have to love that Media General's "commitment" to this show is mainly in late-night timeslots you see Comics Unleashed in, along with the other MG stations that put Hollywood Today Live in late night because they know it does nothing in the ratings. And the moment Nexstar takes over MG, Perry Sook is going to side-eye this as costing actual money and throw it off.

 

I've actually seen Comics Unleashed before but not Hollywood Today Live. I don't even think I wanna see HTL anyways.

[nathannah 2502]

I've actually seen Comics Unleashed before but not Hollywood Today Live. I don't even think I wanna see HTL anyways.

 

Just think about the most generic entertainment show that would be seen in a movie on a background TV. It's pretty much that. We get it at 12:35am on WBAY in Green Bay, and corporate made them put in a painful disclaimer that it was recorded earlier and it's not actually live at that exact moment (as if the daylight and over-caffeinated hosts didn't clue you in).

[tyrannical bastard 4033]

I stumbled upon this show late last night and TRIED to watch the last few minutes. It seemed like it was never-ending and CONSTANTLY cut to commercial (with 30 second breaks!) I thought it was a glitch but it's by design and probably a major pain for the traffic and operations people who have to schedule the spots and make sure they run! Being at such a late hour, it was mostly promos and PSAs, with an occasional paid spot here and there....makegoods perhaps?

[Eat News 4745]

I stumbled upon this show late last night and TRIED to watch the last few minutes. It seemed like it was never-ending and CONSTANTLY cut to commercial (with 30 second breaks!) I thought it was a glitch but it's by design and probably a major pain for the traffic and operations people who have to schedule the spots and make sure they run! Being at such a late hour, it was mostly promos and PSAs, with an occasional paid spot here and there....makegoods perhaps?

 

Makegoods?

Only if they were boffed in the same daypart.

making up a spot that was supposed to run during an evening newscast or other prime daypart in an overnight slot is unacceptable....unless you run 50 of them to "make good".

Make Goods come in all forms...but mostly as credits if the show is sold out, but running a spot in the overnight to make up a blown daytime spot is not the norm.

 

They were probably barter spots. Self contained inside the program feed.

[tyrannical bastard 4033]

In that case...it was probably a freebie or just happened to run that time of day. It was for a prominent "ambulance chaser" who floods the market with ads....it was either Morris Bart or Alexander Shunnarah....