newswatch 1 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 There are moments in life when the mighty has fallen, especially in the television business ABC Sports - in independently-produced sports department on the ABC Television Network; Now it is under the hands of ESPN, and ESPN Sports Telecasts are broadcasted on ABC under the name ESPN on ABC. Both Denver Stations - KWGN (CW) and KDVR (FOX) - Share a Building about 2-minutes Downtown Denver on Speer Blvd. KWGN in Englewood (Denver suburb) and KDVR (Former FOX O&O Downtown) used to independently produce 9PM Newscasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roscoryan 21 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I would think mention of WBBM comes into play here... And here in the Twin Cities, KSTP is another good example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvpirate05 1 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 The most famous case (or infamous) locally is WTKR...who, on this board, makes about 90% of the threads on Hampton Roads news. They dominated ratings in the 80s up until about the mid-90s. However, several factors led to ratings trouble, and they haven't recovered in about 12 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 WUSA, and I guess could we throw WESH in here too? Also, seems like all of the Pittsburgh stations aren't what they once were... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg9018 10 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 KRON KTBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ybYellow 2 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 WBZ - January 2, 1995 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityprod 9 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 In the UK, ITV News, which used to be branded as ITN until 1999 and is still ITN produced, used to be a real competitor to the BBC. Now it's struggling to be an also ran, having been long since overtaken by Channel 4 News, also ITN produced, and by Sky News. Currently ITV News and Five News are battling it out for wooden spoon honours! ITV News fell around March 1999 when they cancelled their News At Ten bulletin and rebranded eveything ITV News rather than ITN News. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib-td 1 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 a recent classic is the downward spiral more like butt dive of WTVJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 409 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 WCAU In 2001 they were in a heated competion for the #1 spot in Philly but bad personnel moves and poor news directing has led the once famed station that brought you the likes of such greats as Edward R. Murrow and John Facenda is now in a cesped of mediocrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbhcity 3 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 KNXT (now KCBS) 1975.....Goodbye Jerry Dunphy and the Big News.....Hello...crap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib-td 1 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 WCAU In 2001 they were in a heated competion for the #1 spot in Philly but bad personnel moves and poor news directing has led the once famed station that brought you the likes of such greats as Edward R. Murrow and John Facenda is now in a cesped of mediocrity. sounds like similar management problems which plagued WTVJ - same owner as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliverolang 41 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 How about WKBW When your once dominant station ends up getting owned by Granite, you know you're screwed! You could also count dumping Eyewitness News for 7 News, as well as MCTYW (Except for the 11PM newscasts). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsJunkie247 1 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 KDKA Even though they are #1 in Pittsburgh, compaired to the KDKA of the 80's and 90's, they stink now. It all started when veterans like Patti Burns and Ray Tannehill (who have both passed on, rest in peace) left the station . Then when they got rid of the "Eyewitness News" branding and stared using "KDKA-TV News" and when they stopped using "The Hometown Advantage" slogan in their newscasts. Then when they got rid of the blue and gold graphics in favor of those awful graphics that WBBM had. Then when Jennifer Antkowiak left the station and they replaced her with Kristine Sorensen (who isn't too bad, but stumbles a lot and doesn't have good chemistry with Ken Rice). Thank God that they still have veterans like Stacy Smith and Patrice King Brown. Now we can only hope that when they go HD (which *I think* is sometime in early 2009) they will get some better graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El ojo 0 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 WXYZ in Detroit Even with Bill Bonds and his crazy act outside of the studio, they were a power house that could not be beaten. Still good today as tv newsrooms go but nothing like they used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 CBS Evening News (twice): Say what you will about Walter Cronkite, but he did have the authoritativeness to help CBS' nightly newscast reach #1 following the Huntley-Brinkley team breaking up. Then Dan Rather gets what would have been a news anchor of that period's dream come true, and within a few years sends it in a fast race to the bottom. Then after the Bob Schieffer period saw it rise to a consistent #2 for the first time in many, many moons (partly due to the chaos at ABC following the death of Peter Jennings and then Bob Woodruff's injury that ended the Vargas-Woodruff experiment and led to Charles Gibson getting the job he should have been handed a year earlier), in comes Katie Couric. Under her, after a brief "honeymoon" period, CBS has not only returned to the evening news cellar, but is getting LOWER numbers than Rather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 KYW- Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane WKBD- After getting WWJ, their 10 o'clock newscast which lasted 15 years were cancelled after WWJ bought down WKBD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitCleTV 9 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 WKBN-Youngstown: When Tom Holden died, and Gina Marinelli leaving the station soon after. Then you have the "merger" with WYTV. :puke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief-O 28 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 WTMJ, circa 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 381 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 CBS Evening News (twice): Say what you will about Walter Cronkite, but he did have the authoritativeness to help CBS' nightly newscast reach #1 following the Huntley-Brinkley team breaking up. Then Dan Rather gets what would have been a news anchor of that period's dream come true, and within a few years sends it in a fast race to the bottom. Then after the Bob Schieffer period saw it rise to a consistent #2 for the first time in many, many moons (partly due to the chaos at ABC following the death of Peter Jennings and then Bob Woodruff's injury that ended the Vargas-Woodruff experiment and led to Charles Gibson getting the job he should have been handed a year earlier), in comes Katie Couric. Under her, after a brief "honeymoon" period, CBS has not only returned to the evening news cellar, but is getting LOWER numbers than Rather. Katherine Anne Couric is the reason why, when it comes to evening news, I never touch CBS on the weeknights. ABC's Charles Gibson is it for me when it concerns evening news. CBS made a big mistake when it hired Katie Couric; Harry Smith or Russ Mitchell would have been better choices there than Couric ever was. Also, truth be told, I never see NBC for evening news. I don't know what it is, but I cannot stand (and never could stand) Brian Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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