On 05 Sep 05  18:29:39, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: John's Surgery   
      
    DC> What I'm thinking is of the loss of national news at the local level.   
    DC> Not everyone has cable.   
      
    RY> More than most, I'm aware of that. presuming that happens, though the   
    RY> seperation of local and national , I'm sure someone would step in and   
      
   There are 2/4 stations here that are more or less clones of each other.     
      
    RY> provide packages. Which is really all the stations do now, they get   
    RY> packs from Network and play them during the local news shows. As for   
    RY> National  News programming, like we have now, that could be provided by   
    RY> syndicators.    
      
   I still think it was the competition between the former Big 3 that    
   made for solid news reports.     
      
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