why media consolidation is NOT a good thing

[Matt Higgs]

Just a note in relation to this, WAGM in Presque Isle routeinly bumps 
the CBS Evening News on weekends to air their own local programming. 
Its happened more than a few times this year already. They usually air 
their weekend news on Saturday at 6, then rather than hold off until 7 
to air local shows, they air them at 6:30 instead. 

Matt Higgs

> >And in those "old
> > days" a local station's most likely reason for pre-empting a 
network news
> > broadcast would have been to present a local documentary or public-
affairs
> > show or even (at least in WCVB's heyday) a locally-produced 
entertainment
> > show. (And the decision to pre-empt would likely have come with a 
lot of
> > local management input, too.)
> 
> Those days were gone long before consolidation of ownership.
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