Market #14); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Market #4); North Syracuse, New York (Market #15). Some examples of the effect of the exclu ivity re7.stions in these television markets is shown below: (1) Sranton, Pa., is located in television Market Due to exclusivity requests from all three market stations, the cable system is losing 32 percent of all program ing from the three distant in lepenient stat. s during the critical prise-time' viewing period of 7-10 p.m. nightly -- or the equivalent of a total less of one of the three distant stations. (2, Newt News, Va.. is located in televiñion At present only one of the four market stations requests exclusivity protection. Yet, in a recent week, requests for protection from this one station against one of the imported stations resulted in the 'blackout' of 21 percent of the full-day programs on the distant station. (3) Wauwatosa, Wi., is located in television market #23 (Milwaukee, Wi.). There are three network stations and one independent station in the market. The cable system, presently under construction, will import two independent stations when it becomes operational. Although the system is not yet in operation, it has already received written and verbal requests for syndicated program protection from all four market stations. The requests require that 62 percent of the daily prograrming of one distant station, and 58 percent of the daily programming of the other distant station be 'blacked out'. The devastating effect of the proram 'blackouts' is illustrated in the following three pages. Pages 5 and 6 represent the Friday, January 24, 1975 schedules of the two Chicago ind Lendunt television stations to be imported into Wauwatosa. Page 7 shows the limited number of programs from the two stations that would be permitted to be shown by the cable system. Program titles which must be 'protected' are 'Xed' out, and would not be available to cable subscribers. |