NY Media Update - March 3, 2008
March 3rd, 2008 by anthonyz |
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WABC Sends Out Reporter to North Korea
WABC, once again sent a reporter (Jim Dolan) to do a report out of the viewing market, this time in North Korea for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s trip to the country. Other New York stations used the Associated Press, network content or obtained material from PBS (WNET). The last story was the California Wildfires that made the station send out their reporters; instead of using the power of a “network” to report the story. WNBC and WCB,S for example, used reporters from the local affiliate station (KNBC and KCBS) to report the story. What WABC-TV is doing is that they are reporting national and international with their own local reporters going to the scene but the question is “is it good for the viewer?” My answer is that it might be good to see a familiar face reporting where the story is happening, but sometimes it might not be necessary. For example, back to the wildfires, the local reporters are more familiar with the landscape and have seen many wildfires in the past, but a New York reporter may have never seen a California in the past and is most likely not familiar with the landscape.
WABC “Eyewitness News” Is Number One Again, Sadly
WABC’s Eyewitness News is still number one in the New York market for the 39th survey ranking. With the old looking graphics (which looks worst in HD), 80’s music, and sending local reporters to other parts of the world; the question is “how can you watch this?” Lately, they have been reporting many car accidents and house fires (just like how sister station KABC covers every car chase in Los Angeles) which viewers have been complaining about. They have also been trying to create the next “rat” story that happened at a KFC last year that was first discovered by WNBC and became a national headline and yet they’ve been failing it since. In terms of awards, WABC is usually on the bottom of the list of the New York News Emmy, and critics say that the news reports are worst than what you watch on News 12.
WPIX Tops New York Emmy Nominations
WPIX topped WNBC with nominations for the the New York Emmy’s. We will be seeing the results by the spring! Here are the nominations:
WPIX - 30 Nominations
WNBC - 27 Nominations
WCBS - 22 Nominations
WABC - 16 Nominations
WWOR - 12 Nominations
Dan Forman Out of 4
This may be a good sign for WNBC fans (News 4 Junkies), Dan Forman is leaving WNBC at the end of March. Forman has been responsible for the crash of the ratings on the local newscasts on WNBC with changing anchor slots, changing timeslots for the evening newscast, and for removing consumer report Asa Aarons with the many budget cuts of the station.
In a memo to staff, station President Frank Comerford called Forman “an important part” of the station’s history. Forman joined NBC in 1993, and was a news director at WABC from 2000-2002 and joined WNBC as a news director in 2002.
Chang Goes To MY9
Ti Hau Chang, reporter for WCBS, is now moving over to WWOR as a general assignment reporter. Previsouly, he has been with WNBC, ABC News, and WNYC.
