OT:WVPX-TV 23 News to move over to Time Warner Cable

[TimL]

Local Over-The Air Broadcast news in Akron-Canton comes to an end today as WVPX-TV 23 News, produced by WKYC 3 under an agreement with Pax (which ends nationally today)..The Newscast moves over to Local Time-Warner Cable systems exclusively as of Monday, July 4, With News at 6:30 and 9PM.

complete details here:

R. D. Heldenfels:Akron Beacon Journal

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/12031592.htm

Press Release from WKYC:


http://www.wkyc.com/akron/akron_fullstory.asp?id=37270

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimL on 07/01/05 03:32 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[nate81]

> Local Over-The Air Broadcast news in Akron-Canton comes to
> an end today as WVPX-TV 23 News, produced by WKYC 3 under an
> agreement with Pax (which ends nationally today)..The
> Newscast moves over to Local Time-Warner Cable systems
> exclusively as of Monday, July 4, With News at 6:30 and 9PM.
>
>
> complete details here:
>
> R. D. Heldenfels:Akron Beacon Journal
>
> http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/12031592.htm
>
> Press Release from WKYC:
>
>
> http://www.wkyc.com/akron/akron_fullstory.asp?id=37270
>

I don't know the exact gird for all cable operators, but Time Warner should increase their coverage area nicely in the Akron market via Adelphia's eventual dispersal...

Of course, this isn't the first time local news has been dropped from TV-23 - the previous episode was far more dramatic. Remember that Paxson cancelled all news programming just DAYS after buying then-WAKC from ValueVison in 1996, firing everyone in the process. (Ironic in that ValueVison, despite being a home-shopping programmer, actually INCREASED news output on WAKC.)

WVPX probably is searcing for a new home as well. WKYC, by virtue of the LMA, had WVPX's master control run out of WKYC's Lakeside Ave. studio facility...

Oh, and one other change to WVPX: the Pax network will soon be re-branded as "i" - Oookay...

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[OldAkronite]

> I don't know the exact gird for all cable operators, but
> Time Warner should increase their coverage area nicely in
> the Akron market via Adelphia's eventual dispersal...

And as I note in the blog today, maybe WKYC and Adelphia can feed the cast to that system somehow on a temporary basis...between now and the merger being finalized. It's still an open question how TWC will treat the Adelphia lineup when it takes over, but I suspect they'll try to make the new newscast available to Akron area subscribers currently on Adelphia (pre-merger), if they don't make it available beforehand.

If I had to guess, TWC will standardize Bath, Copley and MAYBE the Adelphia Western Reserve systems on the current TWC Akron lineup. I'm not 100% sure they won't put those systems up in Macedonia up with Cleveland. The lineups won't be THAT different, though.

> Oh, and one other change to WVPX: the Pax network will soon
> be re-branded as "i" - Oookay...

Have you ever watched a TV network in its death throes? It's so fun...

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[LTFT]

> Oh, and one other change to WVPX: the Pax network will soon
> be re-branded as "i" - Oookay...
>


Is that short for infomercial?