NewzPimpin 1 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 When TV stations pull these kinds of stunts, it makes me wonder about their management. What GM or ND in their right mind would allow this crap to go on at their station? It's a good thing this only went on for a month, because had she been hired for real, I believe their entire news staff would have quit in protest. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestbiteme 13 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 What GM or ND in their right mind would allow this crap to go on at their station? One desperate for a boost in ratings? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinghamwx 0 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Well it is taking place at a station in Tyler, Texas...the attention will probably be very good for such a small market. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewzPimpin 1 Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 Well it is taking place at a station in Tyler, Texas...the attention will probably be very good for such a small market. Oh, I agree. I even sent a resume tape to a station in Tyler, because I knew of "Anchorwoman". Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbhcity 3 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I will watch and point and laugh at how pathetic this program is! lol Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrfRptr 3 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 What GM or ND in their right mind would allow this crap to go on at their station? When there is nothing to lose. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceHawk447 17 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I'd watch out of curiosity...and then decide. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lugnuts6 91 Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 I rather Watch "Making news...Texas Style" on the TV GUIDE NETWORK Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewzPimpin 1 Posted August 13, 2007 Author Share Posted August 13, 2007 I rather Watch "Making news...Texas Style" on the TV GUIDE NETWORK I thought I was the only person who watched that! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I rather Watch "Making news...Texas Style" on the TV GUIDE NETWORK I thought I was the only person who watched that! I watch it too! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrfRptr 3 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I think it's a great show. Bill (the former anchor) you can tell he is really biting his tounge about his demotion from the desk. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpzml 0 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 ILL BE WATCHING FUNNY Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
first on fox 18 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 ILL BE WATCHING FUNNY I can make fun of this or just wait for cfif to do it for me. But i'll go for it anyway...what the hell? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdrtv 0 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 this show looks so bad, i might just watch it Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
showdown 0 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 This is what it has come down to,... a blond with another rack to watch. Gimme a break! This is gonna be about as phony as a 2-dollar bill. Or in her case her intelligence level. Word has it she has 2-brains cells left, and one is trying to beat the other one up as we speak. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulf_Broadcasting 0 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 i'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but....... it's kinda odd. the show is premiering on the FOX network, but the station for the show is a CBS affiliate. It's obvious that the station is CBS-affiliated with the logos they have @ KYTX. So, I wonder, will FOX try to cover them up, not mention CBS in the script, or what? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 i'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but....... it's kinda odd. the show is premiering on the FOX network, but the station for the show is a CBS affiliate. It's obvious that the station is CBS-affiliated with the logos they have @ KYTX. So, I wonder, will FOX try to cover them up, not mention CBS in the script, or what? Many things have been changed to read/say "19 KYTX." Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdrtv 0 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I saw a promo video and the CBS logos in the building have been blured Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lkwdcj562 0 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Maybe.She is hot! Will she become straight news anchor probably not although she claims she wants to news to Bill O'Reilly. She already has offers to report or anchor entertainment programs. Bombshells and Beauty Queens in TV are nothing new, Here in LA, most of us (especially those of us 35 and over)remember the controversy involving Tawny Little, Miss America 1976 was hired By KABC in 1977 to anchor Eyewitness News with Paul Moyer, Chuck Henry and Harold Greene. Little was heavily attacked by the LA press and was resented by her co-workers because didn't have a college degree at the time nor journalistic experience like most in the industry. She had a hard time at first(first few years) over time she became a top anchor and replaced Christine Lund in 1986. In addition, She hosted Eye on LA replacing Inez Pedrosa (Eye on LA was a then a weekend show as it is now. But the show was more of a public affairs show than a news magazine. With Little and Paul Moyer and then Chuck Henry it became a a fast paced news magazine and travelogue visiting Las Vegas, San Francisco, Hawaii, Florida and Europe. Little and Henry went on to host the national version Eye on Hollywood on the ABC network it was Short lived. Then Went to KCAL in 1989 with Jerry Dumphy and the rest is History. In the 1980s Phyllis George co-hosted the CBS Morning News with Bill Kurtis which was a disaster for CBS. George was also Ms America. The results is mixed however there probably more common in Medium and small markets. Let see how it works. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 17 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Why not? I tell you why not. It does nothing for the profession to have somebody show up a station with no experience, no background, other than looks, to bump professionals that have years of experience for ratings. Sure, it's cheap entertainment, it may even be funny and/or enjoyable to watch, but it's another reason why journalists have credibility issues. Its not like when Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie had fun at WBFF in Baltimore a couple of years ago. They weren't trying to pass themselves off as journalists. However, if this woman has a geniune interest in field, she should pursue it. Just don't ruin the credibility of journalists to do it. