getting closer to 24-hour news availability

[Richard Chonak]

With recent schedule changes, here is little time in the day in which 
Boston television viewers are left with no news programs at their 
disposal over-the-air.


In these conventional prime news times, viewers have seven options: some 
local, some network, some even foreign.

  5:30 pm -  6:00 pm: 2.1 (BBC); 2.2 (DW); 4; 5; 7; 25; 60.5
  6:00 pm -  6:30 pm: 2.1 (PBS); 4; 5; 7; 25; 27; 60.5
  6:30 pm -  7:00 pm: 2.1 (PBS); 4 (CBS); 5 (ABC); 7; 25; 27 (UNI); 60.5 
(NBC)


In a few slots, there's only one choice:

10:00 am - 11:00 am: 60.5 (NBC)
12:30 pm -  1:00 pm: 7
  8:00 pm -  9:00 pm: 38
  9:00 pm - 10:00 pm: 7
11:30 pm - 12:00 m:  27 and 66 (both Univision)
  1:00 am -  1:30 am: 25 (repeat)


And these are the gaps:

11:00 am to 12:00 noon
  1:00 pm to  4:00 pm
  7:30 pm to  8:00 pm


Oh, well, there's always radio.

--RC