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The Villages Media Group fired the few remaining anchors and changed the format of the VNN TV Show. Now you get Gary Corsair (senior print writer) reading the Daily Sun to you every day (mostly the stuff he's written).
VNN now stands for "Villages - No News".
Larry Ell, Stephan Reynolds, Meghan Burke, Jessica Kiss (I love that name!) and all the others are all gone now.
No wonder they can't get anyone to advertise on Channel 2. Why not just run ads for The Properties of The Villages 24 hours?
:cry:
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Talk Host
10-02-2008, 05:51 AM
This is sad news. What a great facility they have there. Had it been in the hands of somebody who has some televison experience, it could have been a wonderful asset to the community.
Maybe we can take it over and make it the TOTV Channel.
Taltarzac
10-02-2008, 07:11 AM
I wonder if this has anything to do with the legal mess involved with VNN getting closed captioning? I have not seen any information on how that application to the FCC for an exemption from closed captioning for VNN went? http://www.nvrc.org/content.aspx?page=25770§ion=5
Number 6
10-02-2008, 08:50 AM
VNN was the only reason that I considered getting Comcast. I am sure glad that I went with Direct TV.
Talk Host
10-02-2008, 08:55 AM
This info was not in the paper this morning. (I'm not surprised). But we want to be sure it is true. I wonder what the source of the information is?
Also, by virtue of the fact that there are only 3 replies to this post, there appears to be very little concern and interest about VNN. :shrug:
Cassie325
10-02-2008, 09:01 AM
Or perhaps we are not responding because we don't know any more info than what is on here....waiting for our experts to fill us in :icon_wink:...I like the idea of buying the station though.....:):):)
TOTV !! Perhaps we could host some LIVE debates...between TOTV thread posters....
Actually, the concept of a Community Access TV station and a community internet service both seem attractive. I expect talk host Jan knows how to run a TV station. wouldn't it be great if the call letters could be TVTV?
Russ_Boston
10-02-2008, 09:38 AM
Oh yeah good idea, TOTV take over of the airways - NOT!
The third day on air Jan would host a debate beteen X from the POA and Y from the VHA. Then Y would take out a gun and shoot X in the head! End of TVTV:popcorn:
downeaster
10-02-2008, 10:13 AM
I know no one who watches VNN. They are not a serious TV station but simply a cheerleader for the developer. One could liken their "reporters" to side show shills. Heaven forbid they should report real news that may have a negative connotation that would upset the developer.
villager99
10-02-2008, 10:28 AM
many watch vnn not for "news but for video clips of events we weren't able to attend.
will this change eventually lead to no airing of things like gary morse's address to the vha or sarah palin's recent talk at LSL? i hope not
beady
10-02-2008, 10:54 AM
I agree with Villager 99 I like it to review events I haven't had a opportunity to attend. I am sure the replaying of events around TV cannot sustain a TV station.
Talk Host
10-02-2008, 11:20 AM
VNN cannot possibly compete with the 160 other channels available on cable. Even with the broadcast of local sport events and gatherings, it won't work. What are people going to watch, 60 minutes or the bridge club pool party?
jtdraig
10-02-2008, 11:55 AM
Oh, well..bye bye VNN....someone above who suggested that this could be a really good station is right..but to make it good, there would have to be honest, forthright reporting and a diversity of opinion...and that would bea buffalo's chance in Hell of that happening.
Russ_Boston
10-02-2008, 12:12 PM
there would have to be honest, forthright reporting and a diversity of opinion...and that would bea buffalo's chance in Hell of that happening.
Do you really think that CBS news or ABC or FOX have a diversity of opinion?
Like any other media concern there just isn't the payback for them regardless of their opinion or slant. Is this really a huge loss for any residents?
Rokinronda
10-02-2008, 12:24 PM
Russ, No loss here! I just feel for the people who lost jobs!
Cassie325
10-02-2008, 01:17 PM
OH...I actually like the station....feel good news is good for us once in a while...takes us away from the reality of this crazy world sometimes...I LIKE the BUBBLE.....
Anyway....I was thinking maybe Chelsea and Cabo or Bucco could be the debaters....oh....I am starting trouble again...but all in good fun...we all love each other regardless.
blueeagle65
10-03-2008, 06:57 AM
This the second mass firing that they've done of which I am aware. The last was right after 'W' came to LSL for his campaign. As soon as TV got the footage they wanted for their ads the crew was terminated w/o warning.
chuckster
10-03-2008, 07:30 AM
Oh come on...........VNN has always been and will always be news and happenings in the villages. If you want anything else go to the networks. It's a source of events that have happened and those scheduled to appear here. It's a social bulletin board........get over it.:):)
things like gary morse's address to the vha
That was not Gary Morse addressing the VHA. You'll never see Gary Morse in person. He spends all his time on his yacht.
