FOX Switches Affiliates in Boise and Evansville, IN

[intx]

Yep ... similar deal prompted KBTV's switch from NBC to Fox. They're remain dead last in the ratings. Even cancelled their morning news at the start of the year.

 

[Iowan]

I sent an E-mail to my local Fox station (KLJB) when I first heard about this and they said that they were in a good relationship with the network...

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I sent an E-mail to my local Fox station (KLJB) when I first heard about this and they said that they were in a good relationship with the network...

Unlike in 1988. When KLJB had their Fox affiliation yanked due to their massive preemptions of the then-infant network's Saturday and Sunday lineups. (But the immediate Burlington, IA area still had their own Fox affiliate, the then-KJMH (26), which is now CW (and a sister station to KLJB) as KGCW.

 

[TexasTom]

You have to make market to market comparisons. It's easy to pull an affiliation in a low ranked market, with high cable penetration. Can you do that in a high ranked market with low(er) cable penetration?

FOX isn't risking much even if they lose 100% of the audience in both Evansville and Boise.

As an aside...Boise/Nampa/Caldwell may be a small market, but it's one with a relatively high per capita income. It's also one with relatively low cable/satellite penetration -- roughly 30% of viewers are OTA-only in that market. So going cable only wouldn't be a good option there.

 

[TheRob]

CW is moving to KBOI's subchannel. KTRV is going independent.

 

[azumanga]

CW is moving to KBOI's subchannel. KTRV is going independent.

KTRV does have MyNetworkTV and This TV on DT2, so it's likely that station would utilise one or both for programming.

That being said, as MNTV is now mainly reruns, it's just as well that KTRV goes indy on 12.1 while keeping This on 12.2.

By the way -- any new news on WTVW?

 

[PTBoardOp94]

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said at a conference about two weeks ago that there was a new network lined up for WTVW, but it has not been revealed which network that is. I've heard speculation about CBS, MNTV, ABC and CW; none of it seems especially credible.

 

[Stitch]

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said at a conference about two weeks ago that there was a new network lined up for WTVW, but it has not been revealed which network that is. I've heard speculation about CBS, MNTV, ABC and CW; none of it seems especially credible.

The station has begun to phase out the "Fox 7" branding in favor of "WTVW 7" and "News 7". You can see the modified look on video clips at their website.

http://tristatehomepage.com

 

[Iowan]

Let's hope there are no other casualties...

 

[Madmansam]

Anyway, regarding Beaumont's KBTV...wasn't NBC dropped for basically the same reason as Fox was yanked, this week? Reverse Compensation/Retrans?

Isn't that what happened to Young Broadcasting's KRON-4 in San Francisco?

 

[james32746]

I'm leaning towards CBS or the CW for WTVW.

 

[TheRob]

WTVW is going independent as well.

http://www.nexstar.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6417:wtvw-tv-to-debut-local-7-featuring-expanded-local-programming-news-and-high-quality-entertainment-and-movies&catid=40:cat-newsarticles&Itemid=97

 

[Markxxx]

And now it's Nexstar's turn ;D

Nexstar Broadcasting Group has turned the table on Fox, dumping the network in Terre Haute, Ind. (DMA 152), and replacing it with ABC. The switch is effective Sept. 1.

With its launch as an ABC affiliate, Nexstar will change the call letters of the station from WFXW to WAWV, which stands for "ABC for the Wabash Valley."

Full story at TV News Check

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

And now it's Nexstar's turn ;D

Nexstar Broadcasting Group has turned the table on Fox, dumping the network in Terre Haute, Ind. (DMA 152), and replacing it with ABC. The switch is effective Sept. 1.

With its launch as an ABC affiliate, Nexstar will change the call letters of the station from WFXW to WAWV, which stands for "ABC for the Wabash Valley."

Full story at TV News Check

Could we be seeing a WTHI-10.4 in the immediate future--since you can rule out Fox appearing on a subchannel of WTWO-2.1 (NBC), which is also owned by Nexstar? WTHI-10.2 is Cool TV while 10.3 is weather radar (unless they drop the radar).

And I still wonder if Rockford, IL--whose Fox affiliate WQRF-39 is owned by Nexstar--could be next.

 

[KeithE4]

And now it's Nexstar's turn ;D

Nexstar Broadcasting Group has turned the table on Fox, dumping the network in Terre Haute, Ind. (DMA 152), and replacing it with ABC. The switch is effective Sept. 1.

With its launch as an ABC affiliate, Nexstar will change the call letters of the station from WFXW to WAWV, which stands for "ABC for the Wabash Valley."

Full story at TV News Check

Which returns Channel 38 to its original network, when it was WIIL and WBAK-TV (1973-95).

 

[tripinva]

Could we be seeing a WTHI-10.4 in the immediate future--since you can rule out Fox appearing on a subchannel of WTWO-2.1 (NBC), which is also owned by Nexstar? WTHI-10.2 is Cool TV while 10.3 is weather radar (unless they drop the radar).

