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Or it may be that Fox had to give WCCB 90 days' notice before pulling the affiliation. Absent you or I being able to actually read the agreement, no way to prove either scenario.
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Cox and Fox trade stations; SF/Oak duo for Boston and Memphis
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Or it may be that Fox had to give WCCB 90 days' notice before pulling the affiliation. Absent you or I being able to actually read the agreement, no way to prove either scenario.
Seems Cox got the worst of this. Boston, while a big market will only decline in the years to come. San Francisco / San Jose is only going to get bigger, eventually. Neither will happen soon but in the decades to come.
I don't see how anyone could possibly care about losing MyNetworkTV. KRON would be better off hooking up with ME-TV or better yet hosting their own localized version of ME-TV.
I don't see how anyone could possibly care about losing MyNetworkTV. KRON would be better off hooking up with ME-TV or better yet hosting their own localized version of ME-TV.
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They could hire Jim Gabbert to program it. It'd be like KTZO "TV20" all over again ...
KRON's got Antenna TV on their .3, which does allow main-signal cherry-picking, so that is definitely an option (though KRON could just buy L&O:CI and L&O:SUV off syndication and nobody would care/notice it ever left MyNet). KOFY has Me on their .2.
One thing's for sure; KICU's subchannels have a Korean station and China Central TV's English news channel on them; I don't see CCTV being long for the world under Fox ownership (the Korean station is probably under a long lease like Charlotte's My station, which has to carry Jimmy Swaggart's network under an old deal). And of course, KTVU's .2 of the usually-ignored LATV is easily gone.
One thing's for sure; KICU's subchannels have a Korean station and China Central TV's English news channel on them; I don't see CCTV being long for the world under Fox ownership (the Korean station is probably under a long lease like Charlotte's My station, which has to carry Jimmy Swaggart's network under an old deal). And of course, KTVU's .2 of the usually-ignored LATV is easily gone.
And I've got the perfect imaging slogan (borrowed from the original TV20 jingle): "We've got what you're looking four."
Seriously though, Gabbert does some hosting for TV20 (now called KOFY-TV) from time to time. I don't know if they pay him (definitely doesn't need the money) or if he does it for old-times' sake
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Too bad that This TV is over on KTNC/42.4 as that network allows affiliates to carry movies on their main channel, either simulcast or on delay; if that was an option for KRON they could just choose five of the best titles in a week and carry them on delay in weekday prime-time.
Really? THIS-TV lets the main channel run some of its programming? Then I assume that's how FOX 61 in Hartford is airing a 2 hour block of The Addams Family Every Saturday Night (Sunday Morning) 2AM-4AM. FOX 61's in-market sister station WCCT-TV 20 show THIS-TV on Channel 20.2 and THIS-TV shows The Addams Family.
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From Wikipedia, citing an article from Broadcasting & Cable that is no longer available on the B&C website:
Stations that carry This TV have the option to air select programming from the network on their main channels; they also have the option to preempt This TV programs, running alternate programming in place of certain shows from the network's national schedule (some stations may even switch to scheduled alternate programming while a film is in progress), either via a secondary affiliation deal with another network such as The CW or MyNetworkTV (this is particularly common with This TV affiliates in smaller markets), substitutions by locally produced programming, or in the most common case, moving network programming to the This subchannel to accommodate local sports or breaking news coverage on the main channel.
Very informative reply.
Boston is still an affluent market. I do see the gain for FOX on the TV HH number side and consolidation aspect, but I'm curious what the gain was for Cox? Was Cox pressured to sell out of SF market?
Is there some synergies Cox gains with cable system and TV station in Boston area or Memphis? Where does Cox have clusters of cable systems that it owns - I would think trying to own a major net station in one of those markets would have made sense.
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CBS doesn't have O&Os in the smaller AFC markets, there are more big markets in the NFC than AFC
Fox does have O&Os in a number of smaller NFC markets and doesn't seem to have acquired stations in a non-NFC market in years while actively trying to get rid of stations in smaller AFC markets. The WJZY-WMYT acquisition in Charlotte comes to mind. On the flip side, CBS doesn't own and doesn't seem to have an interest in owning KHOU, the CBS affiliate in the fourth-largest AFC market and a top-ten market overall.
With this transaction, here are the Fox stations Fox will own in non-NFC markets: KTTV Los Angeles, WOFL Orlando/WOGX Gainesville, WHBQ Memphis, KTBC Austin, KRIV Houston. Only KRIV is in an AFC market, and even there the ability to beam in the Cowboys helps make up for it (Boston had nothing comparable). CBS owns WCCO Minneapolis, a market substantially smaller than Houston at a level Fox would have jettisoned long ago if it were an AFC market, and WWJ Detroit, a shitty station in a market smaller than Boston.
How often does KRIV air Cowboys? Is Fox even interested in getting back stations in Milwaukee and STL?
Years ago, word on the street in Houston was that CBS tried to purchase KHOU but was rebuffed by then-owner Belo. This was during the CBS/Viacom days when Viacom already owned indie KTXH in Houston. CBS would have had a duopoly in Houston (like KTVT/KTXA in DFW) had the sale actually happened.
KTXH was later sold to Fox to become a duopoly partner with KRIV.
KRIV airs all the Cowboy games that don't conflict with a home telecast of the Texans (home telecast exclusivity rule) or happen to be on a CBS regional opposite the Texans.
There are usually two or three Cowboy games each year that don't air in Houston due to scheduling issues.
New Orleans Saints make quite a few appearances on KRIV.
I doubt that KRON will affiliate with Me TV, I think they will go independent, actually I see Media General owning 2 indie stations (KRON, and WISH-TV/Indianapolis) by the time the merger of Media General, and LIN Media is completed.
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