Car Chase Coverage!
 

Hate to disappoint (although I'm certain someone will link to some car chase later anyway), but I was wondering just how much their local news channels cover car chases. It's always interesting to see some human interest story getting canned and interrupted for some car chase. Every so often you'll hear a jab at this from some media or another, but I was wondering if this was really a widespread thing or just a local phenomenon.

I'va never had perfectly good TV stopped in the name of a car chase, but I live in Canada, where we know when to give up. *coughiraqcough*

Never seen it in my area (Bay Area, CA). I'm pretty sure I've never heard of one in our area either. My friend lives in Burbank and he says they're frequent down there.

Yeah, nothing special ever happens here. I've actually never seen/heard of a car chase in this area. Most recent thing was that... multiple homocide from that bikergang war thing. Meh, that's western Ontario.

I have never once seen a car chase on my local news channels. In fact, even when I lived in the Boston area, I didn't see this shit.

We New Englanders have way too many assholes on the road to even CONSIDER having a car chase go down.

We'd just rather sit in our cars and scream a lot.

Conversely, everyone is Grand Rapids is too "nice" to dare do anything like a car chase. It also doesn't help that most people here just wouldn't give a shit as it is, even if the news stations would be so bold as to cover such a thing. They would much rather cover the Tulip Festival in Holland.

If you lived anywhere near Los Angeles, you'd suspect that car chases are just another day in the business. Back when I lived in Cali it seemed there was a newsworthy chase about once per week, and nearly every station would broadcast it from start to finish. Up here in Washington, though, nothing like that is shown. I haven't seen a chase on the television once in nearly two years.

While chases can't be that uncommon, I suppose that the LA region is more willing to place them above normal programming.

Ha! The average travel speed here in Manila is 14 kilometers per hour. I can see the car chase now: the 'speeding' little owner jeep, and the policemen-- running after it, huffing and puffing. The policemen would win, of course ;)

Oh, another reason why there are no coverages of car chases here--news coverages here are too cheap to color our tv screens with aerial views, and police just don't give a damn. Heck, they're probably the ones behind the car being chased.

Here, car chases are never on the news, unless it's after the fact and a child was killed or something.

I imagine that in some places like Los Angeles, they have to interrupt the car chases for a little TV once in a while. ;)

Never seen one on the news besides the aftermath.

There probably have been a few car chases here but they're never good enough to make the news. We just have television shows that lump them all together to entertain people.

being from the Los Angeles area I've been noticing a few things:
1) the coverage of the car chases on the evening/nightly news programs are pretty much an everyday thing.
2) thankfully the local stations have pretty much stopped covering most of the chases from start to finish... exceptions seem to be when they occur during the news hour(s).

And I could have sworn there was something being implemented by LAPD and CHP that would pretty much fire a GPS tracker onto the fleeing vehicles... but I have yet to see that in action, thus the continued destruction that occurs during these chases.

Ah yes, Los Angeles does certainly know how to throw a good chase. Back when I lived in the San Diego area I heard about them and saw them on the news all the time.
Here in northeast Ohio though I never see them on the news, and only hear about them later if someone died or got seriously hurt.