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WFIE ends 14Xtra's 9 p.m. newscast after 3 years

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UPDATE, 2:25 p.m.:  14 News marketing director Brandon Ridge replied to my request for comment this afternoon.  His statement can be found below.

PREVIOUSLY:
If you're in the mood to watch local news at 9 p.m. each weeknight, your choices have been narrowed to one: Local 7 WTVW's hour-long edition of Eyewitness News.

14 News' 9 p.m. newscast on 14Xtra (ch. 14.2) reached the end of its three-year run last week, with the final edition having aired last Wednesday night.

It's never been known how many viewers tuned in to 14's "early-late" news, as Nielsen doesn't measure the local ".2" channels.  I've been told on a number of occasions that this makes it difficult to sell ad time on those channels, but it's not clear if that was the immediate cause of 14's decision to terminate the 9, which debuted on Sept. 28, 2009.

Sources tell me that no jobs were affected by the move and that the station is refocusing its efforts on its remaining newscasts.

STATEMENT FROM BRANDON RIDGE, 14 NEWS MARKETING DIRECTOR:
14WFIE produced its last 9 p.m. news on 14Xtra last Wednesday. We’ve chosen this to focus our efforts on the 10 p.m. newscast and our digital products throughout the evening. There are no staffing changes with this move.
We are proud of the work we did on the 9 p.m. newscast but we weren’t able to see viewership levels on a multichannel and it’s important to put resources where we can see benefit for the most viewers. That said, we feel safe that the number of people watching NBC, our 10 p.m. newscast, and on our other screens are much higher than on 14Xtra at 9 p.m.
In addition, we’ve been pleased that NBC had a strong fall launch and November sweep performance, we think this will continue to be the trend. This  allows our viewers to stay on our main channel through the evening as well as stay up to date with breaking news and weather information on our mobile app and website all leading up to the 10PM newscast.
Weather information will be the replacement of the 9PM newscast for the foreseeable future.

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First Ind. gubernatorial debate is tonight; WNIN, 14Xtra, WVUT to televise it live

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Several area stations not carrying the debate on air will provide online viewing

The candidates vying to become Indiana's next governor will meet in Zionsville for their first debate at 6 p.m. CT tonight.

Libertarian Rupert Boneham, Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence are seeking to succeed current Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third four-year term as the state's chief executive.

WNIN and WFIE's 14Xtra channel (14.2) will televise tonight's debate live in the Evansville viewing area.  WVUT in Vincennes will also carry the debate on TV.

Radio coverage will be available on WNIN-88.3 FM (Evansville), WVUB-91.1 FM (Vincennes) and WIBQ-98.5 FM (Terre Haute).

Stations not broadcasting the debate live but providing a live online stream of the debate are: WIKY Radio, WEHT/WTVW, WTHI-TV and WTWO/WAWV.  (WAWV will carry the debate on air - tape delayed - on Sunday. Check your local schedule for the time.)

EDITOR'S NOTE:  If you live outside the Evansville, Vincennes and Terre Haute areas, click here to find your local station(s).

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Right This Minute adds more stations in more markets

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Show airs in this area on 14Xtra, The Heartland's CW and This TV Louisville

Right This Minute, the video joint venture show produced by Cox Media, Raycom and Scripps, will begin its second season on Sept. 10 with a handful of new stations added to those which carried it last year.

Six of the seven new stations carrying the program are Scripps-owned stations, including WRTV 6 in Indianapolis and the other stations the company purchased from McGraw-Hill last year.

The program airs locally each weekday on 14Xtra (WFIE 14.2 / 5 and 8 p.m.), The Heartland's CW (KFVS 12.2, WQWQ 9 and WQTV 24 / 4 and 4:30 p.m.) and This TV Louisville (WAVE 3.2 / 3 and 3:30 a.m.).

“We’re still endeavoring to sell the show beyond our partner markets,” says Phil Alvidrez, general manager of MagicDust Television, which partners with Cox, Raycom and Scripps to produce RTM. “But Scripps is totally on board. We are in all their markets. And we’re in half of the Raycom and Cox markets.”

In its original form, RTM was a one-hour program in which they showed clips and then talked about them into two half-hours where they track down videos before they go viral, like a recent clip of a woman in her military uniform breastfeeding her baby.

“You see a pop in the ratings with a great video that people haven’t seen in a lot of places,” says Lisa Hudson, who is RTM’s co-executive producer with Dennis O’Neill. “The website gets a lot more traffic and our name gets out there. People talk about us more.”

The show is moving from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism to a bigger production facility with a more intimate set. Instead of looking like a newsroom as before, the set now looks like a coffee shop, where the hosts sit on barstools around a tall table while watching videos on a computer.

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