Sinclair's traffic dept drives me crazy

[CAwasinNJ]

I don't know what's going on over at Sinclair, but their scheduling of promos on KJZZ 14 is making me nuts. For many months now they've been scheduling promos touting their airing of Jeopardy mere seconds before Jeopardy itself airs. What is the point? You don't need to promo something that's about to promo itself in about 5 seconds. It's a waste. It's not like there's a lack of other shows that they could air a promo for in that slot.

And that's not the only problem. For the last couple of days they've been airing a promo for their weather coverage talking about how important that is in the winter. Um... Winter has been over for a while now.

All of this just looks incredibly sloppy. It shouldn't be hard to fix. Just take a little care and make sure the person or software that's doing the scheduling is doing it correctly. That will greatly help the credibility of the station.

[kenglish]

Have they outsourced their traffic functions?
You do know that winter is starting in the Southern hemisphere?

[CAwasinNJ]

I couldn't find any job listings on their website but I'd be surprised if a company as big as Sinclair doesn't do their own traffic. It might be in another city. (Nexstar's Salt Lake traffic hub handles stations across the western US.)

As soon as KJZZ and KUTV start regularly making forecasts for viewers in the southern hemisphere or Salt Lake moves to the southern hemisphere I'll rethink my criticism.