KFRE 59 Fresno gets CW affiliation, Will KAIL 53 get My Network TV?

[Floyd]

After reading the thread on the National board involving Pappas getting the CW affiliation for his current WB affiliate KFRE 59, it makes me wonder if KAIL 53 will go after My Network TV or switch back to Independent?

 

[Joey1986]

> After reading the thread on the National board involving
> Pappas getting the CW affiliation for his current WB
> affiliate KFRE 59, it makes me wonder if KAIL 53 will go
> after My Network TV or switch back to Independent?
>
If 53 is Fox-owned, quite probably; because KCOP 13 L.A. (which is Fox-owned) will probably pick up the My Network TV affiliation.

 

[mrpariot]

> > After reading the thread on the National board involving
> > Pappas getting the CW affiliation for his current WB
> > affiliate KFRE 59, it makes me wonder if KAIL 53 will go
> > after My Network TV or switch back to Independent?
> >
> If 53 is Fox-owned, quite probably; because KCOP 13 L.A.
> (which is Fox-owned) will probably pick up the My Network TV
> affiliation.
>
KCOP is in Los Angeles, that is true. KAIL is in Fresno. What do the two have to do with one another?

(BTW -- KAIL is owned by Trans-America Broadcasting).

 

[KMRichards]

> KCOP is in Los Angeles, that is true. KAIL is in Fresno.
> What do the two have to do with one another?

Forgive the poster for falling into a common trap (commonly called "Joseph Gallant Syndrome"), which is to post without knowing enough about the subject first.

Instead of saying "if KAIL is Fox-owned" it would have been easy to look up whether or not they were. (As you point out, they aren't.)

Also, Fox already issued a list of its owned stations that would carry "My" when they announced the new service. There aren't any "secret" stations that they own which haven't already been announced.

Moral: If you can't take the time to fact check before posting, you are wide open to criticism. Our friend Mr. Pariot just did that to the "master clock setter".<P ID="signature">______________


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[paulsecic]

Fresno and UHF

> After reading the thread on the National board involving
> Pappas getting the CW affiliation for his current WB
> affiliate KFRE 59, it makes me wonder if KAIL 53 will go
> after My Network TV or switch back to Independent?
>
Why does Fresno only has UHF? When I was a child we would visit my cousin in Fresno, and the first time I watched TV I freaked out on the high channel numbers. Weather?

 

[KMRichards]

Re: Fresno and UHF

> Why does Fresno only has UHF? When I was a child we would
> visit my cousin in Fresno, and the first time I watched TV I
> freaked out on the high channel numbers. Weather?

This has been discussed before, but there are so many people on R-I right now the search engine has disabled itself (which it does when the system load is too high).

Fresno went all-UHF as part of the 1962 plan to "deintermix" several television markets to "prove" UHF viability. (The others were Huntsville AL, Bakersfield, Peoria IL, Fort Wayne IN, South Bend IN, Springfield MA, Elmira NY, Youngstown OH and Scranton/Wikes-Barre PA.)

Here is a PDF file from the FCC archives of a letter sent to Congressman Oren Harris (then-Chair of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) which may explain the reasoning:

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OSEC/library/legislative_histories/608.pdf>http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OSEC/library/legislative_histories/608.pdf</a>

An interesting side note is that making Fresno all-UHF allowed channel 12 to be used at Santa Maria (KFRE-TV*, now KFSN, was on 12 before being moved to 30 as part of deintermixing).

KERO/23 in Bakersfield was on channel 10 before the deintermixing. I don't know if it caused any interference to KBET/10 (now KXTV) in Sacramento or not. Given the flatness of the San Joaquin Valley, I wouldn't have ruled that out under certain weather conditions.

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[EricStein]

> After reading the thread on the National board involving
> Pappas getting the CW affiliation for his current WB
> affiliate KFRE 59, it makes me wonder if KAIL 53 will go
> after My Network TV or switch back to Independent?

KAIL will most likely get the My Network TV affiliation for Fresno. Compared to the other station they could go to, KGMC 43, they have a somewhat decent syndicated lineup.

Another thing I'd like to know, is if KAIL is up for sale (co-owned KDWN radio in Las Vegas was just sold). This station could go to someone, who could give it a much-needed larger budget and a major technical overhaul.