| Topic Name: |
TV SPORTS |
| Message Name: |
Dinosaur |
| Date Posted: |
06/12/2005 |
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Heard he gets 5 minutes in the 5, 9 minutes or more at 6, depending if the Redskins are a story of the day...and 4-5 minutes at 11. Also get like 6 or 7 on weekends and more if its a football sunday. Is Wally Bruckner still the weekend guy? |
| Message: |
TV sports is a dinosaur at most stations and in the next 5-6 years, most stations in the top 50 markets will do sports very infrequently within a newscast. If a top athlete gets arrested, that will make the newscast...but features, sound bites with boring coaches, and highlights are going to cease to exist. Why? One word...CONSULTANTS. ALL consultants hate sports, and they've used the ESPN phenomenon as an excuse to eliminate it from the newscast. This logic is flawed of course, because everyone can get weather on the weather channel 24/7 or on their website, and you can get news all day on cable, and via the internet. Sports in the newscast may stick around in places like Boston, NYC, and Chicago...but just about everywhere else, it's going to be toast soon. Let's face it...the consultants are driving this business.
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