Most of this was done in September. Since the last time I did a complete run-through, the following has happened:<\/p>\n
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- The Des Moines stations do a lot more of statewide maps. This meant, for the most part, I had to leave their data alone for now.<\/li>\n
- KIMT and KTTC whacked off their tier of counties at the base of north-central Iowa.<\/li>\n
- KWWL went down to the bare minimum for eastern Iowa.<\/li>\n
- The Quad Cities stations fiddled with their edges.<\/li>\n
- WOWT restored the overlap with WHO, putting the Omaha stations in sync with each other.<\/li>\n
- In total, I made 35 additions\/subtractions to 29 counties, not counting KGAN including 11 fringe counties in its warning map but not in its main map.<\/li>\n
- And there were ownership changes, and subchannel additions, but that’s out of the realm of this post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
When all of the above is taken into consideration, we have a new champion for best station coverage\/worst change of venue site: Carroll County, receiving love from all nine stations in the Des Moines, Omaha, and Sioux City areas. On the other extreme, poor Van Buren County is\u00a0down to two stations, period.<\/p>\n
(And then, when it’s time for the general election, I’d prepare for pouring a bunch of money into the Duluth-Superior market that blankets northern Wisconsin and the Iron Range. But that’s just me, and \u2014<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nIn this case the dark psychic forces are the ones autoplaying video.)<\/p>\n
* Three days of Jeopardy, ten weeks<\/em> before the caucuses, in order:\u00a0Yang, Bernie, Steyer, Biden, Pete, Warren;\u00a0Yang, Pete, Steyer, Bullock, Yang, Biden;\u00a0Yang, Pete, Yang, Bernie, Biden, Bernie, Yang, Bullock, Bullock. And, on two of the three days, also an ad against Sen. Joni Ernst.<\/p>\n
PRE-PUBLISH UPDATE: A week before Thanksgiving, WHO changed its entire graphics package. I happened to have seen the same style\/system a few weeks earlier, on WISH-TV of Indianapolis. It’s very light-backgrounded and uses super-super-basic weather icons (the Jony Ive-ization<\/a> of weather graphics and chyrons, if you will). That allowed me to make tweaks along the edges of its map, all eliminations, including Tama County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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