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TV: WFXW/Terre Haute drops FOX, picks up ABC

Will FOX go to WTHI or WTWO? One market where all affiliates had never been on.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Will FOX go to WTHI or WTWO? One market where all affiliates had never been on.
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Considering that Nexstar isn't exactly friendly with Fox at the moment, I doubt it'll be WTWO 2.2
 
LIN (WTHI-TV's owner) has a CP for a new digital LPTV station on ch. 24. It could be that they're planning to use that as a fill-in translator for TV10, but as WEVV is doing with the new Fox44 in Evansville (an LPTV on channel 47), it just might be a good place to put a Fox HD feed. Just a thought.
 
Only if cable/satellite carriers agree to run it. Is the transmitter for the lp in Farmersburg? If not, then this could be a problem with the outlying areas.
 
Hoosierky said:
Only if cable/satellite carriers agree to run it. Is the transmitter for the lp in Farmersburg? If not, then this could be a problem with the outlying areas.
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True. As I recall, the LP will (if/when built) broadcast from Farmersburg.

Cable shouldn't be a problem for carriage ... in Evansville, WEVV got most of the locals (except for a select few on the fringes of the Evansville market) to pick up Fox44. DirecTV has it as well, but Dish is still holding out.
 
Neither WTHI or WTWO will change their primary affliations. One, as has been stated, could carry it as a subchannel. If not, look for the cable carrier to pick up the Indianapolis Fox affiliate. OTA watchers will be out of luck.
 
umfan said:
Neither WTHI or WTWO will change their primary affliations. One, as has been stated, could carry it as a subchannel. If not, look for the cable carrier to pick up the Indianapolis Fox affiliate. OTA watchers will be out of luck.
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WTWO won't take it on as a subchannel. Being owned by Nexstar, that's not happening.

WTHI could do it on a subchannel, but it would be SD-only, unless they can get that new LP on channel 24 up and running in fairly short order. When WEVV picked up Fox in Evansville, they put it in SD on 44.2 and built a new LP (which is currently operating under STA) on channel 47 for the HD.

It could work. Not saying it's what will happen, but the pieces of the puzzle are there if they want to put 'em together.
 
WXIN has rebranded as "Indiana's Fox." To me it sounds a little too much like "Indiana's Four" across the hallway, but I'm sure they're expecting to get some carriage in TH and FW.
 
I doubt that WXIN will get much unless it's picked up for Dish Network customers in the area.
South of FW, say Marion, Peru, Logansport, areas on both fringe off-air services for WISE and WXIN, would like to have (I think) WXIN. Maybe I'm wrong but that's how I'd set it up.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
WXIN has rebranded as "Indiana's Fox." To me it sounds a little too much like "Indiana's Four" across the hallway, but I'm sure they're expecting to get some carriage in TH and FW.
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When the TH officer was killed,WXIN was live from the Hauteall morning.
It looked like they were covering it like a local station instead of one from 80 miles away.
 
When there was only 1 Indy Network on Cable in TH, they didn't seem to do much with it.

Channel 4 was always a state-wide delivered station. On cable in Evansville. Main reason: IU. This programming allowed something universal to be received everywhere with microwave and OTA feeds to cable. Chuck Marlow where are you?
 
Tribune ought to move WTTV transmitter to West of Bloomington to serve TH, combo it with WXIN and brand it FOX4/59. WTTV deserves much more than being what it is, and it's Indy coverage from Trafalger is a moot point these days. 29 can stay CW29. Just a thought.
 
outsider said:
Tribune ought to move WTTV transmitter to West of Bloomington to serve TH, combo it with WXIN and brand it FOX4/59. WTTV deserves much more than being what it is, and it's Indy coverage from Trafalger is a moot point these days. 29 can stay CW29. Just a thought.
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You're about 55 years too late. WTTV's first tower outside of Bloomington was in Cloverdale, from about 1954 to 1956 or '57. Don't know why it was moved to Trafalgar after that short a time.
 
Did not know they had a transmitter in Cloverdale. Was that when they were on channel 10? I'm old enough to remember when WTTV was the ABC affiliate, and remember when WLW-I 13 signed on taking ABC away. Old.
 
outsider said:
Did not know they had a transmitter in Cloverdale. Was that when they were on channel 10? I'm old enough to remember when WTTV was the ABC affiliate, and remember when WLW-I 13 signed on taking ABC away. Old.
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I think the transmitter move from Bloomington to Cloverdale, and the studio move to Bluff Rd. was in 1954. They were still NBC then (that network swap was in 1956). I don't remember them being anything but an indie transmitting from Trafalgar - 1958 is about as early as I remember anything.
 
Here's another post with some info on WTTV in Cloverdale.

http://lists.maddoc.net/pipermail/in-bloomington-uhs-l/2004-March/001938.html

I'm curious in what year it was taken down. I found a map dated 1970 that showed a "WTTV Tower" in the far southeastern corner of Putnam County. It indicates the land at that location is 826 feet above sea level, but says nothing about the tower. The land appears to now be occupied by a farmhouse and a pasture.
 
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