31.   KBAQ features local programming throughout the weekdays and much of the weekends.

32.   Local programming is also about money.

33.   Logically, local programming should win out.

34.   Media corporations have not been shy about getting into the sports ownership business and using the team for local programming.

35.   Miles said that since News Corp. appointed Sky executive Gary Davey to head Star it has pointed Star in the right direction by making more local programming.

36.   On the other hand, the glory days of local programming in Boston have long since passed.

37.   Parker said he thought local programming would set WTVE apart from its larger rivals.

38.   Second, Murdoch failed in an effort to change federal copyright law to allow him to retransmit local programming without paying a fee to the programmers.

39.   So, whereas ESPN offers national programming with national advertising, Fox Sports Net offers local programming with national advertising.

40.   That translates into an audience compact enough for targeted local programming but large enough to generate significant local advertising dollars, Effros said.