Re: Why WMTW will always be third

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> wrote:
> OK, here's the real question:  Do the folks in the
> Portland market 
> (or elsewhere) feel that the stations that provided
> longer storm 
> coverage gave the viewers more useful information?

WCSH did a more complete forecast in the first segment
so I could have turned it off and gone to bed, while
WMTW put off a full forecast until later in the show.

WCSH gave me content that I couldn't get anywhere
else.  WMTW quickly switched to taped ABC national
news that I could have seen on the national news 5
hours earlier.  It was the same news that had been on
the cable channels all day -- though Chuck makes a
good point that not everyone has cable.

I don't think local TV news should be judged on useful
information.  Today, the shows are entertainment with
a few headlines.  Last night, WMTW failed by not
talking about what most people wanted to know about.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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