Rutherford, Polk & McDowell counties are "battleground" counties, not only with the SC stations in this market, but also (at least for Rutherford, and, to a lesser degree, McDowell) with the Charlotte market. Years back, I believe, WLOS had a bureau (excuse me, now it’s called a "news center") in Marion. The most recent incarnation, the Rutherford County News Center, has been the on-air entryway to WLOS for Robert Green (now doing commercials for Golf USA, in case you never found the answer to your "whatever happened to…?" query from awhile back), John Le, Candice Little and Mary Jedlicka, with a return visit from Tracy Martin squeezed in there after her stint at ‘SPA.
The challenge there, and with any story done outside Buncombe or Henderson counties, is to try to find a way to make it relevant to the whole NC part of the market (particulary Bunc & Hend), while still representing that you’re doing news in the other counties, where Nielsen doesn’t see fit to deploy very many metering devices.
AshDecember 3, 2005 - 3:50 am
RoIn, I think it has something to do WLOS’ television market, ratings and keeping the competition at bay. Rutherford County falls into a no-man’s land that other television stations would like to claim, so in order to keep ratings high enough mark the territory theirs, and to prop up advertising rates, WLOS maintains a "bureau" there.
I think.
RoInDecember 3, 2005 - 2:57 am
Speaking of WLOS, what on earth is with their OBSESSION with Rutherford County? I don’t know about their other "news" broadcasts but every 6:00 weeknight broadcast has at least one story from Rutherford County even if it is of little relevance to people who live there.
Tonight it wasn’t just one story from Rutherford County but THREE of them — all in the first five minutes. The first, about a nativity scene at a church that was vandalized was the LEAD off story. It was followed by one about people throwing rocks off a bridge and by a third about a Rutherford County house fire. Each of these "news" stories preceded the story abut Bryan Freeborn’s unpaid ticket.
According to the US Census Bureau, in 2004 Rutherford County had a population of 63,570 while the city of Asheville had 70,400 people living in it and Buncombe County, as a whole, 215,680. Now, I’ll admit that I’m no math whiz, but would these numbers alone not imply that an impending decision by Asheville City Council has an effect on more people than any of the aforementioned Rutherford County stories?
Tonight was certainly not unprecedented. Check out 6:00 weeknight WLOS newscasts and see if it doesn’t seem as if they are hell-bent on reporting news, ANY news our of Rutherford County.
What’s the deal?
White Lightnin'December 2, 2005 - 1:07 pm
John Le from WLOS.. Steve Urkel from ‘Family Matters’…
Both TV morons.
Both wear cotton dockers.
Dockers. The pants.. for dorks.. who are on the TV.
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Kaboom! rumble, rumble, rumble… the Lightnin’ has spoken. Sucka
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That’s correct, Ash.
Rutherford, Polk & McDowell counties are "battleground" counties, not only with the SC stations in this market, but also (at least for Rutherford, and, to a lesser degree, McDowell) with the Charlotte market. Years back, I believe, WLOS had a bureau (excuse me, now it’s called a "news center") in Marion. The most recent incarnation, the Rutherford County News Center, has been the on-air entryway to WLOS for Robert Green (now doing commercials for Golf USA, in case you never found the answer to your "whatever happened to…?" query from awhile back), John Le, Candice Little and Mary Jedlicka, with a return visit from Tracy Martin squeezed in there after her stint at ‘SPA.
The challenge there, and with any story done outside Buncombe or Henderson counties, is to try to find a way to make it relevant to the whole NC part of the market (particulary Bunc & Hend), while still representing that you’re doing news in the other counties, where Nielsen doesn’t see fit to deploy very many metering devices.
RoIn, I think it has something to do WLOS’ television market, ratings and keeping the competition at bay. Rutherford County falls into a no-man’s land that other television stations would like to claim, so in order to keep ratings high enough mark the territory theirs, and to prop up advertising rates, WLOS maintains a "bureau" there.
I think.
Speaking of WLOS, what on earth is with their OBSESSION with Rutherford County? I don’t know about their other "news" broadcasts but every 6:00 weeknight broadcast has at least one story from Rutherford County even if it is of little relevance to people who live there.
Tonight it wasn’t just one story from Rutherford County but THREE of them — all in the first five minutes. The first, about a nativity scene at a church that was vandalized was the LEAD off story. It was followed by one about people throwing rocks off a bridge and by a third about a Rutherford County house fire. Each of these "news" stories preceded the story abut Bryan Freeborn’s unpaid ticket.
According to the US Census Bureau, in 2004 Rutherford County had a population of 63,570 while the city of Asheville had 70,400 people living in it and Buncombe County, as a whole, 215,680. Now, I’ll admit that I’m no math whiz, but would these numbers alone not imply that an impending decision by Asheville City Council has an effect on more people than any of the aforementioned Rutherford County stories?
Tonight was certainly not unprecedented. Check out 6:00 weeknight WLOS newscasts and see if it doesn’t seem as if they are hell-bent on reporting news, ANY news our of Rutherford County.
What’s the deal?
John Le from WLOS.. Steve Urkel from ‘Family Matters’…
Both TV morons.
Both wear cotton dockers.
Dockers. The pants.. for dorks.. who are on the TV.
—————————————————-
Kaboom! rumble, rumble, rumble… the Lightnin’ has spoken. Sucka
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