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CW To Be Sold? Nexstar Among The Suitors.

Wood TV/WOTV did air UPN on the weekends WOTV aired the sitcoms and Wood TV aired the dramas before they made a local weather channel which was just audio from the weather radio & radar from Storm Team 8 before it became a general entertainment channel WXSP in fall of 99 with UPN. WZPX did air UPN late night 11PM to 1AM I did tape The Love Boat The Next Wave in the summer of 99 and Clueless as well. I'd have told you that West Michigan would've had a WB over UPN that wasn't the case LIN wanted to have sports UPN was better as it was 5 days a week & The WB was 6 days a week.

As I have said many of times The WB was on a 22-hour delay. I was glad to hear that Nexstar likes Walker & its spinoff, Kung FU, Superman & Louis. I hope that Nexstar keeps Stargirl, All American, Nancy Drew as Nance & the Drew Crew has more story to tell in my opinion.
 
IM42A said:
Do you mean that WHKY might go with Ion? As long as they could preserve their local news format (either on a free-standing 14.1 or by cutting into the Ion schedule on 14.1 with news), I could see that.
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I'm surprised that EW Scripps or Inyo Broadcasting didn't buy this station and turn into a ION Media affiliate
 
e-dawg said:
I'm surprised that EW Scripps or Inyo Broadcasting didn't buy this station and turn into a ION Media affiliate
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But would the Long family sell it for a price Scripps or Inyo would be willing to pay?

That said, everything has a price. They could sell it and plow some of the proceeds back into the radio station, and possibly resurrect WHKY and its news on an LPTV (assuming they could find one to buy), to be carried on cable throughout the Unifour, or even go with some kind of cable-only local channel. However, the LPTV option wouldn't help Unifour viewers who get their TV (and locals) via one of the satellite services, and antennas with A/B switches are cumbersome to use. That's a lot of trouble to go to, just to watch one station. My mother (age 91) resists OTA subchannels not carried on cable, streaming and Roku for the same reason --- she wants everything right there on the cable lineup, with no switching. I've told her that she'd love Newsy, Decades, Cozi, and Get TV, but she'll have none of it. Too much rigamarole.
 
IM42A said:
But would the Long family sell it for a price Scripps or Inyo would be willing to pay?

That said, everything has a price. They could sell it and plow some of the proceeds back into the radio station, and possibly resurrect WHKY and its news on an LPTV (assuming they could find one to buy), to be carried on cable throughout the Unifour, or even go with some kind of cable-only local channel. However, the LPTV option wouldn't help Unifour viewers who get their TV (and locals) via one of the satellite services, and antennas with A/B switches are cumbersome to use. That's a lot of trouble to go to, just to watch one station. My mother (age 91) resists OTA subchannels not carried on cable, streaming and Roku for the same reason --- she wants everything right there on the cable lineup, with no switching. I've told her that she'd love Newsy, Decades, Cozi, and Get TV, but she'll have none of it. Too much rigamarole.
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When I lived in the Hickory area WHKY was essentially an LPTV.
 
vchimpanzee said:
When I lived in the Hickory area WHKY was essentially an LPTV.
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Yes, that's a pretty good way of putting it. Here is the Television Factbook from 1984, showing them having 5-24% viewership in the Unifour. They didn't get even a Grade B signal into Charlotte.

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vchimpanzee said:
That's when I lived there and watched it.
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Earlier on, its Grade A and B contours were even smaller than that. Many LPTVs nowadays have far larger coverage areas.

That far back (1968), I have to wonder whether all that many viewers in that area could even receive UHF. They had an average daily circulation of 464 (!) viewers. The All-Channel Receiver Act had only been enacted six years prior, and I have to imagine that a lot of people had never replaced their TV sets, and converter boxes, then as now (DTV), are cumbersome.

I would imagine that television in Hickory was pretty much a proposition of Charlotte 3/9, Triad 2/8/12, GSA 4/7/13, and Tri-Cities 5/11, easier to receive and to tune even if you did have a UHF TV and antenna. Unless it were a UHF island, it took years to educate viewers in many areas that UHF stations were, indeed, "real" TV stations, and then there was the belief that "oh, that's just for 'educational TV' ".

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IM42A said:
Earlier on, its Grade A and B contours were even smaller than that. Many LPTVs nowadays have far larger coverage areas.

That far back (1968), I have to wonder whether all that many viewers in that area could even receive UHF. They had an average daily circulation of 464 (!) viewers. The All-Channel Receiver Act had only been enacted six years prior, and I have to imagine that a lot of people had never replaced their TV sets, and converter boxes, then as now (DTV), are cumbersome.

I would imagine that television in Hickory was pretty much a proposition of Charlotte 3/9, Triad 2/8/12, GSA 4/7/13, and Tri-Cities 5/11, easier to receive and to tune even if you did have a UHF TV and antenna. Unless it were a UHF island, it took years to educate viewers in many areas that UHF stations were, indeed, "real" TV stations, and then there was the belief that "oh, that's just for 'educational TV' ".

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I thought the first map didn't look right. This looks more like what I remember.

I watched "The Little Rascals".
 
vchimpanzee said:
I thought the first map didn't look right. This looks more like what I remember.

I watched "The Little Rascals".
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Just out of curiosity, what other stations were commonly watched OTA in Hickory at that time?

I have to think that, given the preference of that time for VHF over UHF, people there would have relied upon WLOS and/or WGHP for ABC, rather than WCCB. WLOS was the default ABC affiliate for the Tri-Cities, and even got into a fairly good piece of southeastern Kentucky, with translators as far north as Corbin and Manchester. I have to think that there wasn't much of a signal at that point, but I watched WLOS with rabbit ears at Pine Mountain State Resort Park in Bell County KY in the early 1980s, and the signal was decent. But I had the advantage of high elevation. I don't know if WLOS has much viewership up that way anymore, but I tend to suspect not.
 
IM42A said:
Just out of curiosity, what other stations were commonly watched OTA in Hickory at that time?

I have to think that, given the preference of that time for VHF over UHF, people there would have relied upon WLOS and/or WGHP for ABC, rather than WCCB. WLOS was the default ABC affiliate for the Tri-Cities, and even got into a fairly good piece of southeastern Kentucky, with translators as far north as Corbin and Manchester. I have to think that there wasn't much of a signal at that point, but I watched WLOS with rabbit ears at Pine Mountain State Resort Park in Bell County KY in the early 1980s, and the signal was decent. But I had the advantage of high elevation. I don't know if WLOS has much viewership up that way anymore, but I tend to suspect not.
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You know, I can't remember what I watched. I did watch Greensboro-area stations sometimes, but I think I mostly stayed with Charlotte. I may have been able to watch WCYB and WJHL and certainly the Greenville-Spartanburg VHF stations.
 

Rebekah Dopp named as executive vice president of distribution. This is a part of Nexstar sending management to the CW.

The CW today appointed Rebekah Dopp executive vice president of distribution, strategy and affiliate relations, responsible for negotiating and managing the network’s distribution and overseeing affiliate relations with its station group partners.

She begins her new duties immediately and reports to Dana Zimmer, Nexstar Media Group president and chief distribution and strategy, and Dennis Miller, president of The CW Network.

Zimmer said: “Rebekah is a leader and strategic thinker who will bring an incredible skill set to The CW. She has both the depth and breadth of experience in the linear broadcast, digital, and streaming world, and will be a formidable presence leading the distribution of The CW Network.”
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The Winchester's and Walker Independence only to get 13 episodes. The reason is because they don't know what the CW is going to be yet. Could possibly come back for season 2 but they are trying to figure out what the CW is now under new management.


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If the CW's plan worked they would've turned a profit. Maybe the new CW is a improvement over what they had before then it's a success.
 

Another Management change at CW. Brad Schwartz is named President of CW Entertainment.

The CW Network today appointed television executive Brad Schwartz president, CW Entertainment, responsible for programming strategy, creative and brand development and day-to-day operations of The CW Network. Schwartz will begin his new duties on Nov. 7 and report to Dennis Miller, president, The CW Network.

Schwartz spearheaded the re-brand of the TV Guide Network to Pop TV. As president of the network, Schwartz oversaw both creative and business operations.
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DarrenVision said:
Maybe Nexstar should bid for sports rights like acquiring Barstool Sports and Pac-12
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Such as? And please don't say minor league baseball or hockey. I've this posted elsewhere here and another board...it's just not going to happen. Minor league sports can draw TV audiences on a local level, but nationally, no one would really care.

As far as the Pac-12...I just saw that their exclusive negotiation window with Disney and Fox ended earlier last month, but that doesn't mean neither won't still put in a bid either. Hell, they need to worry finding new member schools to replace the two Los Angeles universities that's fleeing for the Big Ten (which is still mind-boggling how that was allowed to happen by the Pac-12, but I under$tand why they left). Personally, my choices would be San Diego State and UNLV...the former just opened a new football stadium on the site of old Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium, while the latter is sharing the new Allegiant Stadium with the Raiders. Both also have pretty prominent basketball programs, largely-competitive year-to-year, and they would also have two of the largest basketball arenas in the conference.

While you still have other schools in some major markets--UC Berkeley (or Cal, for you pedantic ones) & Stanford in the Bay Area, the University of Washington in Seattle, Arizona State in metro Phoenix, the University of Colorado in Boulder/Denver, the TV money they would potentially get wouldn't the same as it would be if USC and UCLA were sticking around.
 
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