Taking advantage of the commonly used Nielsen rule, which allows stations to eliminate ratings for locally produced programming on holidays, the NBC outlets threw out ratings for their late newscasts last Tuesday, Election Day. The stations included WNBC-TV in New York, WMAQ in Chicago and WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.
You want to know the fun part about this? We didn't have elections in Chicago. Next year? Mondo elections. This year? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. Nothing local, nothing state, nothing national, NOTHING. (Well, except for redistricting fun, but that's going on everywhere, and is going to wind up in 50 state supreme courts, so what's newsworthy about that?)
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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12/19/2001: vive la france
12/19/2001: princess, redux
12/19/2001: yemen and rumsfeld
12/18/2001: you're NOT in the army now
12/18/2001: interesting donation
12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
12/18/2001: saudi princess
12/17/2001: new resolve
12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!