{"id":873,"date":"2007-09-19T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2007-12-06T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:58:15","slug":"6am-its-the-new-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"6AM &#8212; It&#8217;s the New 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ktla.com\/news_custom_eric\/2007\/09\/6am----its-the-.html\">Eric Spillman writes for KTLA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I first started at KTLA, our first broadcast began at 7 AM.&nbsp; Now look at us! We&#8217;re on the air with news at 5 in the morning.&nbsp; So are six other L.A. broadcast TV stations.<\/p>\n<p>In some cities, the news starts at 4:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re catering to an audience that is waking up earlier and earlier.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Census data confirms more of us are waking up before dawn to get to work.<\/p>\n<p>In L.A. County, one out of 7 of us hits the road before 6 AM.&nbsp; A few years ago, that wasn&#8217;t the case.&nbsp; In 2000, one out of 10 commuters in L.A. were on the dawn patrol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This morning in Encino, we ran into a guy named Robert Bell.&nbsp; He wakes up at 4AM every day to get to his job as an equipment operator for the city of L.A.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t really start work until 6, but he likes to get in super-early to beat the congestion and &quot;ease into the work day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As for myself, I commute much earlier than Bell.&nbsp; My morning begins with the alarm clock ringing at 2 AM.&nbsp; I hit the road by 2:30, so that I can get to the station in Hollywood by 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Spillman writes for KTLA: When I first started at KTLA, our first broadcast began at 7 AM.&nbsp; Now look at us! We&#8217;re on the air with news at 5 in the morning.&nbsp; So are six other L.A. broadcast TV &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-spillman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}