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Fox says no to WHDH in Boston

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Fox will stay on WFXT in Boston and WHDH will remain an independent. Full story here.
 
That story is behind a firewall so those of us not subscribing to the Boston Globe cannot access it unfortunately. But it looks like more Family Feud reruns on at primetime for WHDH.
 
Idea would make sense, Boston is an AFC market, not NFC.

Same factor that caused WJW In Cleveland NOT to be purchased by Fox (they're still an affiliate). AND the purchase of KCPQ (Ch 13, Seattle, An NFC Market since 2002) FOX bought KCPQ when the Seahawks moved to the NFC.

I also wonder why FOX never decided to Ditch WFLD in Chicagoland in 1994 (and ever since then), for WGN (Ch 9), thanks to the NFC package going to FOX, which includes the Chicago Bears.

Houston is way too big not to have all of the big 4 be networked owned. I can understand WFAA in DFWD not being network owned, due to their longtime ownership line (Belo, Gannett, Tegna)
 
mybug said:
I also wonder why FOX never decided to Ditch WFLD in Chicagoland in 1994 (and ever since then), for WGN (Ch 9),
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By the 90s, there was no disadvantage to UHF any more, or advantage to VHF. Which I'm sure is why they're content with WFXT.
 
The one option was meant from the WHDH viewpoint. But if the owner doesn’t want to sell his asset and NBC wants to own, that left WHDH with no path vis a vis NBC. Whatever else NBC did was immaterial to that aspect.
 
mybug said:
Idea would make sense, Boston is an AFC market, not NFC.

Same factor that caused WJW In Cleveland NOT to be purchased by Fox (they're still an affiliate). AND the purchase of KCPQ (Ch 13, Seattle, An NFC Market since 2002) FOX bought KCPQ when the Seahawks moved to the NFC.

I also wonder why FOX never decided to Ditch WFLD in Chicagoland in 1994 (and ever since then), for WGN (Ch 9), thanks to the NFC package going to FOX, which includes the Chicago Bears.

Houston is way too big not to have all of the big 4 be networked owned. I can understand WFAA in DFWD not being network owned, due to their longtime ownership line (Belo, Gannett, Tegna)
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Please note Fox does not own KCPQ. They are finally now in the process of purchasing them from Nextar, partly indeed for the NFC market reason you mentioned.
 
mybug said:
WCVB?

Try to take WBZ back?

Buy WHDH?
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NBC will wait for Sunbeam to cash in and purchase WHDH. They have a full market signal in WBTS-CD anyways. WBZ is owned by CBS so that is not happening. While Hearst is owns some NBC affiliates they are tied in with Disney owning ESPN and the Lifetime networks so I can't see WCVB going to NBC.
 
jcurtis1027 said:
While Hearst is owns some NBC affiliates they are tied in with Disney owning ESPN and the Lifetime networks so I can't see WCVB going to NBC.
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WMUR 9.1/WCVB 5.2 becomes the NBC affiliate for Greater Boston. Amazing what you can do with subchannels these days, especially running 2 HD and 1 SD widescreen at the same time.
 
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