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What would you do in your market if you had the clout?
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WTWV 23 in Memphis. It’s a religious station run by George S Flinn, but it has an educational allocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWV
Let Tribune, Raycom or Cox buy it, change the allocation to commercial and make it a MyNetworkTV station.
Flinn’s other station in the market, WWTW Senatobia MS, is also supposed to be educational, but it runs old movies, serials and TV series most of the time.
http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=71905&channel=15&aid=tvschedule
Give it to Mississippi PBS so they can have OTA coverage in northwest Mississippi.
WTWV 23 in Memphis. It’s a religious station run by George S Flinn, but it has an educational allocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWV
Let Tribune, Raycom or Cox buy it, change the allocation to commercial and make it a MyNetworkTV station.
Flinn’s other station in the market, WWTW Senatobia MS, is also supposed to be educational, but it runs old movies, serials and TV series most of the time.
http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=71905&channel=15&aid=tvschedule
Give it to Mississippi PBS so they can have OTA coverage in northwest Mississippi.
In Yakima, there's WAY too much work to do in this market.
First, KNDO needs a separate newscast from KNDU. Who gives a crap about a car wreck way down in Kennewick, over 75 miles from Yakima? Bring back a real studio for NBC in Yakima...not just a sales office in downtown on Yakima Ave. Bring a real news staff...anchors, reporters, directors, producers, camera operators, etc. to channel 23.
They also need a weekend weather anchor who is BASED in Yakima and Tri-Cities. The weekend weather guy, Ryan Overton, comes from KHQ-6 in SPOKANE. 150 miles away!!
Second, KAPP needs to get a MUCH better news set. The news set they use right now is unbelievably laughable. It looks like a news set for a high school announcements show. KAPP needs a separate newscast from KVEW. Again, ditto to KNDO, who gives a crap about a car wreck way down in Kennewick, over 75 miles from Yakima? Bring back a real studio for ABC in Yakima...not just a transmitter on the Ahtanum Ridge that feeds KVEW programming to Yakima with separate ads.
The weather lady at KAPP/KVEW, Kris Crocker, comes from KXLY-4 in SPOKANE!! Just like KNDO on weekends!
Bring back weekend news. They cut weekend news entirely after 2008 budget cuts/bloodbath.
KIMA - Beg for a 5/6PM news anchor. After Jim Niedelman left for WHBF in Rock Island, IL, no one has taken his place...and it's been 4 1/2 months! Reporters, anchors at KEPR (namely Annie Andrews), and even an anchor at KLEW 3 in Lewiston, ID, Scott Stovall, who drove 160 miles to sub in this week. Get the word out...look for people out of college even! Just get someone at the anchor desk every night for a few years at least.
Mike McCabe needs to either work only at KEPR, or only at KIMA. He does weather for both markets and tapes it for KIMA earlier in the day. After Stu Seibel left in 2007, no one has taken a local position.
KIMA also needs a new news set...right now. The news set they use is two TV monitors that only display the "KIMA Action News" logo, and a desk. Bland, isn't it? About 10 years ago, ch 29 used a news set that had a desk that could fit 4 people, not three like today...and behind the anchors, a backdrop picture of the Yakima Valley and Mt. Adams. There were actually TWO anchors working on 5 and 6PM newscasts...and 11PM was local.
KCYU - Much like with KNDO, KCYU needs a separate "Fox First at 10" newscast from KFFX-11. Both Yakima and Tri-Cities stories are covered, but once again, who cares about a car wreck in Kennewick, 75 miles from Yakima?
Many syndicated shows are not cleared in this market, and there is no My Network TV station in town. There was at one point (a simulcast of KXMN-LP from Spokane on KAPP 35-2, but that's now MeTV). Our market does not clear several shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, Access Hollywood, Judge Faith, Wendy Williams, or the two trash fests Maury and Jerry Springer. The latter two are a sign of relief however. Countless weekend shows are also not featured in this market.
