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My top recommendation for lay off is Darcel Grimes, what exactly does she do other than show up to anchor the news? I was born and raised in the area – and I do not watch the news when she is on – expect for school closings before the internet. I have heard she has run so many co-anchors off over the years- but only those "in the know" would know the truth. I imagine she is way over paid for her limited ability.
I do watch the morning news, and enjoy most of the news people. My only other recommendation is Karen Wynne.
Terrie Foster was the best anchor/reporter WLOS ever had! And now she’s been laid off??? No doubt about it … on-camera and off-camera, it’s a bush-league station managed by amateurs!!!
We wondered why they use the same camera man at the Erwin games this week. He came to the last game last night but had to leave early I guess to cover another news story. Erwin appreciates the coverage though.
Thanks WLOS.
On another note, Charter Media has laid off a good friend of mine. He was the production manager for Channel 10’s TV shows and programed commercials. Next Friday is his last day. I here others are going to be laid off too.
I wonder what URTV pays to run the place. My friend Bob would be great.
I hear they are in turmoil.
It was a total of 5 position. One reporter, one photog and 3 APs, two of which were producing shows. Going to be a lot of switching around behind the scenes to cover the shows that these people were on. They gave them 2 weeks to get all their stuff in order, make tapes, etc. I hope them all well.
I would say that even if they cut back on newscasts it wouldn’t really save that much money. Alot of the news reports are just repeats from other broadcasts. Each one of those "local" newscasts are just another selling option for the sales team. I’m sure one of the huge costs they took on this year was when they switched to HD. The power to push that signal has to raise every aspect of the operation. They are just like every other business, trying to say every penny they can.
Just my 2 cents.
RE: No one in particular.
Newscasts are some of the only programming where the station owns all of the "avails" (sellable commercial slots) so that’s an unlikely place to look for savings. Synicated programs and network programs come with syndicated and network commercials. The local station only gets a portion of those slots. For the network news program, most stations don’t get to sell a commercial within the program at all… it’s all network and usually room for only two :30’s at the beginning OR end (not necessarily both.)
Also news commands a higher cost-per-point than other programming, it’s the product regional and local advertisers are looking for. In short, if a cash cow still exists in local media, it’s local news.
Yes, local news is expensive to create– especially in a market as physically huge as this one.
I’m sad to see any individuals lose their jobs on one hand. On the other hand the news programs created by this particular local station are so laughably bad… You’d at least HOPE there was a leader in there somewhere who could weed out the show-up-and-make-another-show-crowd and let some fresh new talent develop and flourish.
Y’know…they may end up doing this anyway, but why not cut out one or more of their newscasts to save money and maybe save some of these jobs? Do they REALLY need to have the news on in the early morning (for however long it’s on, I don’t really know), an hour at noon, an hour and a half in the evening on WLOS, plus another half hour at 6:30 on WMYA, then the 10:00 pm, and finally the 11:00 pm newscast? There was a time when we got the noon, 6:00, and 11:00 and that was it! A lot of what’s on at 5 & 5:30 is just filler stuff anyway, and the 6:30 is really just a rehash of what was on at 6:00 on a different station.
I say they should cut the noon back down to 1/2 hour, then kill the 6:30 and the 10:00 pm. I don’t know how much that would cut down on their costs, but it would have to reduce them some. Of course, they’d then have to spend money on some programs to fill those empty slots, so I guess it would come down to which was cheaper: buying programming or making their own.
Don’t take Holly Hedrick! She is the poor man’s Cameron Diaz! If someone else HAS to go, I suppose it could be Courtney Brennan (she is just the poor man’s Reese Witherspoon). Is Sherril Barbor semi-retired? He only seems to show up when it snows so he can wear his "snow hat."