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What's next for WJJA Channel 49 after Shop At Home shuts down?

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PaulKTF

If you havn't read about Shop At Home closing on the National board yet, read the press release here:http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/854So what do you think this will mean for WJJA Channel 49 in Racine? Will they just fill in the soon-to-be-empty slots with more infomercials? I suppose it's too hopefull of me to wish that they'd put "real" programing on the air...
 
Between 2001 and 2002 Joel J Kinlow managed to come up with a crapload of different infomercial networks.Direc2U was one of them. Then several others with no name. Then The Military Channel (Not the one that was Discovery Wings). And finally Shop At Home in 2002. From the time of WJJA's sign on in the early 90s till the early 2000s it was HSN. That's how WJJA makes its money.Weigel was going to buy WJJA last year but Kinlow upped the price so they sued him. Maybe he'll wind up selling after all.Then if that happens either:WMLW moves to 49or Telemundo moves to 49My guess would be WMLW since they carry all the WIAA games and people complain they can't pick the signal up.Another channel being effected by Shop At Home is Time Warner Cable Channel 95. Maybe they'll drop 95 all together and free up some bandwidth.
 
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