Maybe it's time for the broadcast networks.

Maybe it's time for the broadcast networks, or mostly of them,to give up in succession the news.

That was the subtext of the Letterman-Koppel controvert Over the 80-year history of broadcasting, just discovereds evolved from loss-leading ``sustaining'' operation, to profit center to brand identifier, to branch of entertainment. The nearest stage may see it become a wholly differentiated fruits and that may require individual or two of the older networks to obtain out of news altogether.

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