Broadcasting & Cable
Northeastern Pennsylvania features one of the great single station-viewer relationships in the country, and WNEP is showing no signs of loosening its stranglehold on Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ratings. The Local TVowned ABC affiliate grabbed more than 48% of the local revenue in 2009, according to BIA/ Kelsey, leaving everyone else to play for second.
“We serve the whole market,” President/General Manager Chuck Morgan says of WNEP’s success. “We have more newspeople and more vehicles to hit more counties. We connect with people because we are there.”
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