Chicago TV station turns back the clock 30 years

Paul Hopfgarten paul@derrynh.net
Tue Nov 17 17:17:47 EST 2009


I'm in Atlanta right now...and the CBS Afilliate here brands as CBS Atlanta 
(vs Fox5, CW69, WXIA 11, 2 (WSB-TV/ABC)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Atlanta for today (Derry NH/Freeport ME)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
To: "D. A." <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>
Cc: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest" 
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Chicago TV station turns back the clock 30 years


> CBS2 is very entrenched in Chi, NY and LA.
>
> The so called CBS Mandate still isn't universal as WCCO-TV and KDKA-TV
> calls are used in Minneapolis and Pittsburgh.
>
> In NY and LA there is no way to co-brand as CBS has two all news
> stations in each market.
>
> Chicago and Philadelphia would be prime co-branding markets with WBBM and 
> KYW.
>
> It just seems so obvious to co-brand your local TV news when in many
> markets your AM station delivers huge numbers.
> 




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