On 07 Sep 05  10:15:31, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: John's Surgery   
      
    DC> There are 2/4 stations here that are more or less clones of each   
    DC> other.   
      
    RY> Two out of four? better than average. here's the three stations all   
    RY> report about the same thing. What's your ratio of local to   
    RY> national/state news on your stations? Including sports. of course.   
    RY> Here, if you miss the first 7 minutes or so, you've missed the local   
    RY> news entirely.    
      
   Sports is at least 1/3 of the broadcasts.  And, a fair portion of    
   nat and local news is really entertainment.     
      
      
    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.   
      
    RY> On the nationsl level or the local?   
      
   On both.  2 of the local rivals tout their awards.     
      
      
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