Channel 39 changing its newscast format [Houston]

chron.com ^ | July 23, 2010 | David Barron

[smokingfrog]

So the news isn't dumbed-down enough already?

[Gene Eric]

>> “The core concept is to ...”

Cut costs.

[steelyourfaith]

Didn’t the NFL once broadcast a game without any commentary?

[al baby]

I thought that was Monday night football

[humblegunner]

What about CASEY CURRY?
She is the supreme weather hottie and helps me start my day!

[humblegunner]

Never mind, she's on 13.

Hey, both stations have a "3" in 'em.

[cmj328]

added special effects

Huh?

[SaveTheChief]

I’d be more interested to hear that they ended their preachy “Going Green” assault.

[bill1952]

LOL Yeah, this will work...

[buccaneer81]

Didn’t the NFL once broadcast a game without any commentary?

You beat me to it. NBC did it in the early '80s. And it was a complete flop.

[buccaneer81]

On Dec. 20, 1980, NBC aired the New York Jets at the Miami Dolphins. The Jets were 3-12 entering the game and the Dolphins were 8-7. (Jets won 24-17). Since the game had no playoff implications, NBC decided to let the sounds from the stands and the PA announcer serve as the sole audio. No players were miked. Dick Enberg set the scene for viewers at the beginning of each quarter and then viewers were taken to the stadium.

[1rudeboy]

Didn’t the NFL once broadcast a game without any commentary?

I loved it, but no one else did. Apparently, we prefer chatter in between Cialis ads.

[386wt]

They should really get innovative - cut the sound and video.

[Parmy]

Is Lee Abrams another Harvard graduate?

[Steely Tom]

added special effects...

Let me guess. Little video-Photoshopped halos over the heads of Democrat politicians, and little horns and gotees superimposed on the heads and faces of Republican politicans.

[RayChuang88]

While the broadcast didn’t go over well with viewers, many of the ideas—notably increased use of graphics and better miking of crowd noise sounds—became part of football telecasts since then.

[4buttons]

Only a matter of time before this is the norm- I kinda like it. I stopped watching TV about nine years ago- completely. Don’t miss it at all. I really don’t miss the news- you know, the anchors (male and female) as Dad and Mom, the “other girl” as Sis, sports guy as “Precocious Little Brother’, and the weather guy/gal as some other kind of buffoon.

I don’t miss the phony pained looks on their faces reacting to bad news, either.

It’ll save them a pile of money, and cause a panic in the plastic surgery industry.

[sionnsar]

Channel 39 will end its traditional newscasts by this fall to launch a new format called NewsFix, which discards on-camera anchors and reporters and focuses on natural sound and video to tell stories.

I predict: Fewer overpriced airheads, no change in content. Total failure.

Teeheevee news -- isn't.

[sionnsar]

and helps me start my day!

You need teeheevee to start your day?

[humblegunner]

Local weather from a hot chick?

Hell yes.