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CBS affiliates have time on their hands after weekend kids cuts
A shift away from kids-oriented animated programming to adult-targeted news and talk programming is remaking the entire weekend-morning TV landscape. In order to expand its morning news and talk show progamming to seven days a week, CBS is downsizing its Saturday children's slate to three hours of educational programming. The move to Saturday-morning news will mean CBS O&Os and many affiliates will have to come up with new local newscasts as lead-in programming.
The nagging question is how many affiliates-especially those in markets below the top 100-will be able to afford expanding or launching new Saturday-morning newscasts. Also still to be decided are...