I was amazed by your editorial “Cable and the networks.” It seems to me that the best source of local news is the Bangor Daily News; what is advertised as television news is hardly that. The stations did not have enough news to fill a half hour so, in their wisdom, they extended the entertainment an additional half-hour. The alleged news programs on television are superficial and trivial.

As regards the main point of your editorial the argument between cable television and the local television stations as to the possibility of staying on the air, as far as I am concerned all the local stations can be removed from my cable system. I will not miss them. I am able to view channels 2,5,6,7,8,10,12,13 through the local cable system.

Last week, we watched a total of one hour of programming on these eight stations. We normally watch two to three hours on PBS and two to three on the network stations. Last weeks programming was poorer than the normal inferior product presented by these stations.

We probably do not watch more than 25 hours of television in the normal week. We read books, work on the computer, watch shows from the VCR, but we do not turn on the TV just to have it on.

If the local stations do go off the cable and lose 25 percent of their audience, will they also cut their advertising rates by 25 percent? Of course they will! Arthur Demmons Skowhegan