Channel 5 weather coverage is faaaar superior to any other local station. Severe weather is the only time I turn on local news though.
Local Media Coverage of Bowl Game
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Channel 5 weather coverage is faaaar superior to any other local station. Severe weather is the only time I turn on local news though.
Let’s put it this way. Our basketball game out in Boulder today is far more important than non cfp bowl games. It counts toward win loss record, but we’ll see for how much longer.
Do they need to go no, but this is the first time they have missed a bowl game besides 2020. Its funny they did not cover ISU's 2 biggest bowl games. They also have spent the last 2 years following CC all over the country and do cover Iowa road games. I get they are dying but it isn't a good look for some people.
Local TV news is dying just like the newspaper. They will blame everyone else but themself, just like the newspaper industry did.
Local TV news is dying just like the newspaper. They will blame everyone else but themself, just like the newspaper industry did.
Wouldn't call it embarrassing, but it doesn't seem like there's much media availability at these bowl games anymore so it seems like a waste of resources, unless you're sending someone down to cover the fans partying, which isn't really a story.
Williams said in one of his previous pods that the only press conference they had before the game was the one with Mario Cristobal where neither coach was going to share any info and were getting asked cringy questions.
You'd be surprised. These audiences aren't as large as 10 years ago, and they definitely skew 55+, but they're still there.
TV's main problem is cord cutting. Retrans revenue is drying up and there's no obvious replacement.
It's only odd if they have people in Nashville and not Orlando, pretty likely the Pop Tarts bowl ratings # will obliterate Music City for all sorts of reasons.
Des Moines media has been known to do that sort of thing in favor of the less local team.
With how ISU's basketball season is looking I wouldn't blame them for planning on sending people to cover NCAA sites vs Orlando/Nashville.
I would think getting local news on the major streaming services and detect your area is the only way to save it.
I have no idea if it's because I'm in LA, but I see local live news everywhere on YouTube, Tubi and some other streaming services. I don't really watch it, but I see it there. Smaller markets need that if they don't have it. Every network has a streaming partner so I'm sure it's possible although YouTube is probably the best way.
Serious question: do people actually get their news from local tv stations? Im 32 and don’t know the last time I watched the news.
Sounds a lot like what non-traveling workers (and my wife) say about those of us who do travel. I’ll guarantee it’s not remotely as glamorous as you think it is.
Last time I watched local news was during the Olympics. There was a severe storm rolling through north Iowa/southern Minnesota and they went away from the Olympics for local weather reporting for a couple of hours. Viewers from unaffected areas kept calling in and asking them to go back to the Olympics broadcast. The weatherman spent half the night explaining that ‘we are saving lives’.
Traveling alone is awesome. Traveling with coworkers or to big company events is absolute dog ****. I want nothing less than to see coworkers outside of working hours. Company dinners are the woooooorst.
For me it depends on the situation. Alone travel is blah. My job has a group/team that is always traveling, I enjoy travelling with them. Agree 100% on the big events, or with employees not used to travel.
In my prior career I spent a fair amount of time in exotic places, but I can count on one hand how many times I had 'free time' to do anything resembling a vacation, even for an afternoon.
They can't afford it. You are as much the cause as I am and everyone else on these boards.
The company dinners part made me literally LOL as I 100% agree. I would rather pay the company $100 than attend an uncomfortable company paid dinner with 30 co-workers.
They could have driven to Orlando, covered the poptarts bowl, then stopped in Nashville for coverage of the Music City bowl. It is literally on the most direct route back from Florida.
