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The CW network in Alabama

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Where's The CW going to end up?

Montgomery and Dothan share WRJM/Troy for UPN and have cable only WB's, so I guess it'll stay on WRJM.

Huntsville has WHDF for UPN and cable only WB, so it'll stay on WHDF?

Birmingham has WTTO/WDDB for WB and WABM for UPN. Sinclair owns both so I guess it's Sinclair's choice.

Mobile has Clear Channel owned WJTC for UPN and Emmis owned WBPG for WB. LIN was supposed to be buying WBPG from Emmis but the sale has been held up for some reason. Could the loss of WB affiliation be the reason? Another wild card third player may be in the works. Former WB affiliate and now indie WFGX/Fort Walton has a CP to put their digital transmitter in Baldwin county with all of the other Mobile TV stations. It seems like Sinclair owns a whole lot of WB and UPN stations and will be a major player in the new CW network. Could they use that for some leverage and get the CW affilation for a soon to be full market WFGX-DT?

Any thoughts or corrections?
 
I don't know about other markets, but according to an article in yesterday's Birmingham News, the CW will be on WTTO-21. WABM-68 is going independent. One only hopes that that doesn't mean that "Jerry Springer" and "Blind Date" don't end up in prime time on 68.
 
> I don't know about other markets, but according to an
> article in yesterday's Birmingham News, the CW will be on
> WTTO-21. WABM-68 is going independent. One only hopes that
> that doesn't mean that "Jerry Springer" and "Blind Date"
> don't end up in prime time on 68.
>
Sinclair stocks actually went down at this announcement due to the fact they own so many WB and UPN stations...they are going to lose some affiliations and end up with some less profitable independent stations.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > I don't know about other markets, but according to an
> > article in yesterday's Birmingham News, the CW will be on
> > WTTO-21. WABM-68 is going independent. One only hopes
> that
> > that doesn't mean that "Jerry Springer" and "Blind Date"
> > don't end up in prime time on 68.
> >
> Sinclair stocks actually went down at this announcement due
> to the fact they own so many WB and UPN stations...they are
> going to lose some affiliations and end up with some less
> profitable independent stations.
>
The Mobile stations situation does seem to be the most juicy. My guess is that WJTC will be the CW affiliate, with WBPG going all-inde. The WFGX development does bear watching. But as we all know, CP's are issued and many are never acted upon for whatever reason. Rumors have been swirling for years that FGX was either moving to the tower farm in Baldwin to be a strong inde, or toward Panama City to become a CBS affiliate. Whatever happens, it should be fun....

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> I don't know about other markets, but according to an
> article in yesterday's Birmingham News, the CW will be on
> WTTO-21. WABM-68 is going independent. One only hopes that
> that doesn't mean that "Jerry Springer" and "Blind Date"
> don't end up in prime time on 68.
>
Knowing WABM, they will air Jerry Springer in the primetime slot. Whatever will help turn out a profit, they will go for it.

I also have a feeling, that once UPN leaves this station, more movies will be aired on this station.

I may be wrong on my predictions but I have this feeling, that I may be right.

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P.S. They may even add a few Word of Faith preachers, to their primetime, since they already carry Gospel programming at various times during the week. I wouldn't be surprised, if they did it.
 
> The Mobile stations situation does seem to be the most
> juicy. My guess is that WJTC will be the CW affiliate, with
> WBPG going all-inde. The WFGX development does bear
> watching. But as we all know, CP's are issued and many are
> never acted upon for whatever reason. Rumors have been
> swirling for years that FGX was either moving to the tower
> farm in Baldwin to be a strong inde, or toward Panama City
> to become a CBS affiliate. Whatever happens, it should be
> fun....

Fort Walton's newest TV station WFBD-DT originally had a CP to locate between FWB and Panama City. In the end they decided to set up shop on the Alabama state line 40 miles due north of Fort Walton and cover a whole bunch of trees and cows. This makes me guess that WFGX would be more valuable as a shopping channel in the Mobile market than it would be as CBS in Panama City. There are so many towers in central Baldwin county that if the CP has been issued (I think it has) that they could probably get this station on the air in less than 6 months using existing space.
There are also two full powered religious stations with commercial licenses in the Mobile market (WMPV and WHBR) It's slightly possible that one of them could get bought out and used for CW.

Other top 50 markets are looking for a LPTV station to carry CW while Mobile has stations to burn. How did the Mobile market wind up with so many full powered TV stations?
 
It's probably safe to say that WHDF will be CW in Huntsville, WAWB is cable, and I think on a WZDX-DT subchannel, WAWB could probably drop off the face of the earth and nobody outside of the cable viewers would notice.
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> Other top 50 markets are looking for a LPTV station to carry
> CW while Mobile has stations to burn. How did the Mobile
> market wind up with so many full powered TV stations?

One thing that helped is that Mobile really isn't near anything else-Pensacola (WEAR, WSRE, WHBR, WJTC) and part of Mississippi are in it's market, but everything else (Montgomery, New Orleans, etc.) is far enough away not to interfere with Mobile.

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Mobile has lots of TV stations

> I believe at one time Mobile may have had a different
> channel in the 50s and maybe even one in the 60s.
>

In the early '80s WPAN TV53 from Fort Walton came on the air as the second indie (WPMI was the first and WJTC was the third). They had cable coverage in Mobile and Baldwin counties and a strong translator on channel 50 in Mobile. WPAN has since dropped the Mobile translator and is off Mobile county cable systems but they still include Mobile in their ID.
When the PAX network first signed on the air they listed a channel 60 in Mobile as their future home. That never happened and Mobile never had the privlege of having a PAX affiliate.... even with all the extra TV stations.
 
:Other top 50 markets are looking for a LPTV station to carry CW while Mobile has stations to burn. How did the Mobile market wind up with so many full powered TV stations?:


The only possible explanation would be that when allocations were handed out, the FCC didn't expect Mobile stations to dually serve Pensacola, and vice-versa. Channels 3, 23, 33 and 44 are all licensed to Pensacola. Channels 5, 10, 15, 21, and 42 are licensed to Mobile. And Channel 55 is licensed to Gulf Shores. Still, it's unusual for a market no bigger than Mobile-Pensacola to have 13-14 full power stations (if you include the channels from Destin and Fort Walton) allocated to it, isn't it?
 
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