Re: Channel 6 news tops local TV rating race

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@zoso.net>]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Dave Faneuf wrote:

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>
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:34:13 -0400 (EDT) rjoc@webtv.net (Rod O'Connor)
> writes:
> > While back on the subject:
> > I never see ratings posted for Bangor TV News.I always presumed
> > WLBZ-2
> > was #1, with WABI TV5 a close second and WVII ABC7 a distant third.
> > (And
> > is WCKD LPTV 30 even showing at 10 yet??)
>
> I know that when John Potter was canned at WODS he wound up on WVII
> briefly, he told me one of the chief reasons for leaving and giving up
> the enormous paycheck was that the ND at WVII was happy being #3 and had
> no plans to do anything to improve the situation.

Since putting Jan Smith in charge of the news aspect of things at WVII,
their news has improved immensly, the reporters on the whole are very
profession, Rick Douglas is very competent as a newscaster, and Ted
Shapiro is an entertaining weatherman, I like his approach. However,
before adding Jan Sith, there often seemed to be many techincal errors on
their newscasts which were just plain annoying.....I also know their
equipemtn is very Jerry-rigged....there was a power surge one time when I
was working as a cue-card guy on a television show that taped there, that
knocked out most of the equipment, it's a miricle they were able to get
everything running in time for the newscast at 11. In my mind though, I
think they are still obviously #3. I tend to think WLBZ might be #2 and
WABI is #1- WLBZ's newscasts are mostly our of Portland, with only Rick
Tyler and Steve McKay in Bangor.....and that';s at the 5PM and 6PM
newscasts.....I don't know how well known it is that they are actua lly
running channel 6's newscasts, but I suspect that people in the know
prefer local news.....and WABI has the highest quality newscasts without
question, they are very professional, and there is rarely a technical
error.

Jeremy