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Gray announces plans for the former Quincy Media stations in Wisconsin

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KeithE4

Gray will divest all but one of the Quincy ABC affiliates in Wisconsin: WKOW/27.x Madison, WAOW/9.x Wausau, WMOW/4.x Crandon, WXOW/19.x LaCrosse, and WQOW/18.x Eau Claire. They're keeping WYOW/34.x Eagle River and will be switching it from a satellite of WAOW to rebroadcasting Wausau CBS/Fox affiliate WSAW/7.x. Effective date of the change was not announced. Nor was a potential call letter change, if any, for WYOW.

Nothing was mentioned about the fate of W21DS-D, the current WSAW translator in Sayner. It will become moot as a CBS/Fox affiliate once WYOW starts rebroadcasting WSAW. Barring a sale with WAOW, becoming its satellite, or a major upgrade of WMOW by its new owners, northern Wisconsin will be left without ABC and CW network service outside the Crandon area.

FCC Filings Provide Details of Gray TV’s Plans for Quincy Media Stations – NorthPine: Upper Midwest Broadcasting

www.northpine.com www.northpine.com
 
KeithE4 said:
Gray will divest all but one of the Quincy ABC affiliates in Wisconsin: WKOW/27.x Madison, WAOW/9.x Wausau, WMOW/4.x Crandon, WXOW/19.x LaCrosse, and WQOW/18.x Eau Claire. They're keeping WYOW/34.x Eagle River and will be switching it from a satellite of WAOW to rebroadcasting Wausau CBS/Fox affiliate WSAW/7.x. Effective date of the change was not announced. Nor was a potential call letter change, if any, for WYOW.

Nothing was mentioned about the fate of W21DS-D, the current WSAW translator in Sayner. It will become moot as a CBS/Fox affiliate once WYOW starts rebroadcasting WSAW. Barring a sale with WAOW, becoming its satellite, or a major upgrade of WMOW by its new owners, northern Wisconsin will be left without ABC and CW network service outside the Crandon area.

FCC Filings Provide Details of Gray TV’s Plans for Quincy Media Stations – NorthPine: Upper Midwest Broadcasting

www.northpine.com www.northpine.com
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I have a feeling that the 'OW stations will no longer be together under the same ownership. I have a feeling that WKOW, WAOW and WMOW will be shipped together as one with WXOW and WQOW shipped together to different owners from 'KOW, 'AOW and 'MOW.
 
KeithE4 said:
Gray will divest all but one of the Quincy ABC affiliates in Wisconsin: WKOW/27.x Madison, WAOW/9.x Wausau, WMOW/4.x Crandon, WXOW/19.x LaCrosse, and WQOW/18.x Eau Claire. They're keeping WYOW/34.x Eagle River and will be switching it from a satellite of WAOW to rebroadcasting Wausau CBS/Fox affiliate WSAW/7.x. Effective date of the change was not announced. Nor was a potential call letter change, if any, for WYOW.

Nothing was mentioned about the fate of W21DS-D, the current WSAW translator in Sayner. It will become moot as a CBS/Fox affiliate once WYOW starts rebroadcasting WSAW. Barring a sale with WAOW, becoming its satellite, or a major upgrade of WMOW by its new owners, northern Wisconsin will be left without ABC and CW network service outside the Crandon area.

FCC Filings Provide Details of Gray TV’s Plans for Quincy Media Stations – NorthPine: Upper Midwest Broadcasting

www.northpine.com www.northpine.com
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Gray could convert W21DS to a translator of WZAW-LD which carries FOX, H&I, Movies and MeTv

and WMOW does cover Rhinelander
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Effective today, WYOW-TV Eagle River switched from being a satellite of WAOW to WSAW. The FCC approved the sale yesterday. The new WYOW-TV PSIP lineup will be:

7.10 -- CBS
33.10 -- Fox
34.1 -- CW

The other diginets that air on WSAW and WYOW were not mentioned in the article. Neither was the fate of the Sayner translator on RF 21, or where ABC will air in the Rhinelander/Eagle River end of the market. The WAOW website has not been updated to reflect the changes that affect it.

www.wsaw.com

WSAW adds CW to TV lineup, StartTV moves to 33.5

WSAW-TV viewers will notice changes to their channel line-up beginning Monday, Aug. 2.
www.wsaw.com www.wsaw.com
 
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