We see that television has completely usurped the role of radio in all but social information. While it has not replaced face to face and the telephone for social and emergency uses, it is the major source for the weather and news. Below we shall discuss programming on television and will note that at the moment television cannot respond to local issues and is limited in what it can discuss – it is best known for news and weather, hence the responses above. What if it were to present local issues, local business news, local market data? Currently television plays a small role in.