As you know, local commercial TV stations are primarily supported by "local" market advertisers. So what is the motivation for a local TV station give much coverage to "local" news from another market? It is like this throughout the US and this practice is the financial cornerstone of commercial broadcasting.
Orlando, Tampa and Tallahassee are all distinct and separate advertising markets.
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That's why most local stations have "Network Content". They need to provide some programing time to sell multi/national market advertising.
With all that, we sure do miss "over-the-air" coverage of contending football teams.
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