Re: The 200 Boston (?) Conventions and Minimal TV.

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, PUBLICREF2 wrote:

> Thanks to declining TV ratings--and the fact that Presidential nominees
> are now chosen in the primaries--ABC, CBS and NBC are only planning
> two hours of live coverage of each of the 2000 conventions, all of it
> on one night-the acceptance speeches of the Presidential and Vice-
> Presidential nominees on the final night of the conventions.

Features on the convention city are a familiar part of network newscasts
and morning news shows during convention week. 

> P.S.: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel will be there gavel-to-gavel,but
> that will draw only a minimal viewership.
 
Doesn't matter.  A city isn't showcased during gavel-to-gavel coverage of
events in the convention hall.  It's the features I've just mentioned that
gives the city exposure beyond its boundaries. 

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