DC> On 05 Sep 05  18:29:39, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa   
    DC> -> Re: John's Surgery   
      
    DC>> What I'm thinking is of the loss of national news at the local   
    DC>> level. Not everyone has cable.   
      
    RY>> More than most, I'm aware of that. presuming that happens, though   
    RY>> the seperation of local and national , I'm sure someone would   
    RY>> step in and   
      
    DC> There are 2/4 stations here that are more or less clones of each   
    DC> other.   
      
   Two out of four? better than average. here's the three stations all report   
   about the same thing. What's your ratio of local to national/state news on   
   your stations? Including sports. of course. Here, if you miss the first 7   
   minutes or so, you've missed the local news entirely.   
      
    RY>> provide packages. Which is really all the stations do now, they   
    RY>> get packs from Network and play them during the local news shows.   
    RY>> As for National  News programming, like we have now, that could   
    RY>> be provided by syndicators.   
      
    DC> I still think it was the competition between the former Big 3 that   
    DC> made for solid news reports.   
      
   On the nationsl level or the local?   
      
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