Tonight at 11, News by Neighbors

TONIGHT AT 11, NEWS BY NEIGHBORS
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle 2/11, AUTHOR: Joe Garofoli]
Clear Channel's KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa (CA) has fired most of its news-gathering staff and, over the next few months, will be asking people in the community -- its independent filmmakers, its college students and professors, its civic leaders and others -- to provide programming for the station. Will they be paid? That's being worked out. Who will cover the harder-edged stories? Some will be culled from local newspaper and TV online sites and "other sources" that are still being discussed. "There will be a loss in local coverage, I'm not going to lie to you," says a Clear Channel executive. "But there are a lot of other places to get most of that information."
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