John W. wrote: > There are advertisers that won't air their commercials on TV stations that > don't have local news. That is correct and these are generally the higher end clients and who spend big bucks. Once a smaller station becomes more successful in a market and attempts to go after those clients, the "no news" barricade goes up. Once you invest in a newscast then, of course, you must gain rating success to obtain a reasonable share of those clients spot purchases. It takes a relatively major investment to compete in a mature news market and it takes awhile to scale that barricade > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Willkie > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:24 PM > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [opendtv] Re: CES Buzz Missing on STB > > > Its not a legacy and common sense, but since you don't mention "it" > and I have limited bandwidth, I can't at this point understand > what you are > alluding to. > > Here in San Diego, KNSD (NBC operated but not fully owned) > furnishes the 10 > p.m. news on KSWB (the Tribune owned station that probably change its name > to KSCW). KSWB still does their local cut ins on the morning news "zoo" > show that they pick up from their sister station KTLA. > > There are advertisers that won't air their commercials on TV stations that > don't have local news. > > John Willkie > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.