TV related: WTWC-TV retains NBC affiliation

[LeftyPunchbag]

Sinclair Broadcasting has agreed to renew the NBC affilation for WTWC-TV for another ten years. The new agreement runs through 2016.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-22-2006/0004496058&EDATE=

I know this is a radio board, but there is no television board that is geared for Tallahassee, Florida. Please don't move, delete, or lock this thread, because I have not violated any TOS rules. I have provided information that may be useful for those living in the Tallahassee market.

**NOTE: I originally posted this on the Florida board, but Managing Editor moved it over to this forum. I wrote my message above, in a way that I was gearing it for Florida readers...and not on a National level, so to speak.

 

[bpatrick]

This is the place to put news like this, since we talk about
what's going on at television stations all over the country
on this board. And it's especially interesting, considering
that most Sinclair-owned stations are ABC affiliates (don't
they have a duopoly in Tallahassee with WTXL, the ABC
station there?).

 

[azumanga]

it's especially interesting, considering
that most Sinclair-owned stations are ABC affiliates

Though three of them (WKEF in Dayton, WICS in Springfield, IL and WICD in Danville, IL) were NBC until last year, when a dispute forced them from NBC, resulting in these three stations joining ABC.

(don't
they have a duopoly in Tallahassee with WTXL, the ABC
station there?).

Not anymore -- the duopoly was dissolved earlier this year.

 

[ixnay]

[M]ost Sinclair-owned stations are ABC affiliates ... .

They are? Not the ones in Baltimore. There, Sinclair owns WBFF-Fox 45 and WNUV-CW 54. Scripps owns the ABC affiliate, WMAR-2.

ixnay

 

[notalkallstatic]

Not anymore -- the duopoly was dissolved earlier this year.

I wish Nexstar would dissolve their duopoly, but that's what most of Nexstar has...duopolies...and it scuks too!

 

[bpatrick]

[M]ost Sinclair-owned stations are ABC affiliates ... .

They are? Not the ones in Baltimore. There, Sinclair owns WBFF-Fox 45 and WNUV-CW 54. Scripps owns the ABC affiliate, WMAR-2.

ixnay

Most...not all. I'm aware that WBFF/WNUV is Sinclair's flagship.

 

[Morgan Wick]

I know this is a very moribund thread, but Sinclair has more Fox stations than ABC stations. See the numbers for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:SBGI

 

[FightingIrish]

This is the place to put news like this, since we talk about
what's going on at television stations all over the country
on this board. And it's especially interesting, considering
that most Sinclair-owned stations are ABC affiliates (don't
they have a duopoly in Tallahassee with WTXL, the ABC
station there?).

Sinclair has quite a few CW and MyTV affiliates. I recall that there's a CBS affiliate or two out there.