Why must local tv news constantly replace anchors & meteorologists?

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preCRT

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I can't stand the constant jiggering around, especially when it comes to the all important early morning meteorologists. Some are more accurate than others.

In Boston, Dylan Dryer jumped ship & went to the Today show. Now JC Monahan is leaving 'cvb to do Chronicle of all things.

Do not want a weather clown from Faux News, thankyouverymuch.
 
kranky

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The constant upward/downward mobility of on-air people. Great ratings? Audition for a job at a bigger station. Crappy ratings? Sorry, you may go home. Good but not great ratings, and surveys show people like you better than the person on the competing local channel? Come back for another year.

Only ratings matter. Not forecasting accuracy.

And in the case of one female news anchor in town, you don't even have to know how to read that well. You can fumble over words night after night and keep your job for years.
 
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the local stations are trying to cut costs with many stations having declining ratings and increased competition from non-traditional media i.e. internet/smartphones, etc. They will try and lay off the older/more expensive talking heads and replace them with interns and cheaper people. It's a game of musical chairs. The older folks watching television may not like the change but then they aren't the ones advertisers pay for in the "demos."
 
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HydroSqueegee said:
news guys here have mostly been the same since i was a kid. not much jiggering around.
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Same here. Every time I turn on local news I see the same people, but my guess is your news anchors are either moving to bigger, better things or they don't like their situation in the studio. Where does OP live??
 
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preCRT

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I'm in Boston, one of the larger markets.

A few head to NY & the networks, or get canned and disappear.
 
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theyre replacing the old with cheaper options. the evening and morning anchors tend to stay around longer because theyre tougher jobs.
 
Jodell88

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Once the black women from CNN headline news don't leave I'm happy. :)
 
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mizzou

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start local, then go national, maybe go global

theres no $ in local news
 
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kranky said:
The constant upward/downward mobility of on-air people. Great ratings? Audition for a job at a bigger station. Crappy ratings? Sorry, you may go home. Good but not great ratings, and surveys show people like you better than the person on the competing local channel? Come back for another year.

Only ratings matter. Not forecasting accuracy.

And in the case of one female news anchor in town, you don't even have to know how to read that well. You can fumble over words night after night and keep your job for years.
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pretty much.

can't say I've ever experienced that much in NYC, since even for local stations here, the only real upgrade for the good talent to go to are the national morning shows, where spots are limited (as opposed to anchors from smaller markets that will be aiming for gigs in pretty much any major metro area in the country), but you do see people get fired and slowly downgrade their markets (eg: NYC -> Philly -> Nowheresville)
 
ElFenix

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houston hasn't really had this problem with the main anchors and weather people. beat reporters and off-hour news anchors get a lot of churn, i'd imagine.
 
MotionMan

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I grew up in San Francisco and moved to Southern California for college. Except for a couple old-timers who have retired (I miss Wayne Walker), I would say that the news, sports and weather people in those two large markets are very, very, stable.

In fact, the NBC station in L.A. has had the same sports and weather guys since at LEAST 1986 (when I moved here).

MotionMan
 
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I watch whoever has the hottest chick, so that always helps.
 
Murloc

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here it's always the same people but we also have only one local state TV network (and a private one that is less popular and isn't even aimed at this kind of stuff), it's not like they can upgrade to anywhere, they're already in the top spot in Switzerland.
 
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MotionMan said:
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to Southern California for college. Except for a couple old-timers who have retired (I miss Wayne Walker), I would say that the news, sports and weather people in those two large markets are very, very, stable.

In fact, the NBC station in L.A. has had the same sports and weather guys since at LEAST 1986 (when I moved here).

MotionMan
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NBC Bay Area meteorologist changed a few years ago.. for the better. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/weather/bios/Christina-Loren-Meteorologist-112629429.html :awe:
 
Red Squirrel

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We have the news on all the time at work, so we kind of get to know the anchors and even notice if one is on vacation. Kind of sad actually. :biggrin:

There's a few really hot ones, too.
 
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