New FOX/NBC affiliates in Lafayette

[mvcg66b3r]

WPBI-LD will have FOX on 16.1 and NBC on 16.2.
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=184193#station
Coverage Map: http://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=2003885&map=Y

That still leaves the market without its own ABC station. (Because WRTV?)

 

[mvcg66b3r]

More from TVNewsCheck:

Veteran broadcasters Bill Christian and Mike Reed are piecing together a TV-radio cluster in Lafayette, Ind., a small market (DMA 187) revolving around Purdue University.

The partners just launched low-power WPBI-LD (the calls stand for Purdue Boilermakers Indiana) with a dual affiliation (Fox and NBC), and, yesterday, they made a deal to acquire three FMs and one AM in the market for $2.3 million.

The radios: WSHY-AM/WAZY-FM Lafayette; WCYM-FM Attica and WBPE-FM Brookston.

The seller of the stations is Artistic Media Partners headed by Arthur Angotti. It also owns WDND-AM South Bend.

The deal was brokered by Kalil & Co.

Reached by phone yesterday evening, Christian said he has plans for local programming on the TV stations, but wasn't ready to talk about them.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/98787/lafayette-ind-getting-foxnbc-affiliate

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/market-187-to-get-fox-and-nbc-affiliate/180696

Well this article also mentioned that Lafayette, Indiana was getting Spill over coverage from Chicago DMA and Indianapolis DMA though.

 

[KeithE4]

Lafayette is still one of the few, if not the only TV market with a major university and no PBS station -- not even a translator. And Purdue University built and operated one of the first experimental TV stations, in the 1930s. I was always surprised they never followed up with a full-powered station.

 

[Mr Tony]

http://www.jconline.com/story/news/...26/new-tv-station-arrives-lafayette/92789574/

 

[Mr Tony]

Lafayette is still one of the few, if not the only TV market with a major university and no PBS station -- not even a translator.

If you want to consider Minnesota State Mankato as a "major university" (they play D2 in all sports but hockey) Mankato would be another. The only station there is KEYC (CBS -1 FOX -2)