>>> The Simpsons rule!

 MR>> heheheheh! I know yer a big fan, Dan...  More power to you. It's
 MR>> weird up here in Rochester, but the FOX station ( and I don't
 MR>> know how they can do this ) Joined together with the CBS station
 MR>> as they are in financial trouble. I can understand FOX bein
 MR>> considered the smaller of the networks, but I can't see how they
 MR>> can be in financial trouble. 

 SC> I thought Fox was a pretty big network about now. I don't have cable
 SC> tv, but we have a Fox 8 and a local Fox 53 that I can watch with an
 SC> attenna. So they own those 2 stations along with the Fox News on
 SC> cable. Sounds pretty good to me.

Sharon, how it works is there's Fox Network (the large company) that owns a
few large-market television stations, but provides programming to local,
smaller stations across the country. they are known as Affiliates, as opposed
to the "Owned and Operateds" (O&O's). That's what a network
is, a banding
together of small stations for nutual gain. Newscorp, which owns Fox among
many other things (like mewpapers,and broadcastin companies here and in Europe
and Australia) is a giant Empire, well diversified.

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