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Sinclair buys Tribune

seatownmedia said:
Seattle may be the last top 15 market that still identifies their news/programming by the original calls, with the exception of KCPQ (Fox, known as Q13). KING are simply great calls, and KOMO and KIRO are easy to remember. But I doubt we will ever hear CBS7, or ABC4 in Seattle. (Watch someone switch next week!, :).
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Interesting though but in San Francisco the Fox O&O here KTVU call their newscasts with both the Call Letters and network branding at the same time as in (KTVU Fox 2News) its branding has been around since Fox took over the station from Cox television in 2014-2015.

And KPIX the CBS O&O in the Bay area is uses the KPIX 5 News brand.

That was mainly to generate ratings for their audiences. I know that PBS/NPR affiliate KQED referred to their news segments as KQED California Report and KQED Newsroom
 
Is WGN am pulling respectable numbers and revenue in their demo, are they better than KOMO AM. Sinclair did not rock the radio boat in Seattle. Why would they at WGN? By now they are used to running a legacy AM with transmitter site, like KOMO. The site here on Vashon is mowed and taken care of. Building looks great, Old RCA still there, one of the must see transmitter sites if you can book a tour.

Is WGN AM Bleeding money? I think they will keep it, they already see how KOMO am hooked to KOMO TV works.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Interesting though but in San Francisco the Fox O&O here KTVU call their newscasts with both the Call Letters and network branding at the same time as in (KTVU Fox 2News) its branding has been around since Fox took over the station from Cox television in 2014-2015.

And KPIX the CBS O&O in the Bay area is uses the KPIX 5 News brand.

That was mainly to generate ratings for their audiences. I know that PBS/NPR affiliate KQED referred to their news segments as KQED California Report and KQED Newsroom
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True about KPIX. However, unless mistaken, I think they were CBS-5 for many years previously. Could be wrong. For sure about KTVU Fox, that is more local call identity than the Seattle Fox affiliate, which hardly ever mentions KCPQ....just "Q-13", which sounds more like an old AM radio station than TV!
 
xmtrland said:
Is WGN am pulling respectable numbers and revenue in their demo, are they better than KOMO AM. Sinclair did not rock the radio boat in Seattle. Why would they at WGN? By now they are used to running a legacy AM with transmitter site, like KOMO. The site here on Vashon is mowed and taken care of. Building looks great, Old RCA still there, one of the must see transmitter sites if you can book a tour.

Is WGN AM Bleeding money? I think they will keep it, they already see how KOMO am hooked to KOMO TV works.}

WGN AM is doing well, competing with two other AM's in the Chicago market, WBBM (All-News), and The Score (sports). To my knowledge there is little connection between radio and tv at Tribune Chicago. Tribune's TV properties are divided up between the local feed, (Chicago sports/news), and WGN America, (mostly bad reruns).

That being said, the Tribune tv/radio properties combined with Tribune in Seattle and/or Portland, could be a nice package, but Fox would be out of the picture in that scenerio.
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seatownmedia said:
True about KPIX. However, unless mistaken, I think they were CBS-5 for many years previously. Could be wrong. For sure about KTVU Fox, that is more local call identity than the Seattle Fox affiliate, which hardly ever mentions KCPQ....just "Q-13", which sounds more like an old AM radio station than TV!
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Upon further investigation, KPIX was mostly associated with "5 Eyewitness News", with little mention of the calls. However, as the following video shows, their opens show more a prominent KPIX logo in later years. They did use the CBS5 moniker for many years, including their website, but reverted back to KPIX-5 in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFbKA8dQWc
 
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From my perspective I don't think the Sinclair/Tribune deal is all that significant. Sinclair doesn't pay its bills so it will probably never cut the check to Tribune!
 
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