Ben/Gabe: In addition to local affiliates broadcasting more hours per day, you should also consider that network news typically gets footage from news bureaus from all over the world, which may or may not be shooting in HD. So I think it's actually a much costlier transition to HD for the networks, not the affiliates.
With the affiliates, chances are that most of their content is homegrown, and so they can deliver a full HD broadcast.
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Reggie @ Feb 9th 2007 1:41PM
Ben/Gabe:
In addition to local affiliates broadcasting more hours per day, you should also consider that network news typically gets footage from news bureaus from all over the world, which may or may not be shooting in HD. So I think it's actually a much costlier transition to HD for the networks, not the affiliates.
With the affiliates, chances are that most of their content is homegrown, and so they can deliver a full HD broadcast.