Nov. 18 , 2010, 8:00 p.m.
A1 Music & Heads
A2 Standoff Killer Sentenced
We began the newscast off with Carson's anchor actuality on the sentencing of Adam Theal in Utica. Theal shot his 3 month-old child in front state troopers during a standoff in June. The sentencing was easily the story of the day, and we were able to get sound on from the Oneida County District Attorney on the case. It was an easy choice to lead with this, and leading with an anchor actuality is always beneficial for the newscast.
A3 Welfare Fraud
Staying with the Central New York theme, this reader was on the 41 people who were caught stealing over $620,000 of welfare benefits that they were not entitled too. One of the couples charged was a Syracuse couple who stole $108,000 in benefits. These people were all charged in court, so it flowed with the Theal story.
A4 Soldier Funeral
We then went hyper-local with the story on Ed Bolen, the Chittenango native who was killed in Afghanistan last week. The soldier's body was returned to his home today, and there was a procession through the streets of Chittenango. It was more of a feature story, so we used it as a reader and the military aspect helped us set up our next story.
A5 Nuclear Treaty
To avoid three straight readers, we then went to our national anchor actuality. In this story, President Obama called on Congress to ratify a treaty that would allow the US to inspect Russian Nuclear facilities. So this story flowed well with the Bolen reader because of the military ties.
A6 Maffei Votes
This story was a reader updating the results of the 25th Congressional Representative seat. Democratic Candidate Dan Maffei picked up 521 votes to narrow Ann Marie Buerkle's lead. This story's political focus flowed well with our previous story on Congress.
A7 NY Congress Censure
Continuing with the Political trend, this was a reader on New York Representative Charles Rangel agreeing to a plea. The ethics committee recommended Rangel be censured for his financial and fundraising misconduct. Rangel misused a rent-controlled apartment for political purposes and also improperly used government mail services.
A8 Post Office
Another smooth transition. After mentioning Rangel's misuse of mail services, we had an opportunity to break up two readers with Tony's live wrap on the post office. Letter carriers in Central New York will no longer collect food from local customers to give to local pantries because of a lack of funding. In past years, mail carriers have collected more than 800,000 pounds of food for donation.
A9 Syracuse Housing
This was a reader on the dispute going on in Syracuse's Housing Authority Board. Charlie Vinal currently holds his position as board of directors, but refuses to step down although Mayor Stephanie Minor has already appointed another person to the position. Like the mail carrier story, this story was story that was conflict-based, and was also local.
A10 Wegmans
Finally, we concluded the newscast with a softer story on a new batch of Wegmans commercials. The new advertisements feature actor Alec Baldwin. The commercials were shot at a Syracuse-based Wegmans and will be shown throughout the state of New York through the holidays. It was the softest story, so we placed it last to conclude the newscast.
A11 Lifetime Health Medical
This was a reader we were forced to drop because we were well over on our time limit.
A12 Teaser
B1 Kicker
Our kicker story was on the Syracuse International Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival in East Syracuse. It was a soft story that works well to end the newscast because it is something interesting going on locally.
B2 Weather
B3 Music & Close
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