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That is odd. Maybe it can be the next home of Antenna TV.
That is odd. Maybe it can be the next home of Antenna TV.
Highly doubtful. Antenna TV is owned by Nexstar which owns.....Fox8. Why would they let something go to another station that's competing against them?
Highly doubtful. Antenna TV is owned by Nexstar which owns.....Fox8. Why would they let something go to another station that's competing against them?
I doubt it. However, their carriage contract states that QVC2 started at the beginning of the year, yet they are just airing it now. Probably were waiting on newer encoders to handle the extra sub. We could possibly see a .8 sub for something as some TEGNA stations have up to 8 subs, not including the ones that are channel-shared with another station or are hosting ATSC 1.0 channels of a ATSC 3.0 pilot station.
Also of note, WTOL in Toledo (also owned by TEGNA) recently added 2 more subs for Twist & Laff, which is now 8 in total! Only one of which is a shopping channel (Shop LC).
But then again, why did their sister network Rewind TV end up on WOIO and not WJW?
NO. Why would WJW get rid of it when its parent company OWNS it? That makes no sense.
That'll be something else there.
But then again, why did their sister network Rewind TV end up on WOIO and not WJW?
Who knows? Maybe they wanted viewers to see that. FOX8 is "signal challenged". That can't increase their wattage. So there are certain areas in their viewing area that it can't be picked up OTA. Their only hope would be to start sticking repeaters up in areas that can't receive them. I believe 19 did that in the Akron area with a repeater on the tower that's off of 261/Collier rd.
Who knows? Maybe they wanted viewers to see that. FOX8 is "signal challenged". That can't increase their wattage. So there are certain areas in their viewing area that it can't be picked up OTA. Their only hope would be to start sticking repeaters up in areas that can't receive them. I believe 19 did that in the Akron area with a repeater on the tower that's off of 261/Collier rd.
WJW had an application to increase to 30 kilowatts about 10 years ago, but didn't go ahead with it because in the end, there was little to no benefit compared to their current 11 kW broadcast. Their 30 kW application was to throw slight nulls towards the southeast and southwest, mostly in part to protect WLIO in Lima, essentially mincing what they currently have now. The bulk of the 30 kilowatts would have been beamed over Lake Erie, practically benefiting nobody.
WOIO has a repeater in Canton (WOHZ-CD), which helps as well, but is also on RF 20 and greatly overlaps with WTCL-LD. You could be right, though my theory is that WJW still uses encoders that date back to their Fox O&O days, and adding another subchannel would badly degrade the picture quality across all their subchannels. Just about everyone else has upgraded to newer, more efficient encoders that are variable bit rate and can provide the same quality across several SD subchannels compared to the three that they currently have. This explains why WJW hasn't gone out of their way to add new subchannels since 2017, when they activated .3 & .4 for Comet & Charge, and it also explains why those networks are transmitted in 4:3 when they should be 16:9. (Older encoders don't support anamorphic SD). I'm not sure why they are still holding on to outdated encoders, but my guess is that WJW will eventually be the ATSC 3.0 pilot station, and having the least amount of subchannels would allow them to easily relocate their existing subs to other stations.
They should have, but their theory was that VHF would have been better after the digital transition, once all the analog signals were turned off and not causing interference with each other. Plus, broadcasting on the VHF band yields in a lower power bill compared to UHF broadcasts.
WJW partitioned to move back to RF 31 a few years after the digital transition, but there were potential interference issues with a station in Canada that had to be worked out. On top of that, WBNX filed to block the move, stating that it would cause interference to their RF 30, which was well below the limit.
In any case, with plans about the repack being announced, WJW just abandoned their plans to move back to RF 31, as they would have likely been relocated back to RF 8 anyways. Not worth the trouble and expense. They also had two planned repeaters, but they never got built, probably due to the repack as well.
Well, like I said earlier, it's basically found money, so there you are.
Sinclair boxed them in with Comet and Charge! which were added during that time when Sinclair almost got Tribune and almost resold WJW to Fox.
In relation to WKYC, I saw an article where NBC is considering dropping the 10pm hour and giving it to affiliates. I can see 3 moving the 11pm news to 10 if that happens.
Won't happen - IF it happens - until next year at the earliest.
All I'll say is don't bet the mortgage, as this has been tossed around for the last several years.
When NBC actually did semi-punt on the 10p hour in 2009, we got the Jay Leno Show.
And that lasted, what, eight or nine months before they booted Conan and put Jay Leno back on The Tonight Show?
I don't see WKYC moving their news to 10:00. That's already a crowded field between 8 and 43. Their bread and butter is at 11:00. If anything, they'd likely rerun either Kelly Clarkson or Dr. Phil in that timeslot. Heck, maybe they'd license some more Family Feud and put an hour of that on at 10!
I don't see WKYC moving their news to 10:00. That's already a crowded field between 8 and 43. Their bread and butter is at 11:00. If anything, they'd likely rerun either Kelly Clarkson or Dr. Phil in that timeslot. Heck, maybe they'd license some more Family Feud and put an hour of that on at 10!
I actually do see WKYC moving or expanding their news to 10pm. It would really be a battle between them and WJW as WUAB has not been a factor at 10pm since after the big CBS-Fox switch of 1994.
WKYC would be foolish to give up potential news audience to WJW. The station would also be foolish to give up their audience at 11pm to WEWS and WOIO if they leave that timeslot. Not to mention less viewers staying up for news at 11pm.
What I can see is either 90 or so minutes of news from 10 until 11:35 or two half-hours (10-10:30 and 11-11:35) between 10 and 11:35. It can also depend on whether the Tonight and Late Night shows move earlier as well.
Then again, if WKYC wants to keep their news at 11pm and not starting earlier, then they should go after sitcom reruns currently neglected by WJW and WUAB (i.e. Seinfeld and The Simpsons). Could work.
WKYC would be foolish to give up potential news audience to WJW. The station would also be foolish to give up their audience at 11pm to WEWS and WOIO if they leave that timeslot. Not to mention less viewers staying up for news at 11pm.
What I can see is either 90 or so minutes of news from 10 until 11:35 or two half-hours (10-10:30 and 11-11:35) between 10 and 11:35. It can also depend on whether the Tonight and Late Night shows move earlier as well.
Then again, if WKYC wants to keep their news at 11pm and not starting earlier, then they should go after sitcom reruns currently neglected by WJW and WUAB (i.e. Seinfeld and The Simpsons). Could work.
Channel 3 seems - well, until I read the other thread about a new 4pm newscast - to be more into providing shows and entertainment content over just throwing newscasts on whenever there's a vacancy, but I do wonder... Isn't the 4pm hour there now occupied by one of those DailyMailTV-type shows? I'm guessing that's moving up to 11am, with Kelly moving down to 2pm.
Kelly stays at 11a, Daily Blast Live (the Tegna produced hour long "hot take" panel talk show) moves up to 2p, Dr Phil moves up to 3p, and then it's news from 4-6:30p, NBC Nightly News at 6:30p, Jim Donovan's "Front Row" 7p newscast at 7, and Entertainment Tonight at 7:30p.
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