Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Chicago Sun Times
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 22:49:24 -0500
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JP usta be a photog for them



On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, but you are mistaken. You can't make slim slices of viewership.
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>  I was referencing the ratings that make WTNH number two and in some
> newscasts number three.  You are right, though. In the New Haven Area, they
> do pretty good.  Bleak in Hartford, though.
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> Even with what's going on these days, being number three as a network
> affiliate is a license to print money, otherwise, the owners would make
> efforts to compete with WFSB.
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> TNH successfully fought the local cable who was threatening to drop them,
> and the Cable raised rates instead of dropping them.
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> You are possibly and probably right about the remote issues, but my point
> is, of course that it is not prudent to do any of that as they are not
> really serving the area, and it shows in the ratings.  Advertisers buy time
> based on ratings.
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> I've worked for three network affiliates in New Orleans (one was the same
> station, 15 years later, different management, different location, even
> different channel number) also worked for another CBS in Baton Rouge.
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> BTW, I think Channel eight still has some photogs on staff.
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> I thin J.P. Morgan still works for them.
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> Maybe not.
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> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:40 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Sonny writes:
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>> "Larry
>> As I understand it, WTNH has been a distant number two in the news market
>> for years, and they've been holding on to that for dear life against
>> WVIT.   Number one WFSB still does investigative reporting."
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>> Sonny,
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>> By "local" news I mean news of the New Haven area and the towns along
>> I-95 on the north shore of LI Sound. (Guilford, Branford, Bridgeport,
>> Westport and Stamford). WTNH is located in New Haven. All the other
>> Connecticut TV stations are in Hartford in the center of the state. Local
>> news, high school sports, traffic reports are what attract local
>> advertisers, the bread and butter of regional TV stations and small
>> newspapers. All the national and international news comes from AP, 
>> Reuters,
>> and the networks themselves. WTNH has no national reporters. They take 
>> what
>> ABC gives them. It is understandable being number two in the news market.
>> Hartford is both the state capital and has many more people than New 
>> Haven.
>> All New Haven has is Yale. But it is regrettable that few stations do
>> investigative reporting. There is hardly a town in the state that doesn't
>> have a full share of scandal and corruption.
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>> But like newspapers most TV stations are hanging on by their fingernails.
>> Competition from the internet, Hulu, cable and Netflix has decimated their
>> business. If you have a computer or even an iPad you don't need a TV set.
>> WTNH has let all their cameramen, most of their directors and producers 
>> and
>> virtually all of their technical staff go. Studio camerawork is handled
>> remotely from the station chain headquarters in Springfield, Ma. Local TV,
>> and I suspect national TV is a declining business. The buggy whip makers 
>> of
>> the 21st century. Image making is still important. After all those 500
>> cable channels have to broadcast something. But most of it is being done 
>> by
>> independents and free lancers. Working as a photographer is like working 
>> as
>> a fine artist, writer or poet. You have to find or make your own market.
>>
>> Larry Z
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
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> USA
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com) ([Leica] Chicago Sun Times)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Chicago Sun Times)