It was Mark Morse that addressed the VHA and slammed the POA about 2 months ago.
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Cassie325
10-03-2008, 04:59 PM
That was not Gary Morse addressing the VHA. You'll never see Gary Morse in person. He spends all his time on his yacht.
It was Mark Morse that addressed the VHA and slammed the POA about 2 months ago.
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Skip...you amaze me at the amount of knowledge you have about TV's and the family....do you know them personally? It seems so hard to get information about them as I am sure they try to keep private....but you SEEM to have the inside scoop....just HOW do you do it? I am sure you can tell me....but then would have to kill me??
nina43
10-03-2008, 05:03 PM
If you watched VNN in the old days they had quite a few good , interesting
and informative shows. The staff were most all experienced broadcast
people. Just like all jobs in The Villages, you must put up and shut up or out you go.
So product declined and declined and declined and now this show is just
an elaborate advertisement for the Daily Sun.
chuckster
10-03-2008, 05:08 PM
Doubt the experienced part...........nice, definitely nice folks, but VNN was a training ground like many small stations and then they move on to a larger station and better paying positions.:)
beady
10-03-2008, 07:40 PM
The "programming" is just a rehash of the stories in the Daily Sun...what a joke...hardly qualifies as a TV station. One can only hope they are reworking the concept and something better will be broadcast soon.
judylou
10-03-2008, 09:12 PM
I like VNN because it just tells good stories about things that are happening in the Villages. It is nice to see good stories about interesting people. It is such a welcome change from who killed who and who is on drugs and in rehab or who robbed and murdered some lady for six dollars. There is plenty of that going on in the world.
The newspaper is mostly soft news. So what, if you want a real paper buy USA or the Orlando Paper. It is what it is, a paper that lets you know what is going on in the Villages. So it only prints the good stuff. That is what this forum is for, the real scope. And some of you really find out what is really going on and I read it everyday.
nONIE
10-03-2008, 09:42 PM
I like VNN because it just tells good stories about things that are happening in the Villages. It is nice to see good stories about interesting people. It is such a welcome change from who killed who and who is on drugs and in rehab or who robbed and murdered some lady for six dollars. There is plenty of that going on in the world.
The newspaper is mostly soft news. So what, if you want a real paper buy USA or the Orlando Paper. It is what it is, a paper that lets you know what is going on in the Villages. So it only prints the good stuff. That is what this forum is for, the real scope. And some of you really find out what is really going on and I read it everyday.
Judylou,
:agree: with you. It is lighthearted news that doesnt drag you down and at times , in fact most of the time, that is what I like to hear. Call me an ostrich but it just makes me feel good to watch vnn, Ill be sorry to see it go.
SABRMnLgs
10-03-2008, 10:01 PM
You mean I will no longer be able to see the same dreary TAPED media for 24 hours in a row? You mean they might actually slip up and have some REAL news or even worse, a LIVE broadcast of anything?? Heaven forbid!
:shocked:
nONIE
10-03-2008, 10:06 PM
You mean I will no longer be able to see the same dreary TAPED media for 24 hours in a row? You mean they might actually slip up and have some REAL news or even worse, a LIVE broadcast of anything?? Heaven forbid!
:shocked:
SabrmnLgs,
All ya have to do is change the channel, you will have all the blood, guts and gore you want!
Villages Kahuna
10-03-2008, 10:54 PM
There are press reports on the net that Jessica Kiss been working as an anchor at the Fox News station in Savannah, GA for some time. I guess she's also one of the bachelorettes on The Bachelor TV show. I'm guessing that was just part-time.
chuckster
10-04-2008, 04:34 AM
Pretty gal...........she was on last seasons show. Like others have said VNN is soft news, a local social calendar and a training ground for bigger, better paying jobs. Want the real world blood and guts change the channel.
jflynn1
10-04-2008, 05:48 AM
This is probaly a prelude to introducing Fox News, and Limbaugh on a regular basis.
Easy to fix don't watch
Taltarzac
10-04-2008, 07:50 AM
Pretty gal...........she was on last seasons show. Like others have said VNN is soft news, a local social calendar and a training ground for bigger, better paying jobs. Want the real world blood and guts change the channel.
