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More Pax Fallout - Local TV Newscast Moves

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OldAkronite

PAX 23 News, a newscast targeted to the Akron/Canton portion of the Cleveland market, is moving off that channel Monday. It'll land on local cable.

<a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/07/channel-23-news-has-to-move-now.html>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/07/channel-23-news-has-to-move-now.html</a>

(OK, so it's my own blog, but all the appropriate links are there.)

This is not necessarily a direct impact of the changes and rebranding at PAX TV, which is now starting to call itself "i". (Note to other flailing networks: The lowercase letters "a" through "h" are still available, as are "j" through "z".)

Instead, it comes from the end of a LMA between PAX and Gannett, the station ownership group which owns local NBC affiliate WKYC/3 in Cleveland...which produces the newscast. When NBC took up with PAX some years ago, many affiliates followed, including those owned by other groups besides NBC.

The article in the local paper (linked above) notes that Gannett still tried to get a renewal agreement with WVPX locally, but couldn't do anything long-term. (The continued "up in the air" status with PAX would seem to indicate this as likely.)

The Time Warner system covers a large chunk of the newscast's target market, and has high penetration in that area. But some areas (like, where I live!) don't have TWC, at least until they take care of Adelphia later this year or so.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
My NEW blog is at Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
Anyone know if the live 10pm newscasts on former "Pax" affiliates in Portland, OR and Indianapolis are still on? The NBC affiliates in both markets produced half-hour newscasts for the now-"i" O&Os. Well, technically for Indianapolis, it was just a simulcast of WTHR's 10pm news broadcast from their own LPTV, WALV-CA.
 
> (Note to other flailing networks: The lowercase
> letters "a" through "h" are still available, as are "j"
> through "z".)

It should also be noted that the Shift key gives you 26 more tantalizing options. Be bold and go with "I" to take on "i" head on!

Clever, OldAkronite, you brought me my laugh for the day. :)<P ID="signature">______________
</P>
 
> > (Note to other flailing networks: The lowercase
> > letters "a" through "h" are still available, as are "j"
> > through "z".)
>
> It should also be noted that the Shift key gives you 26 more
> tantalizing options. Be bold and go with "I" to take on "i"
> head on!

Except that "E" is already taken, and KHIZ/64 Victorville calls itself "Channel Z".

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> Anyone know if the live 10pm newscasts on former "Pax"
> affiliates in Portland, OR and Indianapolis are still on?
> The NBC affiliates in both markets produced half-hour
> newscasts for the now-"i" O&Os. Well, technically for
> Indianapolis, it was just a simulcast of WTHR's 10pm news
> broadcast from their own LPTV, WALV-CA.

It wasn't an original, but I hear the repeats of NBC affil WSLS/10 Roanoke's newscasts are gone from WPXR/38 in that market. WSLS is a Media General station.

The repeats were not a huge deal for 10, because they produce the 10 PM newscast on Fox 21/27 (WFXR/WJPR).

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
My NEW blog is at Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
> > > (Note to other flailing networks: The lowercase
> > > letters "a" through "h" are still available, as are "j"
> > > through "z".)
> >
> > It should also be noted that the Shift key gives you 26
> more
> > tantalizing options. Be bold and go with "I" to take on
> "i"
> > head on!
>
> Except that "E" is already taken, and KHIZ/64 Victorville
> calls itself "Channel Z".
>

My sincerest of apologies for the oversights. :)<P ID="signature">______________
</P>
 
> > > (Note to other flailing networks: The lowercase
> > > letters "a" through "h" are still available, as are "j"
> > > through "z".)
> >
> > It should also be noted that the Shift key gives you 26
> more
> > tantalizing options. Be bold and go with "I" to take on
> "i"
> > head on!
>
> Except that "E" is already taken, and KHIZ/64 Victorville
> calls itself "Channel Z".
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Not to mention starting one month from today CFPL/10 in London is going to be known as "A Channel", along with a number of other stations in southern Ontario and one in BC. The 'A' stands for Alberta.
 
> The 'A' (in "A Channel") stands for Alberta.
>
Which lost its meaning once they reflagged MTN (CHMI in Portage La Prairie / Winnipeg, MB) as an "A Channel". Now, it'll lose even more meaning this August, when the "New" channels in Ontario and Victoria become "A Channels", with the original "A Channels" becoming "Citytvs".
 
> > The 'A' (in "A Channel") stands for Alberta.
> >
> Which lost its meaning once they reflagged MTN (CHMI in
> Portage La Prairie / Winnipeg, MB) as an "A Channel". Now,
> it'll lose even more meaning this August, when the "New"
> channels in Ontario and Victoria become "A Channels", with
> the original "A Channels" becoming "Citytvs".
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It still means Alberta though. Alberta Channel was CKEM and CKAL, then somehow it ended up on CHMI and now in Ontario. :S
 
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