Post by gartv on Nov 6, 2007 22:00:04 GMT -3
I should not be surprised that this happened. I expected a great goof from the outsourced "ABC Macon News" on WPGA.
It happened on WPGA's 7pm news on November 6th, election day.
The top story is about the Macon city elections and they go to the reporter in the field. She is stationed at the Bibb County Board of Elections. Standing in front of the Board of Elections building saying the words "The polls have just closed and we are standing by for the results".
In reality, the polls did close at 7pm, which was the time that this newscast started. And as I watched the news I am looking at a reporter acting as if she is live.....IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT at 7pm.
It only got dark between 5:50 and 6pm. Maybe WPGA had a delay on the sunlight just for them. Or they have one hell of a camera with built in special effects. What's next, the midnight suntan?
Obviously, the newscast was pre-taped. And obviously no one at WPGA bothered to pay attention to details. Like pretending to be live for an evening newscast you recorded in the middle of the bright sunny day.
Adding further to what is fast becoming a real bad joke of a newscast was the commercial that included the fleet of WPGA's news vehicles....three SCION box-cars, a Chevy Suburban (repainted-hand me down from one of the radio stations), an airplane and a helicopter! The commercial tells us that the news team goes everywhere yet I hardly remember many reports from beyond Macon and the bordering counties.
Are we now supposed to believe that they will fly around in a helicopter to get the latest story but this station has NO live trucks? Oh, and since we live near an active Military base, the restrictive airspace makes owning a helicopter more a waste of money in this area. Wouldn't GANNETT then have a helicopter for WMAZ. Surely they could have sent another station's old whirly bird to Macon like they have the hand-me-down news sets and used live trucks from other cities.
And finally, knowing how CHEAP Register Communications is and how low cost they operate all of their (automated) broadcast properties. Is anyone with half a brain REALLY going to believe they would actually spend money using a helicopter at todays fuel prices?
Get real!
It's not like viewers can actually get the station in places they can fly to. The broadcast signal only reaches 30 to 40 miles (on a good day) and most of those places get WSB on cable as their ABC affiliate. What are they going to cover by helicopter?
It happened on WPGA's 7pm news on November 6th, election day.
The top story is about the Macon city elections and they go to the reporter in the field. She is stationed at the Bibb County Board of Elections. Standing in front of the Board of Elections building saying the words "The polls have just closed and we are standing by for the results".
In reality, the polls did close at 7pm, which was the time that this newscast started. And as I watched the news I am looking at a reporter acting as if she is live.....IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT at 7pm.
It only got dark between 5:50 and 6pm. Maybe WPGA had a delay on the sunlight just for them. Or they have one hell of a camera with built in special effects. What's next, the midnight suntan?
Obviously, the newscast was pre-taped. And obviously no one at WPGA bothered to pay attention to details. Like pretending to be live for an evening newscast you recorded in the middle of the bright sunny day.
Adding further to what is fast becoming a real bad joke of a newscast was the commercial that included the fleet of WPGA's news vehicles....three SCION box-cars, a Chevy Suburban (repainted-hand me down from one of the radio stations), an airplane and a helicopter! The commercial tells us that the news team goes everywhere yet I hardly remember many reports from beyond Macon and the bordering counties.
Are we now supposed to believe that they will fly around in a helicopter to get the latest story but this station has NO live trucks? Oh, and since we live near an active Military base, the restrictive airspace makes owning a helicopter more a waste of money in this area. Wouldn't GANNETT then have a helicopter for WMAZ. Surely they could have sent another station's old whirly bird to Macon like they have the hand-me-down news sets and used live trucks from other cities.
And finally, knowing how CHEAP Register Communications is and how low cost they operate all of their (automated) broadcast properties. Is anyone with half a brain REALLY going to believe they would actually spend money using a helicopter at todays fuel prices?
Get real!
It's not like viewers can actually get the station in places they can fly to. The broadcast signal only reaches 30 to 40 miles (on a good day) and most of those places get WSB on cable as their ABC affiliate. What are they going to cover by helicopter?
