Can't this all be explained by the fact that Gainesville is a secondary or tertiary market? John Willkie > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Tom Barry > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:18 AM > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Northwest Station Pulls Signal In > Retransmission Battle > > > > Craig Birkmaier wrote: > > The same thing that happened to newspapers is now happening to TV news. > > There's simply not enough audience to support three or four local news > > operations. > That is the main point to me. I assume the nets recognize this and will > probably be accordingly less demanding to affiliates about it in the > future. > > - Tom > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.