On 05 Sep 05  18:29:39, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: John's Surgery

 DC> What I'm thinking is of the loss of national news at the local level.
 DC> Not everyone has cable.

 RY> More than most, I'm aware of that. presuming that happens, though the
 RY> seperation of local and national , I'm sure someone would step in and

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

 RY> provide packages. Which is really all the stations do now, they get
 RY> packs from Network and play them during the local news shows. As for
 RY> National  News programming, like we have now, that could be provided by
 RY> syndicators. 

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

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