Yes, and that more or less implies by definition they don't have a large audience. But with the large amount of national/international news content available these days I question whether practically ANY market has enough demand for 3-4 local news stations, at least with any large budget allocated.
- Tom John Willkie wrote:
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.
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