I actually enjoy Spectrum news and their weather on the ones 
Yeah, does anyone actually watch local news anymore? About the only time I watch is during a weather event like a winter storm or hurricane. Otherwise itās just a report of murder and mayhem.
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JGKES (James Goodknight Education Syndrome) is in the chat, the more OTA news the more market viability. Someone is suffering from the James Goodknight Education Syndrome.
Thatās newsā¦ People care about what going on maybe not cable but OTA, and network news are being watched.
Listen, I honestly have no idea what youāre trying to say most of the time, and I donāt really care. But you keep saying this like itās a thing, and I just wanted to let you know his name is Goodnight, not GoodKnight, so your made-up acronym doesnāt even work.
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Yeah I guess the Triangle only has three OTA newsrooms but how many metros of this size have their own 24/7 cable news network? Only other one I can think of is NY1 and that serves 8.5 million.
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More than you think: Spectrum also has 24/7 news channels in Upstate New York (5 feeds), western/central Massachusetts, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Orlando, Austin, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles on top of NY1.
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Yeah sure. I just donāt see how the number of local news networks define how great a city is. 20 years ago, that stat may have meant something. Today, mehh.
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It still does define how great a city is today, Thatās why we also didnāt get an MLS team why? Becasue billionaires look at media markets and the number of news stations so viewership is divided and that means they have more outlets to spread the word.
I donāt get it. āBillionaires this, billionaires thatā. I donāt discount the influence of billionaires - I bike the āAnn and Jim Goodnight museum parkā pretty frequently and am very glad it exists - but I donāt have any understanding of what billionaires look at or prioritize. Do you have any sources on what billionaires value and how they make a determination of what cities are worth investing in?
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If that is a metric, then Iāll wait to see when the MLS comes to Roanoke or Lexington, KY. They have four news outlets, surely theyāre better places in every possible metric than Raleigh is! /s.
Nevermind that probably the most motivated billionaire who shouldāve fronted the money for MLS (Goodmon) owns two stations (though if it was only one weād have that fourth outlet, thanks Sinclair).
New newsletter in Raleigh:
Axios Raleigh will cover the latest politics, business, culture, music, sports, and more in a sharp, digestible style we call Smart Brevity. Our goal is to help you navigate life in a city that is constantly evolving.
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That sounds painfulā¦
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If anyone thought that nameās familiar, itās because you mightāve heard of Axios, the news media company started up by journalists formerly at Politico (essentially ESPN for the policy and politics world).
But this Raleigh offshoot seems to be an expansion of a rare success in the local news industry: the Charlotte Agenda, a popular, no-nonsense newsletter started by Ted Williams in 2015. Axios bought that newsletter-turned-startup in 2020, rebranded it as Axios Charlotte, and has expanded the model with the help of local journalists in other cities including Denver, Austin, and evidently, here.
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Newsletters definitely seem to be the future to me. I donāt know what others do, but I get essentially all of my news, political and local, from newsletters. Shoutout to Tangle for national news and RALtoday and Raleigh Patch for local. I finally had to unsubscribe from the Indyweek Daily, but their other newsletters are still good. It will be nice to see competition in the ālocal politicsā space. Raltoday and Raleigh Patch are both fairly tame, while Indyweek is unabashedly progressive.
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But letās be clear, these are curated lists rather than original content, right?
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RALtoday has some original content. Itās in the style of listicles or the search-optimized articles of modern websites, like this.
Iāve been subscribed to Axios for a couple of weeks now and it seems in every email thereās an ad from the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. I get that ads are ads and I expect them if Iām getting something for free, but I didnāt subscribe to a Raleigh newsletter to get solicitations from Charlotte every day. I guess Iām just venting. Those of you in here that love Charlotte (I appreciate it, not in love with it) might want to look at subscribing t Axios in my link above. I may unsubscribe as itās usually duplicate info with RALToday.
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Doesnāt it make sense for Charlotte to court weekend visitors from the Triangle and vice-versa?
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