KAZT AZTV7 has filed it's "Time Brokerage Agreement" with Nexstar with the FCC. It is worded exactly the same as Nexstar's agreements with Mission Broadcasting including the option for Nexstar to buy the station and the agreement being 8 years with automatic renewal every 8 years.
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CW Could be on the Move in Phoenix as Soon as Next Week
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It'll be interesting if down the road Nexstar indeed buys KAZT if they'd do local news considering this market is oversaturated with news as every commercial channel, including the 2 other current independent stations KASW & KTVK also do news with the latter doing a lot. Phoenix might be the kinda market, considering its growth, Nexstar would want to tap in for this.
Nexstar would have to sell TV stations serving 1.73% of the country to buy KAZT, as it is a VHF station. The company is at cap. Consider that, especially with the UHF discount, it might have to exit 10 or more medium markets in order to acquire KAZT.
Their only recent acquisition was KUSI-TV. That didn't add any cap hit as the company already owned another UHF station in San Diego.
isnt san diego have 5 full powered stations? 4 less of a duopoly?
The now-former Eight Voices rule doesn't apply, so the only relevant item was that at least one of the stations was not in the top four in total-day ratings.
So in such cases Sinclair can buy some of the sidecar stations?
cw7az.com and cw7arizona.com were registered on January 9 to "Domains By Proxy, LLC" of Tempe, AZ, the same company that holds the registration for aztv.com . I have a feeling KAZT will be rebranding as CW7 Arizona when The CW moves over.
All that change for a "network" that may be out of existence in a year or two-or renamed (CW used to mean CBS/Warner). I don't know why you would change the long running AZ.TV image for a handful of crappy Canadian Import show.
Nexstar just unveiled a big network rebrand but kept the name intact.
DOMAIN INSIGHT: DomainsByProxy is just the placeholder put by any company that registers a domain using GoDaddy...
If someone from Dallas offers you a boat load of money to run your station you take it.
KAZT may be a VHF station, but without looking, I have to imagine there's no shortage of UHF channels in Prescott it could move to, thus both improving its signal in that area and reducing its impact on the cap.
That said, I doubt they intend to actually exercise the option barring some change to the ownership rules. They haven't exercised the similar option for Mission, and presumably for the same reason.
- Trip
That said, I doubt they intend to actually exercise the option barring some change to the ownership rules. They haven't exercised the similar option for Mission, and presumably for the same reason.
- Trip
But the cap is still based on virtual channel numbers, is it not?
(Which is of course ridiculous, but I'm not the one making the rules...)
Would the number of homes in the entire Phoenix market count against the cap? KAZT-TV is licensed to Prescott, nearly 100 miles from Phoenix, and its signal from Mingus Mtn. doesn't reach anywhere near Phoenix. Phoenix is served by a Class A station, which doesn't count against the cap.
Just a hypothetical question, as I don't see Nexstar buying KAZT either. Not when letting Londen own the station allows you to program a market without the market cost.
Just a hypothetical question, as I don't see Nexstar buying KAZT either. Not when letting Londen own the station allows you to program a market without the market cost.
New schedule is up on TitanTV. Family Feud is moving to 4 PM - 6 PM and 9 PM on the main Channel 7 plus an hour of Family Feud on Channel 7.5 at 8 PM. The Goldbergs is off the lineup, the Mom hour is being moved to 10 PM, and Young Sheldon hour is being moved to 11 PM. Karamo and The Steve Wilkos Show primetime reruns on Channel 7.5 are being moved to the morning at 9 AM and 10 AM, and Funny You Should Ask on 7.5 is being moved from 9 AM to 9 PM.
Actually, there are few, if any UHF frequencies available in Prescott that wouldn't create major issues
atop Mingus Mtn. The meager KAZT VHF erp constantly outperform any and all others in the area. The very hilly
and mountainous terrain block UHF. Perhaps people should stop trying to receive television signals with those
silly, poorly engineered and poor quality flat panel antennas. There's nothing wrong with VHF, only the antennas
that are not designed to receive it..................
No, it's based on RF channels. I honestly can't decide which is sillier.
Yes, the cap is DMA-based. See 73.3555(e)(2). Federal Register :: Request Access
There are plenty available. LPTVs and translators are not protected from interference, so if KAZT petitioned to move to a UHF channel that impacted LPTVs and translators, those LPTVs and translators would have to move.
For example, I just tested on channel 25, which was KAZT's pre-transition channel, at 82 kW which would be replication power. Passes with flying colors. K25OM-D, and any other impacted LPTV or translator, would have to move.
- Trip
Lordy, you're right. It looks like the FCC made an effort eight years ago to eliminate the discount, but apparently that didn't stick?
Wasn't it reinstated by Ajit Pai ostensibly to aide Sinclair's attempted purchase of Tribune Broadcasting? It was never overtly stated but Sinclair won the bidding war shortly after the reinstatement and always felt more than merely coincidental.
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