How has Bay News 9 changed the local news cycle?
Wiser: Ten years ago, the stations covered St. Pete, they covered Tampa and they occasionally went to Sarasota. We opened all these bureaus and now we have a bureau in every county we cover . . . to show that not all the news was in two cities. The fact that Jen was hired as a traffic reporter . . . 10 years ago there weren’t on-camera traffic reports. She was the first. Now everyone’s doing it. Holloway: My bargain with him, because I did not have reporter experience, (was) if you let me, I will do your traffic reports, but I also want to be a reporter. So he came up with the marketing concept. Fine, do the traffic reports, but you want to report on something, it’s got to be a transportation issue. I’m, like, greeeaaat. But, you know, it’s like weather. It affects every person in this market. One thing the local news establishment doesn’t necessarily see you guys doing is breaking big stories. Do you agree? Ruechel: If the affiliate stations have to, in quotes, break the big stories,
