As if people working in local news need more job losses.
B&C reporting that Scripps Television, owners of WPTV NBC5 in Palm Beach among others, is turning two of their television stations into hubs for traffic (advertising) and graphics centralization. KNXV will become hub traffic for Scripps since they’re in the mountain time zone allowing them to stay open longer than east coast stations.
WFTS in Tampa will hub both traffic and graphics for all stations owned by Scripps Television, WPTV included.
Scripps expects to have the hubs fully operational in the fourth quarter of 2009. Scripps TV Senior V.P. Brian Lawlor told B&C the station group will lay off about 2 employees per television station in traffic, about 30 in graphics and that some of them will end up staffing the hubs at WFTS and KNXV.
WPLG has become a hub for all Post-Newsweek stations since moving to their new facility.
And if you think centralization is bad there are already rumbles about how great master control outsourcing is.
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Scripps has totally been favoring WFTS over all of their stations lately even though from sign on to sign off WPTV is #1 in Florida. Screw them!
They have even been abusing their own flagship, WEWS. Have you seen http://www.wews.com Just awful! I even emailed their web person and she replied and said “we have no plans to change our website, we are very proud of it” I felt like emailing her back saying are you out of your mind!?
That’s ok, i never watch WPTV, I hate scripps, dont care for the anchors, dont care for their egos, and i dont care for their continued excuses (oh we cant carry Universal Sports because we have big plans for 5.3, we cant do a ticker during today because we dont have enough staff, we cant do time and temp during today because we dont have equipment, blah blah blah)
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I’ve always found their anchors to be pretty much ego-less face-to-face
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Yes i agree with that, I just dont like the stations portrayal of them. Maybe in 1989 or 1990, when i was just a little kid, I was in a Boynton Beach Publix with my dad, and in the fruit section we saw Kelly Dunn and my dad pointed her out to me and she came over and said hi and was very nice to us!
For that, I will occasionally watch her at 6 or 11.
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Agreed. ALL of their afternoon/evening anchors are nice people. Some of the station promos and their on-air performance can make a couple of them to seem fake or aloof. Without naming names one of their anchors from said time period is a very nice and personable person off-camera, no ego whatsoever, but station promos and on-air performance makes her appear well, like a “I am so good and more important than you” b@tch. My opinion.
Aesthetics are important and WPTV need a new set. Now.
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