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

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

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

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

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

 RY>> provide packages. Which is really all the stations do now, they
 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.

On the nationsl level or the local?

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