Comments on: Many Questions in November Sweeps

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:35:42 +0000

I did get a chance to see Channel 2′s new logo during a brief HD promo and a special that aired Saturday night at 8. All I can say is that the new logo looked brutal on both a SD and a widescreen TV. The Eurostile font looked very cluttered and you could barely see “wgrz.com” on there. Instead of what they decided to do, they should have looked at their sister station WTSP in Tampa for how to modernize the logo.

The existing 2 logo could have been kept but updated to the newer red/blue/silver colors that Gannett uses. Then, take “News” out from underneath the “2″ and just move it to the right side of the logo box. Finally, they should have used the “wgrz.com” logo that is used on their “What 2 Do” promos and it would have all looked much better.

WGRZ got a lot of negative comments when they put the “Help us choose the new logo” story on their website that they actually deleted it off, only to show up as “Story Not Found.”

By: J. Myrle Fuller

J. Myrle Fuller — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:09:01 +0000

Honestly, I think that it’s a flaw in the Nielsen system. There’s quite a few people who just leave their TV on (maybe with a sleep timer) before going to sleep, and Nielsen can’t tell them from active viewers. So, someone who goes to sleep watching CBS will get recorded watching channel 4 news when really they’re not. Nielsen seems to blur the ratings of lead-ins and lead-outs into each other.

Ask Bill O’Loughlin.

By: alanp

alanp — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:05:39 +0000

Dratch has already started. He looks about 12, but his presentation is decent..

By: Pergy's friend

Pergy's friend — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:30:58 +0000

Must be Lori Schulz’s younger and cheaper replacement.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:35:01 +0000

For those keeping track, the Kiddie Corps grew by 1 today. According to the Buffalo News, 4 decided to hire a new reporter by the name of Ed Drantch. This will be his second station, after reporting in Harrisonville, West Virginia. This is the same article where the News writes about Channel 4 reassigning veteran staffers.

Ed and Bryan Shaw have one thing in common…they both were in West Virginia for the last news positions. Bryan was in Huntington, Ed was in Harrisonville. However, Bryan Shaw worked at two other stations prior to coming here (4 years experience). Ed only worked at 1 other station prior to coming here (2 years experience).

I decided to go on YouTube and found that Ed Drantch has his own channel with reporting reels. Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/eddrantch

From here, we can all decide whether he may be a good fit or not.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:56:30 +0000

In this age of remote control I find it interesting that a lead-in program can have such an impact on that channels 11:00 news program. This leads one to believe that people will watch any news, rather than click a couple buttons. Maybe all this talk about HD and inexperienced news people is just that.

By: Mark Scott

Mark Scott — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:04:22 +0000

I don’t understand NBC’s strategy of a four-day run of “Prime Suspect.” I believe all of the episodes so far received a second airing after their original Thursday broadcast — either on a Saturday night or Monday night. So, this week marks the third time these episodes have been aired — all in less than a month! I like “Prime Suspect.” But I’m not going to watch the same episode twice, much less three times, within a month. No wonder one of this week’s airings got a 1.8 rating. What does NBC expect? If you like “Prime Suspect,” you’ve seen it! Why watch it again! I submit NBC is severely over-exposing this show. Plus, tonight’s episode is going up against Game Six of the World Series, so I’ll be grabbing it on the DVR. I think it would be highly unfair for NBC to cancel this series because the third airing of an episode in less than a month earned a miniscule rating.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:00:28 +0000

Leno isn’t a journalist and he has never been considered a hard hitting interviewer so I don’t understand the big surprise about the interview being “soft”. Jay seems pretty fair to all of the politicians that he has on his show so I am not sure why anyone would think he is now suppose to pretend he is Mike Wallace all of a sudden.

By: J. Myrle Fuller

J. Myrle Fuller — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:03:07 +0000

Speaking of Leno, I’m starting to think those lead-ins are making channel 2– and a whole lot of other NBC affiliates– long for the days of The Jay Leno Show. Who’d have thought?

I hope Comcast has a plan to fix this. If I were head of NBC, the first move I’d make is cut that third hour and just let the affiliates go straight to local news the way Fox does (the problem with Leno was that they forced everyone to air it at 10). Put Leno at 11 (he’ll be competing with Jon Stewart and Conan, so it’s not unprecedented) and Fallon at midnight. That gives NBC stations a chance to produce their late local news at 10 (most do it already), then if they only want a half-hour newscast, they can fill the second half with a syndicated program of some sort (syndication needs a boost anyway).