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KRON and MediaCom

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1069_KIFR

KRON4 announcing that their contract is expiring very soon with MediaCom. Their Broadcast being carried on that system may be interrupted.

Reminds me that KOFY and San Bruno Cable still have not come to terms to resume broadcasting KOFY on their system.
 
I know everyone was worried and on the edge of their seats waiting to hear an update. Here it is from the KRON4 web site:


STATUS UPDATE: KRON 4 has reached an agreement with Mediacom. This agreement will allow KRON 4 to remain on the Mediacom cable system without interruption.

Phew, now we can all relax and go back to living our normal lives!
 
1069_KIFR said:
KRON4 announcing that their contract is expiring very soon with MediaCom. Their Broadcast being carried on that system may be interrupted.

Reminds me that KOFY and San Bruno Cable still have not come to terms to resume broadcasting KOFY on their system.
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I miss the days when KRON was an NBC affiliate.
 
1069_KIFR said:
I'm sure the employees of KRON4 miss it too!!!
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I bet. :)

A little off topic however I'm not in the market anymore. Curious how Channel 11 has served the SF Bay in lieu of KRON.
 
stewie said:
1069_KIFR said:
I'm sure the employees of KRON4 miss it too!!!
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I bet. :)

A little off topic however I'm not in the market anymore. Curious how Channel 11 has served the SF Bay in lieu of KRON.
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You may know this, but in case you don't - a lot of OTA viewers were initially screwed by NBC's move to KNTV, but they moved the transmitter to Mt. San Bruno between Burlingame and South SF. I live on the south side of Bernal Heights, out of the line of site of the Twin Peaks Tower, but I can actually see the KNTV tower out my bedroom window. So ironically, I can get KNTV over the air, whereas I could not get KRON OTA.

I've heard that some viewers in the North Bay still got better OTA reception from KRON than they do now from KNTV. But since most viewers have cable or satellite now, it's mostlhy a non-issue...hence their branding as "NBC Bay Area"...not "11."
 
Lkeller said:
stewie said:
1069_KIFR said:
I'm sure the employees of KRON4 miss it too!!!
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I bet. :)

A little off topic however I'm not in the market anymore. Curious how Channel 11 has served the SF Bay in lieu of KRON.
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You may know this, but in case you don't - a lot of OTA viewers were initially screwed by NBC's move to KNTV, but they moved the transmitter to Mt. San Bruno between Burlingame and South SF. I live on the south side of Bernal Heights, out of the line of site of the Twin Peaks Tower, but I can actually see the KNTV tower out my bedroom window. So ironically, I can get KNTV over the air, whereas I could not get KRON OTA.

I've heard that some viewers in the North Bay still got better OTA reception from KRON than they do now from KNTV. But since most viewers have cable or satellite now, it's mostlhy a non-issue...hence their branding as "NBC Bay Area"...not "11."
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I was born and raised in San Jose so I remember KNTV very well and remember the move. Haven't kept up with all the changes so thanks for the information. Is NBC Bay Area still feed from a master control in Southern CA? I vaguely remember hearing something of master control being out of market and fiber fed. Is that still the case?
 
To the best of my knowledge, yes. SoCal Master Controls KNTV. I've read also that NBC was going to move Master Control for all NBC O and O's out of Atlanta.
 
1069_KIFR said:
To the best of my knowledge, yes. SoCal Master Controls KNTV. I've read also that NBC was going to move Master Control for all NBC O and O's out of Atlanta.
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KNTV has large studios on North First Street in San Jose for local programming - news and the like. In fact, I thought KRON had signed some agreement to move their studios to the KNTV facilities so they could save money, and make millions selling their Van Ness Avenue studios.

Did that ever happen?
 
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