More PAX/i oddness

[toby]

Here is something really odd, all the schedules for WPXN say WNBC 11PM rebroadcast, but there is a Time Life R&B infomercial on, while on the national feed its a country music infomercial!<P ID="signature">______________
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[Mediafrog]

> Here is something really odd, all the schedules for WPXN say
> WNBC 11PM rebroadcast, but there is a Time Life R&B
> infomercial on

It's likely that many if not most of the repurposed newscasts carried by the (former) PAX stations have disappeared with the flip to "i." Here in Houston KHOU's 10p news rebroadcast is gone from KPXB, replaced by an infomercial.

 

[KMRichards]

> > Here is something really odd, all the schedules for WPXN
> say
> > WNBC 11PM rebroadcast, but there is a Time Life R&B
> > infomercial on
>
> It's likely that many if not most of the repurposed
> newscasts carried by the (former) PAX stations have
> disappeared with the flip to "i." Here in Houston KHOU's
> 10p news rebroadcast is gone from KPXB, replaced by an
> infomercial.

Apparently not true in markets with NBC O&Os. Here in Los Angeles, the repurposed KNBC newscasts are still running a half-hour later on KPXN. (Of course, it must also be pointed out that KPXN's master control is at NBC Burbank.)
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[BrettV]

In Akron/Canton our local Cleveland NBC affiliate prepared a special newscast especially for PAX. It is staying on the air, being relocated to a Time Warner Cable station starting Monday.

 

[mjlarochelle]

> In Akron/Canton our local Cleveland NBC affiliate prepared
> a special newscast especially for PAX. It is staying on the
> air, being relocated to a Time Warner Cable station starting
> Monday.
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I guess it's the end of an era then...not only the end of televised news on WAKR/WAKC/WVPX 23, but the end of OTA news for an Akron station.

 

[mjlarochelle]

> > In Akron/Canton our local Cleveland NBC affiliate
> prepared
> > a special newscast especially for PAX. It is staying on
> the
> > air, being relocated to a Time Warner Cable station
> starting
> > Monday.
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> I guess it's the end of an era then...not only the end of
> televised news on WAKR/WAKC/WVPX 23, but the end of OTA news
> for an Akron station.
>
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Alright, next time I'll read all the new posts before responding to a thread.

 

[Braves2005]

On San Antonio's KPXL-Channel 26 last night,they had not only a small PAX logo on the left but the I logo on the right and they were still showing America's Funniest Home Videos for the 9000th time.

I wish the San Antonio station would start showing I Married Joan,My Little Margie,Ozzie and Harriet,and The Beverly Hillbillies even if they are the Public Domain episodes.

 

[OldAkronite]

> I guess it's the end of an era then...not only the end of
> televised news on WAKR/WAKC/WVPX 23, but the end of OTA news
> for an Akron station.

BTW, there is another Akron-licensed commercial station in the market, WB affiliate WBNX/55. But there are many reasons that moving "PAX 23 News" to WBNX wasn't happening...

Hmm, that'd make a good blog blathering.

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[mjlarochelle]

> BTW, there is another Akron-licensed commercial station in
> the market, WB affiliate WBNX/55. But there are many
> reasons that moving "PAX 23 News" to WBNX wasn't
> happening...
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And why can't WBNX have a newscast? Can't they enter into a partnership with WKYC, now that the NBC-i/PAX relations have soured?

 

[rugrats1]

> And why can't WBNX have a newscast? Can't they enter into a
> partnership with WKYC, now that the NBC-i/PAX relations have
> soured?
>

Two words -- Ernest Angley ("healing" televangelist who owns the station).

 

[jegrant]

Here in the Indianapolis market, WTHR has moved their 10pm newscast to the SkyTrak Weather Network (WALV-CA // WTHR-DT subchannel). The newscast was already simulcasting on both PAX and STWN, so this is only a small reduction in coverage, since STWN has comparable cable carriage to PAX.

"The Indy Scene" - a local infotainment/infomercial program about what's happening at various establishments around Indianapolis moves from 5:30-6P M-F on PAX to 11-11:30P Tue-F on STWN. The "Scene" only produces one new episode per week, but to their credit, they stream it in its entirety at http://www.theindyscene.com/ .

What I've been wondering is if OTA non-O&O PAX affiliates will be able to pick whether they want to move to the new i network or stay with the PAX stream. I suspect that stations like Guardian TV (WSFJ) in Columbus might prefer to stay with PAX rather than move to i. I do get the impression that all the O&Os will broadcast i in analog and merely have the other streams available digitally.

 

[OldAkronite]

> Two words -- Ernest Angley ("healing" televangelist who owns
> the station).

I go into this in detail on my...well, you know, that thing linked in my signature file below. (I don't wanna spend all my time here promoting it!)

Some of this is content - Rev. Ernest may or may not be happy with whatever the news is that day, though WKYC is generally a pretty straightforward operation with little flash. And some of this is that he's not moving his religious talk show "The Ninety and Nine Club" out of the 10 PM slot, since he already had to move it from 9 PM when they picked up the WB...

As far as "why can't they do it" NOW, they already got into a deal with Time Warner Cable to house the newscast...see my thread below.

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