There is also no Antenna TV in Yakima/Tri-Cities as well. That's a major classic TV subchannel...and gets lots of viewers.
If anybody who worked in the news biz checked out Yakima's market...they would laugh all the way to the bank. Makes the Seattle newscasts look like New York City's.
-crainbebo
First, KNDO needs a separate newscast from KNDU. Who gives a crap about a car wreck way down in Kennewick, over 75 miles from Yakima? Bring back a real studio for NBC in Yakima...not just a sales office in downtown on Yakima Ave. Bring a real news staff...anchors, reporters, directors, producers, camera operators, etc. to channel 23.
They also need a weekend weather anchor who is BASED in Yakima and Tri-Cities. The weekend weather guy, Ryan Overton, comes from KHQ-6 in SPOKANE. 150 miles away!!
Second, KAPP needs to get a MUCH better news set. The news set they use right now is unbelievably laughable. It looks like a news set for a high school announcements show. KAPP needs a separate newscast from KVEW. Again, ditto to KNDO, who gives a crap about a car wreck way down in Kennewick, over 75 miles from Yakima? Bring back a real studio for ABC in Yakima...not just a transmitter on the Ahtanum Ridge that feeds KVEW programming to Yakima with separate ads.
The weather lady at KAPP/KVEW, Kris Crocker, comes from KXLY-4 in SPOKANE!! Just like KNDO on weekends!
Bring back weekend news. They cut weekend news entirely after 2008 budget cuts/bloodbath.
KIMA - Beg for a 5/6PM news anchor. After Jim Niedelman left for WHBF in Rock Island, IL, no one has taken his place...and it's been 4 1/2 months! Reporters, anchors at KEPR (namely Annie Andrews), and even an anchor at KLEW 3 in Lewiston, ID, Scott Stovall, who drove 160 miles to sub in this week. Get the word out...look for people out of college even! Just get someone at the anchor desk every night for a few years at least.
Mike McCabe needs to either work only at KEPR, or only at KIMA. He does weather for both markets and tapes it for KIMA earlier in the day. After Stu Seibel left in 2007, no one has taken a local position.
KIMA also needs a new news set...right now. The news set they use is two TV monitors that only display the "KIMA Action News" logo, and a desk. Bland, isn't it? About 10 years ago, ch 29 used a news set that had a desk that could fit 4 people, not three like today...and behind the anchors, a backdrop picture of the Yakima Valley and Mt. Adams. There were actually TWO anchors working on 5 and 6PM newscasts...and 11PM was local.
KCYU - Much like with KNDO, KCYU needs a separate "Fox First at 10" newscast from KFFX-11. Both Yakima and Tri-Cities stories are covered, but once again, who cares about a car wreck in Kennewick, 75 miles from Yakima?
Many syndicated shows are not cleared in this market, and there is no My Network TV station in town. There was at one point (a simulcast of KXMN-LP from Spokane on KAPP 35-2, but that's now MeTV). Our market does not clear several shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, Access Hollywood, Judge Faith, Wendy Williams, or the two trash fests Maury and Jerry Springer. The latter two are a sign of relief however. Countless weekend shows are also not featured in this market.
There is also no Antenna TV in Yakima/Tri-Cities as well. That's a major classic TV subchannel...and gets lots of viewers.
If anybody who worked in the news biz checked out Yakima's market...they would laugh all the way to the bank. Makes the Seattle newscasts look like New York City's.
-crainbebo
Atlanta: In 1994 when Fox moved to WAGA/ch. 5 and CBS to (then) WGNX/ch. 46, Tribune made a substantial compensatory offer to Georgia Public Broadcasting to have WGNX switch channel spots with GPB flagship WGTV/channel 8 so CBS would still be on a VHF spot. GPB turned it down. I'd still make that happen were I to have the clout.
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Are any Yakima/Tri-Cities stations airing syndicated programs in HD?
