Some tidbits gleaned from the Inside WLOS blog:
–Russ Bowen used to be an airline employee, so he likes covering airport stories, especially when he doesn’t have to deal with irate customers stuck in a snow storm:
I worked in reservations right out of college and later at a ticket counter at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Monday I didn’t miss that job at all.
-When you’re on TV, look count. Last year, Julie Wunder started writing down what she wore to work each day in her planner so she wouldn’t wear her favorite pink suit too often. And get this – she and Victoria Dunkle and Jay Siltzer coordinate outfits:
Jay, Victoria and I try to prevent that by planning out our outfits week by week. We try to compliment each other without actually matching. Jay usually is the most organized of the three of us and plans his suits for the week on Monday. Victoria writes his plan down and we take it from there. Sometimes I’m ahead of the game and fill in the blanks with what I’ve set aside early in the week. Otherwise, I usually get a text from Vic about 6 at night asking for inspiration or a plan for the next morning. I go to my calendar and try to pick an outfit that I have not worn recently. It’s not a perfect system… but it does keep us from all wearing brown pants suits on the same day (Yes, that happened once too!!).
–Frank Fraboni’s daughter’s car was crushed under a tree in the recent stormy weather. But c’mon, Frank: was your first thought really “Oh my…”?
If you caught the news, you probably heard that my teenager’s car became a victim of the snow storm. Sunday night, she went to a friends house and a giant tree fell right on top of it. When I arrived, my first reaction was, “Oh my, that’s our car under that tree!”
-And Tammy Watford gives us a rundown on musical eras:
Skip to the 80’s (my era) and Madonna took hold, asking papa not to preach and singing about virginity. I remember my mother turning off the television while I watched MTV. Funny, my brain never turned to mush.
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julie wunder is smoking hot! they should fire cuevios and just let her do the weather all the time!
"Turn to WSPA or WYFF instead of WLOS and you actually get NEWS most of the time."
True: though there’s always a shooting or robbery in Greenville, Spartanburg and environs for them to report on. Still, if there’s going to be bloggy interaction at WLOS, it would be nice to get past the personality stuff and discuss some of the editorial and technical decisions that go into the day’s news output.
Why does Jenny have to offer advice? Can’t anyone just rant about stuff anymore and be critical about anything without being jumped all over by everyone else? I see this on every internet message board & every website comments section and I’m tired of it. Someone leaves a critical comment about something, and 40 other people bash them for being critical. If Jenny doesn’t like WLOS, I think she has a right to gripe about it if she wants to, with or without offering them advice on how to fix what she doesn’t like. It’s a frickin’ comments section on a blog, not a critical analysis for a media journal.
I happen to agree with Jenny that WLOS doesn’t need to have as many newscasts as they do during the day. A lot of what they air is just filler and fluff and stuff that people could really care less about. Turn to WSPA or WYFF instead of WLOS and you actually get NEWS most of the time. It doesn’t fill up 5 hours of the programming schedule every day, and yet somehow you actually get more actual news. It’s baffling how they do that.
Speaking of WLOS, their choppy story editing is really getting on my nerves. You know what I mean. They have half a sentence from an interview subject, then a sentence of the reporter’s VO, then the other half of the interviewees sentence and so on for a minute and a half. It’s choppy, bad editing and is apparently something that they just started doing within the last couple of months. I don’t know why they edit their stories that way, but they need to stop it.
Would someone inside WLOS please explain to Jenny what "real" small market tv news is like? Also Jenny, Asheville is part of the 36th largest market in the country. That is 36 out of 216 markets. If you want to see bad tv news then you should travel to some of the truly small markets. Then you will see just how bad local news can be. I love how people like you can be so critical but never offer any advice or alternative way of doing things.
Sorry, but rant I must. I’m totally fed-up with WLOS news. The quality of the reporting, production and "personalities" is mediocre at best — and on the weekends I’d rather be watching an infomercial.
Ch. 13 has got to be one of the worst tv stations in the country. They have far too many local newscasts throughout the day for a small tv market that can barely justify even a 6 & 11 pm news program.
Take a pill Jenny. Maybe some sort of anti-anxiety med.
I guess WLOS can do whatever they want. If they want to blog on simple
stuff, their clothes, their pets, their lives… and get away from the norm, then so be it. People are different, have their own lives, and can blog about whatever. I do not necessarily root for WLOS, but the folks who do may love it. I do know that the individuals behind the "scenes" are real people (human
beings, with lives, with kids, with families… not losers), whether I like them or not personally, or business wise, and I will attempt to give them the common courtesy I try to give anyone else. Sometimes this is hard, sometimes it isn’t.
wow.
chill out.
Come On……who really cares about the private lives or habits of WLOS TV news readers?
Is there really that little going on in Western NC that we are subjected to this kind of BS?
What a waste of time, but it’s Sunday and I’m guessing you need filler material.