"Local" news coverage of the NH Primary

[Dan Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Watson" <markwats@comcast.net>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; "Boston Radio"
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: "Local" news coverage of the NH Primary


>  FWIW, Channel 7 gave about 5 or 6 minutes to the Patriots departing for
> Houston to get ready for next Sunday's Super Bowl. By mid-week, the entire
> WHDH on air sports crew will be in Houston. The other Boston TV stations
are
> sending most of their sports anchors/reporters there, keeping one back
home
> in the studio.

But that, at least, is market driven.  Everywhere I go, I hear people
talking about the Pats.  I don't hear  many talking about the NH primary.

Plus, in Boston, the Pats are a local story.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine