...it just happened Saturday on the local airing of the Fox baseball game. Someone or something at KCVU/20 Paradise CA screwed up, and an on-screen top-of-the-hour ID read "KBVU 28.1 Eureka"...
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Have you ever seen an incorrect station ID?
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one time NBC accidentally fed the audio of the Jets-Bengals playoff game over the video of the Steelers-Chargers playoff game in 1982
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Or, as I noted above (please pay attention!) it is more likely someone at AT&T made the wrong patch to the stations carrying the Steelers-Chargers game.
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was thinking that too no wonder NBC switched to skypath when they did!
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K.M. Richards
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Once HBO and Ted Turner launched the revolution of the cable business by using the satellite, it was inevitable that the broadcast networks would do likewise. Occasional AT&T errors didn't enter into the equation; it was all about a less-expensive distribution network.
Not really the same as the question, but along those lines, in the 80s, Jones Intercable had a bad habit of not blanking out stations that signed off. I was in Chicago and daily after WYCC (PBS) would sign off channel 20, I would be watching WICS channel 20 (Then NBC) from Springfield. The other PBS station WTTW would give me KPLR in St Louis (both channel 11) most stations by then were 24 hours a day so I didn't get a lot of chances to pick up far stations because of it.
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Wasn't just Jones Intergarble.
For most cable systems (large and small), it was easier to just let the head-end receivers pick up distant stations if the intended station's transmitter was off than it was to program a timer to switch to black.
On more than one occasion in the 1970s, Avenue TV Cable in Ventura CA picked up KCRA on channel 3 in Sacramento after KEYT in Santa Barbara signed off for the night (they had a separate antenna aimed at Broadcast Peak in the Santa Ynez Mountains just for KEYT, as the rest of the stations they carried were in Los Angeles, about 50° away in terms of antenna aiming ... thus it never happened on any other channels).
It happened to me once. We were getting ready for the Dolphins-Jets game to start, and NBC accidently fed the start of the Seahawks-Patriots game! I had my dish though and quickly switched the TV from the antenna source(WYFF/4) to the satellite receiver to get backhaul feed of the Dolphins-Jets game. I then quickly switched the other receiver that was hooked to the other TV to the backhaul of the Seahawks-Patriots game. We didn't realize that the network had made a mistake. Apparently, a operator at Skypath had pushed the wrong button, causing the SEA/NE game to appear on WYFF/4 instead of the MIA/NYJ game.
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The climax of the Patty Hearst kidnapping in 1974 - was when the LAPD took down the Symbionese Liberation Army in a house in Los Angeles. Most of them burned to death in the conflagration. KRON 4 in San Francisco was running the feed from KNBC, and there was a lot of confusion. At one point, the coverage went from the scene back to the studio, and Paul Moyer (IIRC) came on screen for a few seconds until the KRON anchor could get back on the air. And at one point, the station ID for KNBC came on the screen - I don't recall if it was still announced in those days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSFCbTkg5g
KNTV San Jose ( Transition from Granite to NBC O&O in 2002) used to ID themselves as NBC3 due to cable positions in most parts of the Bay Area with future parent company Comcast assigned them to that slot. However, that branding was confusing for Solano County residents since some parts of Solano County got Sacramento's NBC affiliate on channel 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQC2-cxDY8
Interestingly KRON in 2016 still ID themselves as "A production of Young Broadcasting" at :34 of the clip even though they were owned by Media General at the time. Also Media General and Nexstar were in a debate over a merger at the time of the ID. Wait I thought Young became defunct in 2013 when Media General took over the station?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRBC-TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsFO1zzvEo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Broadcasting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group
Or is Young Broadcasting supposed to be like a subcontractor to media general at the time of the 2016 KRON ID?
I noticed that Mission Broadcasting is listed as a shell or subcontracting company of Nexstar in some of the posts here.
KNTV San Jose ( Transition from Granite to NBC O&O in 2002) used to ID themselves as NBC3 due to cable positions in most parts of the Bay Area with future parent company Comcast assigned them to that slot. However, that branding was confusing for Solano County residents since some parts of Solano County got Sacramento's NBC affiliate on channel 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQC2-cxDY8
Interestingly KRON in 2016 still ID themselves as "A production of Young Broadcasting" at :34 of the clip even though they were owned by Media General at the time. Also Media General and Nexstar were in a debate over a merger at the time of the ID. Wait I thought Young became defunct in 2013 when Media General took over the station?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRBC-TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsFO1zzvEo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Broadcasting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group
Or is Young Broadcasting supposed to be like a subcontractor to media general at the time of the 2016 KRON ID?
I noticed that Mission Broadcasting is listed as a shell or subcontracting company of Nexstar in some of the posts here.
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http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/1/30/advertising-on-the-competition
WCVB accidentally advertising NBC Boston on their app.
WCVB accidentally advertising NBC Boston on their app.
