Deathstar, creator of boring newscasts
Need some help. My station (nexstar) is moving away from cbs newspath. We will no longer be able to contribute or use video pkgs ect from them. No special report notices or nothing.
I am a morning producer (4:30 -7:00 shows). We rely heavily on cbs fast content to plug in. Right now we have the least amount of reporters in our market (We are loosing another next week). My morning shows usually split every half hour. The shows have different stories and I take pride in that. with the loss of reporters we have had to rely on more national stuff (guess where from) to fill some parts of the A block in mornings. in total today we used almost 9 minutes worth of cbs content (including a cbs mornings tease, not counting a repeated pkg). When it comes to Nextar content (which is our only other option) we used 2 minutes. Now the kicker, I have worked at least 21 days this year completely alone on this shift (wow). Our morning crew is completely understaffed with only 2 producers (technically 3 but the 3rd comes in so late it doesnt matter). We were the last producers to know about this newspath license thing. My news director is taking away building blocks and replacing it with what exactly? we already have Nexstar/newsnation and they are not enough. We will have to repeat so much content. At some point we will be repeating most of the stories every half hour because we just will not have content to fill. It is disappointing to me. I enjoy using a variety of content and my station is taking that away from me. They will make me hate my own shows. I well end up just filling shows as a job instead of actually trying to have shows that seem good in my head.
Despite all of this Nexstar still will not increase my wage. They will not add extra help. I am going to ask my boss about this and see what he says. If he say’s it is on me I am seriously considering leaving nexstar for good or at the very least transferring to a different nexstar station that seems to have enough reporters. How do I make my boss know how much of a blow this is?