I remember this thread from back in November 07 on TOTV.
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10459&highlight=jessica+kiss
bebemary
10-04-2008, 09:08 AM
The Villages Media Group fired the few remaining anchors and changed the format of the VNN TV Show. Now you get Gary Corsair (senior print writer) reading the Daily Sun to you every day (mostly the stuff he's written).
VNN now stands for "Villages - No News".
Larry Ell, Stephan Reynolds, Meghan Burke, Jessica Kiss (I love that name!) and all the others are all gone now.
No wonder they can't get anyone to advertise on Channel 2. Why not just run ads for The Properties of The Villages 24 hours?
:cry:
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bebemary
10-04-2008, 09:54 AM
It's sad to see something with so much potential so badly handled.
TV MAN
10-04-2008, 02:13 PM
That most people who live here are the type that like to get their AM newspaper and begin their activities. Being that this is such an active community, they most likley also felt it was time to drop the staff again. By having the Sun folks read you the going on's just incase you missed it.
swrinfla
10-04-2008, 03:22 PM
Sad, sad, sad!
When I first started to think about coming here, the Daily Sun was helpful to me in keeping up with things happening in TV. Back then (2004) there were even "live" shows on VNN - things like a local version of "The Newlyweds Game," only for Villagers - that made me decide to get cable so I could watch, too.
Since I got here in early 2005, I've watched VNN rarely, and certainly for no more than 15 minutes at a time, 'cause the next 15 minutes was exactly the same!
As I said: sad, sad, sad.
SWR :(
SABRMnLgs
10-04-2008, 04:03 PM
Perhaps I was misunderstood. CNN and MSNBC are not quite B-G-G as thought. When I turn the TV on and see exactly the same pablum on Sunday night as I did the previous Friday night, where's the interest?
How about a tape delay of the VHS football game or a Village parade or minutes of a council meeting or something that happened on a Saturday or Sunday? LIVE is not a word that exists at that station.
Can you you imagine CNN running a tape delay of the same exact stories for 48 hours straight? What it makes me do is watch for a few minutes on Friday night then not bother with VNN until Monday night once. Than again Tuesday night once. The entire station is canned.
fraurauch
10-04-2008, 07:01 PM
I actually do watch the weather radar on channel 99 during the summer, and the music is great. But you have to have Comcast.
Taltarzac
10-05-2008, 07:10 AM
I actually do watch the weather radar on channel 99 during the summer, and the music is great. But you have to have Comcast.
:agree:
I will watch channel 99 almost every other day when I want to know if it is going to rain in TV or not. I will bet a lot of other Villagers also check out this station.
It's been a few weeks now and VNN Channel 2 (part of The Villages Media Group) calls their new show THE DAILY SUN NEWS SHOW. But the Daily Sun Newspaper (also part of The Villages Media Group) still lists it as MINUTE BY MINUTE in their TV listings.
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. :ohdear:
And oh, those news readers put me right to sleep. :icon_bored:
Please give it up, VNN and put up stock prices or something that's a lot more exciting.
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bebemary
10-29-2008, 05:26 AM
Do you think The Villages Media Group is really this incompetent? Follow the money and you'll find the answer to why the movers & shakers have been dumbing-down the product for the past few years, but especially the last 12-months. Diminish the newscast to the point of indifference, so when the plug is finally pulled, no one, especially Villagers, will care or even know. (Because they no longer will watch it to view a rehash of stories that were already in the morning paper and are 24-48 hours old presented by a string of amateur news anchors) My guess is the recent lawsuit loss coupled with poor sales are the primary triggers for numerous staff cutbacks at Villages-operated businesses. Follow the money Honey.
TV Veteran
03-10-2009, 12:57 PM
Employees of the former VNN were not shills and certainly didn't gulp the Kool Aid that was often forced upon them. Anyone interested in the real travesty of the downfall of a once proud group of professional journalists should look for my new book.
Julie
03-10-2009, 03:28 PM
Employees of the former VNN were not shills and certainly didn't gulp the Kool Aid that was often forced upon them. Anyone interested in the real travesty of the downfall of a once proud group of professional journalists should look for my new book.
Does your new book have a title? Oh, by the way, who's the author?
Cassie325
03-10-2009, 04:49 PM
:sad:I still miss the old style of VNN!!!:shrug:
Made me smile!!
Does your new book have a title? Oh, by the way, who's the author?
The title might be "The Last Survivor". The author is Larry himself.
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