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KRNV 4 Reno moves to KRXI 11.2

Yep. Per RabbitEars.info, NBC on 11.2, ROAR on 4.1. Three guesses as to who owns this station, and the first two don't count.
 
If the first two guesses don't count:
1. Allen B. DuMont
2. Edward J. Noble
 
RoseCatkw_21 said:
what's the point of that "Roar" network moves to their main channel, like that network wasn't even popular compared to others
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Popular? I've never even heard of it, outside of this message board. If it's on in Phoenix, I can't tell you the channel. Nor will I probably care. 😱
 
RoseCatkw_21 said:
what's the point of that "Roar" network moves to their main channel, like that network wasn't even popular compared to others
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It's owned by Sinclair. That's why it gets the .1 on so many of the stations they own.

Roar is the comedy network that used to be TBD. The schedule is heavy with reruns of Saturday Night Live and Whose Line Is It Anyway? ... and inexplicably, also reruns of Weakest Link and Hollywood Game Night.

Recently, they added several hours a day of old America's Funniest Home Videos (or as I call it, America's Stupidest People) . Weekends include that old CourtTV show World's Dumbest, Punk'd, and Key & Peele.
 
RoseCatkw_21 said:
what's the point of that "Roar" network moves to their main channel, like that network wasn't even popular compared to others
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What has happened is that Sinclair is taking subchannels that contain major network affiliations and, for attribution purposes, moving them from stations they program to stations they own. Only a handful are left among the stations owned by Cunningham Broadcasting.

Sinclair has done this before, with a flurry in the late 2010s, and as early as 2015. I think that some of the deregulation, the striking down of an attempt under the Biden administration to prevent acquisition of network affiliations as standalone assets, and the fines Sinclair sidecars were hit with in the KidsClick case ($512K a station) are factors. It allows Sinclair to directly provide more than 15% of the station's broadcast day (e.g. news) and also makes starting 3.0 a little easier.

More broadly, Sinclair has been picking up options to acquire the licenses of stations they program, including in several cases stations they would not have been able to own directly before Zimmer Radio. They call this station portfolio optimization. In fact, some of the stations that were shelled out like this in this round (WPFO Portland ME, WYDO in eastern NC) are stations Sinclair has filed to buy outright.

Cunningham is down to these stations that hold major network affiliations:
  • WWCP and WATM. These are in Pennsylvania and have incredibly interrelated history. They are basically a semi-duopoly that contracts with Sinclair's WJAC-TV in this market.
  • WGTU and WGTQ. A northern Michigan oddity: WPBN and WTOM already have ABC as subchannels, so it's not clear what gives.
  • WTAT. Cunningham committed to operate this station standalone as a result of Sinclair buying Allbritton here, which led to a mess with WCIV and WMMP.
  • WYZZ. This station in Peoria, Illinois, is owned by Cunningham (with a transfer to Sinclair pending at FCC) but has been programmed by Nexstar for years.
 
Sammi Brie said:
WGTU and WGTQ. A northern Michigan oddity: WPBN and WTOM already have ABC as subchannels, so it's not clear what gives.
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It should also be noted that WPBN/WTOM is ALSO on WGTU/WGTQ by a subchannel (29.2/8.2) but yea, WGTU/WGTQ (29/8) is seen on 7.2/4.2.
 
Negin said:
Shouldn't it be called NBC 11 KRXI?
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The call signs are removed from the identity, but nothing else changes. They are still branding it as NBC News 4. This is deliberate because, for cable and streaming viewers, there is little to no change (though on cable we've seen some channel changes for the affected services in the various markets).
 
They did this in providence... moved ABC from 6.1 to 10.2 why? Sinclair owns 10 NBC and moving ABC there gets them to be able to negotiate cable carriage/re trans stuff because they own 10, they cant negotiate for a station they didnt own, which is 6... and putting their diginet gets it clearance in a market, making it look better to advertisers
 


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