At least the plethora of metro cable sports networks, always on the prowl for programming to fill some time slots, should ensure decent local coverage.
The events have largely fallen off the radar of the National Media, but they've generated local coverage, like this recent Houston TV report that featured the testimony of a tearful mother.
The FCACC and the Florida Orthopedic Society both think that the previous Local Coverage Determinations (LCD) that were formulated should have provided FCSO with the necessary tools to fight over-utilization and fraud, and that no additional measures are necessary at this time.
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Maybe newspapers will die, but if they do some kind of deep local coverage will emerge from the wreckage - including the work that citizen journalists will do - even if it doesn't go as deep as we'd like, at least not right away.
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Following local media coverage about complaints over constraints to the Paypal service, the company acknowledged that the blockades were imposed by local banks.
But, despite some jubilant local news coverage, the ruling does not compel the government to issue the permits.
Four new transmitters will take local digital coverage to 67.7% of households.
Local news coverage of such events typically provides scant information or context to enable citizens to understand the role of guns in these incidents.
Only through local medical coverage and generous online donations have the Krugers been able to consider such a modern solution with no guarantee it will work.
The committee's Conservative chairman Adam Afriyie asked if local media coverage was considered by Ipsa, when it considered the impact of expenses publication on MPs' reputations.
These traveling billboards may not be worth their cost (an average of one free meal a week each), but the antics won the restaurant priceless local TV coverage.
However, on weekday evenings between 19:00 and 22:00, all of the BBC's regional stations in England will join together for a new all-England programme, although stations will have the flexibility to opt for local sports coverage.
Kucova will struggle to beat Monfils for local press coverage though after the wild card knocked out fifth seed Tomas Berdych in a five-set thriller, winning 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 to delight a partisan crowd.
Continue advertising the day with local blogs in your community (see if your area offers a Patch in it), working with your PR team to get local TV coverage if your business is represented by a public relations firm, and spread the word through friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.
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As a result, reductions in local news teams will be lower, and coverage of local sport will be "more protected", the Trust said.
The local and regional coverage of the Dragons' opening win will be enormous.
Next year it launches its eighth satellite, expanding local-channel coverage to 90 million homes in 100 markets, up from 72 million homes in 52.
There was a lot of coverage of local businesses giving out gifts in return for voting.
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Medicare, though seen as a big government program, is actually structured so that local contractors make many coverage decisions.
As it declined, the Echo withdrew from its office in the middle of town and trimmed its coverage of local affairs.
If local papers unbundle their coverage, they can extend beyond their physical community to countless virtual communities and find a new way to succeed.
Media coverage of local industrial pollution problems is encouraged by the government of China, to show that they care about the environment.
Are social sites like Reddit, Tumblr and YouTube communities that are just as worthy of news coverage as local towns?
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But sympathetic coverage from local newspapers has helped persuade officials not to leave the impoverished patients to the mercy of the health system.
In this sort of scheme, Qwest could sell its long-distance business to BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ), helping that company compete with the other major U.S. carriers, and then sell its regional coverage to local carrier Alltel (nyse: AT - news - people ), helping it jump into the big leagues.
Nor were Singapore authorities giving anything away, with Lien's local program receiving little media coverage.
There will be reductions in medium-wave transmissions for local radio in England where coverage replicates FM.
Without the beat reporters who know the ins-and-outs of the stories and communities they live in, local readers will lose important coverage.
We'll be sprinkling them in every now and again to let you sound off about the coverage in your local area, so if you live in Philadelphia and have world-class (or world's worst) signal, let us know in the comments below.
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