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Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 265
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:41 pm: |    |
the verdict is still out for me...I still dont get the purpose... |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 55
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 11:24 pm: | |
To have more air time is all. It's the same reason they moved their original 11 PM news to 10 PM and have a 4 hour morning news. That's why I don't watch FOX 2. Even their new look to me is nothing but a cheap paint over. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4104
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:01 am: | |
Anybody who ever worked in broadcasting should know that the most profitable advertising time is attributable to news shows. Count the number of minutes for ads...
Contrast that with the paltry amount of ad time that an affiliate may get from the network during primetime. Maybe as little as a total of 72 seconds per hour--for local ads and two seconds for an ID.
See why now? |
Meaghansdad
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Username: Meaghansdad
Post Number: 145
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:17 am: | |
People read too much into this, its a good lipstick job, thats it |
Clark1mt
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Username: Clark1mt
Post Number: 95
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 8:04 am: | |
It's probably cheaper than running Seinfeld. It's the same reason some tv stations will run news opposite Oprah.
Plus, they get to compete directly with the other stations at every newscast now. |
Falstaff
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Username: Falstaff
Post Number: 49
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 8:14 am: | |
The new woman reporter (Taryn Asher) sounds too much like Fran Drescher from "The Nanny" - her voice makes my skin crawl.
I couldn't listen to anything she was saying, I was too busy protecting my ears in cast she decided to laugh like Fran Drescher.
What gives, Fox2 spent so much on the set that they couldn't afford any normal sounding talent?
(Message edited by Falstaff on September 28, 2007) |
Lombaowski
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Username: Lombaowski
Post Number: 64
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 8:37 am: | |
Asher got that job because her boyfriend (Carr) works there and because she can party. I'm actually shocked to hear she got to that market.
Having worked in broadcasting in Michigan fairly recently, I'll tell you that there is a lot better talent out there.
(Message edited by lombaowski on September 28, 2007) |
Lo_to_d
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Username: Lo_to_d
Post Number: 13
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 9:20 am: | |
the new look is cheesy as hell!••
expect nothing less straight outta southfield! |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 89
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 9:32 am: | |
I love it! |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2817
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 9:37 am: | |
FOX 2 EDGE NEWS - TOTALLY RADICAL TO THE MAXX! IN YOUR FACE FOR A NEW MILLENIUM (enium...enium...enium...) YOU'VE GOT A WHOLE COUCH, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED... THE *EDGE* (edge...edge...edge...) [explosions and car crashes] |
Falstaff
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Username: Falstaff
Post Number: 51
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 9:39 am: | |
Taryn - sounds like Fran
Asher - sounds like Drescher
Do you see what they did? This newscast is just "The Nanny" updated to 2007 and placed on a newscast. You know Nanny meets "Back to You"
Deja vu all over again! |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2818
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 9:51 am: | |
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Falstaff
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Username: Falstaff
Post Number: 52
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 11:34 am: | |
I like explosions and car crashes. On the other hand, I never enjoyed watching "The Nanny"! |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1716
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:34 pm: | |
They are probably using their 10pm leverage to eat into the 11pm ratings. They probably figure it's more likely for you to catch some part of their 10pm news and stay through the 11pm news.
Primetime TV is the most profitable advertising time, btw. Spots in primetime TV on major networks go for 5 to 10 times what a spot on a local news program would...
Has Fox 2 adopted the Good Day format yet for it's morning show? |
Mrsjdaniels
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Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 266
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:37 pm: | |
oooh i love that JPEG! |
Falstaff
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Username: Falstaff
Post Number: 53
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 2:33 pm: | |
They have a ways to go before they will beat 7, much less 4 @ 11PM |
Gingellgirl
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Username: Gingellgirl
Post Number: 63
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 4:19 pm: | |
Sigh. Now I REALLY miss Bonds . . . |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 1564
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 4:26 pm: | |
Thats hilarious JL. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2821
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 4:35 pm: | |
Haha thanks. That newscast cracks me up. I love the Steven Bochco-esque "shakey camera" stuff. As though there are no mounted cameras in that studio. PLEASE! I like Fox's morning newscast, but now my poor morning friends seem out of place amongst that slick new set. Alan Lee's conspiracy theories about the oil companies and Ben and Jackie's constant teasing of each other don't seem to fit right in that studio. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 57
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 5:31 pm: | |
I think they're just too cheap to purchase syndicated shows like the others stations do. I know they only get what's leftover in the syndication pool (compared to NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates), but still, they could find something to show.
I like how WDIV, WWJ, WKBD, WMYD and WXYZ syndicates the national shows people love to fit their local schedules (Dr. Phil was tranferred to WWJ for Rachael Ray while Maury and Jerry Springer was transferred to WMYD so WDIV could add news shows to their schedule). It's like WJBK just doesn't do that. |
Falstaff
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Username: Falstaff
Post Number: 54
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 7:23 am: | |
I watched again. Not impressed. Perkins deserves better. |
Mauser765
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Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1962
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 8:40 am: | |
watch the nanny show with the sound muted, Fran is hot. |