Rundown Rationale

October 28, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
By Luisa Ardila (Team 4, NCC News)

I began the show with a reader about the money that was awarded to Syracuse for the railways because it was a new, very local story. Next, I put in the local anchor actuality about an innovative company in Syracuse because it is also very local and it is about money coming into the city.

I continued with a reader on the money given to Cornell, because it followed with the theme of money and sustainability. It also works to break up the actualities. That national actuality was about the increasing college costs, which is also about money and college. I then followed with a reader on the placement of Auburn as the top 18th small city in America, because it is pretty close to us and it is also about the economy. Also about the economy is the recorded wrap, which is about the economy in Central New York after the recession.

Next was a reader about the teachers from Buffalo that got cosmetic surgeries with tax-payer money. That set the scene for the live wrap, which was on the success of the carrot vending machines at F-M High. That is a very local story. What we ended up with during recording was another local anchor actuality on a man that got a 40-year-to-life sentence. A10 and A12 I had to kill because we were over on some of our actualities and live wrap. A10 was about the arrests made in connection with the resent drug bust in the area and A12 was about a man that was arraigned today in connection with a South Side murder.

The kicker was about an action figure made after the gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan. The weather included a short forecast for the next two days and an optional week ahead.

Even though we were over, I had made sure that we had floaters just in case. The first was about campaigns hiring private eyes and the other was on the New York State project.