WOOD TV 8 Gives Free Publicity to Amusement Parks

Analysis:

This piece is basically free advertising for the amusement park industry. the footage for thsi story was obviously not obtained locally and is most likely provided by an amusement park industry PR effort.

Story:

WOOD 8 Newsreader – Those planning a vacation to Florida may want to add a little more to there amusement park budget. Sea World Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay are hiking prices for 2006. A one day admission to Sea World is going up by more than two dollars to sixty one dollars and 95 cents for adults. Busch Gardens is hiking prices by two dollars, that brings that admission to fifty-seven ninety-five. Disney world and Universal Studios have so far kept prices the same as last year, each running just shy of sixty dollars per adult ticket. As for parks closer to home, Michigan’s Adventure is charging twenty four dollars for admission in 2006 and that is up one dollar from last year and the good news is that Cedar Point has lowered ticket prices by five dollars. This year you get in the gate for thirty-nine ninety-five instead of the forty-five dollars they charged just last year.

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