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(Salt Lake Tribune)   Salt Lake's legacy TV station, Mormon Church-owned KSL, plummeted in ratings behind secular competition after disastrous hiring of GM who pushed it into softer, fluffier news coverage. Affiliation with NBC didn't help either   ( sltrib.com) divider line
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    More: Obvious, KSL, Salt Lake City TV, General Mills, Mormon Church, hard news, network news, Deseret News, NBC  
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AirForceVet [TotalFark]
2013-03-05 08:06:15 AM  
HHAAAHAAAHHAA! See what happens when you won't run Saturday Night Live, even if you're a NBC affiliate?
 
karnal
2013-03-05 09:47:04 AM  
I bet a half hour show with Chris Matthews called "Thrill up my Leg" would boost ratings.
 
Beerguy [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-03-05 10:01:57 AM  

AirForceVet: HHAAAHAAAHHAA! See what happens when you won't run Saturday Night Live, even if you're a NBC affiliate?


I came in here to say the exact same thing, damn near word for word.

Cheers!
 
Precision Boobery
2013-03-05 01:07:19 PM  
They just give vague descriptions of how he changed the news broadcast, going from a "magisterial, hard-news approach" to a "values-based news strategy."  I wonder if that means he stopped focusing on every violent crime in a 500-mile radius and tried more feel-good, human interest stories.  Because yeah, that was never going to work.  Not even in magic-knickers land.

If that is the case, though, that graph would be good to rebut anyone who wants to blame the media for scaremongering.

Anyone here who has seen the broadcasts and can better explain the changes?
 
havocmike
2013-03-05 01:22:07 PM  
anyone who's worked in the television business for more than 6 months should have been able to see this coming.

In most markets, there are a couple stations who chase ambulances, and one or two who do "feel good" stories and "consumer reports" and "health watches"

The ambulance chasers win every. single. time.

People say "why don't you report GOOD news??"  The answer is incredibly simple : It's farking boring and no one watches it.
 
bentley57
2013-03-05 04:10:58 PM  

Beerguy: AirForceVet: HHAAAHAAAHHAA! See what happens when you won't run Saturday Night Live, even if you're a NBC affiliate?

I came in here to say the exact same thing, damn near word for word.

Cheers!


Thirded.
 
pyr8bwoy
2013-03-05 04:14:31 PM  
there website however still remains the top news site in the area. i hope that changes soon too.
 
Mikey1969
2013-03-05 05:09:03 PM  
Too bad, because KSL has the best weather forecasting in the area.

And yeah, I fourth the whole SNL bullshiat, it's a joke.
 
Jarod Cain
2013-03-06 01:28:05 AM  

pyr8bwoy: there website however still remains the top news site in the area. i hope that changes soon too.


So long as their classifieds section remains as popular as it is, that won't happen.
-J-
 
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