I have a suggestion - how about giving us the news on the morning news programs?  I doubt that very many folks tune in to TV to check on traffic - our phones are much more timely regarding snarls.  Similarly, we don't really need to hear a weather report more than once per hour.  Again, our phones do an adequate job.  If traffic and weather were torched, unique offerings, such as Chris Parente, and local and national news and sports could be given more time.  Of course there is the problem that a half an hour of "news" is only about 20 minutes of news.