[villages07]

Indy,

Interesting article...thanks for posting. First I've heard of this issue. Methinks the real truth is somewhere in the middle...it would probably cost more than $65/day to provide the service but not enough to be an undue burden to the developer. The station is primarily a marketing tool....very few advertisers outside the Villages-owned business themselves have commercials.

It'll be interesting to see how the FCC rules....VNN is a cute sideshow but certainly not a vehicle for getting in depth local, national, or international news. The amount of original programming has declined in the past 2 years...I had "heard" (and you know how reliable that might be) that they were losing so much money that they cut back on staff and programming. Maybe they don't aggressively seek out advertisers?

Hopefully, Mr Schwarz (no relation to Harold, I presume) won't take this so far as to sue the developer for depriving him of this critical lifeline. The Morse family must be feeling like litigation targets these days. It would be a shame if this relatively minor issue caused TV to cease broadcasting VNN (or using it as an excuse to pull VNN).