Chasing New Jersey
| Chasing News | |
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| Genre | News magazine |
| Created by | Dennis Bianchi |
| Presented by | Bill Spadea |
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 United States
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| Production | |
| Location(s) | Trenton, New Jersey |
| Production company(s) | Fairfax Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | WWOR-TV |
| Original release | July 8, 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The 10 O'Clock News |
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Chasing News (formerly Chasing New Jersey) is a news and public affairs program broadcast by WWOR-TV, a MyNetworkTV O&O based in Secaucus, New Jersey, and sister to Fox flagship station WNYW-TV. The program airs nightly at 10 PM on WWOR and is rerun on WNYW and its sister station, WTXF-TV.
Premiering on July 8, 2013, the program replaced the more conventional newscasts that were previously broadcast by the station. The program features various segments and stories focusing on headlines and issues affecting the New Jersey area, featuring reports by a group of correspondents known as "chasers".
The program was met with mixed reception upon its premiere for its visually intensive and tabloid-like format, but was praised for how it targeted younger viewers through social engagement. However, the closure of WWOR's news department as part of the changes led to concerns from politicians over whether Fox Television Stations was still in compliance with a mandate to provide news programming for the New Jersey area.
WWOR-TV had aired a conventional, daily newscast since 1971; most recently, it took the form of a 35-minute newscast, The 10 O'Clock News (previously known as My9 News and UPN 9 News), broadcast on weeknights at 10:00 p.m. On July 3, 2013, Fox announced the immediate cancellation of The 10 O'Clock News, and the July 8, 2013 premiere of Chasing New Jersey. The new program, hosted by local politician Bill Spadea, was billed as a "fast-paced, unpredictable ride across the state of New Jersey" that would feature reports on issues affecting the region by correspondents known as "chasers". The program is produced from a studio in Trenton, New Jersey by Fairfax Productions, a production company owned by Dennis Bianchi—general manager of Philadelphia's Fox O&O WTXF-TV (which also airs Chasing New Jersey at 12:30 a.m.) Fox also registered a series of trademarks for Chasing programs in other cities (and for a national version, Chasing America), indicating that Fox planned to implement the format to its other markets as well.
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