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This paper was published in The Journal of Industrial Economics in March, 1995.

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ABSTRACT:
If viewers prefer to watch the news as soon as they get home from work, how should competing television stations schedule their broadcasts to maximize their own numbers of viewers. This is a Hotelling location problem with a directional constraint. Viewers can watch after they get home, but not before. We show that for this model, there exists no pure strategy Nash equilibrium.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Maria Cancian, Angela Bills, and Ted Bergstrom, "Hotelling Location Problems with Directional Constraints: An Application to Television News Scheduling" (March 1, 1995). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 1995C.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/1995C