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This category includes all the programming that appears on broadcast television that is not controlled by the networks. Los Angeles is the second-biggest television market in the country (New York is the biggest). No program can be successful unless it is sold in the Los Angeles market. Therefore, by monitoring local and syndicated programming in Los Angeles, it was ensured that we would examine all significant non-network programming that is produced. We examined two-week samples of prime time and Saturday morning of the following stations:
KTLA Channel 5. As mentioned earlier, KTLA is affiliated with the WB network on Wednesday nights. On those nights, we treated its schedule as network programming which is discussed in the previous section.
KCAL Channel 9. This station runs news during all Monday through Friday prime time hours so its programming was examined on weekends only.
KCOP Channel 13. As mentioned earlier, KCOP is affiliated with the UPN network on Monday and Tuesday nights. On those nights we treated its schedule as network programming, which is discussed in the previous section.
KCBS Channel 2, KNBC Channel 4, KABC Channel 7 and KTTV Channel 11. These are the network owned and operated stations. Their prime time and Saturday morning programming is the world of broadcast network television and is examined in detail in the previous section. Other than during prime time and Saturday morning, these stations act as local stations and buy their own programming in the syndication market. We looked at the syndicated programming that is scheduled before and during the Prime Time Access period.
This sample allowed us to pick up original syndicated programs, such as the various Star Treks and Baywatch and theatrical films, on the independent stations. The programming on the network stations in the non-network time slots was comprised of game shows, entertainment and news magazine shows, and of original syndication such as Top Cops and True Stories of the Highway Patrol. This section of the report centers on that programming that, if run on broadcast network television, would raise concerns about violence. We divided the content into original programs for syndication, theatrical motion pictures and children's television.
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