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Since Tribune will likely want to have an O&O affiliate, does anyone else think they will sell WTXX Channel 20 to someone (maybe Fox), and put the CW network on WTIC Channel 61?

Or maybe they would keep 20 and sell off 61, depending if they'd rather have the cash. WTIC, with its antenna covering Hartford, is probably much more valuable. 20 is licensed to Waterbury but its operations are in downtown Hartford now along with 61's.

They DO have to sell one of the stations right? Since they own the Hartford Courant?
 
All of the Tribune owned and operated WB affiliates are going to be the affiliates of the new CW Network. WTIC-TV channel 61 is one of the best performing FOX affiliates in the entire country. They're not about to change that. What Tribune should do, at the very least, is sell off "The Hartford Courant" newspaper and end the monopoly in the greater Hartford area.<P ID="signature">______________
#13 Dan Marino...2005 Football Hall Of Fame Inductee :)</P>
 
> All of the Tribune owned and operated WB affiliates are
> going to be the affiliates of the new CW Network. WTIC-TV
> channel 61 is one of the best performing FOX affiliates in
> the entire country. They're not about to change that. What
> Tribune should do, at the very least, is sell off "The
> Hartford Courant" newspaper and end the monopoly in the
> greater Hartford area.
>

The Hartford Courant is far more valuable than any station in Connecticut. They'll probably choose to sell one of the television stations instead. And they'd rather have a high performing station with their own network, I'd imagine. I can't see 61 dumping Fox, but could it be in Tribune's best interest to do just that? Depends if they want more money or more power.
 
If the Hartford Courant is sold, I think the New York Times woule be the likely buyer, since they already own the Times, the Boston Globe, and the Worcester Telegram/Gazette. Acquiring the Courant would give NYT four of the five largest-circulation daily newspapers (the exception being the Provuidence Journal-Bulletin) in the corridor between Boston and New York, and perhaps better "ecomonies of scale".

If Tribune sells-off one of their two Hartford-area TV stations, I suspect the station they keep would be affiliated with The CW.

Might Fox want to buy WTIC-61??
 
> If the Hartford Courant is sold, I think the New York Times
> woule be the likely buyer, since they already own the Times,
> the Boston Globe, and the Worcester Telegram/Gazette.
> Acquiring the Courant would give NYT four of the five
> largest-circulation daily newspapers (the exception being
> the Provuidence Journal-Bulletin) in the corridor between
> Boston and New York, and perhaps better "ecomonies of
> scale".
>
> If Tribune sells-off one of their two Hartford-area TV
> stations, I suspect the station they keep would be
> affiliated with The CW.
>
> Might Fox want to buy WTIC-61??
>
ur a clown GALLANT
 
silly predictions never end

1. Another silly Gallant prediction.

2. The Providence newspaper hasn't been called the Journal-Bulletin for several years. The name of the Providence newspaper is called The Providence Journal.
 
Re: silly predictions never end

> 1. Another silly Gallant prediction.
>
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Cmon folks, let's follow this.
 
> If the Hartford Courant is sold, I think the New York Times
> woule be the likely buyer, since they already own the Times,
> the Boston Globe, and the Worcester Telegram/Gazette.
> Acquiring the Courant would give NYT four of the five
> largest-circulation daily newspapers (the exception being
> the Provuidence Journal-Bulletin) in the corridor between
> Boston and New York, and perhaps better "ecomonies of
> scale".
>
> If Tribune sells-off one of their two Hartford-area TV
> stations, I suspect the station they keep would be
> affiliated with The CW.
>
> Might Fox want to buy WTIC-61??
>
If Tribune is smart, they keep the Courant and WTIC-TV. Either is far more valuable than WTXX, particularly since WTIC has the established Fox affiliation and the actual Hartford license (which means far less than it used to).

Let go of WTXX while the market is good, and get everything you can out of it. Azteca America or TBN would be ideally suited to it.
 
The only thing that TIC-TV has that TXX doesn't is cable carriage in non Hartford areas. That is the ONLY thing. So the TIC-TV name is more prominent in areas like Springfield, MA where TXX isn't seen on the cable systems. Both are carried on DirecTV local, and the signals of both stations are farily close.
(The signals of both DT's will be almost identical sharing a tower site).

So which ever one Tribune gets rid of, if either, is more about which one gets more ad revenue for them, which is TIC-TV.

Depending on how the new CW network does, tribune might opt to make some bling and sell TIC-TV.

There are so many speculations that can be made here, I suggest we sit back and just watch what happens.
 
...are they building a new tower for WTIC-DT and WTXX-DT?
I wasn't sure if their DT signals were on the air yet, but I recall a few years ago talk of building a new tower on Rattlesnake Mountain. Any word on this?



