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Any secondary affiliates of the big three networks left (CBS, NBC, ABC)?

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Iowan

I was wondering if there were any stations left in the U.S. that currently airs CBS, NBC, or ABC programming as a secondary affiliation (i.e. WGEM-TV in Quincy, IL used to air ABC's "All My Children")....I heard that there was a cable-only news channel in Indianapolis that aired ABC programming on the side--if this is true, please post it here--your help is greatly appreciated
 
We do!

Usually our secondary affiliation nets us weekend sports when the local CBS affiliate airs the Atlantic Coast Conference games in football and basketball, but they've dropped their affiliation with the ACC, so I don't know what we will be getting now.

Later....
Matt Smith
 
WFMY has dropped the ACC? Again? I remember
the last time they did that, back in the early '90s,
and WXII had the ACC for a couple of years. Who's
getting the ACC in the Triad now, and will you get
a secondary affiliation with that station's network?
 
I'm pretty sure that Glendive, MT, the smallest DMA in the country, would qualify. Their only commercial station is KXGN-TV channel 5, which is a primary NBC affiliate. I also know that WAGM-TV channel 8 of Presque Isle is a CBS affiliate. They've carried NBC with a show or two from ABC and even UPN in the past. (In Presque Isle's case, there will be a second commercial station in that market soon.)
 
WFMY's ACC Affiliation

The games are going to WXLV-45, which is probably going to kill our secondary affiliation "gravy". Everything 45 pre-empts from ABC will likely be aired on co-owned WMYV-48, which is, essentially an indie except for two hours nightly.

Today, I even tried to get Southeastern Conference games for the station, and I was told that they don't allow those games to be aired over-the-air in the Greensboro market because "...the ACC commissioner would be upset at us if he saw competition for his league on his home turf..." (words of the head of syndication for Lincoln Financial Sports).

Go figure.

Oh well, with the A-10 and CIAA we will have at least one game every Saturday for the season, so who needs the majors?

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
I'm pretty sure that Glendive, MT, the smallest DMA in the country, would qualify. Their only commercial station is KXGN-TV channel 5, which is a primary NBC affiliate.
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Actually, KXGN is CBS primary, NBC and UPN secondary. CBS prime-time runs on KXGN from 6PM to 9PM, followed by an hour of NBC at 9PM, before going to news at 10PM. There might be other NBC shows peppered during the day and weekends.

I also know that WAGM-TV channel 8 of Presque Isle is a CBS affiliate. They've carried NBC with a show or two from ABC and even UPN in the past.
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There days, it's now CBS only on WAGM, even moreso now that UPN is going away.
 
Doesn't KECY El Centro/Yuma run secondary ABC programming to their primary Fox?
 
Up until 1994, WMFP 62 in Boston used to carry a lot of NBC programs not cleared on WBZ-4, then the NBC affiliate. They carried some talk shows, soaps, and news at sunrise. This ended when NBC switched to WHDH-7 and carried all NBC programming, as required by contract.

For a brief time in 1994 when WHDH-7 was the CBS affiliate, they had preempted CBS Morning News and CBS This Morning to WABU-TV 68.
 
dhett said:
Doesn't KECY El Centro/Yuma run secondary ABC programming to their primary Fox?
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Yes, they carry Good Morning America & The View. But outside of that, and a few Fox prime-time shows, their schedule is 90% reruns of old Fox shows and syndicated fare. IIRC, they also carried Monday Night Football until a couple of years ago.

On cable, El Centro gets KGTV 10 from San Diego for ABC. Yuma gets KNXV 15 from Phoenix. That market has no OTA ABC affiliate other than those shows carried by KECY. I'm somewhat surprised KESQ-TV, the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs, doesn't operate a translator in El Centro.
 
In the Greenwood/Greenvile, MS market only one station WXVT-TV 15 which is a full time CBS affiliate carries UPN as its secondary although they may switch up to shows from CW or go to syndicated programming or something after UPN's demise from the air. I also remember that WXVT also carried the Super Bowl back in 2005 through the link of Fox. So in the Delta, you might say that there is one that is still around.
 
WABG is still with ABC and I guess their secondary affiliate is with Jefferson-Pilot for college football and basketball during Saturday afternoons.
 
KXGN's local news usually consists of a guy going out with the video camera, going back.. editing it .. and anchoring it. It's all recorded around 3pm to air at 6pm.....
 
When I visited lovely Glendive, MT in 2004, the news was mostly "rip and read" - him sitting behind a desk reading the stories. During the middle of the "newscast" there was a "feature" on the local golf course - basically an "ad" in my opinion - shot on VHS and edited on VHS (camera moves and all - I don't think they own a tripod...).

The "newscast" aired at 10:35pm (Letterman bumped to 11pm, after KTVQ's 10pm news) - it was the same newscast, down to the on air coughs and stumbles, that aired on KXGN AM radio at 6pm (without the golf course "story")...

Jim
 
I was also there last in 2004. The first night I watched "Montana East", the old guy was dressed in a sweatshirt. The next night, he was wearing a suit. That's local TV at its purest, and I'll give the station full marks for trying, even if it isn't the slickest production values available.

I'm amazed at how much attention little Glendive gets - after all those years when I could have sworn that I was the only person outside of eastern Montana/western North Dakota to actually know where the place was!
 
Unfortunately, I've never been to Glendive but I know exactly where it is. The companyt that owns Channel 5, also owns 96.7 and 1400 in Glendive alkong with 93.1 in Sidney and 100.1 in Williston. The later FM just had a mass staff exidous.
 
I wouldn't call you unfortunate - my mother's brother and his family lived there, so I visited there a few times as a kid.

Glendive isn't much, but it is the most there is for almost 100 miles in any direction (OK - there's Williston ND, but other than that...)
 
http://www.kxgn.com is their website, I just found it.. so you can check it out there.

The company ALSO owns an AM/FM Combo outside of Miles City...
 
Re: Any secondary affiliates left?

WTOV-9 in Steubenville OH/Wheeling WV. It's an NBC station but carries ABC's college football -- gotta please those Ohio State fans!
 
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