Tuesday, October 4, 2011

WPHL-17 "Eye Opener"

WPHL-TV announced a newcomer to the morning TV newscape is on the horizon. Coming the end of October is "Eye Opener", a two hour morning news/features show that will compete with news on the other four stations which include KYW, WPVI, WCAU & FOX29. Eye Opener will air weekdays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and include news, weather, consumer and entertainment/feature type segments. Also, traffic will be provided by Tango Traffic. Reports will be provided by five one-man-band types which means each person will be soley responsible for their report from interview, taping and editing their piece. With such a small staff I cannot believe this show will be much competition for the existing "big four" as far as covering breaking news. Reports indicate this show will focus more on features than news.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WELL, always up for a new option. I'd be curious though how much they can offer LOCAL with just a small handful staff for reporters. I read in yesterday's Inquirer that the people who own TANGO are closing their Malvern office and facing cutbacks. Wonder how that bodes for TANGO.

Anonymous said...

I think you have things confused. Tango Traffic is indeed located in Malvern, but they are independently owned. The company facing layoffs is Nokia with cuts being made to Navteq / Traffic.com, which also happens to be in Malvern. There is NO ownership relation to Tango. See the article in Philly.com here: http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-01/business/30232580_1_navteq-nokia-location.