Bangor TV Stations Cut Live Late Newscasts

WVII/WFVX CUTS LIVE LATE NEWSCASTS
[SOURCE: Bangor Daily News, AUTHOR: Andrew Neff]
How can you broadcast a newscast when there’s nobody in the studio? Bangor television station and ABC network affiliate WVII (Channel 7) will answer that question next week as it takes a new approach to its late night newscasts. Starting Monday, WVII and sister station/Fox Network affiliate WFVX (Ch. 22) will pre-tape their respective 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts. "We’ll tape it a couple of hours earlier because — frankly, for the same reason there isn’t an afternoon newspaper — not a whole lot happens in Bangor, Maine late at night," said Mike Palmer, WVII’s vice-president and general manager. "We can save some efficiency that way by sending everyone home a couple hours earlier and still have an 11 o’clock newscast." Palmer said the 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts will be the same, but they won’t be the same as the early evening (6 p.m.) newscast on WVII.
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