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Originally Posted by jsibelius
There's a difference between a weather interruption and interrupting a show to air a teaser, in the guise of "breaking news." That's what started this whole thread, and I agree, somewhat, that they need to save the interruptions for real breaking news. I'm torn whether the emergency landing of that plane constituted breaking news, since it landed safely, albeit in a wheat field.
Teasers belong with the commercials, not on top of your TV programs.
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Agreed. If they broke in for a teaser, that was out of line(although, I've never heard of anyone doing that). And as far as the plane landing goes, I agree it's borderline. I can say from past experiences that when something like that goes down, the usual status quo (at least in my experiences) is to break in during a commercial break to show that we are on the scene gathering details. You have to keep in mind that when something like that breaks, there are literally hundreds of people calling the station to find out whats going on. So really it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation; if you break in you get phone calls from angry viewers wanting to know why you're interrupting their show and if you don't break in you get phone calls from viewers wanting to know why we're not reporting on the situation.
I will say that I've noticed KOCO breaking in a lot more than they used to. I would be willing to bet it's due in large part to cancelling their noon broadcast.