I think he wants every station in the country in a duopoly. 😆
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CBS owned CW affiliates to drop CW affiliation and go independent
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KSTW was the place to be for a while- I moved out to Seattle in 1988, applied everywhere but got a job at KCPQ. Worked there for a long time but felt it was time to leave last year. I applied for an engineering position at KSTW but the perfunctory Zoom interview told me everything I needed to know about that station. What's left of it just seems like an unpleasant, unhappy place to work at. Super glad I didn't get that job. As much of a joke as the CW is, I'm sure it will get worse at KSTW without any sort of affiliation.
Most of the staff and management for KSTW are located in San Francisco where KPIX and the soon to be KPYX are located. I understand how KSTW is unpleasant from your angle
Longtime Seattle station KSTW's reorganization means layoffs
More than half a century and several affiliation switches later, the storied Puget Sound...
www.seattlepi.com
It's been true since 2006.
what stations will replace KMAX, KSTW, WUPA, and WPCW
i already know that KRON, WTTA and WPHL will get it and WADL might get it too if they join mission broadcasting
i already know that KRON, WTTA and WPHL will get it and WADL might get it too if they join mission broadcasting
It’s a good possibility that there are no replacements for WUPA or KSTW. There’s no stations available for Nexstar to buy and WPCH and WATL, let alone KZJO, have zero incentive to affiliate with a network seemingly now run as an appendage of a competing broadcast chain.
For Sacramento the CW Affiliation it's gotta be a subchannel of KTXL the Nexstar owned Fox affiliate in the area. KMAX will rename themselves directly after KOVR CBS Sacramento with a plus sign.
Sure they do, and it's called "money."
Gray carries CW already in dozens of its markets, including Cleveland's WUAB and three other Georgia markets (Augusta, Columbus, Albany). Why wouldn't they add Atlanta?
And there's no reason CW has to be on a .1, which opens up lots of Seattle possibilities. Sinclair is a huge CW operator, so why not KOMO 4.2?
Who said Nexstar had to buy stations to affiliate with? They can’t afford to do that because of the cap, and they are even still currently on WCCB in Charlotte instead of its competitor WMYT which they actually own.
KRON definitely gets the CW. MNTV will go to FOX owned KICU TV. Keep an eye Nexstar. They may try and buy KSTW from CBS. And heres where I am thinking and wondering if KBCW reverts back to its old days as call letters KBHK TV...
KBCW is already changing their call letters and it is not to KBHK. Two CBS-owned stations changing calls to remove ‘CW’ letters
It's KPYX.
WPCH could move their nightly locally-produced program block to 7pm and forsake the 9pm news, allowing them to clear the CW. Plus there was that recent content deal between Nexstar and Gray's Raycom Sports arm that will be adding ACC sports to CW affiliates.
Why a deal hasn't been announced for Atlanta and Seattle is a bit concerning, as both the network and new affiliates really should be hyping the switch as soon as possible.
Does this mean that Mission Broadcasting has to agree to get the broadcasting license of KSTW and WUPA. I understand that Mission Broadcasting have a pending deal to get WADL Detroit but has to wait for Approval and once that's done they sign affiliation deals and News content contracts with Nexstar.
Longtime Metro Detroit station WADL-TV purchased by Texas-based broadcaster for $75 million
WADL-TV, a MyNetworkTV affiliated station in Clinton Township, was launched in May 1989 and reaches nearly two million households.
www.detroitnews.com
Also San Diego recently Nexstar have a pending deal with KUSI-TV so far these two stations are waiting for approval and are proposed to join with their sister stations KRON, WPHL as New CW affiliates in September 2023.
Nexstar Acquires KUSI-TV in San Diego for $35M
The independent station is expected to become a CW affiliate
www.tvtechnology.com
About KUCO |
KUCO is dedicated to our mission to be Oklahoma’s Voice for Performing Arts and ensuring great musical works are present within our communities. Learn more about KUCO.
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Here is another reason why Paramount is changing the KBCW call letters to KPYX San Francisco. It's not just to comply with the agreement that KRON San Francisco is going to be the next CW affiliate in the area.
This one is also because KBCW calls belong to the University of Central Oklahoma for a Classical Music station in the state.
I think you have a misunderstanding here. Situations like KBCW-FM and KBCW-TV are perfectly legal and have been for decades now.About KUCO |
KUCO is dedicated to our mission to be Oklahoma’s Voice for Performing Arts and ensuring great musical works are present within our communities. Learn more about KUCO.
Here is another reason why Paramount is changing the KBCW call letters to KPYX San Francisco. It's not just to comply with the agreement that KRON San Francisco is going to be the next CW affiliate in the area.
This one is also because KBCW calls belong to the University of Central Oklahoma for a Classical Music station in the state.
The only requirement is that whoever has had the base callsign the longest (the FM in Oklahoma in this case) has to grant permission for the other station to use it on a different band. Which they did, or else it would never have become KBCW-TV in the first place. Certainly not a reason to need to change it now, all these years later. That's purely a result of the affiliation change.
I was waiting for this.
Yes this is exactly like Audacy having the rights to WBBM, KCBS, WCBS, KDKA for their FM and AM stations, This is while Paramount has WBBM, KCBS, WCBS, KDKA for their CBS affiliated TV stations.
From other responses, you now know that the answer to that is that they won't. And while I and other TV history nerds would certainly appreciate if they reverted back to the original KBHK call letters, there really isn't any valid business reason to do so, nor even a good reason to do so in terms of historical legacy. So far as I'm aware, KBHK never made it above #5 in the local ratings and there's really not a lot of reason for CBS to go back to call letters that stand for "Kaiser Broadcasting -- Henry Kaiser".
Here is a clip in 1983 when KBHK was then owned by Field Communications. What worked in 1983 would not work today given that movies and Syndicated TV shows moved to TV Apps. CBS is right to rename KBCW as KPYX and it's to give them a reason for viewers to watch them.
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