Re: Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:13:39 -0500 (EST) Garrett Wollman
<wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
> <<On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:51:24 -0500, Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com> 
> said:
> 
> > Why would you think that unusual?   Look at the Boston market, how 
> many
> > outlying stations here are pretending to be Boston stations and 
> ignoring
> > their COL?
> 
> None of those stations were moved in from other markets.  Those
> communities were always part of the Boston market.  What would be an
> analogue would be if somebody took all the stations in Springfield 
> and
> reallocated them to places like Milford, Westborough, and Hudson so
> that they could become Boston signals.

Dave writes:
They have always been part of the Boston market for ratings purposes, but
back in the old days they served the communities of license and nearby
communities.  Those days are gone so why eliminate the independent voices
of the few remaining stations that still do serve their communities?
df