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WJZY & WMYT-TV sold to the Fox TV Group...

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill/Re: WJZY & WMYT-TV sold to the Fox TV Group...

I am sure everyone at WCCB-18 is aware of what is going on. The latest:

"Ken White, who launched the Fox Charlotte (WCCB, Channel 18) news department in 2000, will be replaced by his assistant news director, Angela Robbins.

With 13 years in Charlotte, White is the longest-serving news director in town. He learned over the weekend that he was being replaced.

"This was a bit of a punch, but they've been good to me over the years and it's been a fun place to work," White said Monday.

Read more here: http://charlottemediascene.blogspot...r-change-at-fox-charlotte.html#storylink=cpy"

-Steve
 
And what happens to the Fox Charlotte Facebook page, and its 25,000 or so likers?
 
It will go away, or get a new name, depending on whether or not WCCB will go with "The CW Network", if they do, it might be known as "CW Charlotte".
 
With the rebranding for "Fox 46" coming soon to WJZY, WMYT can expect to be renumbered from My12 to My55 also. Fox tends to want exact channel numbers mentioned, given that WFLD dropped "Fox Chicago" and returned to "Fox 32" a.k.a. "Fox Thirty-Two".

Also, WJZY and WMYT should also be expected by Fox to acquire more syndicated programming to match what its other Fox and MNTV stations air outside its own prime time and sports lineups. So I predict a fall schedule shuffle between stations for these programs come fall 2013.
*Wendy Williams (currently on WAXN)
*Divorce Court (currently on WAXN)
*Judge Alex (currently on WAXN)
*Judge Judy (currently on WCNC)
*Judge Joe Brown (currently on WAXN)
*TMZ (currently on WCCB)
*Dish Nation (already on WJZY/WMYT)
*The Simpsons (currently on WCCB)
*King of the Hill (currently on WCCB)

And I'm pretty sure that WJZY will have more hours of news output than WCCB does to match its future sister stations that air morning news till 10 a.m. (in the case of Detroit, news in the 10 and 11 a.m. hours), with the overused local Fox news theme and bland red/blue vertical logo and graphics too.
 
I think doing news till 9:00 is going overboard, but most Fox owned stations do news from 4:30am till 10, i think WGHP, even though they are not owned by Fox, is doing it now till then.
 
w00t said:
DToTheJ said:
And what happens to the Fox Charlotte Facebook page, and its 25,000 or so likers?
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Change the name?

36 had no problem doing so.
https://www.facebook.com/NBCCharlotte
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I think they should have called it NBC-36 rather than NBC Charlotte. Since they just spent the last few years rebranding as 36 from WCNC. Now they flip again. And I just don't like it when broadcast channels don't use their channel number, even though the digital version may not be the actual RF # anymore. As for example WBTV has always been known as Channel 3, and WSOC as Channel 9. WCNC has always been inconsistent as far as call letters and channel number, from WPCQ to Channel 6 to WCNC, then to Newschannel 36. Enough already.
 
NBC Charlotte is better. It's more inclusive. WCNC is channel 6 on cable, channel 36 OTA and digital channel 22. When they call it 6, they're confusing the people who have antenna or satellite because it's 36 on their tv. If they call it 36, what about the people who have cable? I prefer NBC Charlotte because you're not going to google it and get a whole bunch of NBC 36's or 6's from other markets. It makes more sense.
 
NBC Charlotte is a terrible name. Stations are wise not to associate the station news brand with the network brand. For example - WSOC's news brand is one of the best I've seen.
 
Because when/if the network news makes a severe blunder (like NBC editing the Zimmerman call, or CBS/Rather falsifying documents) it reflects on you locally; not so much if you just have a logo next to your brand (like WBTV) but immensely if you use the network as your own brand (like WCNC) and viewers see you literally as an extension of the network.

Strong news brands don't need or use an association... like aforementioned WSOC, or WRAL in Raleigh.
 
And to be fair, I also think Fox Charlotte is a moronic brand. Look where it's gotten them.

And oddly enough they still seem hellbent on never saying "channel 18" even though THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE!
 
I don't think the branding has anything to do with WCNC's troubles. The NBC affiliation is the biggest problem. There are people (I'd even say most people) who think WSOC's owner is ABC and WBTV's is CBS. If there were a problem on the network level, I'm sure WSOC, WBTV, WCNC or any other network affiliated station would take a hit. That isn't really a strong arguement.
 
You contradicted yourself there. If 36's problem is the NBC affiliation then how can using that as their prominent branding NOT hurt them? It's just promoting the problem.
 
Also, every market has the big 3. If I didn't know which channel was ABC, what does Channel 9 tell me? What if I wanted to watch something?
 
It's not promoting the problem. It's promoting what they are, which is the NBC station in the Charlotte market.
 
Da Mac QC said:
Also, every market has the big 3. If I didn't know which channel was ABC, what does Channel 9 tell me? What if I wanted to watch something?
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Then you use the listings?
I'm sure they'd rather you be watching the news. News is pretty profitable.
 
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