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Pretty sure they won't unless they are total softballs. I can promise you the affils will hate this set-up because it's the tail wagging the dog. Most calls will be landlord/ tenant disputes , credit card billing problems and child custody/ family law disputes. Some doe eyed intern takes the calls and then try to convince the locals that it's newsworthy. The locals will play the "it's not newsworthy" game back and forth. The next big issue will be the old "stepping on the toes"... When Old Miss Crabby calls the Texas call center to complain about her city not sweeping the streets on a regular basis. That's when the fun begins. When the "call screeners" in Texas start digging around and making calls to the local city hall in the affils town...the locals (I-team) go ballistic because "Some idiot intern in Texas is screwing up the relations we have with city hall"....Back Off!. I would be really interested to see how they plan to keep the locals "engaged" and not get pissed off at the call center and the "stories" they find. It's really just based on "crap in...crap out" types of calls...the kind of shit that Scripps stations run with every night. No need to waste money digging up news, when we can just wait for the drunks to call us. I give this whole ill convinced plan about 1 year before we see "job cuts" in TV spy and FTV live due to the shrinking TV news ad dollars post 2016 elex. But as any good assignment editor will tell you,,, "When Consumer Bob comes bitching about the story generated FROM Texas...I will tell Bob to go find me something better." Chances are that will shut him up.

News coverage of First Day Ceremony of Carreta Stamp at History Park from KICU 36, KNTV 11, and KSTS 48, circa 1988.