RangerSteve is right about the Philadelphia television news broadcasts (with regard to both the ads-within-the-news and the mounting murder rate in the city).

Also, it really irks me when a minute or two of the local news broadcast is devoted to a rundown of the schedule of shows that will appear after the broadcast -- complete with a graphic image of the list using the same design used for a news story's statistics or printed quotations. The TV station's schedule is not news!!!! (At least that's what I scream at the tube, but it doesn't listen.)

Another thing they do is to advertise upcoming health-news stories, within the news broadcast AND in commercials spattered about each day's programs, telling us in vague terms about some health crisis we need to have them tell us how to treat or avert -- and then telling us to tune in to a news broadcast that will air hours later or even days later! It boggles my mind whenever I see one of these teasers during a noon news broadcast (where they spend time presenting an encapsulated version of the problem or issue) and then watch a so-called news anchor spend time saying that the full report (including the remedy) can be seen during the 11:00 p.m. newscast. What a waste of their time and mine! As far as I'm concerned, it's not "news" if they don't give us the whole news story. I can't begin to guess how dangerously I'm living because I haven't been home to watch the late-night news, and all because the TV station was more concerned with its late-night ratings than with dispensing information earlier in the day (or week!).