Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, but you are mistaken. You can't make slim slices of viewership. I was referencing the ratings that make WTNH number two and in some newscasts number three. You are right, though. In the New Haven Area, they do pretty good. Bleak in Hartford, though. Even with what's going on these days, being number three as a network affiliate is a license to print money, otherwise, the owners would make efforts to compete with WFSB. TNH successfully fought the local cable who was threatening to drop them, and the Cable raised rates instead of dropping them. You are possibly and probably right about the remote issues, but my point is, of course that it is not prudent to do any of that as they are not really serving the area, and it shows in the ratings. Advertisers buy time based on ratings. I've worked for three network affiliates in New Orleans (one was the same station, 15 years later, different management, different location, even different channel number) also worked for another CBS in Baton Rouge. BTW, I think Channel eight still has some photogs on staff. I thin J.P. Morgan still works for them. Maybe not. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:40 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Sonny writes: > > "Larry > As I understand it, WTNH has been a distant number two in the news market > for years, and they've been holding on to that for dear life against > WVIT. Number one WFSB still does investigative reporting." > > Sonny, > > By "local" news I mean news of the New Haven area and the towns along I-95 > on the north shore of LI Sound. (Guilford, Branford, Bridgeport, Westport > and Stamford). WTNH is located in New Haven. All the other Connecticut TV > stations are in Hartford in the center of the state. Local news, high > school sports, traffic reports are what attract local advertisers, the > bread and butter of regional TV stations and small newspapers. All the > national and international news comes from AP, Reuters, and the networks > themselves. WTNH has no national reporters. They take what ABC gives them. > It is understandable being number two in the news market. Hartford is both > the state capital and has many more people than New Haven. All New Haven > has is Yale. But it is regrettable that few stations do investigative > reporting. There is hardly a town in the state that doesn't have a full > share of scandal and corruption. > > But like newspapers most TV stations are hanging on by their fingernails. > Competition from the internet, Hulu, cable and Netflix has decimated their > business. If you have a computer or even an iPad you don't need a TV set. > WTNH has let all their cameramen, most of their directors and producers and > virtually all of their technical staff go. Studio camerawork is handled > remotely from the station chain headquarters in Springfield, Ma. Local TV, > and I suspect national TV is a declining business. The buggy whip makers of > the 21st century. Image making is still important. After all those 500 > cable channels have to broadcast something. But most of it is being done by > independents and free lancers. Working as a photographer is like working as > a fine artist, writer or poet. You have to find or make your own market. > > Larry Z > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA