Team 2 Rundown Rationale

by Kit Rodophele (NCC News)
Dec. 1, 2010, 11:55 a.m.



A1: Gino was our anchor and he opened the show with three important headlines.

A2: I put in a reader about the funeral of a local woman who had been slain around the Thanksgiving holiday week. I lead with this story because it was relevent as the woman had been missing for around a week and had been all over the news.

A3: Next, I had another reader on a death following A1. It was about a toddler who was shot in the head and killed after a random gundown of the car he was a passenger in. The reader was about how the gunman had been charged with second degree murder.

A4: Next, Kevin, the recorded reporter, had a great wrap on a local effort to provide underprivileged children with bicycles. The bike giveaway is being organized in time for the holiday season so it is a timely story and a lighter story in the midst of heavier local stories. Kevin got great soundbites. I put a wrap in here to break up the readers for a longer and more personal story for pacing.

A5: Gino did a great anchor actuality on a local grocery store that is closing. The store had been around for over 100 years but will soon be torn down and replaced with a new company and building. It was a quick local story, gino had a greatsound bite. This was good for an anchor actuality because it was shorter and lighter story.

A6: For pacing, I went back to using readers since I put a wrap and anchor-actuality back-to-back. So this reader was about a local dentist who, after a few botched procedures, has been forced to go back to school for retraining and has had her dentistry license suspended. She practiced in Syracuse so it was a relevent and kind of creepy story.

A7: Next reader was about a car crash that killed an older woman on I-81...this reader was in keeping with the kind of morbid theme I unfortunately had throughout my rundown.

A8: Next, to change up pacing, we had Rochelle's live wrap about a vigil tonight for World's AIDS Day. This was nice story...again broke up the morbid theme. Gino, Rochelle, and Kevin....all of there stories we lighter and lifted up the newscast at different point. The worked well as wraps and actualities because of their nature...great soundbites could be collected because the stories were not controversial.

A9: This was a reader: a local man was found dead in woods northwest of Syracuse. Sad story...it was a quick reader.

A10: Last reader before teaser....it was just a quick reference back to Rosa Parks and how today is the anniversary of her refusal to get up from her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the boycott of buses by blacks.

A11: The tease was about a new formula to keep ice of roads.

B1: Kicker: New formula using beet juice (a unusual, new and environmentally-friendly method of melting ice off roads this winter). i used it as a kicker because it was just an out of the ordinary formula for an ordinary winter-road problem.

B2: Weather went great. Gino was even able to read some of the weekend weather.

B3: Closing: Gino got us out on time