DC> On 07 Sep 05  10:15:31, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa
 DC> -> Re: John's Surgery

 DC>> There are 2/4 stations here that are more or less clones of each
 DC>> other.

 RY>> Two out of four? better than average. here's the three stations
 RY>> all report about the same thing. What's your ratio of local
 RY>> to national/state news on your stations? Including sports. of
 RY>> course. Here, if you miss the first 7 minutes or so, you've
 RY>> missed the local news entirely.

 DC> Sports is at least 1/3 of the broadcasts.  And, a fair portion of
 DC> nat and local news is really entertainment.

(sigh) Sad, in'it

 RY>>> get packs from Network and play them during the local news
 RY>>> shows. As for National  News programming, like we have now, that
 RY>>> could be provided by syndicators.

 DC>> I still think it was the competition between the former Big 3
 DC>> that made for solid news reports.

 RY>> On the nationsl level or the local?

 DC> On both.  2 of the local rivals tout their awards.

Standard promotions.. you should see the process by which they get picked,
it's politics..

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