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ABC 12 new slogan

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matt1
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ABC 12 new slogan

Post by matt1 » Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:36 am

WJRT ABC 12 "Your Trusted Source" is NOW "First, In - Depth, Everywhere" on their website!!



sinklair
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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by sinklair » Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:27 am

Sounds like talking points from a news consultant



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:14 am

sinklair wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:27 am
Sounds like talking points from a news consultant
They are struggling to right the ship over there. Never gonna happen.
If you worked there for one week, you would RUN back to your station.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by whitebalance » Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:50 am

The slogan should be " Your Trusted Public Access Channel for News".

Unless they fix the lack of experienced talent, unenthusiastic anchors and the weekend news, they will be that public access channel.

Gray is showing they should not own TV stations.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:27 am

PV’s running a 65 market station like the 176 Elmira one he came from. “You guys rock!”



Beerbong
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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:30 am

whitebalance wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:50 am
The slogan should be " Your Trusted Public Access Channel for News".

Unless they fix the lack of experienced talent, unenthusiastic anchors and the weekend news, they will be that public access channel.

Gray is showing they should not own TV stations.
Yes. Gray is a dismal group. :barf



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Deleted User 4520 » Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:27 am

I am confused as to why local channels have to emphasize news in their monikers. After all they are not a news network and the majority of their programming is NOT news.



Beerbong
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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:45 am

TheForce wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:27 am
I am confused as to why local channels have to emphasize news in their monikers. After all they are not a news network and the majority of their programming is NOT news.
Just a way to establish an identity
that’s different from the other guy. 12 has has so many identities they have schizophrenia.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:44 am

Sounds like talking points from a news consultant.
Agreed. Perhaps the same trash consultant WDIV in Detroit was using over a decade ago? ("Local 4 is Everywhere" the anchors would proclaim repeatedly during the newscast. )



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by sinklair » Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:47 am

5 has more gimmicks than the other stations combined, but it seems to work since they remain the dominant #1 station in the Flint-Saginaw DMA. I don’t get it, but it’s what works.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:56 am

sinklair wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:47 am
5 has more gimmicks than the other stations combined, but it seems to work since they remain the dominant #1 station in the Flint-Saginaw DMA. I don’t get it, but it’s what works.
They may be #1, but only because viewers
are creatures of habit. It will take an act of God to get most people to change the news they watch.
Thankfully, that act of God is in the form of PV and SO.
Time will tell.



Beerbong
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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:01 pm

lovinlife101 wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:48 pm
The latest strategy is simply “This is home! Jump! Jump!”

The visuals are what everyone thinks of when someone says, “Flint, Michigan.” Sledding. Lots of sledding. When anyone says “Flint, Michigan” the first thing everyone thinks of is not insoluble crime, crippling corruption in all public offices, record-breaking poverty, high school graduates in the single percentages, public access commercial television news operations, no. It’s SLEDDING!!!!

THIS IS HOME!!!!
I hate that campaign! Viewers were even complaining about it. It is a Gray thing.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Beerbong » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:22 pm

lovinlife101 wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:10 pm
Where else are their stations? Palm Beach?

SLEDDING!!!! MORE SLEDDING!!!!!
They have a winter and summer version of course.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Deleted User 4520 » Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:00 pm

I think the gimmicks make 5's newscasts look like high school broadcasts. It's just cheap & cheesy. I too am confused why they are #1! But many stations have these gimmicks.



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Re: ABC 12 new slogan

Post by Youplus » Sun Feb 02, 2020 6:06 pm

I would watch Wnem over the other two. For one Nbc25 never has local news, and if they do the other stations have already done it. ABC 12 is just having a way too many technical issues which makes it hard to watch them.



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