Some of the old LIN Television stations still said they were LIN Stations after Media General bought them out. I'm sure Nexstar has fixed that now, but I don't think Media General was very expeditious about integrating their new properties as they acquired them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTfH97dYGcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBaqwZOohg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtbcBNENlZY
Yes WISH TV another former Media General station and KRON 4 are now required to show the Nexstar Productions logo at the end of the newscasts.
KNDO Yakima has a bad habit of displaying the KNDU Richland ID/logo often. But they are practically satellites of each other, with separate commercials. News comes from KNDU and is fed to KNDO with a local reporter. This didn't happen back in the 1990s, when KNDO had their own studios.
I also recall KATU Portland's logo being displayed on KOMO one day - throughout most of July 3rd, 2009. KOMO had an electrical fire at Fisher Plaza late on 7/2 during their 11PM newscast, knocking them off the air for several hours. When they came back, KOMO became a satellite of KATU for several more hours (with PSAs placed over Portland commercials). Their newscasts were done outside at Kerry Park, with easels for graphics (yet they got the KOMO bug up during the news). A throwback to the mid 1950s.
I also recall KATU Portland's logo being displayed on KOMO one day - throughout most of July 3rd, 2009. KOMO had an electrical fire at Fisher Plaza late on 7/2 during their 11PM newscast, knocking them off the air for several hours. When they came back, KOMO became a satellite of KATU for several more hours (with PSAs placed over Portland commercials). Their newscasts were done outside at Kerry Park, with easels for graphics (yet they got the KOMO bug up during the news). A throwback to the mid 1950s.
When the "NBC3" branding became a problem for KNTV (due to KCRA Sacramento), they re-branded as "NBC11" for awhile (their OTA dial position, then settled on "NBC Bay Area."
I don't believe Young Broadcasting has anything to do with KRON4 these days. Didn't they declare bankruptcy due to the KRON debacle?
Nexstar is now here in California and their flagship station is KRON 4 San Francisco. Prior to Nexstar taking over Media General. Nexstar was then based in Irving, Texas at least where the CEO and board were located at the time prior to the takeover of Media General.
But interestingly in 2016 under Media General's ownership of KRON 4 they still held the Young Broadcasting productions name up to the Nexstar takeover of 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDsEL2_O2M
Check out the 1986 clip of WNYW New York an incorrect ID was there. The old WNEW-TV ID was there but that was because the station was changing owners from MetroMedia to Fox at that point.
Check out the 1986 clip of WNYW New York an incorrect ID was there. The old WNEW-TV ID was there but that was because the station was changing owners from MetroMedia to Fox at that point.
Wow I remember there was a Youtube clip when Jerry Dunphy and Pat Harvey were at KHJ9 as the final anchors of the RKO era of KHJ9 to Disney owned KCAL9 in 1989 as the first anchors under new ownership.
However KCAL9 at the time was required to mention Norwalk as the COL due to issues with RKO during their management of KHJ9.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-01/entertainment/ca-359_1_southern-california
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/11/20/KHJ-TV-to-change-call-sign-to-KCAL/4677627541200/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g526LhWdPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOY2_fkLUkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSkJcBU-yWw
I think when Young Broadcasting (later Media General and in 2017 Nexstar) took over KCAL9 in the 1990's they were permitted to remove the Norwalk City of License and have Los Angeles only.
However KCAL9 at the time was required to mention Norwalk as the COL due to issues with RKO during their management of KHJ9.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-01/entertainment/ca-359_1_southern-california
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/11/20/KHJ-TV-to-change-call-sign-to-KCAL/4677627541200/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g526LhWdPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOY2_fkLUkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSkJcBU-yWw
I think when Young Broadcasting (later Media General and in 2017 Nexstar) took over KCAL9 in the 1990's they were permitted to remove the Norwalk City of License and have Los Angeles only.
A friend did some researching at www.americanradiohistory.com and sent me this information:
The "Norwalk" COL came about as part of the settlement to the original November 1965 license challenge to KHJ-TV by Fidelity Broadcasting, which filed for channel 9 in that city so as to add a few brownie points for "first service". Without going through the entire history, the matter was resolved 33 years later (November 1988) when the Walt Disney Co. bought out both RKO and the competing applicant for a total of $324 million, then operated the station under the Fidelity name for a year before becoming Disney-Fidelity and changing the call letters to KCAL-TV a year later. Part of the deal was to have a hyphenated COL of "Norwalk-Los Angeles" for the first four years, after which they could drop both "Norwalk" and "Fidelity" ... which sure enough happened in late 1992.
A proposed sale to Pinelands that same year fell apart for a variety of reasons, and Disney subsequently decided to keep KCAL, not selling it until when they merged with ABC in 1995 and had to spin off channel 9 in order to keep KABC-TV/7 under the duopoly rules then in effect. The sale to Young was approved the following year; obviously, the Norwalk COL was long gone by then.
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