Local TV coverage of New Year was a joke

[LVSteve]

Vegas is famous for it's BIG New Year's fireworks celebration. So, you might think the local TV stations would go out of their way to cover it properly. Guess again. From OK-ish to bad.

NBC affiliate, Channel 3 : Some flaky camera work, but shown full screen with no borders or banners.

ABC affiliate, Channel 13 : Good camera work totally hosed over by two competing music feeds. Unwatchable.

CBS affiliate, Channel 8 : Nice camera work ruined by HUGE banner thing at the bottom also showing inane Twitter feed. Unwatchable.

Fox affiliate, Channel 5 : Showing something from another city as far as I could tell. Didn't stay tuned long enough to find out where.

These clowns had 364 days to prepare and they still screwed it up. Color me baffled.

 

[Inusuit]

Who cares about TV coverage of a non-event? Maybe you should have gone in person.

 

[i1afli]

Local media, both tv and print, is pretty weak...they just don’t have the budgets to do it right without some local sponsors.

 

[Warren Sear]

The good news is that the Xmas and new years eve foolishness is over for another year!

 

[carpriver]

Some people don't watch the fire works as it creates problems for us.

 

[the ringo kid]

The last 2 NYEs, ive (tried to) go to bed before the ball hits the ground. This year due to working the next day-as it NEVER brought me a better year to celebrate anyways. I don't miss 2017 at all for various reasons-losing three females I loved dearly-and other stuff.

2018 has started off better--cold as it SHOULD be-etx. So maybe?? it'll be a banner year for all?

BTW-I don't care to listen to any of the tools on tv spot off on how they will miss what was a lousy year. Be they Steve Harvey-or whomever?

 

[fiasconva]

I don't think I watched more than a minute or so of it. Had some shows DVR'd and watched LivePD instead. Just doesn't interest me whatsoever.

 

[BearBio]

We had people for brunch, starting at 8 AM for the Rose Parade (we're ex-Californians, as were several guests). Absolutely HORRIIBLE coverage. Started out with some no-name "dancer" singing and strutting around. Worst coverage I've seen in over 60 years of watching it (and attending at least twice!)