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Mornings on WWOR?

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dustintv

Now I realize that WWOR and WNYW are both owned by Fox, but if Fox lets WWOR have a 10pm newscast going up against 5's, what's stopping WWOR from putting on a morning show of sorts? It could have a Jersey focus or something like "Good Day Newark" instead of paid programs and bad sitcoms in the mornings.
 
A "Good Day in Newark" or some such show is a nice concept on paper but I don't think Fox would go for it, likely because the morning market is much more fragmented than the 10 PM news market. In mornings, you have 2, 4, 7, 11 all doing something. At 10 PM, you only have 11 as a local competitor doing something specific for that hour. They probably don't want to divide up the pie any more than it already is in mornings, while at 10 PM, they aren't really threatened much by the relatively few viewers 9 will pull instead of 5, so they're really only going up against 11's respectable newscast.
 
One thing I'm curious about is -- how well do New York stations treat New Jersey these days? The main reason the old WOR-TV was threatened with license revocation in the 1980s was that they didn't have enough news coverage for New Jersey.
 
azumanga said:
One thing I'm curious about is -- how well do New York stations treat New Jersey these days? The main reason the old WOR-TV was threatened with license revocation in the 1980s was that they didn't have enough news coverage for New Jersey.
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Um, no.

The old WOR-TV was licensed to New York way back. To avoid having the license pulled do to some shenanigans by the owner, they agreed to change the COL to Secaucus.
 
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOR-TV#Troubles_with_the_FCC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOR-TV#Move_to_New_Jersey

Excerpt:
In order to buy itself some time, RKO (with the help of New Jersey senator Bill Bradley) persuaded the U.S. Congress to pass a law requiring the FCC to automatically renew the license of any VHF station that moved its license to New Jersey, a state which for many years complained of being "underserved" by VHF stations from the New York City and Philadelphia markets...
 
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