Originally Posted by chuckster

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.

Jessica Kiss from VNN

[bebemary]

Originally Posted by Skip

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?



Skip

Sad

[bebemary]

It's sad to see something with so much potential so badly handled.

[TV MAN]

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]

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]

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]

I actually do watch the weather radar on channel 99 during the summer, and the music is great. But you have to have Comcast.

Originally Posted by fraurauch

I actually do watch the weather radar on channel 99 during the summer, and the music is great. But you have to have Comcast.

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.

[Skip]

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.

And oh, those news readers put me right to sleep.

Please give it up, VNN and put up stock prices or something that's a lot more exciting.

Skip

[bebemary]

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]

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.

Originally Posted by TV Veteran

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]

I still miss the old style of VNN!!!

Made me smile!!

[Skip]

Originally Posted by Julie

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.

Skip