• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

which company/ companies aquiring clear channel's tv stations?

C

captex

in san antonio,tx, clear channel owns WOAI 4 NBC, just wondering who or what companies buying all or some of clear channel's tv station and what happens to woai 4 in san antonio. my quess is a new call letter or clear channel will keep woai. and also forgot that the am station they own is also woai 1200 newstalk. any thoughts.
 
I have a feeling the WOAI calls will stay no matter the ownership. If worse comes to worse, who owns the KMOL calls these days??
 
captex said:
in san antonio,tx, clear channel owns WOAI 4 NBC, just wondering who or what companies buying all or some of clear channel's tv station and what happens to woai 4 in san antonio. my quess is a new call letter or clear channel will keep woai. and also forgot that the am station they own is also woai 1200 newstalk. any thoughts.
Click to expand...
These days call letters in regards to ownership mean less and less. Take KWTX in Waco for instance. For 40+ years KWTX Broadcasting Company owned KWTX-TV, KWTX-AM and KWTX-FM. In the late 90's KWTX-AM and FM were both sold to GulfStar and later Clear Channel. The TV station was sold to Benedek Broadcasting which merged with Gray Communications in 2002, the station's current owner.
The same happened in Topeka, Kansas. WIBW-TV-FM-AM were all owned by Stauffer Publications (later renamed Stauffer Communications) until 1995, when it merged with Morris Communications Corporation. As a condition of the sale, Morris had to sell Stauffer's television holdings. Most of the former Stauffer television holdings, including WIBW-TV, were also sold to Benedek Broadcasting (now Gray). In each case call letters remained the same since the stations were founded in the early to mid 1950's and changing the call letters would mean changing history and possibly ratings. Unlike WOAI, however, each television station is and has been #1 in their respective markets so new owners might be more open to a radical change that might even rejuvenate the station.
 
Slambang said:
I have a feeling the WOAI calls will stay no matter the ownership. If worse comes to worse, who owns the KMOL calls these days??
Click to expand...
KMOL is the NBC affiliate in Victoria owned by Saga Communications. However, it is an LP so if WOAI really wanted it they could probably buy the call letters.
 
Since the Victoria station is KMOL-LP, KMOL-TV might still be available, since KCOS-TV, a full-service PBS station in El Paso, and KCOS-LP, a LPTV Class A Spanish station in Phoenix are allowed to exist, even though they are unrelated.
 
I wouldnt put it past the present or future owners of WOAI to buy back the calls
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom