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Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV

Published: December 29, 2009 3:00 PM
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Quick ReadAssailed by cable and the Web, broadcast TV looks to build a new business model

As the nation's biggest pay-TV provider, Comcast Corp.,

Photo credit: AP | As the nation's biggest pay-TV provider, Comcast Corp., prepares to take control of NBC, it has not signaled any plans to reorganize the broadcast network.

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For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.

The business model is unraveling at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and the local stations that carry the networks' programming. Cable TV and the Web have fractured the audience for free TV and siphoned its ad dollars. The recession...

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