Columbus, OH News Media?

[gtaman]

I was walking the station for a proposal in my line of business. I had spoken to the facility engineer about it because I was concerned about securing it. Unless you're speaking of the buyout and yes when John Wolfe passed, the family eventually sold it. I think it might have gone through two sales. Maybe my buddy from 10 will chime in. He's on here.

Gotcha. I swore I saw chopper 10 flying over down town. WCMH still has theirs. Awhile back I was talking to a few videographers and they were joking with the guy from WSYX about buying their chopper footage because they sold their chopper.

chopper 10 always had some good footage especially if incidents outside of the metro area.

 

[mbruning81]

None of the Columbus TV stations have a chopper any longer. About 6 years ago, all three had one with 4 and 6 leasing theirs. Not sure about Sunny 95, but they had Yellow Thunder with Sgt. Bill Taylor. WTVN had a fixed wing plane with Craig Sinclair. It was leased, not owned. Craig fed traffic for all the ClearChannel (now iHeartRadio) stations. The plane was grounded around 2006 or 2007, if I recall correctly. Craig was moved into the newsroom due to the fact that there were cameras all over the highway and the cost couldn't be justified.

 

[cbehr91]

I was walking the station for a proposal in my line of business. I had spoken to the facility engineer about it because I was concerned about securing it. Unless you're speaking of the buyout and yes when John Wolfe passed, the family eventually sold it. I think it might have gone through two sales. Maybe my buddy from 10 will chime in. He's on here.

I don't work at 10, but the newspaper was sold first, then the TV stations and radio stations (channel 10, 97.1 FM and 1460 AM in Columbus and channel 13 in Indianapolis) were sold last August.

And yeah, as already discussed none of the Columbus TV stations have helicopters anymore. Actually I didn't know channel 10's got grounded, but it doesn't surprise me. Channel 4's chopper was grounded a couple years ago. Now that most local TV stations nationwide are owned by large media conglomerates they don't feel like paying for the upkeep of the bird or renting hangar space and, of course, a pilot.

 

[wa8pyr]

I don't work at 10, but the newspaper was sold first, then the TV stations and radio stations (channel 10, 97.1 FM and 1460 AM in Columbus and channel 13 in Indianapolis) were sold last August.

And yeah, as already discussed none of the Columbus TV stations have helicopters anymore. Actually I didn't know channel 10's got grounded, but it doesn't surprise me. Channel 4's chopper was grounded a couple years ago. Now that most local TV stations nationwide are owned by large media conglomerates they don't feel like paying for the upkeep of the bird or renting hangar space and, of course, a pilot.

And the death of local news continues ever faster. . . .

 

[gtaman]

And the death of local news continues ever faster. . . .

Scioto Post is going to be the next big news station. Because they actually report News.

 

[amcferrin90]

Scioto Post is going to be the next big news station. Because they actually report News.

Not to make this political, trying not to. I can't tell you how many articles I've read coming out of Cleveland that have got me scratching my head about news in Columbus. So you're right.

 

[wa8pyr]

Scioto Post is going to be the next big news station. Because they actually report News.

Not to make this political, trying not to. I can't tell you how many articles I've read coming out of Cleveland that have got me scratching my head about news in Columbus. So you're right.

All true. However, to be taken seriously as a news outlet they're going to have to dig more into the meat of a story, and get a lot better at grammar, punctuation and editing. Some study of the "inverted pyramid" style of news writing would help, too. It needs to read like a news story rather than a "this is what I heard" spoken story.

 

[amcferrin90]

All true. However, to be taken seriously as a news outlet they're going to have to dig more into the meat of a story, and get a lot better at grammar, punctuation and editing. Some study of the "inverted pyramid" style of news writing would help, too. It needs to read like a news story rather than a "this is what I heard" spoken story.

That's what I was meaning to say. Better story writing and "news" content out of Cleveland about things in Columbus than there is about Columbus in Columbus.