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewzPimpin 1 Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 You know what it's called? It's called "small market television". Some stations will do anything for ratings and I'm pretty sure it's not uncommon to see stations do publicity stunts like this. I don't think they're trying to pass her off as a real journalist, and I think some people need to get a sense of humor, or as you Anglophiles call it, "humour". : I don't either; but still, when management at a TV station decides to do something like this, it indicates that their news values are screwed up, which is probably the reason their ratings stink in the first place. Even though I don't have access to the Tyler DMA, when a small market station has lower ratings than their competitors, it screams things like "sloppy presentation", "bad reporting and writing" and "poor newscasts and talent", fundamental problems that need to be addressed and fixed. This whole "Anchorwoman" thing is just part of their faulty thinking, which is the core of the problem. But from what I hear, channel 19 is a joke anyway, so this just adds fodder to the fire... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 17 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Show wasn't bad for what it is. Is it must see TV? Not really. Escapism television. I enjoyed it on a level, but lament what this will do to journalistic integrity, a problem that the industry is grappling with. She's not as horrid as some of the professionals in the industry. There's promise there. However this show proves that the station has other problems than talent. There is little or no leadership. Station needs to build the news department from the ground up...again. On that note, what did people think of this? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroCirq 148 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Well, It seems to me that TV Journalism hit an all time low, as usual as the Fox Network introduced it's newest batch of "crap journalism" entitled "Anchorwoman." I just happened to watch it an hour ago. Why am I making a big deal out of this, well, let's simply put it this way.... It's bad enough that we here in SoFla had to put up with taboo crime stories and lack of integrity in TV News, let alone head shots. But this is one mad cow I will not sit around and let it kick me to the curve. Ok, it's one thing to have a hot babe reading the news, but this happens to be an weirder insult than let's say BET's "We Got to Do Better." Look, I'm in for bringing home the bacon, when it comes to boosting ratings, yet do you really have to insult the viewers, intelligence in one way or another??? Note to Fox, we don't need to have a reality show insulting our intelligence, WSVN did that already with Belkys Nerey. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 On that note, what did people think of this? I actually thought it was kinda boring. "Making News: Texas Style" has a much better 'plot' and is more exciting despite the many lengthy commercial breaks and the same video over and over. I don't think Lauren was as stupid as the show portrayed her to be... a while back I watched one of her reports on KYTX's website... she wasn't too bad. Of course, this is the first episode so many she does get better. Isn't KYTX #2? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 17 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 On that note, what did people think of this? I actually thought it was kinda boring. "Making News: Texas Style" has a much better 'plot' and is more exciting despite the many lengthy commercial breaks and the same video over and over. I don't think Lauren was as stupid as the show portrayed her to be... a while back I watched one of her reports on KYTX's website... she wasn't too bad. Of course, this is the first episode so many she does get better. Isn't KYTX #2? Interesting. You share the same opinion as the Brian Fienberg of Zap2it. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-review-anchorwoman,0,5154439.story TV Review: 'Anchorwoman' Professional ineptitude can be funny, but this show is just blah Figuring the audience's enthusiasm for behind-the-scenes newsroom hijinx is limitless, FOX is using the unscripted summer show "Anchorwoman" as a logical appetizer for the fall scripted comedy "Back to You." Carried mostly by a cast that includes Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton and Fred Willard, "Back to You" is as generic a multi-camera sitcom as you could imagine, but it will look downright inspired compared to "Anchorwoman." FOX reality guru Mike Darnell has been responsible for a lot of distasteful programming over the years, but never anything quite so darned dull. "Anchorwoman" follows WWE vixen Lauren Jones as she attempts to make the transition from brassy, blonde window-dressing in one medium to brassy, blonde window-dressing in another -- Lauren's the new anchor at Channel 19 in Tyler, Texas. The station's owner wants to boost ratings, but will he also jeopardize the public trust between Channel 19 and its community? Will he alienate his viewership? Will he alienate his current anchorwoman Annalisa Petralia? Or will Jones prove to everybody that she has the right stuff to be an anchor (even though as aspirations go, she's pretty luke warm about the whole project)? FOX gave "Anchorwoman" a place on its late-summer schedule before the Jones experiment began and little in the first half-hour sent to critics gives any indication that their faith will be validated. The show's opening is supposed to play like a reverse-gender "Broadcast News" -- Jones is positioned as the eye candy William Hurt character, with Petralia as the whiny Albert Brooks, constantly complaining about the decline of journalism. The show's editors don't get the dynamic right, though, and Petralia comes across as a obnoxious pill, moping about Lauren's lack of professionalism and superficiality when Petralia is plenty attractive herself and plenty ready to ditch Tyler for a bigger job. The only reason I can see for continuing to watch is to see if Petralia either gets promoted to a preferable market or humiliated on air. Despite her WWE bona fides, Jones is too vanilla a lead to be worth following. She isn't the smartest tool in the shed, but she isn't nearly as dumb as the producers wish she could be for their "Legally Blonde" conceit to work. The editors keep jumping on her supposedly bubble-headed moments, ignoring that Jones is obviously joking about her images at least half the time. And so what if she actually does succeed? Is anybody going to be surprised that a low-grade actress is capable, with enough coaching, of reading a teleprompter for a local news broadcast that nobody's watching anyway? If she fails, she only lives down to our basest expectations. If she isn't bad, who cares? I suspect that we're about to learn an important lesson on the dangers of underestimating our bubbliest, curviest celebrities. That'll teach us. Either way, Jones isn't likely to have gained or lost very much from her anchorwoman experience, so the stakes are minimal. The biggest question is why you'd bother to make an unscripted show and then burden it with some much contrivance and editorial sloppiness that it seems instead to just be badly written and poorly acted. It's not an examination of the constant clash between style and substance in the news world. It's not the portrait of a very interesting or ambitious woman. It's not even a funny and condescending joke about residents of rural Texas. So far, it's just filler. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/1822-will-you-watch-anchorwoman/#findComment-17932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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