‘Fresh news’ at 6:30 p.m.

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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WLOSers have been pimping the hell out of their new upcoming 6:30 p.m. newscast that will air on WMYA. Pat “Simple” Simon and Tallahassee Tammy Watford will anchor the news, which they’re pitching as “fresh news” for people who can’t get home in time to see the news at 6.

What, exactly, is “fresh” news? News that’s not stolen out of that day’s local daily newspaper or Web site? News that original and insightful? News that doesn’t sensationalize, that helps people make sense of the world? News that informs?

That would be fresh.

Is there really a tv market for another half-hour of news? We’ve got news in the morning, starting at what, 6 a.m.? We don’t know, we’re never up that early. There’s local news from noon until 1 p.m. There’s news from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. There’s news from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

And now there’s going to be “fresh news” from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

We can hardly wait.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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6 Comments

  1. hp October 17, 2006

    get a life

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  2. BMac September 28, 2006

    Best Anchor – Tammy
    Worst Anchor – Pat, Victoria
    Best Reporter – Terrie, Russ
    Worst Reporter – Kassandra
    Best Dressed – Edward, Russ
    Worst Dressed – Charu, Carolyn
    Most Annoying – Victoria, Mike
    Fattest Ego – Victoria, Larry B.
    Biggest Waste of time on TV – they have no choice in the matter, but… The Point with Mark Hyman
    Best forecast personality – Bob
    Worst forecast personality – Jay
    Needs to get out of the TV business – Victoria, Pat, Kassandra

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  3. eddie September 26, 2006

    Best Dressed-Cuevas

    Best Reporter-Russ

    Fattest Ego- Darcell

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  4. marc September 26, 2006

    Best Anchor – Tammy, nobody else is even close; the new sports guy Edward is pretty smooth, though.

    Worst Anchor – Victory, again, nobody else is even close; Pat’s not that bad, just a little too forced

    Best Reporter – Russ; I know you’ll disagree, but I think John is a really good reporter when he’s doing straight news and not the usual pun crap; and Terri seems to be pretty good, too

    Worst Reporter – Charu – nobody else even close

    Best Dressed – tie between Russ & Edward

    Worst Dressed – Charu, John

    Most Annoying – hard to narrow it down to one, but I’d say it’s got to be a tossup between Cuevas and Jay

    Fattest Ego – Cuevas; I think you’ve bought into the Darcel reputation, as opposed to reality; she may not be the most humble, but she’s far from the biggest ego in that newsroom

    Biggest Waste of time on TV – "13 minutes of nonstop news," soon to be followed by 30 minutes of "fresh" news from the NewsOne, Sinclair and CNN feeds that hasn’t been run on any of the other shows; both lagging far behind The Point

    Best forecast personality – none of them

    Worst forecast personality – all of them

    Needs to get out of the TV business – Hyman

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  5. yocat September 26, 2006

    Early morning news starts at 5am,so we get a whole 2 hours of yuck then.
    My question is,will their fresh news be just a rebroadcast of an earlier show?
    I think it’s a shame that this mess is all we have in our mountains for TV news.
    Time for some competition from somewhere please.

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  6. Damon September 26, 2006

    Ok Ashe, fill in the blank about WLOSers
    Best Anchor
    Worst Anchor
    Best Reporter
    Worst Reporter
    Best Dressed
    Worst Dressed
    Most Annoying
    Fattest Ego
    Biggest Waste of time on TV
    Best forecast personality
    Worst forecast personality
    Needs to get out of the TV business

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