THANK YOU. The obvious is staring Fox in the face, and he still has the gonads to think this system can work? How is that remotely possible when the so-called "messiah" of the movement can't even get it to work?So with Channel One Michael got everything he could want. Money, backing, 12 weeks to train people who believed in the VJ thing and wanted to be VJ's and yet it failed.
If VJ doesn't work in optimum conditions then how can it work anywhere?
We're not talking about outside of the United States, Mike.(More references to everything outside of the US, which has nothing to do with this coversation.)
Do you guys like smoke? How about mirrors?
Interesting -- I guess some people are strangers to sarcasm!That was not a quote from me. Like much of what you post here, pure fiction
Is it not true that you refuse to post KRON's numbers because you know they're failing?CG:
Is it not true more stations and groups in the US are adopting VJ?
FOX, it’s easy to associate the financial problems of Young to KRON and use those as excuses for KRON poor performance, but don’t forget that KRON was for sale as KRON and not as Young. The sale did not include Young’s debt; the sale was for KRON assets include financial performance as a stand alone operation. Apparently the switch to VJ did not impress potential buyers. Young went as far as excluding KRON from their annual financial report meaning that KRON books had nothing to do with Young problems. If they could not find a buyer it only meant that VJ or not the operation itself has a poor financial performance and no potential future. What Young paid for KRON has nothing to do with the asking price. The value of a company is set by auditors following specific accounting formulas, be assured that stupidity and mistakes are not part of the formula.Let's evaluate. Young was the first to adopt VJ. They did so as a cost cutting measure. They cut costs and increased productivity by adopting VJ. No matter how innovative or successful, however, it alone could not bail out a badly led company that paid way too much for KRON.
What did we learn? VJ could work, but it alone could not make up for an $800 million blunder.
Dear StephenActually the biggest problem with Channel One was it was awful.
My first week in London I was vox-pop’ed in the street by a C1 VJ on the burning issue of whether Londoner’s are sexually adventurous or not… news at it’s hardest
C1 VJ’s were so good that for a few years ITN and the BBC band the hire of them because many were seen as full of attitude and low on ability. Something a few ex-C1ers proved when I was tasked with fixing some of thier story's at C5.
Some of the better one's still made it in the industry despite their tainted past. I’m glad they did.
I know you are a big fan of the “fail faster†philosophy Michael but here is a clue that could save you time. The glaring links between all the VJ failures… is’t the VJ’s.
As to TeleZuri, its not hard to be the best local news channel somewhere you are the only local news channel.
ha ha.Michael [FONT="]there is no statute of limitations on a bad idea, [/FONT]I hope for the sake of your new wife you have learnt from the mistakes you made with your ex no matter how long ago you made them.
Technology will not fix bad lighting techniques or poor writing. You should spend more time training instead of indoctrinating.
Now his makes a lot of sense, thanks for explaining it to us.CG:
I think the reason you've seen VJs at KRON and WKRN and not at other groups is for exactly the same reason -- fear. Young did it out of a sense of desperation and a willingness to try anything to save themselves. But other groups, the less desperate ones, were more fearful of what going VJ would mean than of going out of business.
You may know something about studio lighting, but what you know about the Star Ledger I could put in a thimble. You should stick to what you know how to do and stay away from that which you barely understand.. Any idiot can figure that the conversion did not worked out in the way Rosenblum had predicted and the only one who came ahead was Rosenblum himself, see the Newark Star Ledger if you want to see another VJ flap of a company that paid Rosenblum a small fortune and got disaster in return.
We've been saying the exact same thing about you and local news for years. Nino is proactive. You can't even run a five-OMB/VJ shop without it producing unwatchable garbage.You should stick to what you know how to do and stay away from that which you barely understand.