Net Gains Are Station Losses

摘要

The local broadcast drama began anew Jan. 1, and with any luck could go wire-to-wire in 2015. Yes, as the rest of the nation awakened with a New Year's Day hangover, the folks at WISH Indianapolis rose ready to face the world as an independent-minded CW station, with CBS slapping its affiliation on WTTV. WISH's plight epitomizes 2015's central issue-networks and TV stations, while partners, are increasingly adversaries, aiming to impress upon each other that they're the main reason why viewers watch the station and are entitled to the biggest bite of the multichannel video programming distribution retrans apple.