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FOX Providence will not carry upcoming OJ Simpson Interview

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Skynet74

I'm currently listening to WINS Radio in New York and they just reported that Providence's FOX affiliate will not be carrying the upcoming OJ Simpson interview. I personaly hate stations that take the option to watch away from the public. That decision to watch should be left up to me. Not My Fox affiliate.

If I decide to watch I'll just tune into Fox 25 Boston. I knew that I connected an external antenna up to my TV for a reason.
 
Bid difference here: WFXT-TV is owned by FOX. Doesn't leave them a choice for not running it, I guess?
 
Good for the Providence Fox affiliate!

Final responsbility for what airs on a station does stay with the ownership and management of the station, not the network that they're affiliated with. That means that the final decision is theirs, period.

Devoting a couple hours of air time to a probable murderer explaining how he would have committed the murders that he claims he didn't commit is not exactly serving the "public interest, convenience and necessity." Rather, it is just disgusting and repulsive. I hope that other Fox affiliates (WRAZ in Raleigh, NC comes to mind) follow the lead from Providence in preempting this repulsive trash.
 
Well it doesn't take a Genius to know that OJ did it. But I still would like to have the option to watch if I want to. I don't need my local TV station playing the role of my parent. Just air the thing and leave the choice of watching up to your viewers.
 
>>I personaly hate stations that take the option to watch away from the public.

They're worried people will boycott them or their sponsors. You should call other stations in the Prov market and ask them to run it. I can guess what they'll tell you...TV's a business and they're looking out for #1.

Many people in the country are condemning the book but it's up to #31 on the Amazon charts. Who knows,
if it's a big hit across the country (the special) they may change their mind...

btw the decision may have been made by Ch 64's _ownership group_ and not Ch 64 itself.
 
In addition to Fox 64 WNAC, the other Lin-owned Fox stations are:

WUPW 36 Toledo
WLUK 11 Green Bay
WALA 10 Mobile, AL
KASA 2 Albuquerque, NM

Pappas owns

KMPH 26 Fresno, CA
KPTM 42 Omaha, NE
KPTH 44 Dakota Dunes, SD (Sioux City, IA market)
KSNB 4/KTVG 17 Lincoln, NE
 
Well it seems that all the stations who won't be carrying it are in very small markets. Providence may be the largest. Frankly this decision will not effect me. I have an antenna which gives me access to Boston stations. That's the good thing about living so close to another Television market. Every Providence station could crumble to the ground and I still wouldn't miss a beat.
 
Skynet74 said:
Well it doesn't take a Genius to know that OJ did it. But I still would like to have the option to watch if I want to. I don't need my local TV station playing the role of my parent. Just air the thing and leave the choice of watching up to your viewers.
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Skynet, do you remember Claus Von Bulow??? I would love to have seen a special on that a few years back.
 
Yes I remember him. You seem to get my point. There are many programs that viewers would be interested in seeing. However certain Television stations believe that their views reflect everybodys view. These stations need to remember that it is their job to serve the public. However when you start censoring what many people would like to see, than perhaps you are not doing your job to best serve your viewers. You are only doing your job to best serve You!

Perhaps I place more importance on having freedom of choice than other people do. Maybe I like to watch the occasional train wreck. But either way....... the bottom line is........... if a program is important enough for a Network to produce, than leave it up to the viewers you serve whether to watch it or not. I think it's part of being a "Good affiliate". One that actually works with a Network and not against it.

Listen..... I think OJ is a guilty as the rest of you. I also think OJ's behavior for the last 12 years has been absolutely disgusting. But guess what? I may still want to watch this program and I do not want that option taken away by some local TV station who thinks it's OK to speak for me.
 
by the way did Ch 12 become a Fox affiliate when I wasn't looking? The Boston Globe (not always the most accurate) was saying some Fox affiliates like "WPRI Channel 12 in Providence" would not be airing the special.
(actually isn't Ch 64 technically under an LMA with Ch 12? but not the same station.)

Maybe the Globe did a websearch for "Fox Providence" and it came up w/ the WPRI site which says
Eyewitness News/WPRI 12 AND Fox Providence

I wonder if "Fox Providence"/Ch 64 could offer the show on their website for those who are curious.
 
raccoonradio said:
by the way did Ch 12 become a Fox affiliate when I wasn't looking? The Boston Globe (not always the most accurate) was saying some Fox affiliates like "WPRI Channel 12 in Providence" would not be airing the special.
(actually isn't Ch 64 technically under an LMA with Ch 12? but not the same station.)

Maybe the Globe did a websearch for "Fox Providence" and it came up w/ the WPRI site which says
Eyewitness News/WPRI 12 AND Fox Providence

I wonder if "Fox Providence"/Ch 64 could offer the show on their website for those who are curious.
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Boston Globe got confused. WPRI is CBS and WNAC is FOX. However I'm sure that LIN Television doesn't help the confusion by melding the two stations together as if they were one. When watching Newscasts on WPRI and WNAC it is difficult to distinguish a difference between the two.
 
Skynet74 said:
Yes I remember him. You seem to get my point. There are many programs that viewers would be interested in seeing. However certain Television stations believe that their views reflect everybodys view. These stations need to remember that it is their job to serve the public. However when you start censoring what many people would like to see, than perhaps you are not doing your job to best serve your viewers. You are only doing your job to best serve You!
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Airing this trash is not "serving the public" -- it is pandering to the public (or at least whatever portion of the public is interested in this particular ugly spectacle). Big difference.

There's all sorts of things that some portion of the public might like to see on television -- everything from hard core pornography to the old "Faces of Death" videos. That doesn't mean that it would be providing a public service to provide such programming.

While I certainly don't always agree with the choices that broadcast stations make as to what should be shown and what should be preempted, but I do recognize that it is the *job* of the people working at these stations to decide what will and won't make it onto their channel. Programming not cleared by one station can be offered up to other stations in the same market, who can then choose as to whether they will opt to carry it -- some years ago, ABC's "NYPD Blue" ended up airing on stations other than the local ABC affiliates in several markets in its first season.

In this particular instance, however, I believe that LIN and other broadcasters who announced they wouldn't clear the OJ Simpson program were absolutely right. If I were the GM of a Fox affiliate, I would like to believe that I would have made the same decision.
 
TexasTom said:
If I were the GM of a Fox affiliate, I would like to believe that I would have made the same decision.
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Well maybe I just don't know any better...... but I would have aired it. Not because it would have been anything I was proud of, but simply because I would have had loyalty to the Network. I grew up in the 80's and loved Game Shows. I still do. I used to get mad when the local affiliates would not air game shows in the Noon slot because they opted to go with local News instead. That may have been where all my anger began. I did not like the fact that I missed programming that other parts of the country got to see. I still get miffed when this sort of thing happens today. I understand that on occasion an affiliate may opt for other programming. I just hate when it happens.
 
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