On 07 Sep 05  10:15:31, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> 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 all
 RY> report about the same thing. What's your ratio of local to
 RY> national/state news on your stations? Including sports. of course.
 RY> Here, if you miss the first 7 minutes or so, you've missed the local
 RY> news entirely. 

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


 RY>> get packs from Network and play them during the local news shows.
 RY>> As for National  News programming, like we have now, that could
 RY>> be provided by syndicators.
 
 DC> I still think it was the competition between the former Big 3 that
 DC> made for solid news reports.

 RY> On the nationsl level or the local?

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


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