[opendtv] Re: CES Buzz Missing on STB
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:29:45 -0800
Cities with 5 or 6 tv stations -- maybe 4 local Tv news departments -- have
at best one local daily newspaper. Is this a legacy issue?
John Willkie
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> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:32 PM
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> Hey, I always believed Gore won that one. ;-)
>
> I'm sure the market would provide if we needed multiple news sources
> (and were willing to pay for them). And I agree any news monopoly is a
> bad idea for society. (That would be truly "Foxed" up!) However I
> cannot believe TV stations are doing this for altruistic reasons anyway.
>
> So, just thinking selfish economics for a moment, why couldn't a news
> organization that provide news to 2-3 stations or cable companies not be
> more efficient than a news organization that provided news only to a
> small also-ran station that carried news only to remain a network
> affiliate? Is having their own news really profitable to small stations?
>
> - Tom
>
> Mark Schubin wrote:
> > Tom Barry wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe somebody can tell me why local news is mostly associated with
> >> local broadcast stations? Is that just a legacy?
> >>
> >> It would seem there would be a greater economy of scale if local news
> >> was franchised or done by independents and then sold non-exclusively
> >> (without ads) to anyone who wanted to broadcast it, including the
> >> local broadcasters who were reluctantly forced to carry local news,
> >> the local cable companies if they wanted it, and the national or world
> >> news networks whenever something of sufficient national interest was
> >> happening locally.
> >
> > Remember the 2000 election, the one that was first called for Gore on
> > all networks? That's one thing that can happen when everyone relies on
> > the same source of news.
> >
> > TTFN,
> > Mark
> >
> >
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