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Times selling TV stations - WQEW and WQXR next?

C

cawasinnj

So the reports are that the Times is selling off its TV stations to concentrate on the newspapers and web business. (http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10731) Are WQEW and WQXR next? I could see WQEW going to ABC to continue Radio Dismal, but what of WQXR? It isn't doing much better in the ratings than the much maligned CBS cluster, but they're probably doing pretty well in the upper class demos.

What's the future for 96.3?
 
The N.Y. Times would sell 96.3 only if the company were close to bankruptcy. There would be a huge outcry in the arts world and the Upper East Side were that to happen.

OTOH you only need to look at WCRB in Boston -- a city that like New York welcomes high culture. WCRB has been sold and will be moved to a rimshot signal on the fringe of the Boston metro.

AM 1560 is being operated by ABC under a lease that expires in 2008. Besides, ABC has bigger things to worry about -- like the fallout from "The Path to 9/11".
 
The "fallout from 'The Path to 9/11"'? Seems more like ABC was right on the money with that film. What reasons at all indicate that it was a "fallout"?
 
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