Stewart's move speaks to the lure of cable television--and the dismal prognosis for local stations' finances.
Laurence's phone-in was up against more than 20 other daytime programmes entered by BBC local stations.
It had a foothold in television, owning local stations and parts of cable channels, including Food Network.
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Since 1998 he's worked with all our 40 BBC Local Stations, helping to develop their 'station sound'.
But the broadcasters accuse EchoStar of selling distant signals to customers even if they can receive local stations.
That's why Asia's TV ad money -- something like 99% of it -- still goes to local stations.
The ads started airing Thursday on local stations in key battleground states and nationally on cable networks, including CNN.
Critics of the scheme fear local stations will not be commercially viable and will struggle to attract public interest.
As a TV news reporter, she worked at local stations in cities from Milwaukee to Huntsville, Ala.
In the 1970s he broke into television by buying up local stations around Italy and forming a national network.
Imagine if you live out in the boonies somewhere with the ability to receive only one or three local stations.
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The nice thing about Boxee TV is that it pulls together in one system both local stations and internet video.
The commercials will only air when local stations donate the time, but you can view the initial video on YouTube.
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But when I pulled into the city in 2012, I didn't even bother to reset my car's radio to the local stations.
So why was EchoStar also challenging the rule that prevents it from in effect bypassing the local stations with a national feed?
Its sells some inventory for media companies such as CBS Radio, which streams content on the Web from many of their local stations.
"There will be no change, it will still be delivered by local firefighters from local stations delivering a service to the local community, " he said.
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But the biggest winners will be firms such as Sinclair Broadcast Group and Gray Television, which own lots of local stations in critical swing states.
Local stations were also honoured, with the BBC's Radio Foyle, which broadcasts in Northern Ireland, picking up the award for small local station of the year.
Attempts to set up local stations in the past on analogue television - for instance the little-remembered Lanarkshire TV in the late 90s - ended in failure.
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Unable to reach many rural areas, the local stations were largely replaced in 1929 with a more efficient Scottish 'regional' service, which would be broadcast from higher-powered transmitters.
Still worse: ABC, which includes the broadcast network and its local stations, saw its operating income plunge 34%, a reflection of both higher programming costs and a soft ad market.
This is because restrictions on foreign ownership make it hard for foreigners to buy local stations and networks, and because cultural differences make it useful to have a local guide.
More people than ever before are listening to the radio online whether through Internet streams of local stations like KISS-FM in Los Angeles or with Pandora and Last.fm.
If viewers live outside those markets and can't get their local stations using an old-fashioned tv antenna, the satellite companies are legally allowed to sell them feeds from New York or Los Angeles.
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Some cable programmers argued that the FCC's order would make it harder for them to gain access to cable systems if both analog and digital signals of local stations had to be offered.
Under the Federal Communications Commission's requirement, cable operators must either switch to all-digital systems, or carry both the digital and analog signals of local stations in the first three years after the February 2009 conversion.
The Supremes' decision has been hailed by the National Association of Broadcasters, which feared that an EchoStar victory might have exposed local stations to the danger of being bypassed by their local direct-broadcast satellite provider.
For 50 years advertising has paid for the production of most of the TV shows that have graced the three (and later four)main broadcast networks and run later on a panoply of local stations and cable networks.
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