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WSAH Bridgeport to be Auctioned

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mysticnitekatt

Let the speculation begin!

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/474896-WSAH_Bridgeport_to_be_Auctioned.php?rssid=20099

WSAH Bridgeport to be Auctioned =Foothold in NY DMA to highest bidder

WSAH Bridgeport (CT), on the edge of the New York DMA, is to be auctioned off in bankruptcy court.

WSAH was among the five stations Multicultural Television Broadcasting bought from Scripps for $170 million in 2006. Kalil & Co. is handling the sale.

Potential bidders must deliver a signed confidentiality agreement and proof of financial ability by Oct. 28, while qualified bids must be submitted to Landis Rath & Cobb in Wilmington, Delaware by Nov. 7.

WSAH is listed as an RTV affiliate, showing vintage programs, on RTV's website.
 
Years ago as WHAI, I seem to recall them airing a slide asking for donations (I remember it read in big letters "Please Be Generous") - either for them or something else - given their financial state, it was probably for them...
 
There's such potential if the new owners have a vision and the cash to back it up. It will be interesting if somebody actually pulls it out of the dumper or will the facility be heading the land of "going dark"
 
Depending on how good the incentive is from the Feds, I could see this station running nothing but infomercials until it finally becomes a sacrificial lamb to the National Broadband Plan.
 
Part of the problem with WSAH is that even though they are technically in the NYC DMA, they have very little cable carriage in the area. They are on a few Cablevision and Comcast systems in CT and LI, Verizon Fios in NY and NJ suburbs, and Directv. I don't believe any of the NYC cable systems carry WSAH. Their OTA signal only reaches Fairfield and New Haven counties in CT.

Wasn't there an application to move this station to the ESB last year? Did that get denied?

I have the feeling if anyone buys the station it's going back to infomercials.
 
ansky212 said:
Part of the problem with WSAH is that even though they are technically in the NYC DMA, they have very little cable carriage in the area. They are on a few Cablevision and Comcast systems in CT and LI, Verizon Fios in NY and NJ suburbs, and Directv. I don't believe any of the NYC cable systems carry WSAH. Their OTA signal only reaches Fairfield and New Haven counties in CT.

Wasn't there an application to move this station to the ESB last year? Did that get denied?

I have the feeling if anyone buys the station it's going back to infomercials.
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What's wrong with infomercials they do serve the public interest in the public interest, affiliating with a classic tv network makes no sense and aren't there enough of them anyway.
 
teevee said:
What's wrong with infomercials they do serve the public interest in the public interest, affiliating with a classic tv network makes no sense and aren't there enough of them anyway.
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Infomercials serve the public interest? Please explain how a 30-minute advertisement for the AlumaWallet serves the public interest...
 
ansky212 said:
teevee said:
What's wrong with infomercials they do serve the public interest in the public interest, affiliating with a classic tv network makes no sense and aren't there enough of them anyway.
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Infomercials serve the public interest? Please explain how a 30-minute advertisement for the AlumaWallet serves the public interest...
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Because alot of people especially women enjoy watching them and a good percentage buy the products that are advertised it's entertainment and good for the community that the station happens to be serving people get a lot of enjoyment watching them.
 
It looks to me to be a typical absolute auction, but ordered by a bankruptcy court on motion of the trustee.
 
I read someplace that the FCC passed a must-carry waver on the station - which is where all the problems began.

I was assume that any sale approval by the FCC would also include lifting the must-carry waver.
 
You know what they say about assumptions. That "someplace" would be an interesting link for us to read, especially the part about the FCC "passed" a special "must carry" waiver.
 
Silkie said:
You know what they say about assumptions. That "someplace" would be an interesting link for us to read, especially the part about the FCC "passed" a special "must carry" waiver.
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Digging up info - will post link.
 
Silkie said:
You know what they say about assumptions. That "someplace" would be an interesting link for us to read, especially the part about the FCC "passed" a special "must carry" waiver.
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Maybe WSAH-TV sold its "must carry" status to a cable network (much like NJN did back in the 1990s with the Food Network).
 
mysticnitekatt said:
Silkie said:
You know what they say about assumptions. That "someplace" would be an interesting link for us to read, especially the part about the FCC "passed" a special "must carry" waiver.
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Digging up info - will post link.
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Okay.
 
Time to delurk and clear up a few things.

The bankruptcy and auction is a legal maneuver... that is all.

There is no such thing as a "must carry waiver", WSAH has a very healthy must carry status thank you. What you are perhaps thinking of is a "market modification". As the rules stand, my station would have must carry status all the way to Ocean County NJ, Bucks County PA, most of the Hudson Valley and Westchester areas, NYC, etc.

E_V_E_R_Y station has market mods.
 
Ron said:
Time to delurk and clear up a few things.

The bankruptcy and auction is a legal maneuver... that is all.

There is no such thing as a "must carry waiver", WSAH has a very healthy must carry status thank you. What you are perhaps thinking of is a "market modification". As the rules stand, my station would have must carry status all the way to Ocean County NJ, Bucks County PA, most of the Hudson Valley and Westchester areas, NYC, etc.

E_V_E_R_Y station has market mods.
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That's it! Thank you, Ron.

It'll be interesting to see who is the winner and what they end up paying for the station.
 
Isn't this the station that once ran an announcement to the effect that if you are watching it, and call a certain -phone number, they will send you a check for a hundred dollars (a good chunk of change when the announcement ran a few decades ago).
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Isn't this the station that once ran an announcement to the effect that if you are watching it, and call a certain -phone number, they will send you a check for a hundred dollars (a good chunk of change when the announcement ran a few decades ago).
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Yes, it is the SAME station (formerly as WICC-TV, Channel 43) that offered $100 to the first person who called the station. Nobody called. A few days later, WICC-TV left the air. Sadly, most of WICC-TV's videotape and film archives were destroyed in a fire shortly after the station left the air. A shame. If only the station survived a few more years until UHF tuners were mandatory on all new TV sets. But, such was life in TV land.
 
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