Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]JP usta be a photog for them On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA