Ah yes....a few months after the end of News Central. Surprised they didn't discontinue their news operation immediately, like many other stations using the NC name and "hybrid" model (unfortunately my hometwon WB/CW affiliate WLFL was a casualty from it).
@Weasel1995
2 жыл бұрын
Could you go into more detail? I assume News Central is a sort of news format, and those formats are bought by certain networks? I've never heard of this and I think it's interesting.
@friesareyummy
2 жыл бұрын
@@Weasel1995 News Central was indeed a news format consisting of Sinclair's Fox, WB, UPN, independent (and in one market: ABC) stations. It consisted of half a newscast being local news, with the other half being filled in with News Central, a national news segment (and the namesake segment of the format), conservative commentary from Sinclair's Mark Hyman (The Point was the name of that segment), and local and national weather reports, most if not all of this originating from Sinclair's flagship station WBFF in Baltimore. This stirred controversy as people did not like a newscast whose segments were mostly relayed via one central location. One of the bigger News Central stations was one of the higher rated WB affiliates in the country, WLFL 22 (mostly from their success as a Fox station) in my media market. Even with Fox gone, the newscasts still remained strong ratings wise......until Sinclair started budget cuts. That eventually resulted in News Central being implemented here, and that made people start tuning in to WRAZ 50 (the newer but other choice at 10pm), causing WLFL's ratings to plummet in a rate usually not seen anywhere at the time. WLFL wasn't the only case of this happening, but it certainly was one that could've been prevented from the loss that followed.
@rileysmith9843
2 жыл бұрын
For this reason, when it came to Fox programming, during the analog days, I turned the OTA antenna towards Detroit and tuned to Channel 2 (WJBK). And Jim Kiertzner is still at WXYZ-TV as of 2022, after going there following the switch to a WNEM-produced newscast after NewsCentral had the plug pulled.
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3 жыл бұрын
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@Weasel1995
2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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