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Editorcj wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:05 pm If anybody cares, the highlights from the contract are, 3 years with raises of 5%, 3% and 3%, 2 more positions added, allows for MMJs but limits the number and what they can and can't do, no layoffs of union photogs if MMJs are employed and eliminates the option for 10 hour shifts 4 days a week. This is second hand information but I trust my source.

Editorcj wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:58 am I think Sarah Michals at Ch 7 does it the right way. She will work with a photographer to shoot interviews and broll, then while the photog is editing her on air packages, she will take those elements and put together some tictoks or instagram posts that promote the story and or give it a wider reach.

Editorcj wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:03 pm Everyone brings a different skill set to the job, some do social media better than others.

Rate This wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:16 pm

Editorcj wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:03 pm Everyone brings a different skill set to the job, some do social media better than others.

Is there a polite way to say things like this put you in second or third depending on the measure? Having a template and then having the reporters filling in the specific information would make it easy for the less inclined talent and provide uniformity to the digital product. I like almost nothing about 4 but their website though... the writing style is pretty good... it can't be that terribly difficult to emulate and changing writing styles is pretty low cost. They do social media well... there has to be a reason they are difficult to unseat.

Media management today reminds me a lot of the big 3 in the 70's and 80's... lousy product and they wonder where everybody went... If your newscasts don't pop, there's no excitement to them at all and you have solo anchors and non-live reports leading off your newscasts even in todays diminished local news environment you aren't gonna get anywhere. Most stations still field live reports and features at 11... 7 repackages the 10pm on the channel some people don't get that nobody watches (or do they now?) and calls it good.

Round Six wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:14 pm

Rate This wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:16 pm

Editorcj wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:03 pm Everyone brings a different skill set to the job, some do social media better than others.

Is there a polite way to say things like this put you in second or third depending on the measure? Having a template and then having the reporters filling in the specific information would make it easy for the less inclined talent and provide uniformity to the digital product. I like almost nothing about 4 but their website though... the writing style is pretty good... it can't be that terribly difficult to emulate and changing writing styles is pretty low cost. They do social media well... there has to be a reason they are difficult to unseat.

Media management today reminds me a lot of the big 3 in the 70's and 80's... lousy product and they wonder where everybody went... If your newscasts don't pop, there's no excitement to them at all and you have solo anchors and non-live reports leading off your newscasts even in todays diminished local news environment you aren't gonna get anywhere. Most stations still field live reports and features at 11... 7 repackages the 10pm on the channel some people don't get that nobody watches (or do they now?) and calls it good.

Let's be honest Rate.
To a certain extent neither you or I are qualified to critique how the broadcast industry runs itself. Yeah I'll ask questions and say why I'm asking. But if someone actually working at a station retorts my suggestion, I shrug it off figuring they know better than some spanktologist or bus driver.