CEO: Evansville not a ‘growth market’

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The CEO of ComCorp (owners of WEVV and WTSN) claims that the Evansville media market isn’t a growth market compared to the other markets that ComCorp has holdings.

From the TVNewsDay article: “We have good properties and good networks. All of our markets except for Evansville [Ind.] are growth markets. The Louisiana economy is booming because of oil and is expected to continue to boom because of Katrina rebuilding. And it’s a southern market that’s reached a good phase of development.”

I’m not sure I totally agree with this. Evansville is growing quite well with a number of new businesses opening now or soon, but are the dollars there to be spent on local media? Being compared to markets that are recovering from massive natural disasters isn’t quite fair. Of course there’s growth in LA and TX. There’s no where to go but up.

Interesting sidebar according to the same article: Apparently WEVV/WTSN has the ability to produce commercials in full HD. We here at EM haven’t seen any evidence of this. Anyone else with insight?

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