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| CBS Sunday Morning, fewer stories and less production* |
No shortage of changes on your TV screen because of Corvid19, including reduced production quality and program quantity.
Same on the local news scene. If you've been watching the normally double-anchored 6:00 PM news on Alabama Network, you may have noticed the two-anchor two-studio set up this past week.
That allowed the recommended six-foot separation between anchors.
Meanwhile, The F.C.C. is loosening some regulations to allow more cooperation between competing stations in the same market.
I doubt there will be much of that in Montgomery, but we'll see.
"FCC Issues Guidance on TV News Sharing Agreements During the Pandemic
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The FCC yesterday issued a Public Notice addressing news sharing or “pooling” agreements between television stations that are coming together as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stations may be faced with fewer crews to cover local events as infections and self-quarantines take place, and because of the general obligation to maintain physical distancing from other people, no one wants a crowd of camera crews and reporters at every news event. The FCC’s notice yesterday states that such agreements entered into during the crisis for news sharing do not need to be in writing and do not need to be in the public file – an exemption to the normal obligation to reduce any sharing agreement between TV stations to writing and add it to the online public file. That obligation exempts “on-the-fly” arrangements during breaking news events and those precipitated by unforeseen or rapidly developing events. The FCC concluded that pandemic-related agreements fit into that category."(From a broadcast law blog)
*Even with those restrictions, CBS Sunday Morning is the best program on TV, Period.
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