I stayed on Oprah today and noticed that towards 5pm CBS4 was pimping themselves like crazy.
Today they must have repeated that temperatures are falling and will have it all at 5pm probably 3 or 4 times. Twice during the adbreaks and twice using lower third bars during Oprah.
Too much and so fucking annoying – makes me want to have a DVR in every room
They have got to do something to get their ratings out of the basement. My guess is the new guy cleans house by end of the year. They need help everywhere talent,content and most of all production!!!
I think WFOR has good talent.
I think FOR HAD great talent. Nowadays I’m not sure what they are thinking. A lot of the great folks in front and behind the camera at FOR have left for other jobs or left the industry all together. It’s been going on for a little over a year now.
I’ve been out of touch lately. Have WFOR’s rating fallen dramatically? They’ve been the English-language leader at 11pm in recent sweeps periods.
I think you can blame NBC for the now rampant use of snipes. (The lower-third animations that let you know what you’re watching, etc.) Ever since they started using it for their programming several years ago, they’ve popped up everywhere!
So I really can’t blame WFOR for pimping themselves. Oprah is a great vehicle and we’re coming to the end of November sweeps so they want those Oprah viewers to stick around and not flee somewhere else!
What’s with the “first on Four” on everything???
“Shopping cart rolls in parking lot – watch the dramatic video – First on Four”
It is the one station I cannot take seriously. They need some help after the Bobby Parker incident – nice one Brian.
It seems some of you are very jealous of WFOR.
From what I see, CBS 4 breaks more Exclusive Stories than all the stations combined and they have the best talent in town. Can you blame them for being aggressive? They get the news on first while other stations scramble to confirm the information. I want my news first. Who would want it last? Give me break and get a life.
I can’t hate on CBS 4.
It seems some of you are very jealous of WFOR.
From what I see, CBS 4 breaks more Exclusive Stories than all the stations combined and they have the best talent in town. Can you blame them for being aggressive? They get the news on first while other stations scramble to confirm the information. I want my news first. Who would want it last? Give me break.
miamiweather:
c’mon… “From what I see, CBS 4 breaks more Exclusive Stories than all the stations combined”
that’s because they label EVERYTHING as either first on or only on 4 (even when that is blatantly not the case)
often times they go on simultaneously so other stations (often 7) and they still have the audacity to claim they were first..or they’ll do a “reader” from the newsroom with no live pictures to back something up and call it first on..when 25 seconds later another station does the same story with live pictures and 4 is nowhere to be found
other stories (mainly brian andrews’) are recycled from years past and/or only “exclusive” because no one cared to do shit with them
other “exclusive” stories are WAYYYYY wrong (bobby parker’s son ring a bell??) or they simply botch facts. last week at the swat standoff in homestead they declared it over at 5pm when it did not end until after 7pm…they put police officers in harms way by doing so…they never even corrected themselves
listen im tired of listening to myself rant…i’ve worked at all the stations down here and at this point in my career i could care less which station does what…but i felt the need to correct your statement…
the facts remain…many “behind-the-scenes” people at wfor are bailing (2 assignment editors, several producers, several managers are already gone…more to come)
that place is going downhill in a hurry…
watch out for channel 10 (and no i dont work there)
happy thanksgiving!
They need to do something with the Lotto Numbers thing at 11:30. I usually stay up and watch Letterman and I end up watching a little of CBS 4 News At 11 and what they do is go to commercial break and then they come back on and they show the Lotto numbers, and go back into commercial. I think it is so0o0o annoying! Then, they have one of the anchors saying everyones names and then closing out the newscast and do the super fast zoom out, it so ugly and unprofessional (I think). They dont even tease, I was just watching 7 and they did a nice tease. They put a “7 News Saturday” graphic on the plasma in the News Desk and moved back with the jib arm, and then went to the new 7 NEws Online Graphic, it was nice. But CBS 4 Needs to do something about their graphics and their Lotto thingy I mentioned earlier. 🙂
Didn’t the lotto move to Channel 10?
They did, but they show the lotto numbers at like 11:30 for people like me that like watching Letterman and have lotto tix and are too damn lazy to pick up the remote and type in “1 and 0” lol 😉
“I want my news first.”
I want my news right. I could care less if it’s last.