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Fox looking to acquire more stations

Nomad: we get 4 or 5 Cowboys games a season here in Houston on KRIV. It's been a split between the Cowboys and Saints as the NFC offering, when it's being offered. I think when the Texans play at Reliant, 26 can't show the early NFC game here, which tends to be the Cowboys' game. There is no preseason TV covering the Cowboys here and we don't have a radio station carrying the Cowboys' radio network. The closest station to Houston airing the games, iirc, is 99.5 KNFX in Bryan/College Station.
 
mrschimpf said:
KRIV would stay with Fox both because the network has made a large investment on that station's studios as a production hub for syndicated programming for Twentieth (even if it's just court shows), and also because they might not have the Texans but they have the next best thing; the Cowboys, which they take by near default. No way they give up KRIV.
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I can tell you from an insiders perspective, there is *no* syndicated programming originating out of the Southwest Freeway studios. The last syndicated show taped there was the first season of "Judge Alex" (which replaced "Texas Justice"), but that has since moved to LA.

Studio B remains empty, aside from it's use as an occasional "Fox Rox" performance space on Fox 26 Morning News.
 
Morgan Wick said:
Pat Cook said:
Morgan Wick said:
nomadcowatbk said:
those stations were outside the Top 20 markets
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...and Memphis and Austin are even further outside...
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And Charlotte is EVEN FURTHER outside than that.
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Erm, I'm pretty sure Charlotte is closer to Milwaukee than Memphis or Austin...
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You are correct, Morgan. Charlotte is way closer, in fact - the 2012/2013 Nielsen market rankings were:
25. Charlotte
34. Milwaukee
45. Austin
49. Memphis

Raleigh-Durham's ranked even higher (24), so perhaps Pat's thinking of Greensboro (though at #46, it's still a larger market than Memphis).
 
Fox has already owned and sold a station in Greensboro (High Point,
to be exact): WGHP/FOX8. However, WRAZ in Raleigh might be a
good fit; it's already the Triangle's Fox affiliate, but there could be
a complication in that Sinclair owns the MyNetwork affiliate, WRDC
(and the CW affiliate, WLFL), and I'm not convinced that Sinclair is
willing to sell its duopoly in the Triangle.
 
bpatrick said:
Fox has already owned and sold a station in Greensboro (High Point,
to be exact): WGHP/FOX8. However, WRAZ in Raleigh might be a
good fit; it's already the Triangle's Fox affiliate, but there could be
a complication in that Sinclair owns the MyNetwork affiliate, WRDC
(and the CW affiliate, WLFL), and I'm not convinced that Sinclair is
willing to sell its duopoly in the Triangle.
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Well not all Fox O&O's have a MyNet duopoly partner. WAGA comes to mind. Although don't see Capitol giving it up. They already sacrificed WJZY/WMYT to keep Fox on WRAZ. Otherwise it would have ended up on WLFL. Capitol took one for several Fox-owned Sinclair stations. Fox wanted several of them but the option to buy them wasn't exercised.
 
Pat Cook said:
If Fox is basing all this on NFC/NFL ties, there's these stations to consider too.....

WOFL 35 - No NFL team
KRIV 26 - Houston Texans is an AFC team (Like Denver Broncos are)
WFXT 25 - New England Patriots is an AFC team
KTTV 11 - No NFL team (Yeah I know it's Los Angeles but I'm just being technical here)

They can trim an awful lot of fat on those stations alone (Especially with the latter two)

Just sayin'.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
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You left out WOGX 51 out of Ocala (which is in the Orlando market but serves the Gainesville market).
 
Lkeller said:
Whoops - mistake. Moderator - please delete. Thanks
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You can delete posts now that they have moved to this new format. Thank goodness.
 
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nelsonincharlotte said:
Well not all Fox O&O's have a MyNet duopoly partner. WAGA comes to mind. Although don't see Capitol giving it up. They already sacrificed WJZY/WMYT to keep Fox on WRAZ. Otherwise it would have ended up on WLFL. Capitol took one for several Sinclair stations Fox wanted, the option to buy them wasn't exercised.
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Fixed.
 
FOX would be better off buying Seattle KCPQ with /KZJO with MYNET and Philadelphia WPHL with MYNET to from a duopoly with WTXF with FOX from Tribune and FOX can make a affiliation deal with Tribune to have FOX on KPLR in Saint Louis with KTVI switching to ABC under Tribune and KDNL switching to CW under Sinclair and on KWGN in Denver with KDVR/KFCT switching to CW. Also WGHP under Tribune would gain ABC affiliation back while WXLV under Sinclair would gain FOX affiliation back. FOX should allow KTVU to keeps it's FOX affiliation in the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market.
 
I could see Fox picking up more MyNet stations for more duopolies. Can't believe they didn't buy back WATL in Atlanta. But I don't see all those stations switching affiliations. Seems like unnecessary changes.
 
bpatrick said:
Fox has already owned and sold a station in Greensboro (High Point,
to be exact): WGHP/FOX8. However, WRAZ in Raleigh might be a
good fit; it's already the Triangle's Fox affiliate, but there could be
a complication in that Sinclair owns the MyNetwork affiliate, WRDC
(and the CW affiliate, WLFL), and I'm not convinced that Sinclair is
willing to sell its duopoly in the Triangle.
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Is that why there has been such a disruption?

The good news is I'll soon have fewer movies to watch. I just don't have the time! But WJZY can't have wall-to-wall Sunday movies any more. WMYT shows a lot of movies that were on WJZY earlier, and vice versa. I only hope all the movies will be shown here that would have been, because there have been some good ones. Several movies were on WGN, it turns out.
 
jamesjimcie said:
FOX would be better off buying Seattle KCPQ with /KZJO with MYNET and Philadelphia WPHL with MYNET to from a duopoly with WTXF with FOX from Tribune and FOX can make a affiliation deal with Tribune to have FOX on KPLR in Saint Louis with KTVI switching to ABC under Tribune and KDNL switching to CW under Sinclair and on KWGN in Denver with KDVR/KFCT switching to CW. Also WGHP under Tribune would gain ABC affiliation back while WXLV under Sinclair would gain FOX affiliation back. FOX should allow KTVU to keeps it's FOX affiliation in the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market.
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Not gonna happen. Looks as though Fox has found its affiliate shop in Tribune just as NBC has with Gannett, ABC has with Scripps & Hearst Argyle, etc

Why would they upset the apple cart by doing what you suggest?

Just saying.....

Cheers & 73 :)
 
nelsonincharlotte said:
I could see Fox picking up more MyNet stations for more duopolies. Can't believe they didn't buy back WATL in Atlanta. But I don't see all those stations switching affiliations. Seems like unnecessary changes.
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I can believe it. MyNet was never really meant to be a "Network" as much as it was meant to be a syndication arm. If it was meant to be a network, don't you think they WOULD have made the investment to buy more stations than they already had in their arsenal for it by NOW ??

Cheers & 73 :)
 
JeeperOne said:
I can believe it. MyNet was never really meant to be a "Network" as much as it was meant to be a syndication arm. If it was meant to be a network, don't you think they WOULD have made the investment to buy more stations than they already had in their arsenal for it by NOW ??

Cheers & 73 :)
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You're right. They only formed MyNetwork TV because CW shut out the Fox owned UPN stations. Personally I think they should have kept UPN and the WB.
 
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