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Should The "Ackerley Group" Come Back?

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cnymike

Do you think that if/when the Newport deal with ClearChannel falls through, the Ackerley's should just buyout "Central NY News, Inc."? After that, continue on with what they were doing before the buyout (WIXT'ifying everything).

I say YES!
 
It might be nice, but I don't think we'll ever see it happen.
If Ackerley were in good-enough shape to stay alive, they never would have sold out in the first place.
 
Very bad idea. Ackerley didn't know how to run television stations then, and certainly wouldn’t know how to run them in today’s climate. The entire “hub” system continues to cause problems on several levels—and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s scrapped soon.

As for the “WIXT'ifying” of things—they’re a good station and all… but 13 in Rochester has always been in a much better position than WIXT. They add a lot more to the bottom line of Clear Channel that most of the other CCNY properties combined.
 
To their credit they did try to invest in the news departments of WUTR and WIVT to no real success though. However WIXTing everything was a mistake. WIXT/WSYR's own logo looks cheap and has that ugly nine. I felt it was out of place for other stations like WOKR, though WIVT still uses the logo. The logos for WHAM these days is much better imo.
 
dustintv said:
WIXT/WSYR's own logo looks cheap and has that ugly nine. (...) The logos for WHAM these days is much better imo.
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Um, the 13 WHAM News logo is pretty much the same as the News Channel 9 logo -- just different colors and the number's on the left instead of the right. They both use the same exact font. I guess those 2 differences could be it for you, but they're really not that different. But, as far as the overall graphics and opens go, I will agree WHAM's are better.
 
Depth Charge

How much has the business declined when people are longing for the return of the Ackerley Group?
 
I think if they do come back (like that's likely at all), they need to let WHAM be. That's the only station they aquired that was #1, so I could see how WIXT'ifying everything was a plan. Those were my favorite days at WUTR anyway.

I've been wanting the Ackerley people back after what ClearChannel has been doing with WIVT, WUTR (did), and WWTI.
 
For WIVT, it'd be nice for WHAM to share their graphics. WWTI needs to just copy WSYR-TV and WHAM-TV to get anywhere.
 
BobRoss said:
dustintv said:
WIXT/WSYR's own logo looks cheap and has that ugly nine. (...) The logos for WHAM these days is much better imo.
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Um, the 13 WHAM News logo is pretty much the same as the News Channel 9 logo -- just different colors and the number's on the left instead of the right. They both use the same exact font. I guess those 2 differences could be it for you, but they're really not that different. But, as far as the overall graphics and opens go, I will agree WHAM's are better.
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Hmm I actually hadn't noticed the numbers were the same font. But I haven't ever been keen on that 9...always has looked kind of slanted to me.
 
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