Operating in the public interest for the local area

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Here in Ord, those 2 local cable channels, the community announcement
feeds.. are on the cable system here in Ord/St Paul/Cedar Rapids/North Loup
as Charter has one system for the entire North Loup Valley... but any local
commercials we see are for Grand Island/Kearney business, yet GI and Kearney
don't see our local announcement channels and we don't see theres.

Paul Walker


On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> <<On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:47:54 -0500, "Dan Billings" <
> billings@suscom-maine.net> said:
>
> > I was recently involved in buying ads for political campaigns on cable.
>  In
> > Maine, Time Warner does ad inserts for very large regional areas and the
> ads
> > are not cheap.  The old days of being able to buy a small local cable
> area
> > are gone.  At least in Maine.  (Except for Comcast that only covers a
> small
> > area in the state.)
>
> I was seeing Sununu/Shaheen ads on my local Comcast system here.  They
> do seem to have difficult with finding local advertising that's
> actually appropriate -- the biggest local cable advertiser here
> appears to be a car dealer from an hour away that I'd be quite
> surprised if anyone in Framingham ever patronized.
>
> -GAWollman
>