Dilemma

Good to hear they've improved since I left my last station, which was a CBS affiliate.

I did weekend evenings there, so I had plenty of Charlie D'Agata. He was great, at least. Gwen Belton was always a disaster.

To be fair, I'm at a station that uses ABC Newsone and they're not much better. Last week they sent a package on the Iranian Boats crisis that was tracked with the OJ Simpson car chase. Thank god we actually, you know, screen packages before air.

And, let me jump on the bandwagon that Weekend mornings suck...even in big markets.

And, you obviously made the right move. Usually with election results the previous night pieces aren't dated since there's no new results info since the count stops until later the next morning. Of course, you have to hope a reporter didn't pull out a "tonight."

 

Yeah, needless to say, Gwen Belton was specifically who I was thinking of.

They've had someone filling in in DC - Tara Mergener - who's quite possibly worse.

 

She's horrible.

Our station does a lot of health news, so the health watch packages are used a lot. In fact I really like the health watch packages. They're usually interesting.

 

That's what we're working on. Since I've been a reporter before, our news director is sending me out to do interviews and work on stories during the week. We're in a state capital so we have a lot of new stuff from the legislative session starting.

We do other weekly features that aren't in any other shows with the anchors, but their entire purpose is to tease our weekday shows, so having other new features are going to be nice.