If you work in TV news, take a moment to read this article (link below). Your first reaction may be “that’ll never happen HERE”, but consider what’s happened to radio news in the past decade.
When the economy went bust in 2008, scores of radio broadcasting companies cut their news staffs, and then, a few years later, abandoned local news coverage. Some of the largest radio group owners consolidated news operations into hubs that served several markets. It happened in Wisconsin years ago.
The author of the article points out that that “hub” concept is already operating for “local” TV news.
Read about it here.
Posted by Tim Morrissey