laffin wrote:

The 6:00 am newscast on 1010 was a CP broadcast.  No local news, just a mish mash of old stories with little or no interest.  As a retired ND I shudder at what the future holds for the newsrooms of today.  I really don't think the number crunchers at Bell Media realize what they have done, or possibly don't care. It would be ironic if someone who is a victim of the Bell Media purge is a BCE stockholder!

That is very odd. Why they don't at least have someone in Ottawa's CFRA pretending to be in Toronto, reading the news is anyone's guess.  



 

At least the name of the newsreader from CP at 6 am was a familiar one to any long time listeners of CFRB 1010. Lori Paris went to CP a number of years ago. Still doesn't make up for the fact that there isn't a news department at 1010 anymore. Just a handful of news readers,with most of the stories from previously aired items on CTV newscasts.

This has been going on for a long time in the States. A jock can physically be in, say, Dallas and at the same time be doing morning shows in 5-6 other markets all over the U.S. News is no different - you could do a newscast in Boise, Idaho from Wellington, New Zealand if you wanted, and no one would know the difference. It sounds local, but it really isn't. Consultants would say if the listener doesn't know the difference - and it helps the bottom line - then what's the problem with it? Purists would say that a newscast that is actually local is a better newscast. But profits usurp quality. Can't blame them for trying to make money, but how many millions in profit do you really need?

Radiowiz wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

This has been going on for a long time in the States. A jock can physically be in, say, Dallas and at the same time be doing morning shows in 5-6 other markets all over the U.S. News is no different - you could do a newscast in Boise, Idaho from Wellington, New Zealand if you wanted, and no one would know the difference. It sounds local, but it really isn't. Consultants would say if the listener doesn't know the difference - and it helps the bottom line - then what's the problem with it? Purists would say that a newscast that is actually local is a better newscast. But profits usurp quality. Can't blame them for trying to make money, but how many millions in profit do you really need?

Also, accuracy is key. 
What if there is a local report on a fire and two streets sound very similar?
Does this mean someone local would have pronounced the street name correctly, but someone further away may make a clear error that could have been avoided?  
If it's Pien street is that Pine? or Pee yin?  
I mean hey? I'm just brainstorming examples, but pronouncing a street name wrong steers listeners into the wrong panic...What? My friend's house?  No...just someone pronouncing the street name wrong. lol 
 

I couldn't agree more. This slip-shod method of doing things will lead to lots of mistakes. But that's the way it is now,,and it's not likely to change.
 

Radiowiz wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

This has been going on for a long time in the States. A jock can physically be in, say, Dallas and at the same time be doing morning shows in 5-6 other markets all over the U.S. News is no different - you could do a newscast in Boise, Idaho from Wellington, New Zealand if you wanted, and no one would know the difference. It sounds local, but it really isn't. Consultants would say if the listener doesn't know the difference - and it helps the bottom line - then what's the problem with it? Purists would say that a newscast that is actually local is a better newscast. But profits usurp quality. Can't blame them for trying to make money, but how many millions in profit do you really need?

Also, accuracy is key. 
What if there is a local report on a fire and two streets sound very similar?
Does this mean someone local would have pronounced the street name correctly, but someone further away may make a clear error that could have been avoided?  
If it's Pien street is that Pine? or Pee yin?  
I mean hey? I'm just brainstorming examples, but pronouncing a street name wrong steers listeners into the wrong panic...What? My friend's house?  No...just someone pronouncing the street name wrong. lol 
 

Seems it didn't take long for a newscaster from another city to say the wrong location for a news story in the GTA. The 6am newscast on CFRB by the young lad from Ottawa spoke about the tragedy that occurred in Mount Albert, stated it happened on Mount Allison.