{"id":567,"date":"2010-08-08T21:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-08-08T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:47:36","slug":"tv-station-anchorless-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/tv-station-anchorless-news","title":{"rendered":"TV Station To Try &#8216;Anchorless&#8217; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-568\" title=\"headless man\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/headless.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/headless.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/headless-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>News that a Houston\u00a0 TV station is considering anchorless news has folks wondering whether this is the next wave of TV news or just a stunt to draw attention by a station with low ratings.<\/p>\n<p>The answer may lie somewhere between, but the mere thought of ditching anchors has TV news staffs wondering if it could happen here.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is flawed, say some local insiders (some of whom concede  that they are paid to be on the air). They say that a key to local news  is the tie between anchors and viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences are shrinking, they agree, but add that there&#8217;s an  &#8220;intimate&#8221; and &#8220;familiar&#8221; bond with anchors, for better or worse. Take  that out of the equation, and there&#8217;s a risk of losing a link &#8211; real or  perceived &#8211; between the station and the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a novel idea from Houston that could solve some of the budget problems at ZNS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}