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A rant about the state of Morning Television

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef2, Dec 19, 2019.

  1. Monday Morning Sportswriter

    Monday Morning Sportswriter Well-Known Member

    I remember in 1987, the Albany CBS affiliate got a morning show. It aired from 6:30 to 7. Because this was the days before crawls and other effects were common, snow days were ridiculous.

    They’d spend the first part of the newscast reading off school closings. Then a commercial, followed by weather. Another commercial, followed by “recapping our top story” and repeating the closings, following by “one last check of the weather.”

    Only news that day: it’s snowing.
     
  2. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Morning television is so impossibly bad right now, it's hard to put into words.
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Early morning local shows, which now start at 4:30 a.m. (!) in the Boston market, have two prime sorts of information to deliver. 1. Weather, as this thread proves. 2. Traffic. Well, covid has made both of those sort of irrelevant for the past seven months. If mom and dad are working from home and the kids doing remote schooling, who cares what the weather and traffic is like. And TV is a habit. Get out of a habit for a few months, maybe you've lost it.
     
  4. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Ah, the days of simultaneously watching the TV scroll and listening to radio waiting to hear if your two-hour delay was going to turn into a closing.

    My school was in the A’s, so when the scroll was in the D’s it was going to be a long wait.

    The radio station had an “eight minute guarantee.” Every eight minutes you’d get the closings.
     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Try. I always get a laugh out of it.
     
  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    KTLA was doind Dance Party Fridays 12 years ago. It's gotten worse?
     
  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

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  8. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    When I get up and make breakfast in the morning, I have music playing. I can get weather and other important information on my phone, iPad or computer. Who needs TV?
     
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  9. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    We watch the local NBC station while having coffee and checking e-mail. Familiar voices are nice.
     
  10. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    In all the years I anchored mornings...

    We. Never. Did. Shit. Like. That.

    I’m very proud of that.

    When I see this, I wonder who here is equipped to handle flood coverage overnight, who could handle European terrorism of 2016/17 that happened overnight here in the U.S.
     
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  11. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Can’t convince me lady on the right isn’t Anna Kendrick in a SNL newscast sketch.
     
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  12. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Come to think of it, the famous "Vietnam condom factory" got a lot of play on morning TV - "Hey, we're disgusted too - but it's TRENDING!!!!"

    "Mom, what's a condom?"
    "Finish your cereal junior!"
     
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