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A new take on the Weigel/WJJA deal- what if they want it for The CW?

> This is an interesting take on it...
>
http://w> ww.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?p=31993#post31993
>
>
> But if it happened that way; then would Sinclair want to
> keep both WCGV and WVTV on the air or would they shut one of
> them down?
>


Its a interesting possibility, but why? They have two full power stations already IN Milwaukee that would be great for it, if they go with WJJA which is a rimshot now, they'd have to go to the expense of moving it to Milwaukee. If they did this, and left 18 and 24 w/o affiliation. If by some chacne that did happen, I wouldbt be surprised if they ended up shutting down one of the two stations, or at least selling it..<P ID="signature">______________
Bob Colon
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"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"-James Dean</P>
 
> > This is an interesting take on it...
> >
> http://w>
> ww.milwaukeehdtv.org/forums/showthread.php?p=31993#post31993
>
> >
> >
> > But if it happened that way; then would Sinclair want to
> > keep both WCGV and WVTV on the air or would they shut one
> of
> > them down?
> >
>
>
> Its a interesting possibility, but why? They have two full
> power stations already IN Milwaukee that would be great for
> it, if they go with WJJA which is a rimshot now, they'd have
> to go to the expense of moving it to Milwaukee. If they did
> this, and left 18 and 24 w/o affiliation. If by some chacne
> that did happen, I wouldbt be surprised if they ended up
> shutting down one of the two stations, or at least selling
> it..
>

Glad to see Paul linked to the original message. Saves me from repeating. Sinclair would be wise to sell one or both of its stations rather then shutting them down. If they did that, eventually someone will come along and file for a Construction Permit for the channels. It would be cheaper for someone to purchase an already established station instead of starting all over again.

If its true that The CW intends to make stations pay to become affiliated, I can't see Sinclair be willing to pay the CW to affiliate.

-John L.
 
> But if it happened that way; then would Sinclair want to
> keep both WCGV and WVTV on the air or would they shut one of
> them down?

It would certainly be ironic if WVTV survived the wholesale abandonment of the UHF band in the 1950s, only to lose its life in the 21st Century!

But I don't see that happening. To the best of my knowledge, only one full-license TV station has been permanently shut down in the last ten years. (that being a small educational station operated by a school district in rural Arkansas. They decided they couldn't afford to convert to digital, and the local cable system offered them a free slot on the cable.) A full-license station in a medium market like Milwaukee is way too valuable to throw away.

*Something* is going to have to shake out between Sinclair and CW. Milwaukee is not the only market where Sinclair controls the only available stations with reasonable market coverage. For example, Nashville, where the situation is nearly identical - Sinclair controls both the UPN and WB affiliates, and the only other option for CW is a low-powered also-ran home-shopping station licensed to a suburb 40 miles away and transmitting from a place 25 miles from the major stations.

CW isn't going to work without at least some Sinclair-owned affiliates. They'll deal.

(oh, and I didn't see mention of this on this board, but Fox has indeed announced they're starting their own network, "My Network TV", for their Fox-owned UPN affiliates that are losing that affiliation. They will be offering affiliations to stations owned by others.)
 
> > But if it happened that way; then would Sinclair want to
> > keep both WCGV and WVTV on the air or would they shut one
> of
> > them down?
>
> It would certainly be ironic if WVTV survived the wholesale
> abandonment of the UHF band in the 1950s, only to lose its
> life in the 21st Century!
>
> But I don't see that happening. To the best of my
> knowledge, only one full-license TV station has been
> permanently shut down in the last ten years. (that being a
> small educational station operated by a school district in
> rural Arkansas. They decided they couldn't afford to
> convert to digital, and the local cable system offered them
> a free slot on the cable.) A full-license station in a
> medium market like Milwaukee is way too valuable to throw
> away.
>
I believe both WVTV & WCGV will be on the air, whether one associates with a network and the other as an independent, or both being an independent. I forgot what the name of the new network by Fox, but Sinclair will likely try for that network, and if something is reached to carry the CW, then they'll have 2 networks again. Most likely, if nothing is reached for carrying the CW, I believe one station will be the new network by Fox (whatever it'll be called), and they can run the other station as an independent.
While somewhat off-topic, a similar situation happened in NW Indiana when the old WCAE ch 50, licensed to Gary Indiana went off the air in 1983, because they ran into financial problems. It was run by the lake Central School System, at Lake Central High School in St. John Indiana. Lake Celtral School Sysytem eventually sold their license to Newsweb Corporation after they couldn't afford to bring the station back on the air. They went on the air in 1967 or 1968 as a NET station, which later became PBS. It served the NW Indiana area, like what WYIN is doing today, picking up where WCAE left off.
 
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