Correction:Paxson's Must-carry Empire

[Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>]

Sorry there's an error in my reading of the Paxson data.
While the PERCENTAGE of "Boston" cable households is correct; the number
(1,189,000) is incorrect. It should be 949,000 cable households now reached.
The 1,189,000 cable households is what he reaches in San Francisco!
The corrected posting follows:
>Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 18:33:22 -0500
>To: radio
>From: Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>
>Subject: Paxson's Must-carry Empire
>
>It seems, according to Paxson,  Paxson Communications will take over
operation of (but not ownership of) WHRC Ch46 Norwell in June. That plus
WGOT Ch60 Merrimack guarantees quite a "must carry" exposure for the
infomercial broker. He claims 57% of cable households now (without Ch46) or
[INCORRECT:1,189,000] 949,000 cable households out of 1,665,000 in the sixth
largest (Boston) market. He now can reach 56% of the American public and
hopes to reach 70% by the end of 1997. Can you believe the limit is 35% but
UHF stations only count one-half!
>

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