Moments ago, I have thought that I would run a broadcast network studio that would run the whole schedule throughout each day and every week, but on last Sunday, I have borrowed a book called “This Business of Television”, I read that “TV networks do not, however, control the entire day’s schedule, instead, they typically run half the day, the rest is programmed by affiliates with local news and syndicated programming”. Then I have thought of something else, I was wondering what would happen if a broadcast network would run the entire day’s schedule?
it would be difficult to convince local stations to agree to that.
but if they did, there would be no local news, sports, weather, or other programmng.
and they’ll lose viewers to other stations that do provide those things.
There would be virtually nothing local on television. As it is, most markets have very little local programming anymore except for their newscasts.