It was the So You Think You Can Dance road show. I had tickets but ran out of town last minute. I heard it was packed and amazing. (Just in response to the inquiry)

FAMU did have homecoming stuff going on at the CC also.

Hey everyone! Sorry I have not been able to post in a while stuff has gotten busy here lately.

I wanted to give my opinion and get YOUR opinion on the local media in Tallahassee. This was a topic over at UrbanPlanet.org that I wanted to dig back into.

My Opinion

We have only have two local TV stations that actually have local news.

I have a "bone to pick" with both of them.

ABC27HD - This is the station that I prefer to watch because it seem to be more modern than WCTV.

I notice the little things when it comes to news. I like the camera angles they use when they come back from a break. I like how the set is pretty modern. (Compared to WCTV) The graphics and music don't look/sound like they are from the 70's.

BUT, the talent could use some work. There are some good anchors/reporters, and some not so good ones. I won't mention any names. They need to have more than one anchor per newscast.

WCTV - Great news, but VERY out dated. The new graphics are nice, but the same music? The music needs to complement the graphics and it just isn't working out the way it is. They need to use some new camera angels, just modernize things a bit.

AND PLEASE, WE DONT WANT TO SEE CURTAINS WERE THE SET IS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE UP THE WIDTH OF THE CAMERA.

That's my take on the two stations. I would really like to see more options when it comes to news.

I have called NBC 40. I got a nice young lady on the phone. I asked her if she knew if they planned on bringing back local news sometime soon. She told me she was not sure but they just got a new GM and it was a possibility. She did let me leave a voicemail for the new GM. A week later, I have not heard back.

To be honest, with it being Sinclair Broadcasting, I am not holding my breath. I think it would be nice to have Gannett buy the station. Gannett owns the Democrat and many other TV stations and does an excellent job with TV.

Afterwords, I called up Fox 49. I spoke to the programing manager. He told me that they just don't have it in the budget to have a "real" news station. They would continue to do the 10PM news through WCTV. He did though inform me that if they did get the money, they would bring in a full news team.


Good Day TLH??
I would love to see one of the local stations come up with something like "Good Day TLH" or something.
A morning show that was fun and interesting to watch while getting the news would be great.
If we could get one that would be on later into the day 9/10ish.

I know we are no LA but there is a station called KTLA. They are the CW affiliate in LA.

There morning news is GREAT! Its fun, entertaining, yet they deliver the news in a dependable way.

Here is a add for there morning news, you can kind of see what I am talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDAi1cZ7EI

Thoughts???

Good Day TLH Seems like a perfect idea....

Hey Tally!

I like the icon.

Haha, thank you very much

I dont watch the news... why when you can read the news stories online.

News stories? Please tell me you're not talking about the Tallahassee DummyCrap! aka, tdo.com

Galant nole? they post the NEWS STORIES to their respective websites.

Hmmm, Too me its just a waste of time.. I think the news is mostly not news anyways.

I noticed WCTV's female weekend meteorologist has suddenly disappeared and has been replaced by some guy from Minnesota. Any info on the sudden departure?

Is WTXL still owned by the outfit down in Sarasota?

The meteorologist on wctv said Wednesday on the goodmorning show she was leaving to get married. I'm assuming that involved her moving away, or she married rich and doesnt need to work anymore.

Gray Television could miss debt compliance
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financia ... F9B9O2.htm

Sounds like Gray is going to have to tell all its stations to cut back even further. I wonder how it will affect WCTV.

Well, given what Maria Chung says on her blog about "retiring" and having a wedding in Santorini, my guess is that she's set for life.

http://twitter.com/mariachungwx

florida wrote:

Beukeboom wrote:Gray Television could miss debt compliance
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financia ... F9B9O2.htm

Sounds like Gray is going to have to tell all its stations to cut back even further. I wonder how it will affect WCTV.

The article references the loss of advertisement revenue from the auto industry and for the first time I'm realizing there are fewer car commercials on tv these days.

I just read a report that Gray losses are worse than anticipated. Doesn't look good.

florida wrote:Is this due to a decline in ad revenue you think. I honestly don't watch WCTV as much as I used to so I can't say I've noticed anything different.

The report I read dealt with Gray only not the individual stations so I don't know at this time if any edicts have been handed down from corporate. I subscribed to a couple of industry insider services while I worked at WCTV and continue to get email updates and one I received a couple of days ago had an update on Gray.