How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

[ChrisTheListener]

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[ChrisTheListener]

Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> > There was a very interesting scenario here in Dallas last
> > night/this morning.
> >
> > The MLB Playoffs have aired on ESPN Radio (KESN-FM)
> > throughout the playoffs, but last night, they had to carry
>
> > the Dallas Mavericks game. The World Sereis game was
> > broadcast on WBAP 820. This is interesting for two
> reasons:
> >
> >
> > 1) WBAP is in no way affiliated with KESN. The deal was
> > that it was ESPN Sports who had the radio contract for the
>
> > game. WBAP is the local carrier for ABC News. So, since
> > ESPN Radio in Dallas was not able to carry it, it
> transfered
> > to ABC in this market (Disney). Thus allowing WBAP, who
> has
> > no affiliation with KESN, to broadcast the WS game.
>
> Uh, Chris?
>
> WBAP and KESN are co-owned. ESPN = Disney = ABC. KESN's
> studios are right next to WBAP's, in the office tower at
> 2221 E. Lamar in Arlington, right off I-30 near Six Flags.
>
No. KESN and WBAP are not co-owned, ESPN and ABC are. ESPN owns KESN (one of 4 stations in the nation FULLY owned by ESPN Sports.) However, WBAP is NOT owned by ABC Radio. It simply carries the ABC Radio network. It is owned by a small company that ownes KSCS and others in DFW.

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[The_Outsider]

Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

KFXA Cedar Rapids, IA did air news after that game. It was a pretaped 10-15 minute newscast. They aired such a newscast every night after baseball. As KGAN produces newscasts for KFXA and Des Moines Fox outlet KDSM, I assume Des Moines got the same thing.

> Last night (October 25th), Game 3 of the World Series ended
> around 2:15 A.M. EDT (actually on the morning of the 26th).
>
> I turned off my TV set and hit the sack immediately after
> the game ended, so I don't know if WFXT-25 here in Boston
> broadcast their late evening newscast (normally broadcast at
> 10 P.M. ET) or not.
>
> I did see promos for the newscast and headline updates
> during the earlier part of the game, but I did not see any
> promos during the latter portions of the game telecast; nor
> did I see near the end of the game a crawl saying that
> WFXT's news would follow the game (they ran such a crawl at
> 10 P.M. ET and a couple of times not long after that).
>
> I wonder how many Fox stations in the Eastern (and Central)
> time zones decided not to do "late evening" newscasts last
> night (this morning) due to the lateness of the hour. I
> would think the Fox stations in Chicago (WFLD-32) and
> Houston (KRIV-26), the two cities whose local teams were
> playing, probably did late local newscasts to wrap-up the
> game. But I think many other Eastern and Central time zone
> Fox stations simply said "The Heck With It!" and sent their
> news and production staffs home without doing a late
> newscast.
>

 

[RockManAC]

Re: How Many East Coast Fox Affiliates Aired Their Scheduled Late Local News Last Night??

> No. KESN and WBAP are not co-owned, ESPN and ABC are. ESPN
> owns KESN (one of 4 stations in the nation FULLY owned by
> ESPN Sports.) However, WBAP is NOT owned by ABC Radio. It
> simply carries the ABC Radio network. It is owned by a
> small company that ownes KSCS and others in DFW.

Nope.. They are owned by ABC..

Exhibit A, Copyright statement from <a target="_blank" href=http://"http://www.wbap.com">wbap.com</a>:

Copyright © 2005 ABC Radio Incorporated

Exhibit B, "Dallas" section from <a target="_blank" href=http://"http://www.abcradio.com">abcradio.com</a>:


Dallas
WBAP 820 AM
News/Talk
<a target="_blank" href=http://"http://www.wbap.com">www.wbap.com</a>

KSCS 96.3 FM
Country
<a target="_blank" href=http://"http://www.kscs.com">www.kscs.com</a>

96.7 The Twister
Country
<a target="_blank" href=http://"htp://www.967thetwister.com">www.967thetwister.com</a>

ESPN 103.3 AM
Sports/ESPN Radio
<a target="_blank" href=http://"http://www.espn1033.com">www.espn1033.com</a>

Need any more proof?

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[gr8oldies]

Re: Late Local News Last Night in California

Similar situation with our local WKEF (NBC) and WRGT (Fox). When a NASCAR race went long last summer, they apparently recorded a newscast for the Fox affiliate and went live with the NBC affiliate, with the same crew. Can't vouch for what they did this time out, though I have seen them skip the news on the Fox affiliate.