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Peoria: Quincy buys ABC, CW affiliations from Sinclair

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There’s a big announcement today from our parent company as we've learned our station operations are expanding to include two new channels.

Quincy Media General Manager and CEO Ralph Oakley shared the good news today that Quincy has purchased the ABC and CW affiliations from the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

As a result, now you can watch your news and favorite programs on 25.1, 25.2 and 25.3.

For people watching on cable and satellite there's no change. For everyone else, Quincy will launch an educational campaign over the next two months to help HOI and CW viewers make the switch. As WEEK General Manager Mark DeSantis explains, our station had already been providing news and other services to WHOI under a pre-existing agreement.

But now all three stations are under the same umbrella.
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http://www.cinewsnow.com/news/local...-from-Sinclair-Broadcast-Group-388308022.html

Will all three subchannels be in HD? And what happens to WHOI?
 
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Fate of WHOI? Maybe it will be that of the former NBC affiliate in Hastings NE, KHAS, where Gray moved the affiliation to KOLN 10/KGIN 11 Lincoln and Grand Island, then took KHAS dark and sold it. It operates now as a SonLife affiliate as KNHL. Maybe that's what Sinclair has in mind, selling what's left of WHOI for whatever it can fetch on the open market.

But where KHAS was a low-value low-bander actually transmitting on channel 5, in the middle of Nebraska, WHOI as a UHF station near Chicago probably has a lot more value to Sinclair as auction bait.
 
joebtsflk1 said:
Fate of WHOI? Maybe it will be that of the former NBC affiliate in Hastings NE, KHAS, where Gray moved the affiliation to KOLN 10/KGIN 11 Lincoln and Grand Island, then took KHAS dark and sold it. It operates now as a SonLife affiliate as KNHL. Maybe that's what Sinclair has in mind, selling what's left of WHOI for whatever it can fetch on the open market.
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Auction?

But where KHAS was a low-value low-bander actually transmitting on channel 5, in the middle of Nebraska, WHOI as a UHF station near Chicago probably has a lot more value to Sinclair as auction bait.
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Peoria is about 130 miles from Chicago -- hardly "near" it.
 
KeithE4 said:
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Peoria is about 130 miles from Chicago -- hardly "near" it.
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Remember with the TV repack auctions the goal is to clear up to 128 MHz of spectrum above channel 30 (I think)for wireless services. The closer you are to a major metro like Chicago, the more valuable is a UHF station. Continued operation of a UHF channel at Peoria would preclude its use for wireless in the Chicago metro, only about 120 miles away.

There are going to be a lot of markets in the 100+ where the big four affiliates will be split between two channels. More consolidation to come. And mama don't let your kids grow up to be TV news stars. "Starves" will be more like it, a conjugation of "star" and "slave". Two channels instead of three in a market means one newsroom is going away.
 
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Comet will move to 19-1 in September
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20160802...k-tv-quincy-media-moving-abc-cw-to-channel-25

The current ABC program stream will be simulcast on 19.1 as well as 25.2 through the end of September to allow people receiving the signal over the air to rescan tuners to receive the program stream on 25.2, said DeSantis. "After that time Sinclair will likely broadcast some program stream on the WHOI signal to retain the FCC license. WHOI has broadcast Comet TV (a sci-fi channel) on 19.3 for several years. They plan to program that channel on the 19.1 frequency after September."

One error....Comet started in October last year so they havent been broadcasting it for "years" ;)
 
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