From Christian on RadioInsight:
http://radioinsight.com/community/topic/if-i-controlled-tv-in-my-market-i-would/#post-135579
http://radioinsight.com/community/topic/if-i-controlled-tv-in-my-market-i-would/#post-135579
Channel 8 in Athens/Atlanta is a noncommercial allocation. Any switch from noncom to commercial would need the FCC's blessing.
An update since the previous post that I recently posted at the other board:
In Memphis:
WREG CBS 3:
Stop running infomercials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when there is no sports programming on CBS. Sometimes this is just an hour or two, but other times it’s the entire afternoon. Start running movies or simulcast Antenna TV from 3.3.
WMC NBC 5:
The same goes for infomercials during non-sports times on weekends on NBC, even though it doesn’t seem to happen as often as with WREG.
Drop Grit and pick up Me TV.
Jackson, TN:
WBBJ ABC 7:
Drop the duplicate ABC feed on 7.2, which is a total waste. Rearrange the bandwidth to carry CBS in HD on 7.2, and make Me TV a full time subchannel on 7.3.
WJKT Fox 16 and WNBJ-LP NBC 39:
Make a deal to carry WNBJ as a subchannel on 16.2 to extend their coverage area
Charter Cable in Jackson:
Bring back WAVN ABC 24 in Memphis, and WSMV NBC 4 and WTVF CBS 5 in Nashville. Also add WLMT CW 30 in Memphis and WNBJ-LP NBC 39 in Jackson.
In general:
I'd also dump all courtroom shows along with trash talk and infomercials.
Fixed.
Yeah, I figured as much. Prior to WGTV's 1960 sign-on, channel 8 was occupied by WSB (NBC/ABC) to 1951 and WLTV (ABC, now NBC's WXIA/channel 11) to 1953. It was reallocated for non-commercial afterwards.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and my response is - I'd do nothing. The local O&Os have all been delivering high quality local newscasts for over a decade now, and that's about the only thing I watch local TV for - and only a couple times a week, at that. I think I'm typical of many viewers these days in that the broadcast stations and traditional networks are becoming more and more irrelevant to my TV viewing habits, which primarily involve recording and watching the shows I like from basic and premium cable channels, then watching them when it is convenient for me - not to mention considerable time watching on the internet - Netflix and Amazon Prime.
I stand corrected. WAVN was (or may still be) a radio station in the Memphis. WATN is the TV station, although they only picked up those call letters in recent years when they were bought by Nexstar.
In the Jackson, Miss. market, I would have bought CW affiliate WRBJ 34 when the Robert Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2011, sold to TBN for 1.5 or .75 million. I would have dropped the low rated shows and upgraded with newer ones like Community, Modern Family and Mike & Mindy. Then added available movie packages not in the market. I would have treated it like an independent station with CW programing (which is limited). And bring back some kids programing in the early morning hours.
I saw a couple of posts about Dallas-Fort Worth, but here's my two cents:
KXAS quits the O&O business and gets sold to a company like Media General (since they do own former sister NBC affiliate KXAN in Austin).
KTXA becomes a CW O&O, as KDAF goes independent with new newscast partnership with probably KXAS (similar to Philly's WPHL). Also, bring back newscasts on KTXA powered by CBS affiliate KTVT.
KTXD gets bought by Gannett and becomes a duopoly with ABC affiliate WFAA. Also newscasts for KTXD powered by WFAA.
Nexstar needs to own a station since their headquarters is in the DFW suburb of Irving. Maybe sell KDFW, KTVT, KTXA, KDFI, or KDAF to Nexstar?
Also add San Antonio:
Fox affiliate KABB begins a 4pm newscast as "Fox News First at Four" as sister CW affiliate KMYS begins a 7pm primetime newscast powered by NBC affiliate WOAI as "News 4 San Antonio on CW35," with KMYS calls back to KRRT
MNTV affiliate KCWX rebrands as KLMO "Alamo TV2"
Gannett forms a duopoly with KENS and either KCWX or KMYS.
