Due to having to pay for YouTubeTV in order to allow my mom in law to watch Jeopardy, I’ve been trying to justify the expense by watching local news (as well as banking episodes of Huell Howser and Rick Steves). Los Angeles has fired or retired nearly all of the veteran news staff and replaced them with perky (including the guys) kids seemingly straight out of college who will work for minimum wage. As a result, nobody on air knows what they are doing, nobody knows a thing about the culture (yes, there is some) of Southern California, and there are no experts of any sort doing reporting of any kind. This is an election year, and if the local stations all stopped doing local newscasts, not only would it not hurt the public, the public might actually benefit from not having to watch the televised sh*tshow.
I want actual news on TV, but what passes for news now isn’t worth a WeWork gift card. On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 2:52 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > Trivia fact: The Weird Al movie "UHF" was filmed in Tulsa, and the evil > network affiliate in the movie is Channel 8 - not a coincidence. > > > On Nov 10, 2023, at 2:40 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > WTUL Channel 8, the Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in Tulsa, is moving its > news production 100 miles away to Oklahoma City, where Sinclair owns two > stations (Fox affiliate KOKH and independent KOCB). > > From what Erin Christy (an anchor at Tulsa station KJRH) is writing on > Twitter/X, it appears (though it is not confirmed) that they will still > have reporters in Tulsa but that all the anchoring and news production will > be done out of Oklahoma City, and that Tulsa will be more like a "bureau." > https://twitter.com/Erin_Christy/status/1722996630998102422 > There's a news story behind a paywall at > https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/sinclair-broadcast-group/article_d4298c30-7f44-11ee-a9a5-4747bab26bfa.html > > For reference, Tulsa is the 47th most populous city in the country, and > the station - which moved its license from Muskogee to Tulsa in 1957 - is a > longtime part of the city's cultural identity. And if this can happen in a > city with a population larger than New Orleans, Cleveland or Pittsburgh, > who knows what's next. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/24fd615f-8008-4376-bcec-e03dec0d96d7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/24fd615f-8008-4376-bcec-e03dec0d96d7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/50E72343-231E-48E9-9373-B25D27608C30%40ellwanger.tv > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/50E72343-231E-48E9-9373-B25D27608C30%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Db-6O0DSAHYafytVG2mMBCfJMy9N0OqEjswG11cPGvAw%40mail.gmail.com.
