DC> On 07 Sep 05  10:15:31, Raymond Yates got back to Danny Ceppa   
    DC> -> 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   
    RY>> all report about the same thing. What's your ratio of local   
    RY>> to national/state news on your stations? Including sports. of   
    RY>> course. Here, if you miss the first 7 minutes or so, you've   
    RY>> missed the local news entirely.   
      
    DC> Sports is at least 1/3 of the broadcasts.  And, a fair portion of   
    DC> nat and local news is really entertainment.   
      
   (sigh) Sad, in'it   
      
    RY>>> get packs from Network and play them during the local news   
    RY>>> shows. As for National  News programming, like we have now, that   
    RY>>> could be provided by syndicators.   
      
    DC>> I still think it was the competition between the former Big 3   
    DC>> that made for solid news reports.   
      
    RY>> On the nationsl level or the local?   
      
    DC> On both.  2 of the local rivals tout their awards.   
      
   Standard promotions.. you should see the process by which they get picked,   
   it's politics..   
      
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