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People can access local channels from all over the country via the internet. You may as well be suggesting a return to the Pony Express.
Yes, people can access local channels through the Internet, but that is not part of the discussion. I am referring to people who prefer to watch via cable and broadcast TV.
When I grew up on Strongs Neck in the late fifties , our television channels came
mostly from New Haven . On really clear nights , we could pull in Providence.
This is a solution without a problem. People who live out there can (and do) get news from News 12 as well as CT stations. Who are you to say what they should have access to? You think the broadcast networks should - and would - willingly limit their broadcast signal? Why? A lot of people who live out there have ties to NYC and some work there believe it or not.
No, I am not saying that the broadcast networks should lower the power of their transmitters or limit their range on cable systems (and we're not talking about online streaming here, this is a cable/antenna discussion).
I only made this statement because Eastern Suffolk County antenna viewers have a much better chance of picking up TV stations in CT or RI than New York City as already confirmed by one person on this post (who grew up in Strongs Neck, which is not even in the area I mentioned). So I am only discussing how feasible it would be to change the market designation, not to pull them off antenna/cable.
No, I am not saying that the broadcast networks should lower the power of their transmitters or limit their range on cable systems (and we're not talking about online streaming here, this is a cable/antenna discussion).
I only made this statement because Eastern Suffolk County antenna viewers have a much better chance of picking up TV stations in CT or RI than New York City as already confirmed by one person on this post (who grew up in Strongs Neck, which is not even in the area I mentioned). So I am only discussing how feasible it would be to change the market designation, not to pull them off antenna/cable.
People in eastern Long Island don't want to watch "local news" that comes from a different state with different laws and a different government. They don't want to get traffic reports from a place where they don't drive and weather that can be significantly different than where they live. Advertisers don't want to buy advertising that will not reach their customers.
It would probably surprise you to learn that prior to the late 1970s people in much of Suffolk had to do exactly what you are proposing because over air signals from New York City were too weak to provide adequate service, a problem that ended with the advent of cable because you have not bothered to research your own topic before dumping it here.
RI is useless for advertising in the East End. Other than NYC folk buying up properties in the coastal areas of South County because they've been priced out of the East End, there's no market overlap worth mentioning.
People in eastern Long Island don't want to watch "local news" that comes from a different state with different laws and a different government. They don't want to get traffic reports from a place where they don't drive and weather that can be significantly different than where they live. Advertisers don't want to buy advertising that will not reach their customers.
It would probably surprise you to learn that prior to the late 1970s people in much of Suffolk had to do exactly what you are proposing because over air signals from New York City were too weak to provide adequate service, a problem that ended with the advent of cable because you have not bothered to research your own topic before dumping it here.
OK, you've got a good point in terms of people not wanting to watch news that comes from a different state, but in terms of weather I think you have it wrong. I go to college currently in Southeastern CT and whenever I compare the temperature and radar maps from where I amto that part of Far Eastern Suffolk, it is actually pretty similar to what we have.
Also, I did know that before the early 70s, Eastern Suffolk County TV viewers had to get broadcast channels from CT or RI since the antenna signal was too far to recieve (as it still is today).
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