Houston:
CW affiliate KIAH goes independent as KUBE goes CW, or KTXH gets sold to CBS and becomes CW with MNTV going to KIAH.
KXAS quits the O&O business and gets sold to a company like Media General (since they do own former sister NBC affiliate KXAN in Austin).
KTXA becomes a CW O&O, as KDAF goes independent with new newscast partnership with probably KXAS (similar to Philly's WPHL). Also, bring back newscasts on KTXA powered by CBS affiliate KTVT.
KTXD gets bought by Gannett and becomes a duopoly with ABC affiliate WFAA. Also newscasts for KTXD powered by WFAA.
Nexstar needs to own a station since their headquarters is in the DFW suburb of Irving. Maybe sell KDFW, KTVT, KTXA, KDFI, or KDAF to Nexstar?
Also add San Antonio:
Fox affiliate KABB begins a 4pm newscast as "Fox News First at Four" as sister CW affiliate KMYS begins a 7pm primetime newscast powered by NBC affiliate WOAI as "News 4 San Antonio on CW35," with KMYS calls back to KRRT
MNTV affiliate KCWX rebrands as KLMO "Alamo TV2"
Gannett forms a duopoly with KENS and either KCWX or KMYS.
Houston:
CW affiliate KIAH goes independent as KUBE goes CW, or KTXH gets sold to CBS and becomes CW with MNTV going to KIAH.
Forgot to mention, with KTXD: KTXD should rebrand as "Texas 47" and air more familiar 10-20 year old sitcoms like Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, or The King of Queens, probably more talk shows and drama shows, and local programs powered by a "big-four" station (most likely WFAA).
JeeperOne
Banned
Why ?? So they can turn it into another WTVJ ?? Don't think so
CW doesn't have any O&O stations. Those are all owned either by CBS or Tribune
Umm.....Isn't this station ALREADY an Independent ??
Only problem is Comcast/NBC has NEVER been interested in it's O&O's producing newscasts FOR ANYONE except MAYBE Telemundo affiliates (And those are in Latin)
I think THE ONLY exception to this has been Miami (But you can thank MG for that)
Why should Gannett buy the station if they can just simply produce the newscasts for them ??
WHY ON EARTH should CBS or Fox even CONSIDER selling KDFW or KTVT to Nexstar JUST BECAUSE Nexstar happens to have its corporate offices in the DFW area ??
Can anyone here say #MakesNoSense ??
As for the others, they're fair game
If they do, they'll be THE FIRST Fox affiliate - OR O&O - to launch a 4:00 PM newscast. This is generally considered a HORRIBLE idea for a Fox affiliate (Which is why NEITHER KTTV or WNYW do it in LA & NY - And they're the top two cities in America)
Why should lowly (Compared to KTTV 11 & WNYW 5) KABB 29 in San Antonio do what Fox doesn't even do in LA or NY (OR DFW & Houston for that matter) ?? Again #MakesNoSense
This makes sense (Not that Gannett will go out of its way to do it though)
Umm.....According to Wikipedia, KIAH is already a CW affiliate owned by Tribune. What makes you think Tribune is going to part with it (Or let the CW affiliation go ANYWHERE) ??
Or Gannett buys KUBE & pairs it with KHOU (Or starts producing newscasts & other programs for them)
You need to get your facts straight because most of what you said doesn't make sense & doesn't jive with the facts
Cheers & 73
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Summo bono fabulas sero vespere hic.
TRANSLATED: Too late in the evening, the Supreme good stories here.
