The “local shops” have no budgets, and have either fired or forced into retirement all the veterans with experience doing actual news. My guess is they will further consolidate news, one “local” producing stories for entire regions (i.e. the entire Midwest gets a single assignment editor), stripping away community studies and local identity.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 2:21 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's interesting is that CBS is going back to having News control the > owned stations' local news shops--something they and NBC did back in the > 50s and 60s, until the ABC-owned stations, which news shops weren't > controlled by the news department, changed local news forever with the > "Eyewitness News" format (and what was called disparagingly back then > "happy talk"). Eventually, News let go of the local departments and CBS > and NBC-owned stations continued to have soft ratings while ABC's stations > continued to dominate in those markets (although "happy talk" per se at its > worst eventually disappeared). Is CBS going to try to rebuild the local > shops as serious news outlets like in the Cronkite days? > > Mark Jeffries > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 2:53 PM Diner <bwayst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dan Rather and Connie Chung? >> >> Seriously, this is the first I've heard about Zirinsky leaving. Sounds >> like it was not the smooth match that had been expected. >> >> >> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 3:26:34 PM UTC-4 steve...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Take a look at this story from the Poynter Institute >>> https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2021/cbs-news-names-a-new-president-and-its-actually-two-people/ >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ec028554-b959-4d8d-ac61-7a5850f3fa6en%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ec028554-b959-4d8d-ac61-7a5850f3fa6en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8sp3bCeD5vYjaVqK0y%2BJUE90pr74iboadsqm-%3DMBLZOQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8sp3bCeD5vYjaVqK0y%2BJUE90pr74iboadsqm-%3DMBLZOQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Dx6DzVrVZZow8Wa3ZVpbURz5z3XFoexKEAn7OHfXpHng%40mail.gmail.com.
