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Your Local TV News (Soon With More Snuggie Ads)

May 20, 2009

The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s TV critic, Jonathan Storm on how “local TV broadcasters, both in Philadelphia and across the country, [are] reeling and, in some cases, fighting for survival,” including by finding “non-traditional advertisers” (think Snuggie, “hanging tomato plants, and watering globes”) and, also, by “shedding salary,” often from “behind the scenes.”

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.