Mara MacDonald retires after 20 years of stories

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Mara MacDonald began working here in 2004. After her first week on the job, she was told, "It's like you've always been here." Kim Adams has great stories about being a young intern at channel 50 alongside another up-and-comer, a young fellow aspiring broadcaster who frankly scared the heck out of her because MacDonald is a force to be reckoned with.

https://youtu.be/6ABjk-5ENTw?si=nMnORT9ve2wip8Sv

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I wish her well. I will miss her reporting. Her and Rod Meloni are top notch in my opinion.

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I wish her well. I will miss her reporting. Her and Rod Meloni are top notch in my opinion.

“Let me show you”… on goddamn TV. What the hell else are we going to do? Black screen and listen? No thanks. She’s interesting if quirky in person but her reporting style is… not great.

I did like Rod Meloni quite a bit.

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The YouTube-ification of local TV continues. I can't wait for Detroit local news to look a lot more like market 150.

ALL of this is due to Google and Facebook sucking all the air out of the advertising industry with their bullshit metrics and "targeting". TV advertising has its own faults, but we're gonna miss these legacy unidirectional media streams because the internet is simply full of bullshit and it is awful.

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The YouTube-ification of local TV continues. I can't wait for Detroit local news to look a lot more like market 150.

ALL of this is due to Google and Facebook sucking all the air out of the advertising industry with their bullshit metrics and "targeting". TV advertising has its own faults, but we're gonna miss these legacy unidirectional media streams because the internet is simply full of bullshit and it is awful.

It doesn’t seem like it needs to be this way though. Advertising logic around the 25-54 or 18-49 age groups is a steaming pile of shit and always has been. Do people hit 50 or 55 and suddenly not need anything at all?

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It doesn’t seem like it needs to be this way though. Advertising logic around the 25-54 or 18-49 age groups is a steaming pile of shit and always has been. Do people hit 50 or 55 and suddenly not need anything at all?
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THIS

25/54 isn't a realistic demo. Ridiculous.
it's a made up ad agency marketing gimmick. That the whole industry, radio and TV, bought into.
Bravo.

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It doesn’t seem like it needs to be this way though. Advertising logic around the 25-54 or 18-49 age groups is a steaming pile of shit and always has been. Do people hit 50 or 55 and suddenly not need anything at all?
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THIS

25/54 isn't a realistic demo. Ridiculous.
it's a made up ad agency marketing gimmick. That the whole industry, radio and TV, bought into.
Bravo.
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The only people with spare money to buy any of the products in these ads are 55+. They're also the only ones that would willingly listen to a commercial break. No 25 year old is sitting in their car listening to commercials.

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Mara didn't waste any time, she was seen at Fox 2 interviewing for job last week.

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Mara didn't waste any time, she was seen at Fox 2 interviewing for job last week.

I thought there would be a non-compete on these folks at least… I would expect the other three (Tutman, Meloni and Bernie) are done with TV.

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Weren't most non competes null and void as of early May per the FTC?

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Weren't most non competes null and void as of early May per the FTC?

True… I forgot about that one… there have been an avalanche of decisions about all kinds of things lately it’s hard to keep it all straight.

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a final rule that effectively bans all non-compete agreements between employers and “workers” as “unfair method[s] of competition” and requires employers to refrain from enforcing most existing non-compete agreements.

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Weren't most non competes null and void as of early May per the FTC?

The FTC ruling becomes effective this September. But at least three lawsuits have already been filed. It's expected at least some of the challenges will be successful, because any final rule in which the FTC claims authority to ban restrictive covenants is not likely to withstand constitutional scrutiny.

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Weren't most non competes null and void as of early May per the FTC?

The FTC ruling becomes effective this September. But at least three lawsuits have already been filed. It's expected at least some of the challenges will be successful, because any final rule in which the FTC claims authority to ban restrictive covenants is not likely to withstand constitutional scrutiny.

Even so it’s not a bad rule. Why should a company be able to control someone’s desire to be employed elsewhere? It’s no different than if the government started doing that. Go to hell is the correct response to that kind of insanity.

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Weren't most non competes null and void as of early May per the FTC?

The FTC ruling becomes effective this September. But at least three lawsuits have already been filed. It's expected at least some of the challenges will be successful, because any final rule in which the FTC claims authority to ban restrictive covenants is not likely to withstand constitutional scrutiny.

Even so it’s not a bad rule. Why should a company be able to control someone’s desire to be employed elsewhere? It’s no different than if the government started doing that. Go to hell is the correct response to that kind of insanity.

The employee agrees to that condition when they get the offer for hire for the company. If no one would have ever accepted that term, then the term would be forever eliminated in the offers.