Roland 1 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 What happened if they moved their Network News to 7:30 PM? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-36611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
detroittv313 3 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Actually, WDIV (The Post-Newsweek-owned NBC affiliate) is one of the few stations that carry both Wheel Of Fortune & Jeopardy! in the 7:00-8:00 format. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Actually, WDIV (The Post-Newsweek-owned NBC affiliate) is one of the few stations that carry both Wheel Of Fortune & Jeopardy! in the 7:00-8:00 format. Can you elaborate? Do you mean they air Wheel and J! back-to-back at 7 and 7:30? Plenty of stations do that. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhampsten 0 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Two flies in the ointment: How do you structure a 'news brief' on stations that have no local news (WWJ, KDNL, etc.)? What do they fill the other 20 minutes with? Commercials? Some markets can't work on that premise. I remember someone proposing splitting the ET and CT zone at the Mississippi River. That wouldn't work in markets like St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Memphis, and the Quad Cities. Viewers would have to slog through "Tonight at 10pm IL/ET and 9pm MO/CT" and "10pm St. Paul/ET and 9pm Minneapolis/CT." Can you imagining the headaches, especially with stations that have co-owned stations in different parts of the market. I'm with Matt. I'd rather watch Katie, then Brian. Since the debate last month, Charlie makes me sick...A 'fair' journalist, indeed... On the time zone issue, the Terre Haute, and now Evansville markets have to deal with that on their programming with 11 IN/10 IL although Evansville doesn't meantion it that much since it's their far reaching counties that are on eastern time. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
l14dap 1 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 On the time zone issue, the Terre Haute, and now Evansville markets have to deal with that on their programming with 11 IN/10 IL although Evansville doesn't meantion it that much since it's their far reaching counties that are on eastern time. The Yuma, AZ/El Centro, CA market has to deal with the time zone issue for half of the year since Arizona doesn't observe DST and all the English-language stations follow AZ time. So news anchors do have to end up saying "Tonight at 10pm Mountain, 9pm Pacific..." or the shorter "Tonight at 10/9 pacific...". You get used to it after a while. I like the idea of a news brief, and I don't think time zone would make much of a difference. Once CA moves forward an hour, it's back to "Tonight at 10..." So for half the year it sucks to live on the CA side of the market. On the other hand, CA viewers get their late local news at 9pm and Jay Leno at 9:35pm. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhampsten 0 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 The Yuma, AZ/El Centro, CA market has to deal with the time zone issue for half of the year since Arizona doesn't observe DST and all the English-language stations follow AZ time. So news anchors do have to end up saying "Tonight at 10pm Mountain, 9pm Pacific..." or the shorter "Tonight at 10/9 pacific...". You get used to it after a while. I like the idea of a news brief, and I don't think time zone would make much of a difference. Once CA moves forward an hour, it's back to "Tonight at 10..." So for half the year it sucks to live on the CA side of the market. On the other hand, CA viewers get their late local news at 9pm and Jay Leno at 9:35pm. yeah here it worked the other way half the year. since Terre Haute and other Indiana stations decided when they didn't use DST the half the year it was the 11/in 10/il, but in the Summer when we was on the same time, we had to wait till 11 for the late news, and 11:35 for Leno and Letterman. really sucked, unless you had other stations that stuck with central IE Evansville or St Louis, so in the summer if you went out to dinner you wouldn't miss ER or whatever. but now since Indiana is Eastern time except for Chicagoland and the Evansville metro, it's always the same time, just they are the hour ahead. it got real confusing at times around here, but most folks solved that problem by dumping cable and getting dish network with the st louis stations. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 254 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Kevin Orpurt at WTHI hates the whole time zone thing because certain counties in Indiana are on CDT, and some are one EDT, one of my teacher's daughter went to his workshop, and they said that when he talked about it his knuckles would get all white, and his face would get bloodshot. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilene 2 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I grew up in South Bend, IN, which until DST got resolved here had to report Indiana and Michigan times for things half the year. So it was "Live at 5" half the year and "Live at 5, 6 in Michigan" the other half. This stuff is just a fact of life for any station that serves two sides of a time zone. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3564-moving-the-network-news-to-7pm/page/2/#findComment-37055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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