Or will LIN just give up on WLFI and sell it to a spectrum speculator like WMGM and WLWC?
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Indianapolis: CBS Moving from WISH to WTTV 1/1/2015
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Or will LIN just give up on WLFI and sell it to a spectrum speculator like WMGM and WLWC?
That'll not happen, I see KPLR carrying ABC but on the main Channel, (11.1) and the CW would end up on KDNL. Who knows KDNL might end being station that carries both The CW, and MyNetworkTV. But who knows maybe ABC is happy to be on KDNL.
keep in mind KAUT was a Fox station from 1987-91 before being sold to OETA.
According to the FCC, there are only nine full-power stations in the St. Louis market:
2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 24, and 30 in St. Louis; 13 in Mount Vernon, Illinois; and 46 in East St. Louis, Illinois.
And yes, WPXS-13 is considered a St. Louis-market station even though Mount Vernon is in the Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg DMA.
Is CBS 4 going to be the branding for WTTV when they switch to CBS in January? Just curious
"Indiana's CBS 4", using their current brand.
Oh okay, that'll remind me of what the newscasts on WPHL TV in Philadelphia used to be called in 2001, and 2002 only difference will be in 3 areas 1. Instead of saying Philadelphia's you're saying Indiana's. 2. WTTV will be the CBS affiliate whereas Philadelphia, they were the WB TV Network affiliate. And 3. The virtual channel is 4, and 29 (because they have another translator in Kokomo, Indiana) and WPHL's virtual channel number is. 17.
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Here's what I can probably see Tribune do with the stand alone CW stations:
Dallas: KDAF goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned KTXA
Chicago: WGN goes independent, the CW goes to WCIU
Houston: KIAH might keep the CW or give the network to independent KUBE
Los Angeles: KTLA goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned KCAL
Miami: WSFL and WBFS could swap CW and MNTV networks (WBFS is CBS-owned)
New York: WPIX goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned WLNY
St. Louis: KPLR and KDNL could swap CW and ABC affiliates
Washington: WDCW might as well keep the CW since there are no other stations in the market that would carry the network
Here are some ideas that Tribune might end up doing to these stations:
Denver: Also owning a Fox station with KDVR, KWGN and KTVD could swap CW and MNTV networks, forming a Fox/MNTV duopoly
Hampton Roads: WGNT might keep the CW or swap with MNTV affiliate WTVZ
Hartford: Also owning a Fox station with WTIC, WCCT and WCTX could swap CW and MNTV networks, forming a Fox/MNTV duopoly
New Orleans: WNOL might keep the CW or swap with MNTV affiliate WUPL
Portland: KRCW might as well keep the CW, unless Meredith Broadcasting wouldn't mind swapping affiliates with MNTV affiliate KPDX
Dallas: KDAF goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned KTXA
Chicago: WGN goes independent, the CW goes to WCIU
Houston: KIAH might keep the CW or give the network to independent KUBE
Los Angeles: KTLA goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned KCAL
Miami: WSFL and WBFS could swap CW and MNTV networks (WBFS is CBS-owned)
New York: WPIX goes independent, the CW goes to CBS-owned WLNY
St. Louis: KPLR and KDNL could swap CW and ABC affiliates
Washington: WDCW might as well keep the CW since there are no other stations in the market that would carry the network
Here are some ideas that Tribune might end up doing to these stations:
Denver: Also owning a Fox station with KDVR, KWGN and KTVD could swap CW and MNTV networks, forming a Fox/MNTV duopoly
Hampton Roads: WGNT might keep the CW or swap with MNTV affiliate WTVZ
Hartford: Also owning a Fox station with WTIC, WCCT and WCTX could swap CW and MNTV networks, forming a Fox/MNTV duopoly
New Orleans: WNOL might keep the CW or swap with MNTV affiliate WUPL
Portland: KRCW might as well keep the CW, unless Meredith Broadcasting wouldn't mind swapping affiliates with MNTV affiliate KPDX
Fixed.
In Denver, I could see MNTV ending up on KDVR, with KWGN going FOX and KTVD going CW. Are there any markets where MNTV is on VHF (virtual) and a Big Four network is on UHF?
