On Apr 17, 9:48 am, Paul Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> U.S. TV Stations Attract More Viewers With News Than ‘Seinfeld’
> By Andy Fixmer
>
> [...] TV station owners, facing a record drop in advertising, are
> pushing their news crews to fill expanded schedules, allowing
> programmers to eliminate more costly syndicated programs such as “Dr.
> Phil.” In Los Angeles and San Francisco, stations are adding as much
> as 12 hours of news a week to schedules.
>
> “News has held up better than some of our syndicated programming,”
> Jack Abernethy, chief executive officer of Fox stations, said in an
> interview. “Local news is less expensive and has better revenue
> potential than many syndicated programs.”
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aPY4sRZ7ygCQ&refe...
What Fox and Tribune stations do in big markets doesn't exactly hold
up elsewhere--and it seems like in the last few months I've been
reading about network affiliates cutting back on local news or the
once-unthinkable move of dropping it completely at least once a week.
I haven't been posting them here because there's just too many of
them--and KRON is not exactly a great example of a highly successful
station.
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