{"id":1178,"date":"2007-08-09T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2007-08-09T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T15:23:05","slug":"where-credit-is-due-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the media world has turned around in the past twenty years; when I worked for Hubbard Broadcasting, from 1985 to 1987, it was a big honkin&#8217; player in the local media scene, with a market value of around $400 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Hubbard is valued around a billion dollars &#8211; and is a &#8220;ma and pa shop&#8221; in the great media scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p>Their flagship TV station, Channel 5, has taken its ratings lumps &#8211; but it&#8217;d seem they&#8217;ve done <em>something <\/em>right.\u00a0 They were pretty universally acclaimed as having the best coverage of the bridge collapse last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Janecek, writing last \u00a0week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsinminnesota.com\/2007\/aug\/03\/bridge-collapse%3A-best-local-media\">sums up the plaudits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KSTP TV started reporting on the bridge in its Wednesday six p.m. newscast with the first live chopper shot at 6:22. The station stayed on the air covering the story live for the next 25 hours straight. I cannot begin to calculate what that cost. Never mind the costs of the employee overtime, or the expense of keeping helicopters live in the air for 13 hours straight, there were no commercials. None. The first commercial break was a short one during last night&#8217;s ten p.m. newscast.<\/p>\n<p>Old man Hubbard, himself, was in the news room Wednesday night, observing his hard working news team. At no time was cost an issue in terms of coverage. He just let his team run, and run, they did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Janecek also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsinminnesota.com\/2007\/aug\/08\/bridge-collapse%3A-citizen-journalism\">be-kudoes the local citizen journalist community<\/a>.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the media world has turned around in the past twenty years; when I worked for Hubbard Broadcasting, from 1985 to 1987, it was a big honkin&#8217; player in the local media scene, with a market value of around $400 million dollars. Today, Hubbard is valued around a billion dollars &#8211; and is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}