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Spreading FoxNewsChannel's force out is a good idea. I would love to see FNC become hosted and anchored from Los Angeles for some of the night shift. They could develop a unique style where as the prime time shifts across our nation (or morning drive time shifts), they could roll the anchor desk from one time zone to the next. Imagine if a Hawaii based anchor team anchored a report at 9PM Hawaii Standard. That equals about 3 AM or 4 AM in NYC/DC.
{Spreading FoxNewsChannel's force out is a good idea. I would love to see FNC become hosted and anchored from Los Angeles for some of the night shift.
Basically, as the Honolulu evening anchors signed off at the equivalent of their 10 PM, the NYC guys could pick up again at 4 AM for the pre-open coverage.
I'd add to the previous posting about rolling anchor desks. If the Fox News Channel used the main guys (Cavuto, O'Reilly, Dhue, etc.), you could spread them out to anchor local news coverage. This would have the effect of spreading out the positive economic impact of the FNC. You could stimulate dozens of local economies instead of having everyone in NYC or DC. Essentially, you end up stimulating the local affiliate program by encouraging affiliates to compete with each other (the best ones in the time zone end up picking up some star talent from national FNC, this further solidifies the local Fox News affiliate's programming lead over other local outlets). This plan ends the problems between local affiliates and FNC also by encouraging cooperation and mutual projects. You can also stimulate better coverage of regional stories. Regional news channels have been tried, but have failed due to the lack of integration in the region's affiliates. However, Fox has the capability to solve that in several areas.
CNN does not have a good local affiliate program and FNC could essentially leverage the local affiliates to out compete CNN.
This plan would create a process where CNN ends up being forced to pick up Al Jezeera (and be the mouthpiece of the international whackos) vs. FNC broadcasting the HomeTeam.