NY Stations Fall2010 Schedules & WPIX READDING WEEKEND News at 6

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here is the article :

 

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/08/new-york-city-locals-fall-2010.html

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Intresting how PIX11 is doing the news at 6 instead of 6:30..since every station does their news at 6..(except ch2 on Sunday) but why are they only bringing that newscast back for the weekend and not during the week?

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Intresting how PIX11 is doing the news at 6 instead of 6:30..since every station does their news at 6..(except ch2 on Sunday) but why are they only bringing that newscast back for the weekend and not during the week?

 

The weekend 6pm news on the major stations during the fall is often pre-empted due to sports programming.

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Intresting how PIX11 is doing the news at 6 instead of 6:30..since every station does their news at 6..(except ch2 on Sunday) but why are they only bringing that newscast back for the weekend and not during the week?

 

 

Maybe because unlike 2, 4 and 7, they DON'T do a weekend MORNING show..... ??

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From today's MEDIA FISHBOWL:

 

WPIX Switches Morning Anchors; Adds Weekend Newscast

By Jerry Barmash on Sep 08, 2010 09:16 AM

 

WPIX/Channel 11 bringing back an early evening newscast starting this Saturday, September 11 at 6 p.m.

 

The move comes after the Tribune-owned station pulled the plug on its nightly 6:30 p.m. newscast after a brief eight-month run.

 

"We have two [syndicated] shows that are expiring, and it created an opportunity," WPIX news director Bill Carey told FishbowlNY. "We realized that we have everything in place because we do a 10 o'clock show [and] people still come in for a full day of work."

 

Therefore, Carey says, it doesn't cost the station anything extra to produce a 6 p.m. weekend newscast.

 

"It's good counterprogramming for people that don't watch football," Carey admits.

 

Another change for WPIX involves their morning newscast airing weekdays from 4:30-9 a.m.

 

As the station prepares for a 4 a.m. start time on September 20, Carey has flipped anchors John Muller and Chris Burrous.

 

Burrous, who joined PIX in June, is now co-anchoring the PIX Morning News with Sukanya Kristan from 6-9 a.m.

 

The veteran Muller, on the PIX Morning News since its inception in 2000, will need an earlier wake-up call. He is headed to the 4:30-6 a.m. portion (4 a.m. as of Sept. 20) of the broadcast with Tamsen Fadal.

 

"We're kind of timing it so that we can cement our place at 4 o'clock in the morning," Carey says. "I just feel like the pairings make us a stronger team and we made the flip."

 

WPIX has been a trailblazer in the local morning news race. In 2008, they became the first to air a 4:30 newscast. Eventually, most of the other stations joined WPIX at 4:30. (WCBS remains the lone holdout, starting their two-hour news block at 5 a.m.)