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Sinclair Starts the Battle with Time Warner Cable Early

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theformerwhammy1978

The other night, while watching My 48 (WMYV), a crawl at the top of the screen was ran stating that on January 1, Time Warner Cable may no long carry "this station." While watching ABC 45 (WXLV) yesterday during college football, they would go to SD to run the same crawl and then return the broadcast to HD. This crawl seems to be generic as it lists U-Verse, DirecTV, Dish Network, and FIOS (which isn't available here in NC) to switch to. Any other markets getting these crawls?
 
That has to be the definition of a bad TV station - a Sinclair-owned medium market MyNetwork TV affiliate.

Another sign of Sinclair - the poorly-worded generic national crawl.
 
theformerwhammy1978 said:
The other night, while watching My 48 (WMYV), a crawl at the top of the screen was ran stating that on January 1, Time Warner Cable may no long carry "this station." While watching ABC 45 (WXLV) yesterday during college football, they would go to SD to run the same crawl and then return the broadcast to HD. This crawl seems to be generic as it lists U-Verse, DirecTV, Dish Network, and FIOS (which isn't available here in NC) to switch to. Any other markets getting these crawls?
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Sinclair owns two stations in Milwaukee: WVTV-18 (CW) and WCGV-24 (MyNetworkTV). I've seen the crawl on both stations.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
That has to be the definition of a bad TV station - a Sinclair-owned medium market MyNetwork TV affiliate.

Another sign of Sinclair - the poorly-worded generic national crawl.
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And yet I go out of my way to make sure I can watch it.

They used to have good movies, but ever since DTV began I've been watching the other My Network station's movies on cable.

This won't affect me because My 48 wasn't on cable to begin with.
 
Sinclair and Time-Warner...has the message appeared in Portland, ME? WGME-TV (CBS) channel 13 is owned by Sinclair and Time-Warner is Portland's primary cable provider.
 
Same message is running on WTTO-21 (CW) and WABM-68 (MNTV) in Birmingham. Brighthouse has the cable franchise inside the city limits of Birmingham, Bessemer and Irondale, as well as part of Hoover. Charter is the cable provider in the suburbs.
 
Here in Tampa Bay, Sinclair owns WTTA, the local "this station" (I mean, MNTV ;D ) outlet. Of course, most people here get cable from Bright House. So far, though, there was no press or print ads addressing the pending blackout.

Of course, the only thing of value on WTTA are the Saturday college football games -- just about everything else is throwaway. That being said, I don't know if WTTA is running tickers, and if they did, I don;t know if they're ID-ing themselves as My TV Tampa Bay, WTTA, or "this station".
 
I would imagine the message is scrolling on WBFF/45 and WNUV/54 in Baltimore. DCRTV.com will eventually confirm it, if that's the case...
 
We got the same message here in Rochester NY. I thought the battle was between FOX and Time Warner; not Sinclair and Time Warner.

The crawl screen noted that unless issues between (whomever)are resolved, the station will no longer appear on TW cable.
Channel 31, which is owned by Sinclair, is also a FOX affiliate. So does that mean that if this is between Sinclair and TW that FOX could move to another channel on cable?
 
Highly unlikely, Mark. All programming on WUHF, including network programming, would remain uncleared on Time Warner Cable until the two parties reached a new agreement.

Think of the hullaballoo between Fox and Cablevision a few weeks ago. Subscribers were urged to buy antennas/converter boxes for their TV's in order to view Fox-owned WNYW/WWOR in New York and WTXF/Philadelphia for the duration of their dispute, which lasted just a few hours short of a fortnight.
 
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