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WGCL-TV soon to be owned by Media General....

deejaywestbrook

deejaywestbrook

Meredith Corporation who owns WGCL-TV 46 will actually merge with Media General sometime next year. This will make them a sister station to many other (albeit, smaller) stations in the region like WJBF/Augusta, WSAV/Savannah, WSPA/Spartanburg and WKRG/Mobile (to name a few). So, I'm curious to know what will happen with the LMA with WPCH. Guess they'll also be owned by Media General. Is CBS 46 still a main control hub for WSMV/Nashville as well as other stations in the midwest? What will happen with that? I've always thought CBS Corporation should've bought WGCL outright. Guess that's not happening for sure. Anyway, just wondering what others are thinking about this.


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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...ess+Chronicle)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
 
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I'm surprised that Turner hasn't sold their broadcast station after turning TBS into a normal cable channel 8 years ago. Perhaps Media General might buy it outright, so Time Warner can concentrate on its cable network business.
 
deejaywestbrook said:
Meredith Corporation who owns WGCL-TV 46 will actually merge with Media General sometime next year. This will make them a sister station to many other (albeit, smaller) stations in the region like WJBF/Augusta, WSAV/Savannah, WSPA/Spartanburg and WKRG/Mobile (to name a few). So, I'm curious to know what will happen with the LMA with WPCH. Guess they'll also be owned by Media General. Is CBS 46 still a main control hub for WSMV/Nashville as well as other stations in the midwest? What will happen with that? I've always thought CBS Corporation should've bought WGCL outright. Guess that's not happening for sure. Anyway, just wondering what others are thinking about this.


Article:

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...ess+Chronicle)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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It will solidify Media General's presence in all of the major markets in Georgia and surrounding states. I do agree WGCL (formerly WGNX) should have been purchased by CBS years ago. Ironically, CBS did have a couple of opportunities to do this since the late 1990s, especially now with the very profitable CBS Radio Atlanta cluster of (WVEE, WAOK, and WZGC). Media General will have a chump card in their pocket with CBS since WGCL will be the largest market for the merged company "Meredith Media General" and in the top 10 at #9.
 
KTN Corp said:
I'm surprised that Turner hasn't sold their broadcast station after turning TBS into a normal cable channel 8 years ago. Perhaps Media General might buy it outright, so Time Warner can concentrate on its cable network business.
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My understanding of the situation based on what Meredith brass has said in the past is that Meredith would be interested in discussing it but eventually the sale of WPCH is entirely up to Turner. Since Lacy will still be the CEO and Karpawitz will still be the VP of Broadcast, I assume that that will still be the situation in the future.
 
I wouldn't think CBS would buy WGCL since locally it underperforms against the other big affiliates (their only daytime show which wins its time period is a delay of The Young & The Restless at 3 PM) unless they made some effort to shore it up. Back when CBS announced they were affiliating with the station (when it was WGNX), there was an offer to swap channels with WGTV/channel 8 in exchange for financial considerations but WGTV turned it down. WGCL is the control hub for the Meredith stations in Nashville, Greenville, Kansas City, Hartford CT and Flint MI.

What then happens if Media General accepts Nexstar's offer?
 
I'm actually liking the "new" CBS 46 News. I do miss Markina Brown and Jaquetta Williams, but Gloria Neal on the morning news brings energy to CBS 46. I feel Bobby Kaple is very boring and Mike Dunston should do mornings. I see Rebecca Schramm has been filling in at the anchor desk. She has to be one of the only reporters that has been at CBS 46 the longest.
 
gregg75 said:
I'd pull the plug on WPCH.....I don't watch any show on there....and I'd suspect I'm in the majority.
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Not sure about local ratings as Atlanta is a strange market. But, reruns of Modern Family and Big Bang Theory usually do extremely well in syndication. I def watch these on WPCH.
 
While I'm not in the profession, I went to school for Broadcast Meteorology and CBS 46 is the worse for weather. Weather graphics are cheap, radar is a joke and forecasters, well, for the longest time, they didn't even have a certified meteorologist during prime time which is absolutely sad considering this is a 9 market.

Sharon Reed, the new anchor on CBS 46, is great and probably the best thing the station has going for it. She was on the CBS affiliate in St. Louis and was amazing during the Ferguson unrest back in 2014. However, while she is great, she is a product of a big problem with that station - Too much change. People can't get use to a anchor when they consistently change them up. The other stations have a upper hand on CBS 46 because of their constancy with anchors and meteorologists.
 
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