The WFAA photoshow isn't really a year end show. I don't believe it's ever been promoted that way. In fact, it's quite unique.
First, it's actually produced by 3 of WFAA's photogs. They're the ones that bounce ideas around and choose the format. Other photogs throw in to help, but it's those 3 that put it all together.
Second, they do use stories from that year... most of the time. But they have run stories from past years, usually so the photog can give the viewer some inside info about it. For example, "it was -40 when we shot this", "the tiger then attacked me", or the ever popular "the crowd then beat me to the ground" story. That brings me to the third thing.
The show includes alot of behind-the-scenes kind of stuff. Busted stand ups, busted cameras, bloopers, all the stuff that the public never sees on the air, but might find interesting. Once, they followed a photog around for a day and used pieces of that story to get in and out of commercial breaks. The viewer not only got to watch his day unfold, but got a good idea of what it's like to work in television news. They even put together a story on the engineer who has to fix all their busted equipment.
Sure, the show includes some great stories but the glue that holds it togther seems to be the humor and insight of the people that viewers don't normaly see. Photogs don't get promos and if you do it's usually the back of your head or close up of your lense.
What WFAA has done is give the Photo staff their own outlet to do what they want, and it works. Numbers for the show have ranged from 2 to 9 (I haven't seen all the numbers) it depends on the time slot and what you're up against. Once it was run against another stations actual news cast won!
I'm not sure who you'd have to call to get a copy, but if you like that kind of show, it might be worth a look.