> The only thing that TIC-TV has that TXX doesn't is cable
> carriage in non Hartford areas. That is the ONLY thing. So
> the TIC-TV name is more prominent in areas like Springfield,
> MA where TXX isn't seen on the cable systems. Both are
> carried on DirecTV local, and the signals of both stations
> are farily close.
> (The signals of both DT's will be almost identical sharing a
> tower site).
>
> So which ever one Tribune gets rid of, if either, is more
> about which one gets more ad revenue for them, which is
> TIC-TV.
>
> Depending on how the new CW network does, tribune might opt
> to make some bling and sell TIC-TV.
>
> There are so many speculations that can be made here, I
> suggest we sit back and just watch what happens.
>
 
> The only thing that TIC-TV has that TXX doesn't is cable
> carriage in non Hartford areas. That is the ONLY thing. So
> the TIC-TV name is more prominent in areas like Springfield,
> MA where TXX isn't seen on the cable systems. Both are
> carried on DirecTV local, and the signals of both stations
> are farily close.
> (The signals of both DT's will be almost identical sharing a
> tower site).
>
> So which ever one Tribune gets rid of, if either, is more
> about which one gets more ad revenue for them, which is
> TIC-TV.
>
> Depending on how the new CW network does, tribune might opt
> to make some bling and sell TIC-TV.
>
> There are so many speculations that can be made here, I
> suggest we sit back and just watch what happens.
>


Is the WTXX analog signal already on WTIC's tower, or is WTXX still broadcasting from Prospect?

If I remember correctly, WTIC broadcasts from Rattlesnake Mt. in Farmington. If WTXX also begins broadcasting digitally from there, how does that serve viewers in greater Waterbury, WTXX's city of license?
 
Re: silly predictions never end

Tex: I know where you're coming from, but I am far from the only one who has publicly said that most of Mr. Gallant's posts are just silly and plain nonsense. There are many others who agree with me and have basically said the same things I did. I did not "attack" Mr. Gallant. I did not slander him either. Mr. Gallant can say whatever he wants. That doesn't mean that I'm going to agree with him or whatever. Most of what he says is in fact outright silly in my opinion, especially his annual "NBC Will Buy WHDH" predictions.
 
Analog channel 20 still broadcasts from the Naugatuck Valley south of Waterbury. It's the big blinking red and white transmitter you see looking to your south near the CT Route 8 split from I-84 in Waterbury. WTXX-DT channel 12 is coming from Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington. WTXX-DT channel 12 is licensed to Hartford, if I'm not mistaken.<P ID="signature">______________
#13 Dan Marino...2005 Football Hall Of Fame Inductee :)</P>
 
> Analog channel 20 still broadcasts from the Naugatuck Valley
> south of Waterbury. It's the big blinking red and white
> transmitter you see looking to your south near the CT Route
> 8 split from I-84 in Waterbury. WTXX-DT channel 12 is coming
> from Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington. WTXX-DT channel 12
> is licensed to Hartford, if I'm not mistaken.
>

Thanks KML for confirming that for me. So they're still broadcasting from the site of the old studio on Peach Orchard Road in Prospect, on the Naugatuck/Waterbury line.

But the problem for me is that I live right in that area. I'm not sure if channel number makes a huge difference, but I cannot receive WTIC/61, WFSB/3, or WVIT/30, etc. which all generally broadcast from over the ridge.

So when analog goes away, and WTXX only broadcasts in DT from Hartford, how are we supposed to pick up WTXX. Granted most people have cable/satellite, it won't make a huge impact. But for all intents and purposes, isn't there something wrong with this picture?
 
WTXX-TV channel 20 still has their analog UHF channel 20 transmitter in the same area (Naugatuck Valley). Their digital transmitter is on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington and uses channel 12. Everything else for channel 20/digital 12 is operated from the WTIC-TV/DT studios in Hartford. A coworker of mine, who lives in New Britain's east end, says he struggles to get analog channel 3 in clear but has little, if any, trouble with WTXX-DT on channel 12. (On a side note, he can't get any signal whatsoever with WTNH-DT channel 10 from Madmere Mountain in Hamden.)<P ID="signature">______________
#13 Dan Marino...2005 Football Hall Of Fame Inductee :)</P>
 
> WTXX-DT channel 12
> is licensed to Hartford, if I'm not mistaken.

Nope, it is licensed to Waterbury.

However the close proximity of the towers to Waterbury make no difference in the WTXX DT signal in Waterbury (Other than multi-path from those hills, and that cross on the hill at Holyland USA [haha]).
 
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