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Primelink 2013

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PSUChamps2001 said:
I remember watching PSTV just for the interviews because WPTZ was lucky to get a goal....too busy sucking up to Beanie and McShane. (Nothing against the schools or Vermonters, you'd just think a NY based TV station would cover more NY news) its been an ongoing issue for YEARS in Plattsburgh. ....
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Beanie and McShane are at UVM? :rolleyes:
 
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joecct said:
Back in the day (40 years ago) WPTZ always said Plattsburgh, North Pole, Burlington when it identified itself.
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Yup - actually that was still being said when I left there. But notice who is listed last :D
 
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NUProf said:
Yup - actually that was still being said when I left there. But notice who is listed last :D
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The original FCC license address was North Pole, NY. in 1954. In 2011 the license address was changed to Plattsburgh, NY and shortly after, North Pole was eliminated from the station ID. I was previously advised the reason the emphasis is placed on Vermont is the majority of their advertising now comes from Vermont businesses, and that is what they want to continue advertising. It is true that $$$ talks!!
 
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norm1909 said:
You must primarily watch WCAX, watch WPTZ (aka WNNE) for a week and you will see that WPTZ is dominantly Vermont sports.
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Agree completely. I have been in touch with K. Drake about the total lack of coverage of Plattsburgh State sports this year. He did no coverage after the soccer team won the SUNYAC and has done so very little reports on the hockey teams. He did no preview this year either. He has replied that he would. Not happened. I have no problem with him covering Vt. sports but it is the constant repetitiveness of the basketball teams interviews in the locker rooms and repeated file tape of the previous week's games that are disturbing. We are quite disgusted. The Primelink is here this year and he will cover them last tomorrow night , he says.
 
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Looking forward to some real exciting hockey this weekend with four talented teams!
:)
 
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Clown station....if it weren't for meth labs in the Plattsburgh area, there would be hardly anything. After attending a couple of real nice events at the newly renovated Strand Theater, it occurred to me "why wouldn't our LOCAL TV station cover such events that reflect some of the positive things that go on in our area". Half of these thugs enjoy the spotlight of the TV camera and it's not really "news" anyway. It's a lost cause for those hacks.
 
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Anybody know the whereabouts of Superior? The national news made it seem like the end of days are coming to the eastern seaboard.
 
pete99race said:
Heard they stayed overnight in Toledo area, tomorrow near Buffalo and than the final stretch to Plattsburgh..
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For the snowfall totals they are talking about from Syracuse to Buffalo today into Thursday, pushing through past Syracuse would be the better idea. I wouldn't be surprised if the I-90 gets shut down and they get stuck in Buffalo. Makes for a LONG trip Friday. (sorry I forgot the TIC)
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
You sure you've got your tv stations right? WPTZ sports seem to love Plattsburgh to me. WCAX is the one that pretty much dominates the Vermont sports scene.
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Yep. WCAX, rightfully so, covers a lot of Vermont sports. WPTZ is almost "in awe" of ( or jealous of) WCAX. they very much want to be Vermont's TV News Station.

Of course the on-air employees get blamed for all of this, but is surely is a management issue, probably at the corporate level.

I realize I am drifting way off-topic here, but if NY advertisers (largely car dealers) would "boycott" WPTZ, it would not be long before their news focus changed.

GO CARDS
Wally
Cornell '67
 
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wallhd said:
Of course the on-air employees get blamed for all of this, but is surely is a management issue, probably at the corporate level.
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The fact is Hearst sees Vermont as the focus of their efforts with WPTZ - to the point where they even stopped any local news programming from WNNE - WNNE used to have their own news operation covering the Upper Valley which would take feeds from WPTZ for Vermont stories. Now they just have a news bureau there and WNNE is basically a repeater station with a few different commercials that run in the Hanover/Lebanon/WRJ market, and they put a 31 bug in the corner of the screen instead of the 5 bug.

When I went to Dartmouth (when dirt was new), Channel 31 was owned by a local "shoe string" operator with a low power transmitter and studios at the top of a mountain in Lebanon. That station has been bought and sold a couple of times, and was "dark" for a couple of years, after I graduated. With the relaxation of licensing rules so that corporations now can own so many TV stations, the concept of the truly locally owned and operated TV station is mostly a thing of the past (WCAX actually being an exception). Hearst own WPTZ/WNNE and also owns WMUR (Manchester) and WMTW ("Poland Springs"). They have decided WPTZ = VT, WMUR = NH, WMTW = Maine. When something big happens in NH or Maine, they do feed the other stations with news from "our partners at .." Often they even brand those reports with a WPTZ banner at the bottom, and have a sign off as "Joe Blow, WPTZ reporting from Portland."

Totally getting off topic, back in the old days, Trans-video (Northfield's Cable Company - independently owned - another rarity) carried all of those stations as well as WRGB Albany, WBZ Boston, and WCVB Boston. Now there is a lot narrow spectrum of "local" news coverage, and somehow I think that filters into the way the area TV stations cover the news.
 
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