San Francisco Bay Area MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON has turned the cameras on itself with a series called The BackStory.
It started a couple of weeks ago and airs Sundays at 9:30 p.m.
The show makes use of live sound without a narrator. It’s interesting to see major market reporters — in some cases veterans like Vicki Liviakas — lugging gear around to shoot their own stories.
Here’s what the station says about the show:
“There is something naturally compelling about a newsroom and what it takes to gather news every day. We’re a unique station willing to take chances when it comes to developing local programming and we think people will be fascinated by this untold, unscripted series.” says KRON 4 VP/General Manger (sic) Ashley Gold Messina.
KRON 4 produces 56 ½ hours of local news each week. ‘The BackStory’ follows the triumphs and failures of managers, reporters and anchors as they decide the content of a daily newscast. How are these stories chosen? Who decides what’s important to our viewers?
What are the challenges covering news for 6 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area? ‘The BackStory’ puts viewers at the assignment desk, in the news van and next to the anchors as the newscast unfolds. The reporters are real. The stories are real. The stresses are real.