Which newscast do you watch?

[ForceEight]

Just wondering. I find newscasting, in general, pretty interesting. It's like sports without athleticism. :lol:

 

In the morning, it's always WJZ for me, if only because that's what my mom has always had on when I go up since...forever. I'll also watch them if I'm home in the afternoon.

 

WBFF is the only one I'll watch at night; I think they do it a lot better than anyone else.

 

 

 

[cokedupwerewolf]

Mornings is always WBAL, if only because Conan/Poker After dark is normally the last thing I watch.

Daytime is a either WBAL, because I don't watch TV during the day, so it's the the reason as above, or it's WJZ because it comes on an hour earlier than the rest.

Prime time I don't watch.

[ravinmaniac52]

Which ever one has the best looking females on at the time.

[dc.]

I HATE Fox and CBS (WBFF and WJZ). They are both SOOOO gimmicky and ridiculous. I feel like their graphics are designed to attract the attention of older and/or less intelligent people. Just like FoxNews channel. WJZ's overly-bright and glaring red-yellow-blue graphics KILL me.

 

I prefer to watch WBAL when I watch and have occasionally enjoyed WMAR (Channel 2). That is more because it is so local, since I live in Towson. Many of WMAR's personalities live nearby.

 

Overall, however, I don't watch local news. I flip to CNN long before local news. I catch maybe 10 minutes of an 11pm news broadcast a week... I never watch the midday, 5pm or early morning news.

[ForceEight]

I don't see how you think WBFF/WJZ has any more or less gimmicky graphics than WBAL. WBFF especially. Their graphics used to plain suck, but they're actually probably the cleanest in town. They're pretty popular, too.

 

WJZ isn't gimmicky so much as it's plain ugly. Especially being a CBS O&O, you wouldn't expect that. It's too colorful and, well, ugly. But I like the personalities more than any other station.

 

WMAR has always been notoriously just...bad. Things have gotten a little better, I guess, but they're still nothing special at all.

[cravnravn]

WBAL, or whatever is on when I come to from my after work nap

[52isUnstoppable]

The round black guy, I think Vic Carter, he cannot read the teleprompter to save his life. Seriously pay attention to the way he pauses mid sentence all the time while waiting for the next line to pop up. It just sounds like a retard. It drives me nuts that the head honchos at the station dont fire him.

[deeshopper]

The round black guy,

 

Nearly spit out my lemonade on the monitor.

[ravinmaniac52]

It drives me nuts that the head honchos at the station dont fire him.

 

They won't fire him. That is Al Sander and Jerry Turner setting there!

[ForceEight]

They won't fire him. That is Al Sander and Jerry Turner setting there!

Exactly.

 

If they wanted to fire him, they would've done it about 15 years ago now.

[dc.]

I just watched clips from each newscast on their websites and I stand by my opinions earlier.

 

Fox45 and WJZ are both gimmicky to me. Overly dramatic and hyped-up graphics.

 

WBAL is by far the best.

 

WMAR is just... poor (financially). The graphics are a little gimmicky, but okay. They've tried so many different plans (teaming up with The Sun, teaming up with InsideBaltimore, etc etc), they are just all over the place. But I still like the people there more than WJZ and Fox

[Spen]

I cannot watch any of them. Unless something major is going on locally I get my news from newspapers or nationally.

[cravnravn]

WMAR is just... poor (financially). The graphics are a little gimmicky, but okay. They've tried so many different plans (teaming up with The Sun, teaming up with InsideBaltimore, etc etc), they are just all over the place.

 

And that dam Norm Lewis and his polished head.

[cokedupwerewolf]

WMAR is just... poor (financially). The graphics are a little gimmicky, but okay. They've tried so many different plans (teaming up with The Sun, teaming up with InsideBaltimore, etc etc), they are just all over the place.

 

And that dam Norm Lewis and his polished head.

 

 

 

Dude he's growing his hair back, it's like a Chia Pet.

 

 

I always watch WMAR for for snow and extreme weather because they are typically withing 5 minutes of my house.

[cravnravn]

Dude he's growing his hair back, it's like a Chia Pet.

 

LOL, I seen that yesterday, I was doing a little channel surfing, I yelled to the Mrs, look its Chia Pet Lewis.

[SpearSrai]

What is local news? I only watch the main news channels... CNN, MSNBC, Fox News (for perspective), and Comedy Central. I've heard that there's a HLN, but I refuse to support any channel that will have Nancy Grace on their payroll. And that's coming from a guy who will watch Fox News, despite Sean Hannity having a job there.

[dc.]

Headline News (HLN) is a joke.

 

During the day, it's no better than just regular CNN or MSNBC to get headlines. So I don't know why it is even needed.

 

Then around 6pm it turns into a cheap version of Entertainment Tonight.

 

And then Nancy Grace comes on and you get to watch them talk about Caylee Anthony for 3 hours. Seriously, I don't think Grace has talked about anything but Anthony and Blagovich on her show for the last four months. Nothing else. Ever.