WTHI holds a permit for an LPTV station on channel 24. I would have to imagine that any Fox affiliate in Terre Haute would find a home there rather than on or in addition to WTHI's main signal.

And I still wonder if Rockford, IL--whose Fox affiliate WQRF-39 is owned by Nexstar--could be next.

Quincy has Fox on a subchannel in, er, Quincy. And on its primary in South Bend.

Gray owns Fox affiliates as well. Fox would quickly find an alternate home in Rockford.

- Trip

 

[ShawnHill1]

Could we be seeing a WTHI-10.4 in the immediate future--since you can rule out Fox appearing on a subchannel of WTWO-2.1 (NBC), which is also owned by Nexstar? WTHI-10.2 is Cool TV while 10.3 is weather radar (unless they drop the radar).

WTHI holds a permit for an LPTV station on channel 24. I would have to imagine that any Fox affiliate in Terre Haute would find a home there rather than on or in addition to WTHI's main signal.

And I still wonder if Rockford, IL--whose Fox affiliate WQRF-39 is owned by Nexstar--could be next.

Quincy has Fox on a subchannel in, er, Quincy. And on its primary in South Bend.

Gray owns Fox affiliates as well. Fox would quickly find an alternate home in Rockford.

- Trip

And ironically enough, there's really only one place that Fox could end up in Rockford, and that's Gray's CBS affiliate WIFR. Nexstar already owns the ABC affiliate WTVO (and they have MyTV on their DT2), so that's out...WREX (owned by Quincy Newspapers) has NBC on DT1 and The CW on DT2. WIFR's secondary digital channel is AccuWeather, so if they wanted Fox, AccuWeather would likely move to DT3.

The only other over-the-air signal in the market (besides low-powered WQFL, a religious station) is low-powered WFBN, which is a repeater of WCIU. I won't speculate if Weigel wants to take WFBN to full-power (even if they're allowed to) and make it a Fox affiliate, but it'll be nice to make a nice headway into the Rockford market.

 

[tripinva]

And ironically enough, there's really only one place that Fox could end up in Rockford, and that's Gray's CBS affiliate WIFR. Nexstar already owns the ABC affiliate WTVO (and they have MyTV on their DT2), so that's out...WREX (owned by Quincy Newspapers) has NBC on DT1 and The CW on DT2. WIFR's secondary digital channel is AccuWeather, so if they wanted Fox, AccuWeather would likely move to DT3.

WREX could put Fox on 13-3, just as they have in Quincy.

- Trip

 

[Sammi Brie]

This is starting to become as complicated as WTWO's history of news music packages...(WTWO's NMSA listings go back 41 years, featuring 20 themes, of which we have proof of a whopping 18 of them — and I think there's one missing in the set.)

 

[dave73]

Could we be seeing a WTHI-10.4 in the immediate future--since you can rule out Fox appearing on a subchannel of WTWO-2.1 (NBC), which is also owned by Nexstar? WTHI-10.2 is Cool TV while 10.3 is weather radar (unless they drop the radar).

WTHI holds a permit for an LPTV station on channel 24. I would have to imagine that any Fox affiliate in Terre Haute would find a home there rather than on or in addition to WTHI's main signal.

And I still wonder if Rockford, IL--whose Fox affiliate WQRF-39 is owned by Nexstar--could be next.

Quincy has Fox on a subchannel in, er, Quincy. And on its primary in South Bend.

Gray owns Fox affiliates as well. Fox would quickly find an alternate home in Rockford.

- Trip

And ironically enough, there's really only one place that Fox could end up in Rockford, and that's Gray's CBS affiliate WIFR. Nexstar already owns the ABC affiliate WTVO (and they have MyTV on their DT2), so that's out...WREX (owned by Quincy Newspapers) has NBC on DT1 and The CW on DT2. WIFR's secondary digital channel is AccuWeather, so if they wanted Fox, AccuWeather would likely move to DT3.

The only other over-the-air signal in the market (besides low-powered WQFL, a religious station) is low-powered WFBN, which is a repeater of WCIU. I won't speculate if Weigel wants to take WFBN to full-power (even if they're allowed to) and make it a Fox affiliate, but it'll be nice to make a nice headway into the Rockford market.

WFBN-LD can't go full power on RF 35, because it would be short-spaced with WMVT Milwaukee doing so. Even for channel 33 (WFBN-LP's analog channel), it's short-spaced with WITI Milwaukee if they wanted to go full power. Now whether Fox wants to be affiliated on a low power station is unknown. They could either do without Rockford if a full power station won't affiliate with them on the main or subchannel, or be forced to affiliate with Weigel's WFBN-LD if they really want to stay on the air in Rockford OTA. On cable, they could just get Fox from either Chicago, Madison Wisconsin, Peoria, or even the Quad Cities.