Spring Rubber 609 Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I was watching NBC 5's 5PM news today because the Winter Classic ran long, and at the end of the weather segment, the fill-in weather lady (not sure what her name is) ended the weather segment while still doing the maps, and she said that we'll have to tune in to the 6PM newscast to see the five-day forecast. Is this normal, or was there some sort of technical difficulty? If they actually do this every night at 5PM, that would be a pretty horrible attempt at getting ratings for the 6PM news, so I hope its not the case. If it was a technical issue, she should have at least said so, because the impression I got was that they were making a lame attempt to get me to tune into their 6PM news. If I was a regular viewer, and I heard that, I would grab that remote and flip over to WBBM, WLS, or WGN to get my 7-Day. (or just look on the internet ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 1. Cheryl Scott, Ginger Zee's replacement 2. Was 5 o'clock a full 30 minutes...maybe they were short on time? 3. They usually show it on all PM broadcasts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I was watching NBC 5's 5PM news today because the Winter Classic ran long, and at the end of the weather segment, the fill-in weather lady (not sure what her name is) ended the weather segment while still doing the maps, and she said that we'll have to tune in to the 6PM newscast to see the five-day forecast. Is this normal, or was there some sort of technical difficulty? If they actually do this every night at 5PM, that would be a pretty horrible attempt at getting ratings for the 6PM news, so I hope its not the case. If it was a technical issue, she should have at least said so, because the impression I got was that they were making a lame attempt to get me to tune into their 6PM news. If I was a regular viewer, and I heard that, I would grab that remote and flip over to WBBM, WLS, or WGN to get my 7-Day. (or just look on the internet ) They probably just ran out of time. WCAU rushed the closing of their Winter Classic post game show so they could show Nightly. That's probably what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 609 Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Hmm, ok. Normally anyone doing the weather will skip the rest of the maps in favor of showing the 5-day, since that's the most important part of the weather segment for most viewers. Bad execution of the segment there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 431 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The game was moved from 1/Eastern to 3/Eastern due to warm weather in Philly forcing the local evening news to be shorter. The telecast ended around 6:10/Eastern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I was watching NBC 5's 5PM news today because the Winter Classic ran long, and at the end of the weather segment, the fill-in weather lady (not sure what her name is) ended the weather segment while still doing the maps, and she said that we'll have to tune in to the 6PM newscast to see the five-day forecast. Is this normal, or was there some sort of technical difficulty? If they actually do this every night at 5PM, that would be a pretty horrible attempt at getting ratings for the 6PM news, so I hope its not the case. If it was a technical issue, she should have at least said so, because the impression I got was that they were making a lame attempt to get me to tune into their 6PM news. If I was a regular viewer, and I heard that, I would grab that remote and flip over to WBBM, WLS, or WGN to get my 7-Day. (or just look on the internet ) There's really nothing unusual about this. Everyone else in this thread is correct, evening newscasts on NBC affiliates were abbreviated (mine was as well). The meteorologist was probably running long and the producer was trying to hurry them up, so they just didn't have time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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