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NBC ADDS 4 LP AFFILIATES (DOTHAN-AL, JONESBORO-AK, JACKSON-TN, IA-MO)

gregg75

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I've checked and WZMC-LP in Jackson, TN is on channel 35 (formerly TBN), which means that I won't be able to get it OTA from where I live North of town. In a way I hope they'll end up on cable, unless they try to claim exclusive rights to NBC on Charter, which would mean losing WMC in Memphis and possibly its subchannels. WBBJ did that with ABC and Charter had to drop WPTY in Memphis.

I would have rather seen either WBBJ or WJKT put NBC on one of their subchannels, but this is another case of their sitting on their backsides  and doing nothing.  :-\
 
I hope we don't lose WPSD on Dish Network for the LP Jackson station. :eek: I like WPSD a lot and they have a great staff, plus we are just getting used to it after losing WMC last year.
 
Arkansas is abbreviated AR.....

With that out of the way, I'm not sure a new owner would be successful with a LPTV than either an established station with a LPTV (such as WABG-WNBD-LP in Greenwood-Greenville MS), or a established station with a digital subchannel. If these stations start off a newscasts, its a crapshoot. Plus there's the issue of getting outlying areas to carry the station via cable. The Jonesboro AR market (basically one station, KAIT, the others are relay stations from AR Educational TV, and religious KVTN Little Rock) is shoehorned between Memphis, Little Rock, and Springfield MO and spreads out to areas where there has been no OTA coverage from these areas.
 
Jazz_Kat said:
I hope we don't lose WPSD on Dish Network for the LP Jackson station. :eek: I like WPSD a lot and they have a great staff, plus we are just getting used to it after losing WMC last year.
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I don't understand why Dish's local channel package for the Jackson area has NBC from WPSD and CBS from KFVS in Cape Girardeau, MO instead of getting CBS and NBC from either Memphis or Nashville, which are closer. The only actual Jackson stations in the package are WBBJ (ABC), WJKT (Fox), and WLJT (PBS). Along with that, the local channel package for Jackson is only available in Jackson and the 3 or 4 surrounding counties. Dyersburg, which is only 40 miles from Jackson and about 20 miles from WJKT's tower, has to take the Memphis package and can't get the Jackson package. I've thought that customers for satellite systems should have the option of two local channel packages.

But then unless things have recently changed, DirecTV still doesn't have a local channel package for Jackson.
 
Oh well, there goes any opportunity for Dothan and Panama City merging into a single DMA. I actually was rooting for that occur considering the 2 cities are only an hour apart in distance and the over duplication of station in overlapping areas of Southeast Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
 
kilamanjero said:
Oh well, there goes any opportunity for Dothan and Panama City merging into a single DMA. I actually was rooting for that occur considering the 2 cities are only an hour apart in distance and the over duplication of station in overlapping areas of Southeast Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
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Considering that Dothan and Panama City each have their own ABC and Fox affiliates, the conclusion was practically foretold that they were destined to be their own markets.
 
mgsports said:
Cedar RAPIDS or Iowa City is closer to the MO border.
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But the NBC affiliate in the Cedar Rapids market is in Waterloo, which is closer to Minnesota than Missouri.
 
Something I'm wondering is what the rest of the day's local programming will be. Will it turn out to be typical LPTV programming of infomercials and the same old third rate shows and PD reruns, or will they really make an effort to make it a good local station?
 
anotherguy said:
Something I'm wondering is what the rest of the day's local programming will be. Will it turn out to be typical LPTV programming of infomercials and the same old third rate shows and PD reruns, or will they really make an effort to make it a good local station?
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As they are LPTVs with no support from the local full-powered stations, they will need alot of convincing to get on the local cable systems and into the viewers' hearts; Dothan viewers are well-settled into getting NBC from WJHG and WSFA -- they probably won't be pleased if they're forced to get their NBC from a second-rate upstart LPTV.
 
I'll feel the same way if the Jackson LPTV takes the place of WMC in Memphis. I've had things about WMC I've hated, but I'd rather have them than an LPTV station for NBC. If they co-exist with WMC that won't be so bad. but I won't be surprised to see them try to boot WMC from Charter.
 
anotherguy said:
So is there any word on when these stations will go live? I haven't seen any kind of advertisint for WCMZ yet,
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Isn't WCMZ a Flint satellite of PBS station WCMU in Mount Pleasant, Michigan?
 
azumanga said:
anotherguy said:
So is there any word on when these stations will go live? I haven't seen any kind of advertisint for WCMZ yet,
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Isn't WCMZ a Flint satellite of PBS station WCMU in Mount Pleasant, Michigan?
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It is, but anotherguy has come down with a sudden case of keyboard lysdexia. The station is WZMC-LP.

Having said that, it's possible for unrelated full- and low-power stations to have the same base call sign. KCOS-LP in Phoenix, formerly a Spanish-language Godcaster, isn't related in the least to KCOS, the PBS station in El Paso.
 
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