[BC] Boston CBS cutbacks

[Ernie Belanger]

Dana,

I'm with you on the Big Company not giving a rat's a** but since this 
is on the air talent  there is a slightly different bush to paint 
this one with.

We have not seen anyone canned here at WRGB in Albany, NY but the 
lead anchor for years Liz Bishop has been pulled from prime time and 
in back to Noon and 5:30 where she had been 10 years ago.  (sad 
because prime time 6:pm and 11PM cost her a marriage a few years back)

There are a couple of things at play here.

#1 CBS's network schedule with Katy pushes their net feed back a half 
hour so they are starting at 7PM when NBC and ABC are finishing.

#2 Katy is weak... CBS is #3 and so the local stations suffer with 
the weakest National News

#3 Most stations start News now at 5PM so by the time 7 rolls around 
you have news burn out.  Why watch CBS when you can get all the news 
on ABC or NBC and be done a half hour earlier.

I know in Albany also part of the issue is that RGB's anchors are 
older while ABC and NBC have opted to young down the anchor desk.. Ch 
10 WTEN (ABC)  younged down too much I think.  I don't have great 
comfort in some 27-32 year old with minimum life experience as my anchor.

WNYT NBC 13 opted for Early -Mid 40 anchors and are #1 with TEN as #2 
and old fathful CBS 6 WRGB  a distant 3rd.

So while part of is may be Big Companies not giving a darn.. A large 
part of it appears to be  CBS's screwed up news schedule.

It was almost as if no one trusted Katy's hard news judgment so they 
had to see what the other two guys were doing rather than risk a 
screw up with a wrong lead or not covering something they did.

In Boston Don't you just yearn for the good old days with Arch 
McDonald?? " and that's the latest news. For you Hospitality... Thank You"




>Dana Puopolo wrote:
>>The people they canned in Boston had been there for decades...They were
>>literally institutions.
>>This is concrete proof that these big companies don't give a rat's ass about
>>the communities they are licensed to serve.