RE: tv on radio

[Matthew Osborne <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>]

On Monday, January 21, 2002 Dave Faneuf wrote:

> KRLD in Dallas is now
> > broadcasting the audio from the TV's 6pm
> news....."as you can see
> > on the map
> > behind me"......."if the camera pans to the right
> you will be
> > able to see the
> > gapping hole....."   yeah, that works.

I couldn't agree with you more.  As mentioned, this is
a fairly common occurence in smaller markets, but even
so I think it sounds absolutely ridiculous, cheap,
cheesy and low budget.  I remember back in Rochester
NY, they even had a station that did that.  WYSL (1040
AM, licensed to Avon 20 miles south of Rochester but
still putting a decent signal into Rochester proper
day and night) used to simulcast WOKR-TV's noon and 6
PM newscasts.  And for a little AM that was trying to
compete in Rochester as a real all-news station
against 50 kw heirtage blowtorch WHAM, that, in my
opinion just didn't cut it (and if you look at the
ratings, I don't think I'm the only person that felt
that way either).  Heck, even if I was a small market
PD at an AM station running a feed of AP radio news or
something to that effect, I would still refuse to
carry the audio track of a TV news cast, because, IMHO
it just doesn't work

                         Matt Osborne
                         Hyde Park, NY

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