Best Small Market News

[Mayhem]

What shops have some of the best small market (120+) products?

[RollTide98]

KTUU Anchorage, AK
WBOC Salisbury, MD
WTVY Dothan, AL
WABI Bangor, ME
WVIR Charlottesville, VA

[Don Konkey]

KSAN San Angelo, TX

LMAO

[Big Country]

WBOC Salisbury, MD
WCAV Charlottesville, VA

[Fake Post]

WMAZ Macon, Georgia

[Roy Hobbs]

Originally posted by RollTide98:

WABI Bangor, ME
Aheh heh heh "He said 'bang her!'" a heheheh

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[Pinkie]

Originally posted by Roy Hobbs:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by RollTide98:

WABI Bangor, ME
Aheh heh heh "He said 'bang her!'" a heheheh

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[vuphinder]

KELO in Sioux Falls used to be decent...haven't seen it in 15 years though.

[Jbtornado]

WIBW in Topeka 10-15 years ago as well, now its garbage..

[AnchorsAway]

Lubbock, TX is a great small market. A decent number of established and experienced anchors and reporters for its size, a competitive news market with a city of 200,000+, a lot of talent making big jumps from there.

[AnchorsAway]

Beaumont is also a decent city given it's size, so is Charleston, SC; lots of talent make great moves out of Boise; Tallahassee is nice given its a capitol city; and split markets like Paducah/Cape G can put on competitive products for small markets.

[Produce man]

Originally posted by AnchorsAway:
Lubbock, TX is a great small market. A decent number of established and experienced anchors and reporters for its size, a competitive news market with a city of 200,000+, a lot of talent making big jumps from there.I don't know, the quality of life sucked when I was there back in the mid-90's. Imagine picking up your date, taking her out for dinner. A light rain falls, and when you get out to the parking lot, you get a big, fat whiff of cattle-sh!t from the stock yards. Lovely. It also actually rained mud all over my car. Also, didn't KLBK merge with KMAC to become "Texas-Size".

I jumped, too!

[AnchorsAway]

Lubbock gets a bad rap, but you get decent nightlife, good restaurants, the Symphony, great concerts, low cost of living, higher salaries than most small markets, and Big 12 sports. You quickly learn to disreguard any foul smells from the feedlots (which, in all honesty aren't that bad). I'll take the occassional mud storm in return for the low humidity and mild weather.

[Produce man]

I have a sensitive sniffer, so I'm sure it bothered me more than most. Plus, it was 1994 and we were still using 3/4" gear, carbon paper and IBM Swintecs.

I'm a big golfer, and I didn't enjoy 40mph cross-winds off the tee-box.

The County Line restaurant north of town kicked ass, though!

[the original buttongod]

Originally posted by Jbtornado:
WIBW in Topeka 10-15 years ago as well, now its garbage..Then why do they get double the viewers than the other two stations doing news combined ?

[Jbtornado]

Fair question..

Its because WIBW was the first television station in the market long before the other 2 came along. It also has the cleanest signal in the DMA and its been around as long as the KC stations which can be picked up in Topeka proper.

One more reason is because its on Channel 13, while the other stations are much higher on the dial. People generally tune into the lower tier channels.

One last reason is because of the good product they used to put out, alot of the population in Northeast Kansas has just kept it as a habit to keep watching WIBW. Despite the product getting rather poor lately.

It used to be that WIBW was done well, you could tell it was a small market but good talent and presentation and dedication and originality were shown. Now, the talent is alot worse overall, and its just frustrating to watch.

[Steve Mizeraney]

Tampa-St. Pete.

Best small market product I've seen.

[Roy Hobbs]

Chicago.

Small market and getting smaller all the time. Great place for a 25 year old to get a start in the biz.

[Eeps Snorps Now]

Originally posted by AnchorsAway:
Beaumont is also a decent city given it's sizeTrue...lots to do. But you'll need a car.

Drive east an hour and you're in Lake Charles. Drive west an hour and a half and you're in Houston.

[Signature on File]

There's a great little small market down by my house next to the pizza place. It has the freshest bread you would ever want to eat.

[Diplomat]

Originally posted by H R Puff&Stuff:
There's a great little small market down by my house next to the pizza place. It has the freshest bread you would ever want to eat.That's the best small market news I've heard in a long time. :D

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

What market DMA(Range, i.e. 100-200) is considered Small, Medium, Large?

[RollTide98]

WYMT in Hazard, Kentucky, churns out a good product for a city that size.

[oldandintheway]

WIBW may have more viewers than the other statiosn but KSNT more than holds its own in the key demos. In fact in the last five years KSNT has won the demos about as often as WIBW. 13 isn't the station it was when the Stauffer's owned it. Benedict gutted the place. Gray at least stopped the bleeding but WIBW isn't the dominant #1 that it used to be.

[newslady_26]

KTUU.in Anchorage.IS really more like a top 50 and it's statewide but, the cost of living is wayyy high

[Roy Hobbs]

Channel 2 in Anchorage has a really sharp weekend anchor graemlins/eusa_whistle.gif

[Tv Renee]

What about KWES IN MIDLAND TEXAS?