by the-real-deal » Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:06 am
So, that rumour mongering squirrel is at it, once again !
Can someone please get a shovel and smack him, nice and good !
There's probably less hands to rub together at CTV, since those 380 layoffs must include some at CTV Vancouver, no ?
Or. is CTV Vancouver run by volunteers, now, just like in the good old days of BCTV. lol
I think that Steve Darling is just FINE by me.
Which brings me to a larger question, Does your morning "tv news anchor"
need to be spectacular at all ?
I have been watching the morning news for over 40 years at Global, going back to the days of Jim Hart and Deborah Hope with The Early News,
Steve Darling is probably 100 times better as a news reader than Jim Hart ever was !
And yet, Cameron Bell, BCTV News Director, though the world of Jim Hart !
As for Deborah Hope, she projected mom and apple pie goodness, like no other female anchor before or since. She could sell a human interest story better than even Mother Teresa and Mike McCardell combined.
Too bad on Steve's demotion to "breaking news anchor,"
I wonder, is that the new doghouse in television news ? Like NBC's Brian Williams getting demoted to "breaking news anchor !"
You never even see Williams, at all, on the screen, so why did they bring him back ?
Squire Barnes, I have seen cover for morning sports, before, and he doesn't have the energy or interest for mornings. He doesn't seem like a morning guy to me, and the peak audience is always after 12 noon in television. I would keep Squire where he is.
In television, your weakest announcers (historically) always have done the morning show.
It's kind of one level above the doghouse, or "the breaking news anchor" gig ?
CTV AM has had Dan Matheson as anchor, not the sharpest tool in the shed.
I see Steve Darling as another Dan Matheson, not spectacular, but always dependable and reliable when you need him.
At CBC, they have had a variety of nobodies reading AM news, from Carol McNeil to Suhana Meharchand.
These morning tv news readers are not really good enough to be your 5 pm "news star," so you allow them to exist in a lesser known time slot.
In radio, these employees are the classic "time and temperature disc jockeys" that typically do the 10 am to 2 pm slot, normally have killer voices and do a fair amount of production, as well ?
They are somewhat boring people, if you ask me, and you would never want them to be your morning show host or drive home host, because they are boring.
But they are good little announcers, nonetheless, and they could fill in for the morning jock or whenever the needs arises ?
I wonder, is Steve Darling being toasted, merely because he has seniority and the union payscales mean they have to pay him more than a newcomer with an equal amount of experience ?
Sounds a like a cost cutting measure to me !