KIII-TV 3 in Corpus Christi to be Sold

[nbc9houston]

London Television Group is to purchase KIII from McKinnon Broadcasting. This will leave McKinnon with just KUSI in San Diego.
http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/23872.html

 

[fredcantu]

To say "The end of an era" just doesn't seem adequate.

 

[DToTheJ]

But wait, there's more: London is planning to assemble a Texas "network":
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/452257-London_Broadcasting_Plots_Texas_Network.php

 

[mmnassour]

That's a great thing if they can make it work. I wonder if they've got their eyes on anything in the Valley?

 

[fredcantu]

The Texas network concept didn't work so well for the Telemundo O&Os in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. They've gone their separate ways while sharing Dallas production resources.

 

[intx]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: KRGV in the Valley, KOSA in Midland, KTEN in Sherman/Denison, KFDA in Amarillo, KJTV in Lubbock and the Saga stations in Victoria (KAVU, etc.).

 

[Mediafrog+]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: KRGV in the Valley, KOSA in Midland, KTEN in Sherman/Denison, KFDA in Amarillo, KJTV in Lubbock and the Saga stations in Victoria (KAVU, etc.).

London Broadcasting had a deal in place a couple of years ago to acquire KFDA, along with siblings KXXV Waco, KWES Midland-Odessa, and KSWO Lawton (Wichita Falls.) The sale fell through (I never heard exactly why) with the collapsing economy likely a factor.

 

[mmnassour]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: KRGV in the Valley, KOSA in Midland, KTEN in Sherman/Denison, KFDA in Amarillo, KJTV in Lubbock and the Saga stations in Victoria (KAVU, etc.).

Buena suerte getting the Manships to let go of KRGV! I can't even begin to imagine the kind of check that would take........

 

[nbc9houston]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: KRGV in the Valley, KOSA in Midland, KTEN in Sherman/Denison, KFDA in Amarillo, KJTV in Lubbock and the Saga stations in Victoria (KAVU, etc.).

Hopefully, London Broadcasting could get their hands on a Laredo station (KGNS or KVTV). Like NBC on KBMT-dt2 and ABC on KTEN-dt3, they could add ABC on a subchannel of a potential Laredo affiliate.

 

[JHBrandt]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: ... KTEN in Sherman/Denison....

Does this Texas network concept include new programming? If it does, KTEN already has three subchannels. Where would the new programming go: onto 10.2 shared with the CW?

 

[nbc9houston]

Some options that aren't part of huge groups: ... KTEN in Sherman/Denison....

Does this Texas network concept include new programming? If it does, KTEN already has three subchannels. Where would the new programming go: onto 10.2 shared with the CW?

There are some TV stations that use more than three of its subchannels on their digital signal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KESQ-TV#Digital_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KECY#Digital_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVIA#Digital_television

 

[fredcantu]

There are some TV stations that use more than three of its subchannels on their digital signal:

Some of the TBN stations do FIVE and the higher subchannels look like dial-up Youtube. You can't stretch the bandwidth that much without the picture suffering.

 

[compubit]

Since they want to stay out of the top 4 markets - may they be looking at possibly a partnership with Belo - who owns 4 stations in the 4 markets???

Could get interesting...

Jim

 

[fredcantu]

Belo is already in additional markets including the Valley, Laredo, Beaumont and Corpus Christi via its Texas Cable News channel.

http://www.txcn.com/channelguide/

 

[compubit]

Yes - I'm familiar with TXCN (though I can't get it where I am...) - but putting together a partnership might make sense for shared news gathering across the state, as well as alternative Texas-based programming...

Jim

 

[nbc9houston]

Belo has been running a Border Bureau from the KVIA-TV studios since 2007. Angela Kocherga is the Belo-employed reporter station at the bureau.

http://www.elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=227&xrec=2550

 

[JHBrandt]

Some of the TBN stations do FIVE and the higher subchannels look like dial-up Youtube. You can't stretch the bandwidth that much without the picture suffering.

"Dial-up Youtube..."

At least TBN isn't trying to run HD. As bad as some of the stations mentioned above may look, the champion for overtaking the plumbing has to be KXII. Only 3 subchannels, but 2 are in HD!