RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Akron News Could Go

6.04.2005

Akron News Could Go

I think it blows that a city the size of Akron doesn't have more then one TV station. We get all of the Cleveland leftovers. And now our one TV station, PAX 23, is ending its partnership with Cleveland's Channel 3, meaning that the Akron-Canton news could be gone.

In March, Channel 23's owner, Paxson Communications, notified Channel 3's owner, the Gannett Co., that it would end their joint sales agreement on June 30.

That agreement, originally made in 2000, let Channel 3 sell advertising time for Channel 23 and provide some programming. That included the newscasts beginning in 2001, five years after Channel 23 had dropped its original Akron-Canton news.

Channel 3 is still looking at ways to continue the Channel 23 newscast once the joint sales agreement ends.

I'd really like to see real local news stick around. Not that I really watch it, but I like knowing that Akron is being properly covered and not just getting the occasional bad news piece from the big Cleveland players.

The BJ :: Newscast knocked off the air

(joe :: Akron News Could Go)

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