However, some stations and entire markets may choose to switch before then.

Other stations choose to air the second half after their late local news after primetime.

If using pretend news is one of the ways these stations have chosen to save money, it's a false economy.

After the transmission, the station chooses a new backoff value and the story repeats itself.

The station can then choose to download the commercial onto its hard drives.

The local stations could choose which programme they wished to broadcast depending upon their audience.

Instead, the local stations choose to have their own names such as "Weather Now".

Some stations in the western half of the country choose to air it at 5:00 local time.

The station chose not to renew those rights in 2004, but continues to air high school games on Friday nights.

The station then chose to switch to Fox full-time.