I like your idea, about a Denver swap, probably in the new Tribune-Fox affiliation agreement it'll probably include both KWGN, and KFOR/Oklahoma City (with NBC going to KOKH) in the affiliation package. St. Louis, I expect the new Tribune/ABC affiliation pact deal to include KPLR switching to ABC (with KDNL going to The CW) also WHO-TV, and WOI swap, because WOI (like KDNL) is one of the weakest ABC affiliates in the country, so in Des Moines I could see WHO-TV going with ABC, and WOI-TV going with NBC, but as far as MyNetworkTV goes, I think KDVR/Denver will end up with MNTV, and the News operations of KDVR will be transfered to KWGN, so yeah I'd expect Tribune to add 2 new stations within their portfolio (KWGN/Denver, and KFOR/Oklahoma City) to the Fox portfolio, 2 new stations to be part of the affiliation agreement with ABC (KPLR/St. Louis, and WHO-TV/Des Moines), and 1 new station affiliated with MyNetworkTV to its portfolio (KDVR/Denver) outside of that the only notable switches as far as Tribune will make are KDAF, WGN, KTLA, and WPIX will all go independent, I also see WGNT, and WSFL switching to MyNetworkTV so I'd expect Tribune to add 2 new stations as Fox affiliates (KWGN, and KFOR) 2 new stations as ABC affiliates (WHO-TV, and KPLR) and 4 new stations as MyNetworkTV stations (KDVR, WCCT, WSFL, and WGNT) other than that (outside of KDAF, WPIX, KTLA, and WGN going independent) nothing changes.
That to is a possibility here's where I see happening in the following markets In other tribune owned markets where I see affiliation switches:
Denver: KWGN goes to Fox, KDVR goes to MyNetworkTV, and KTVD goes to The CW
Oklahoma City: KFOR goes with Fox, and KOKH goes with NBC
St. Louis: KPLR goes with ABC, and KDNL goes with The CW
Des Moines: WHO-TV goes with ABC, and WOI-TV goes with NBC
Hartford: WCCT goes with MyNetworkTV, and WCTX goes with MyNetworkTV
Hampton Roads: WGNT to MyNetworkTV, WTVZ to The CW
Miami: WSFL goes with MyNetworkTV, and WBFS goes to The CW
Dallas-Fort Worth: KDAF Goes Independent, CW moves to KTXA
Chicago: WGN goes independent, WCIU goes with The CW
Houston: KIAH goes independent and KUBR goes to The CW
Los Angeles: KTLA goes independent KDOC (not KCAL) goes with The CW
New York: WPIX goes independent, WLNY goes with The CW
I highly doubt WCIU 26.1 will pick up CW from WGN-TV, should Tribune drop them (that's the impression I get, along with many other people here), & CW is still around after the 2015/2016 broadcast season. For now, WGN-TV still has an agreement in place to let WCIU pick up any sportscasts that WGN-TV can't air, & they'll still need them in the fall & winter months when the Blackhawks & the Bulls have games on the same night (currently, it's when CW programming can't be pre-empted, & must go to WCIU to carry out the broadcast commitment), & that would pose a problem if CW is still around, & WCIU were to pick up the network. If parent company, Weigel Broadcasting (owners of MeTV) does pick it up, I believe it would end up on WMEU-CD 48.1 in HD & simulcasted on WCIU 26.2 for the rest of the market who can't get the OTA HD signal of WMEU-CD. I believe they're otherwise happy being an independent on WCIU 26.1, & especially being the last locally owned independent station in Chicago (WJYS is the other independent, but they operate out of Tinley Park, IL, & the station's COL is Hammond, IN).
Then where's the CW is going to go (if it remains)? A digital subchannel?
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I seriously doubt KFOR and KOKH will swap affiliates. If that were to happen, then San Antonio would swap NBC and Fox between WOAI and KABB already.
The Des Moines market doesn't concern the CW so, unless Tribune also has something against NBC (seeing that OKC is also part of that prediction), then I don't see Tribune doing anything to the Des Moines market.
I chose KCAL (instead of KDOC) because it's CBS owned which would make more sense since The CW is partly owned by CBS.
I read an article about what WISH will do after they lose CBS on New Year's Day, I agree with the statement, they need to add more news, and stronger syndicated programming, or at least look at WJXT/Jacksonville, or KTVK/Phoenix, they all lost their respective affiliates at one point or another between 1994 and 2006, if they can do great as a news intensive independent station. So can WISH-TV, also look at KUSI/San Diego, same thing. If WISH wants to reinvent themselves like what WJXT, and KTVK had to do, they need to do 2 simple things:
1. Add stronger programming
2. Add more newscasts.
1. Add stronger programming
2. Add more newscasts.
You're probably referring to this article from TVNewsCheck:
For WISH, Life After CBS Should Be News
This quote says it all about CBS' stance on affiliation agreements:
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It also mentioned that WISH's sister MyNetworkTV station WNDY would possibly move MNTV to WISH while WNDY goes independent. The way I see that happening is that WISH would pull a KRON/SF and move MNTV to late night/overnight hours. It's almost as if they would be independent since MNTV isn't considered a network but a syndication network. Or something similar to KTVK/KASW in Phoenix. A virtual VHF channel goes independent while the CW (former WB) is on the UHF.
Either way, I don't see the CW going to a "big four"-like station like WISH. I still think it's a dumb move to put the CW on WTVW in Evansville (that should've been a CBS fill with the CW on a subchannel with WEVV going Fox on .1).
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