For Boston people, this is interesting. Apparently the local NBC affiliate (WHDH Channel 7) is planning on running a 10pm news hour instead of the weird Jay Leno thingy that NBC is doing next year. You know, because NBC has no f'ing clue what it's doing. It's astounding that the network that gave us Family Ties, Golden Girls, LA Law, Seinfeld, Friends, ER, and the Cosby Show is floundering so badly. It's like, once ABC figured out that 18-49 upper middle class viewers are more lucrative than families, they just threw all their Mickey Mouses at NBC... and succeeded.
Anyway, this local news thing is intriguing. We in Boston like our local news anchors. They're familiar. We're sad that Chet and Nat didn't stay together. The Bianca v. David thing is sickeningly sweet. Randy's gay, and no one cares. Hell, even Matt and Ben gave a shout-out to Joyce when they won their Oscar.
But the fall from grace that is WHDH news is sort of amazing. They really were the dominant newscast ten years ago. And now with all this, they might not even exist anymore. Strange.
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