{"id":295035,"date":"2010-02-08T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8780b15970b"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:42:54","slug":"l-a-seeing-a-bonanza-of-local-tv-newscasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295035","title":{"rendered":"L.A. seeing a bonanza of local TV newscasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.inmag.com\/mediawatch\/graphics\/ktla1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inmag.com\/mediawatch\/graphics\/ktla1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 9px; width: 309px; height: 186px; float: left;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.inmag.com\/mediawatch\/graphics\/ktla1.jpg\"><\/img> Last year, local television stations were criticized for not devoting more broadcast time to the Station fire. But it turns out that they are scheduling more time for local news now than perhaps ever.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lacter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/article.aspx?id=22949\">explores the local TV scene<\/a> in the new issue of Los Angeles magazine, reporting on the ever-expanding number of newscasts. It&#8217;s all about economics: News is cheaper to produce than purchasing the most popular syndicated fare. <\/p>\n<p>Reports Lacter: &quot;L.A. is being bombarded with news \u2014 it\u2019s on virtually nonstop, starting<br \/>\neach morning at 4 a.m. (KNBC, Channel 4) and running throughout the day<br \/>\nand late into the night. The stretch from 5 to 7 a.m. is especially<br \/>\nintense: Besides KCBS and KNBC, there is news on KTLA (Channel 5), KABC<br \/>\n(Channel 7), and KTTV (Channel 11). All told, <em>32 hours<\/em> of local<br \/>\nnews every day, and that doesn\u2019t count non-English stations or the<br \/>\nmorning gabfests on channels 5 and 11. Expect additional slots to be<br \/>\nfilled in the coming months.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He also says ratings for news are on the decline. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/article.aspx?id=22949\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p>Photo: KTLA Morning News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, local television stations were criticized for not devoting more broadcast time to the Station fire. But it turns out that they are scheduling more time for local news now than perhaps ever. Mark Lacter explores the local TV scene in the new issue of Los Angeles magazine, reporting on the ever-expanding number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}