24994J 5269 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 New York, Boston, Philly and the rest of New England has had more than their fair share of snowstorms this season...and Chicago will be getting in on the fun over the next 36 hours! Up to 2 feet of snow is expected at O'Hare, Midway, the Lakefront, and other points south. This could top '99, '79 and possibly even '67. This is your place to post your information, comments, and opinions about the media coverage here in the Windy City. I know many stations in NYC were on the air nearly the entire time during some of their "big ones"; will Chicago do the same, or will we be left out in the cold? So far, CBS 2, NBC Chicago, ABC 7 and WGN seem to be on top of things when it comes to closing notification. These four all had their crawlers going during the late broadcasts last night. Fox Chicago, on the other hand...well, what do you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Think you mean WPIX, not Fox... BTW, isn't this a coverage thread? :puke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 My mistake, I wasn't totally sure if I was posting this in the right spot. By the way, I mean Fox (WFLD); this is about Chicago, not New York Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBC 5 Chicago 164 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 NBC 5 tomorrow will have special coverage starting live at 4am, noon, and 4pm tomorrow. ABC 7 will be live at 4am as well tomorrow. Haven't seen/heard anything about any of the other stations yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC 7 and WGN start at 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15connects 4 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC 7 is following in WABC's footsteps, they have Ben Bradley out on the road reporting at 5pm, I don't think they have a name for it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Viewer 1 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Vince Gerasole was just live in "Mobile 2," driving and reporting on the blizzard.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 I don't know about anyone else, but ABC7 is going until "at least 11pm" tonight; their words, not mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 NBC Chicago has a leg-up in primetime, with The Talk on Chicago Nonstop live at 7, repeated at 7:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Vince Gerasole was just live in "Mobile 2," driving and reporting on the blizzard.. Dana Koslov was in one of the live trucks on LSD. She, however, was in the passenger seat, not driving. It was still refered to as "Mobile 2". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 FOX Chicago will have live updates @ the top and bottom of the hour leading into GDC which will start at 4AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 All of ABC 7's newscasts are being broadcast live online until further notice. That included this afternoon's shows and the extended 10pm broadcast coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 NBC Chicago loses the 10pm battle. While both 2 and 7 have extensive coverage and more than one meteorologist in-studio for their 1-hour broadcasts, ole Channel 5 already ditched coverage and has moved on to Leno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 CBS2 is beating all of its competitors to the punch and starting at 3am!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 ABC7 just wrapped up at 11:03, the latest of everyone, and closed with a shot of a dozen or so people OUTSIDE THEIR STUDIO! One of these idiots was making a snow angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Coming up on 9am, and everyone is still on. -CBS2 has a fair amount of live reports -NBC Chicago has Andy Avalos and Ginger Zee reporting -ABC7 has Phil Schwarz with Tracy Butler; they have several live trucks stuck and I've only seen Ben Bradley live and on-camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15connects 4 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Now its only Mike Caplan, Tracy and Phil left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Dana Koslov was in one of the live trucks on LSD. She, however, was in the passenger seat, not driving. It was still refered to as "Mobile 2". Even though I know what you meant by LSD it's still funny to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Here are some pics of various tv crews out in the elements at LSD (Lake Shore Drive). WGN's Nancy Loo in one pic and WLS's Eric Horng in another. Third (3rd) worst storm in Chicago's history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 -Everyone's wrapped up now at 1:00 -ABC7 will cover the next press conference at 2:00 -NBC Chicago will be back at 4:00 -Fox Chicago has a special broadcast at 5:00 I'd assume that all channels will break in when neccessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Here are some pics of various tv crews out in the elements at LSD (Lake Shore Drive). WGN's Nancy Loo in one pic and WLS's Eric Horng in another. Third (3rd) worst storm in Chicago's history. Off topic, but interesting that WMAQ hasn't gotten the new truck wraps. Maybe while all the other O&O's switch to the Nonstop look, WMAQ will finally switch to Look C! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Off topic, but interesting that WMAQ hasn't gotten the new truck wraps. Maybe while all the other O&O's switch to the Nonstop look, WMAQ will finally switch to Look C! I'm guessing that since they share trucks with Telemundo Chicago (T44) that they either will get a special one that includes T44 in it or a simple piece(s) that would cover-up the current NBC5 part only. It would be cool if they did get a new full truck wrap (like KNSD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Also off-topic, but ABC7 is showing a "Continuing Coverage" promo with video and sound bites of the last 24 hours. What's interesting is that it uses what sounds like a mix of the EWN New Generation in use by most ABC O&O and NS2000+ that WLS has used since '92. I know that there is a thread on this site from about 4 years ago that looks at a possible update to NS2000+. I was wondering if anyone knows or has heard anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Posted yesterday from the Sun-Times.... Storm draws viewers to TV news "Late news overnight ratings were unusually high for all late local newscasts Monday night, with the notable exception of Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. Top-rated ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 still bested all other stations with a whopping 11.2 rating (392,000 households), about two rating points higher than usual. But Tribune Co.-owned WGN-Channel 9’s hour-long 9 p.m. newscast, which features popular meteorologist Tom Skilling in its weather reporting arsenal, was a close second with a 10.2 rating (357,000), nearly double what the station’s average late news rating has been in recent weeks. Both NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 and CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 also had considerably better-than-usual ratings success Monday, scoring 8.7 (304,500) and 8.0 (280,000) ratings respectively for their late newscasts. Only WFLD was unable to pull in any new viewers with the blizzard on the way. The station’s 9 p.m. news could only manage a 2.5 rating (87,500) for the night, about what it has been drawing in recent months." -- Lewis Lazare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abric 157 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Wow. That has got to hurt for WFLD. Big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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