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JeeperOne
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If I owned any of the Denver stations now, here's what I'd do (Broken down by station)
KWGN 2 (CW) / KDVR 31 (Fox)
Get rid of the redundant 5:00-7:00 AM portion of the morning newscast on KWGN 2 in lieu of the one on KDVR 31 as the latter is the most watched station between the two. The morning news on KWGN 2 would continue to run from 7:00-9:00 AM as it currently does though while KDVR 31 goes to syndicated programming at 7:00 AM
KCNC 4 (CBS)
Launch a 9:00 PM newscast either on 4.2 where the Decades network is now or on Indie KCDO 3 (If not both as a simulcast). Arrangements can be made to produce other news & public affairs programming for KCDO 3 as well (Including as a alternative place to put Face The Nation if/as needed)
Also add CBS N as a diginet (In fact, I'd do this with all the O&O's if I owned CBS) & make it A REAL 24/7 network instead of live only "Some" of the time as they do now (Hey CNN didn't start out as "Part Time" live network. Why should CBS N ??)
KMGH 7 (ABC)
Dump KZCO 27 (Azteca America) from the subchannels ASAP as that would make room for another diginet
KUSA 9 (NBC) / KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV)
Get rid of the simulcast of 9.1 on 9.4 as there's no need for that
Move Justice Network over to KTVD 20.3 to make room for something more appropriate & worthy of a spot like 9.3 as JTN is more of an entertainment network than it is a news & information network
KBDI 12 (PBS)
Put up an HD feed of 12.1 (At least). If they wanna carry so many other services, they can always apply for another license to operate another station
KRMT 41 (Daystar)
GO AWAY !!!
I'd either relegate this station to an LP or move Daystar to an LP & SELL this waste of bandwidth as people are tired of hearing their bible-thumping, baby-saving rhetoric BS
KPXC 59 (ION)
Sell the stations to ANYONE but a Godcaster (Except MAYBE in the Bible Belt) & convert ION into a full-fledged general entertainment CABLE & SATELLITE network since that's all it's really is anyway
That's how I'd run either of these ships
Did I miss anything peeps ??
Cheers & 73
KWGN 2 (CW) / KDVR 31 (Fox)
Get rid of the redundant 5:00-7:00 AM portion of the morning newscast on KWGN 2 in lieu of the one on KDVR 31 as the latter is the most watched station between the two. The morning news on KWGN 2 would continue to run from 7:00-9:00 AM as it currently does though while KDVR 31 goes to syndicated programming at 7:00 AM
KCNC 4 (CBS)
Launch a 9:00 PM newscast either on 4.2 where the Decades network is now or on Indie KCDO 3 (If not both as a simulcast). Arrangements can be made to produce other news & public affairs programming for KCDO 3 as well (Including as a alternative place to put Face The Nation if/as needed)
Also add CBS N as a diginet (In fact, I'd do this with all the O&O's if I owned CBS) & make it A REAL 24/7 network instead of live only "Some" of the time as they do now (Hey CNN didn't start out as "Part Time" live network. Why should CBS N ??)
KMGH 7 (ABC)
Dump KZCO 27 (Azteca America) from the subchannels ASAP as that would make room for another diginet
KUSA 9 (NBC) / KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV)
Get rid of the simulcast of 9.1 on 9.4 as there's no need for that
Move Justice Network over to KTVD 20.3 to make room for something more appropriate & worthy of a spot like 9.3 as JTN is more of an entertainment network than it is a news & information network
KBDI 12 (PBS)
Put up an HD feed of 12.1 (At least). If they wanna carry so many other services, they can always apply for another license to operate another station
KRMT 41 (Daystar)
GO AWAY !!!
I'd either relegate this station to an LP or move Daystar to an LP & SELL this waste of bandwidth as people are tired of hearing their bible-thumping, baby-saving rhetoric BS
KPXC 59 (ION)
Sell the stations to ANYONE but a Godcaster (Except MAYBE in the Bible Belt) & convert ION into a full-fledged general entertainment CABLE & SATELLITE network since that's all it's really is anyway
That's how I'd run either of these ships
Did I miss anything peeps ??
Cheers & 73
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