[BC] Boston CBS cutbacks
Alan Kline
akline at netins.net
Sat Apr 5 16:12:20 CDT 2008
Actually, the first feed of the CBS Evening News is at 6:30 Eastern,
just like the other two, so Katie is doing her newscast at the same time
as Williams and Gibson.
If the station chooses to take the 7 pm refeed, that's almost surely
their choice, so they can do a full hour of local at 6.
ak
Ernie Belanger wrote:
> #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.
...
> 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.
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