My thoughts on the subject of CW50 news cast.
- Both channel 50 and 62 are CBS properties
- Both channels (50,62) offer very little local programming or community driven programming
- Local fixed news (Fox 2) does a poor job of community programming and local news coverage
After years of no local news just 5 minutes weather cast once every morning at the top and bottom between national morning news cast and five minutes each night at eleven o’clock. Out of nowhere CW50 has started a nightly news show. On the surface one would think it originate somewhere in the city of Detroit or at the very least the tri county region. But sadly, is it not.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 506762002/
Like our local fixed new channel (Fox 2) both corporate owners of the both our local channel see green
from having news at 10:00 and 11:00 each night because of the additional ad revenue from this year's
national election cycle. Not that long ago, Fixed 2 dropped 11:00 p.m. news only to bring back before a national election.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/14/ ... rate_media
The fixed 2 morning news bring to mind how to waste almost 8 hours (4:30 – 11:00 a.m) every morning.
1. Have two persons read the news from a teleprompter for 2 hours
2. Repeat the same weather forecast on the 2s or 4s every hour.
3. After 60 or 90 minutes regurgitate the news
4. At 9:00 a.m. move to a couch to talk non-news for sixty minutes
5. At 10:00 a.m. regurgitate the news again between this maybe a new news item(s) or breaking news
6. At 11:00 a.m. teleprompt new news (maybe) for 60 minutes
All in all, three local news channels do a poor job covering local government(s) and each do a poor job
covering own state legislature on the continuing basics or they farm it out to Tim Skubick (Fixed 2) or have a sorry program like “Flashpoint” (WDIV often times 20 minutes of none thing). They all could learn something from PBS TV news and radio or the very least steal from our local PBS local TV and radio, Michigan radio in terms on how to program local news, community programming. But then again, we are talking corporate news; our form of Soma.