[Scan-DC] 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper

[Bill]

Same consolidations have been occuring all over the Country. It's called 
lack of $$$

Boston already went last year.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/05/20/tv_stations_share_the_air_in_bid_to_weather_economy/

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com>
To: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 11:38 PM
Subject: [Scan-DC] 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper


>
> from www.dcrtv.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 5:22 PM
> Subject: This is low-class!
>
>
> 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper - 6/19 - DCRTV hears about some changes 
> with DC TV's news and traffic copters. Apparently, the Sky 9 helicopter 
> being leased from Metro Traffic by Channel 9/WUSA is going to Miami. We're 
> told that that bird has also been recently feeding news video to Channel 
> 7/WJLA, which wants out the deal. Instead, 7 will now get its copter video 
> from Channel 4/WRC's Chopper 4. In fact, we hear that the WRC bird is 
> providing video for all of DC TV's news stations - 4, 5, 7, and 9 - via 
> the new joint news consortium. "We were calling it Chopper 495, but we're 
> not sure how to work 7 into it and still have it come out cutsie," a local 
> TV news source tells DCRTV. "I find it amazing that in the DC market, one 
> helicopter is going to provide video for everybody." With Sky 9 heading 
> south, "veteran traffic reporter and videographer Bill Michaels (real name 
> Bill Goldstein) has decided that 25 years in radio is enough. He declined 
> the offer to take a just-vacated tra
> ffic reporter position in one of the planes," we're told.....
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