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MY TV for detroit
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> who will get the My tv network for Detroit? WDWB 20 or WADL
> 38?
Probably not 38...they'd rather run infomercials in primetime, and early prime, and daytime, and overnights...
20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to handle and anything that would make the station more attractive to a potential buyer would help.<P ID="signature">______________
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> 38?
Probably not 38...they'd rather run infomercials in primetime, and early prime, and daytime, and overnights...
20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to handle and anything that would make the station more attractive to a potential buyer would help.<P ID="signature">______________
The only thing I gotta do is stay terrestrial and die!</P>
K
KMRichards
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> > who will get the My tv network for Detroit? WDWB 20 or
> WADL
> > 38?
>
> Probably not 38...they'd rather run infomercials in
> primetime, and early prime, and daytime, and overnights...
>
> 20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to
> handle and anything that would make the station more
> attractive to a potential buyer would help.
Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
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> WADL
> > 38?
>
> Probably not 38...they'd rather run infomercials in
> primetime, and early prime, and daytime, and overnights...
>
> 20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to
> handle and anything that would make the station more
> attractive to a potential buyer would help.
Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
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> > 20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to
> > handle and anything that would make the station more
> > attractive to a potential buyer would help.
>
> Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
San Francisco was a much more competitive market for it, though, with not only Young's KRON (which got it) but also Cox's KICU as potential rivals to Granite's KBWB for My.
As we learned in Detroit back in the "Where Will CBS Land" sweepstakes of 1995, the options in the Motor City are much more limited. It's basically 20 or 38, and 38 hasn't seemed very interested in any network affiliation, going all the way back to 1995, when it could have had the CBS affiliation just for asking. They must make a really pretty penny from all the infomercials at 38.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > handle and anything that would make the station more
> > attractive to a potential buyer would help.
>
> Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
San Francisco was a much more competitive market for it, though, with not only Young's KRON (which got it) but also Cox's KICU as potential rivals to Granite's KBWB for My.
As we learned in Detroit back in the "Where Will CBS Land" sweepstakes of 1995, the options in the Motor City are much more limited. It's basically 20 or 38, and 38 hasn't seemed very interested in any network affiliation, going all the way back to 1995, when it could have had the CBS affiliation just for asking. They must make a really pretty penny from all the infomercials at 38.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > 20 needs it; Granite's debt load is becoming too much to
> > handle and anything that would make the station more
> > attractive to a potential buyer would help.
>
> Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
>
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TV 20 very well could get My Network TV, but they also appear to wish to be independent. I believe one of the newspapers in Detroit mentioned that WDWB was planning to go independent, but don't quote me. I think the same article also mentioned that the call letters would most likely be changing, although as has been mentioned in another thread, they couldn't bring back the WXON calls due to a nearby LP station. If they went to My, I predict calls changing to WMND or WDMN (My Network Detroit), which are both presently available. If not, they could choose WTTD (TV Twenty Detroit), which is used by an LP in Virginia, but I believe that callsigns can be duplicated from an LP to a full-power station as long as they are a certain distance apart.
All I know for sure is that WDWB does have a certain amount of sports programming, including Pistons basketball, that may conflict with showing the My schedule at the regular time.
I wouldn't rule out WADL getting My, but it is unlikely. However don't forget they did air Fox Kids programming for awhile, and they have also been known to show other programming such as repeats of WJBK's Eyewitness News a number of years ago. So My could go to Channel 38 there.
Otherwise, My will end up either on a low power station, which there is no shortage of in Detroit, or as a digital subchannel on FOX 2.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > handle and anything that would make the station more
> > attractive to a potential buyer would help.
>
> Especially since they lost the bid for it in San Francisco.
>
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TV 20 very well could get My Network TV, but they also appear to wish to be independent. I believe one of the newspapers in Detroit mentioned that WDWB was planning to go independent, but don't quote me. I think the same article also mentioned that the call letters would most likely be changing, although as has been mentioned in another thread, they couldn't bring back the WXON calls due to a nearby LP station. If they went to My, I predict calls changing to WMND or WDMN (My Network Detroit), which are both presently available. If not, they could choose WTTD (TV Twenty Detroit), which is used by an LP in Virginia, but I believe that callsigns can be duplicated from an LP to a full-power station as long as they are a certain distance apart.
All I know for sure is that WDWB does have a certain amount of sports programming, including Pistons basketball, that may conflict with showing the My schedule at the regular time.
I wouldn't rule out WADL getting My, but it is unlikely. However don't forget they did air Fox Kids programming for awhile, and they have also been known to show other programming such as repeats of WJBK's Eyewitness News a number of years ago. So My could go to Channel 38 there.
Otherwise, My will end up either on a low power station, which there is no shortage of in Detroit, or as a digital subchannel on FOX 2.<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P>
K
KMRichards
Guest
> TV 20 very well could get My Network TV, but they also
> appear to wish to be independent.
Read this thread on California TV:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Board=tv-california&Post=681593&page=>http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Board=tv-california&Post=681593&page=</a>
Note especially the post from BillH (who works at KBWB). They wanted it, and KRON/4 shut them out of it.
I am afraid that the facts make your above statement look terribly uninformed.<P ID="signature">______________
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> appear to wish to be independent.
Read this thread on California TV:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Board=tv-california&Post=681593&page=>http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Board=tv-california&Post=681593&page=</a>
Note especially the post from BillH (who works at KBWB). They wanted it, and KRON/4 shut them out of it.
I am afraid that the facts make your above statement look terribly uninformed.<P ID="signature">______________
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