Re: Connecticut trip notes

["Douglas J. Broda" <dougbroda@mindspring.com>]

Agreed re the locals -- though the sports question's different, not that
I've ever understood those rules. Albany was in Hartford's local NHL
market, fer gosh sakes, even though nobody here followed the Whalers and
none of the local systems carried FSNE.

Also, exclusivity can be a tad different sometimes due to local situations
- -- Albany is served by *two* UPN affiliates, and intentionally. There's a
low-power UPN affiliate in Albany that isn't on any cable systems and a
secondary affiliation with WYPX-55 Amsterdam, which airs the UPN shows at
11 PM after the prime-time Pax shows are done. Of course, the fact that UPN
has to rely on such things shows its weakness. :)

Doug Broda
(dougbroda@mindspring.com)

At 11:26 AM 11/30/98 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:15:50 -0500 (EST), hmglaz@webtv.net (H Glazer) said:
>
>> Is Cox within its rights to run a system this way, or could the Hartford
>> affils -- or FSNE -- force them to split Southington's feed from
>> Meriden/Cheshire's?
>
>Even New Haven should be well within the exclusivity zone for 3, 30,
>and 61 (not to mention 59!); certainly it's part of the same TV
>market.  All of those stations should have the right to demand network
>exclusivity on the entire system.  (Hell, most of Meriden's land area
>probably has line-of-sight to 30 and 61 in Farmington!)
>

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