r/Broadcasting

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?

I just watched a product-sponsored “interview” on CBS Mornings. This morning news show has been airing obvious full-on Paramount partner-related segments as “news”for a while but this was the first time I’ve seen a thinly cloaked ad for a specific supplement product (Natrol?) in an interview-style segment. This ad was far more subdued than the CBS “Deals” segments and they had to show the typical caption of “This product is not FDA approved and has not been shown to cure, prevent…” yada yada just like with blatant supplement ads.

The downhill spiral of CBS News approaches bottom.

I currently host my own radio show through my university's student radio scheme. I graduate this year, and I am absolutely desperate to continue doing it! I'm fairly new to broadcast, and have only been running the show for just short of a year. What is the best method for me to continue doing the show?

Ideally, I would love to be able to continue the show as it is now, which is a weekly broadcast via web radio. However, I am also open to reformatting the show into a podcast style, and then posted on Spotify or YouTube and other equivalent sites. It's not my preference, as I don't hugely enjoy post-production and editing, but I think I could learn to enjoy it. This show is purely for my own enjoyment, but I would like it to be available for other people to listen to online, as my family and friends listen.

I am open to any and all suggestions; its just important to me that I get the opportunity to keep the show going! That includes anything from which software to use for broadcast, which software to post-produce the show, etc.

I was (until recently) a major market, multiple award winning reporter anchor bla bla bla. Top 10 market middle aged white guy. Star reporter. Great tape. Great agent.

Cant get an offer even in Market 30.
Are stations just not hiring anyone over 25? Is it because my tape is old school and Im not doing the news on my phone or social?
Are any other vets finding it difficult landing top tier jobs? Ie: six figure reporter gigs. I used to command tons of interest from stations, looking for a strong lead reporter. Now it seems they dont care about that.

I know the answer to all my questions. Im not dumb. But Im curious if Im alone.

If anyone could be so good, pls consider an upvote and comment. I know it's low effort but I don't know what else to do

https://www.youtube.com/live/KdhFjgLraMM?si=7obSW0GeZrhAUaj-

https://youtu.be/gRdvaik-dJI?si=wNpU1EKKC57I9l3A

Recently got laid off, and I've been struggling with how terribly slow the interviewing process is going for some of these director jobs that I've been applying to. What else is there for us that isn't in this industry? I try scrolling indeed and I swear I don't feel qualified for basically anything else.

Currently work as a news producer at a station in market 11 i’ve been a producer there for 2 years and before producing i worked at the same station as a director for 2 years.

I’m thinking of trying to move up to NYC or New Jersey but was wondering how competitive the job market is up there for producers and if there’s anything I can do to stand out when applying?

My newsroom has been having an issue where Avid iNews will pop up over a webpage while we're using that PC on air showing said website.

Aside from closing iNews (which is so obvious I can't get our producers to do it), is there a way to disable that action of coming up and to the front? I think it's happening when they get an alert, but I'm unsure as it's not happening during my shift.

Any guidance would be appreciated

If you were being approached by Tegna to take a HOT role, not once but twice... all things broadcast industy considered...what would you do? What would you consider? What thoughts run through your head? What factors would come into the decision?

Byron Allen is buying BuzzFeed (which also includes control of HuffPost) for $120 million (but will be funded by only $20M upfront, with $100M as a promissory note due in 5 years).