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Originally Posted by Sandy G
The local stations down here start the "6 o'clock" news at 4 or 5. They have Live at 5 on 5, then rehash the same dopey stuff at 5.30, regurgitate it AGAIN at 6, the networks take over a 6.30, then quite a few of 'em rerun the same 3 stories of a Horrible Wreck on the Interstate at 7 & 7.30 that we've heard about EVERY 30 minutes since 4 or 5.... And just in case you missed it, they dutifully repeat it AGAIN at 11 PM..The ads are even worse-down here, there's some bucktoothed guy w/a cheesy beard/stache who has been the spokesperson for "Johnson City Honda... Johnson City" for AGES, to try to get you believe that you'll get less of a screwing at the JC Honda emporium than you would if you went to the Dastardly cutpurses in Bristol or Kingsport.
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Yup. My sentiments exactly, Sandy. It's the same thing as what goes on (or seems to) everywhere on TV news these days. As I mentioned in my post, channels 5, 8 and 19 in Cleveland have 4 p.m. newscasts, followed by the usual 6 p.m. local news and 6:30 network newscasts. (Channel 3 would probably have a 5 or 5:30 p.m. newscast if not for Dr. Phil at five.) At 11 they basically just repeat what they said five hours earlier. If that's not enough, many cities now have a 4:30 a.m. (!) newscast that runs until 7 a.m., then the networks run their own newscasts until nine or 10 a.m. (Channel 3 in Cleveland, I swear, has five-plus straight hours of news five days a week, counting local and network newscasts, but next to nothing as far as news goes on the weekend anymore.)
I am so tired of this that the only thing I will watch on channel 3 local news anymore is the weather forecast at 6 or 11 p.m. I do watch NBC Nightly News at 6:30, though, mostly live, although every once in a while I'll miss it for one reason or another and will pick it up on my tablet from NBC's streaming video. Some nights I don't even do that, and frankly, I don't miss it. Bad news is what makes ratings for these broadcasts; I realize that, but I am thankful I have the choice of either not watching it at all or shutting it off if I don't care to see any of it.