On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Doug Elrod <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before N10N, there were local news broadcasts in some of the medium- > size cities in the area, but those got shut down in the > consolidation. I believe there are "stringers" covering local areas, > but I'm not sure how "local" they are anymore, or if one can even make > a living doing that :-(. Those "stringers" make a very, very small amount of money, and may not even be out of college yet. I wouldn't be surprised if N10N used some college students from Cornell, and made use of internships. The Binghamton market actually has two local over-air news operations, I think...WBNG/12 (CBS) and WIVT/32 (ABC, they have a full run of WNN at 2:30 AM weeknights according to listings). WIVT runs a low-power NBC affiliate that only runs repeats of WIVT's newscasts. (It used to bring in WETM, the NBC affiliate in Ithaca, but they are no longer co-owned. Oh, the Fox affiliate has a 10 PM show, I think, which it produces itself. The newscasts are probably as bad as you think they are. WBNG is owned by Granite, which is in horrid shape and isn't known for spending money on its news operations. WIVT is owned by Newport Television, which used to be the Clear Channel TV group. Newport is in even worse shape than Granite! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
