NBC Boston

A Joseph Ross joe@attorneyross.com
Tue Sep 25 23:38:29 EDT 2018


This surprises me, since NBC Boston has the facilities of NECN at its 
disposal.  Anyone know why this is so?

On 9/25/2018 7:16 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:
> The bigger issue, really, isn't whether or not people have figured out 
> that they press "10" now instead of "7" to get NBC. Prime-time ratings 
> suggest that the vast majority of viewers have figured that out.
>
> The problem is that even if they've found NBC on 10, the local news 
> product there has nothing compelling about it to make a viewer change 
> habits and switch away from 5 or 7 or 4 or 25. Not many markets these 
> days have five TV newsrooms running full bore (off the top of my head? 
> NYC, Chicago, LA), and making a mark as the fifth entrant in a crowded 
> field is a huge challenge. Even being the number-four newsroom in a 
> market is a tough position these days.
>

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