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TV: 'Dothan's NBC' WDON-LP sold to Gray Television?
- Thread starter Nate Wesley
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Thanks! Did it say how high on the tower they are going with WDON?
I found it. Looks like a pretty decent signal to Dothan and Enterprise from. Antenna will be at 1,577 ft on WTVY's tower.
It's amazing how much redundant coverage Gray will have in the panhandle over the air.
Yep. That's why I suggested Grey's next move should be to get WSWG full coverage of the Albany, GA market so they can push WRBL from Columbus out of the way. It should be satisfying for Grey to reclaim a network affiliate in their home market. It makes no sense that the FCC would allow Grey to own the WTVY and WJHG affiliates for Panama City all these years but when they purchased WCTV in Thomasville the FCC made them sell off their flagship station, WALB Albany because of overlapping coverage. The whole deal was a Tallahassee-Albany mirror image of the Dothan-Panama City situation.
poledo said:Yep. That's why I suggested Grey's next move should be to get WSWG full coverage of the Albany, GA market so they can push WRBL from Columbus out of the way. It should be satisfying for Grey to reclaim a network affiliate in their home market. It makes no sense that the FCC would allow Grey to own the WTVY and WJHG affiliates for Panama City all these years but when they purchased WCTV in Thomasville the FCC made them sell off their flagship station, WALB Albany because of overlapping coverage. The whole deal was a Tallahassee-Albany mirror image of the Dothan-Panama City situation.
Gray bought WTVY after the contour laws were changed in the early 2000's. Benedek Communications was having financial pproblems. Benedek bought WTVY in 1995 for $28 Million from Chemical Bank who took possession from Woods Communications in 1994.
I always thought WTVY went straight from David Woods to Gray. Never even heard of Benedict before... Although those transactions occured the year after I left the Dothan DMA and while I was attening UGA and I had the cable disconnected at my gandma's old house in Bainbridge and only had rabbit ears down that way for a couple years... Add to that no real internet news of this stuff in the mid 90's... It would be easy to miss.
It appears Woods only has WCOV in Montgomery left. They used to have many stations in the area. Wonder why Woods is holding on to WCOV? WCOV seems like an attractive station for Sinclair or Gray or Media General to go after.
Anyway with Raycom controlig NBC and ABC in Albany now there shouldn't be any issues with Gray going full market in Albany with CBS. Even with WAWG being the Albany CBS only WRBL and WCTV actually put a signal into Albany and I'd guess Albany has a higher percentage of OTA households than any other area market.
It appears Woods only has WCOV in Montgomery left. They used to have many stations in the area. Wonder why Woods is holding on to WCOV? WCOV seems like an attractive station for Sinclair or Gray or Media General to go after.
Anyway with Raycom controlig NBC and ABC in Albany now there shouldn't be any issues with Gray going full market in Albany with CBS. Even with WAWG being the Albany CBS only WRBL and WCTV actually put a signal into Albany and I'd guess Albany has a higher percentage of OTA households than any other area market.
David never owned WTVY-TV. His father Charles Woods did. There were 2 different Woods Communication companies, one owned by each. David owned the FOX affiliate in Dothan for a very brief time and sold it to Waite. You might remember the old man, horribly disfigured in plane crash during WWII.
Didn't know that either. I knew David wasn't the first generation of "Woods" but I just figured he had inherited stations or bought the family out.
I guess all the family or individual owned affiliates are gone from Dixie except David's WCOV. All the other individual or family owned full power TV stations I know of are indie/infomercial stations.
David should be getting rather old now. Does he have an heir in line for WCOV? I could easily see Sinclair looking at available Montgomery stations to bridge the gap between Birmingham and Mobile. I figure Atlanta is a little too big for Sinclair to aim for.
I'm also wondering if Gray might be considering picking up more LPTV network affilates in markets they don't already control... like Gainesville perhaps? That dark Full Power license in Live Oak could make a nice addition to the Gainesville market. It's been dark for so long it should be available cheap.
I guess all the family or individual owned affiliates are gone from Dixie except David's WCOV. All the other individual or family owned full power TV stations I know of are indie/infomercial stations.
David should be getting rather old now. Does he have an heir in line for WCOV? I could easily see Sinclair looking at available Montgomery stations to bridge the gap between Birmingham and Mobile. I figure Atlanta is a little too big for Sinclair to aim for.
I'm also wondering if Gray might be considering picking up more LPTV network affilates in markets they don't already control... like Gainesville perhaps? That dark Full Power license in Live Oak could make a nice addition to the Gainesville market. It's been dark for so long it should be available cheap.
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