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April 23, 2012, 6:14 p.m.
LINK: denverpost.tumblr.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   April 23, 2012

Happy to see the Post trying out a noon newscast, something I think a lot of metros should be trying to tap into the bored-at-work-and-not-near-a-TV crowd in their markets. The first ep of DPTV was a little rough around the edges (work on those story transitions) and probably a little too much like a top-of-the-hour radio newscast and not enough like the friendlier, conversational tone of noon local TV. But great to see the effort.

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