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If it was a failed station waiver involved, they would've stated it on the paperwork.
In section 5.1(b) of the asset purchase agreement, it says they plan to seek a waiver.
As for what Gray will do with WFXU, they'll probably use it for WCTV's MNTV subchannel. They really don't have any other option since WTXL certainly will stay with ABC, and WTWC and WTLF are probably bundled in with Sinclair's other Fox, NBC and CW affiliates.
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The WUTF signal covers the market very well from their tower about 10 miles NW of the Needham towers, with pattern mainly directional east. WUNI coverage is not quite as good, but not bad. Whether WUNI could move or not depends on what the future ch 19 signal could interfere with.
Univision could sell the WBIN license to WBTS, making a tidy profit, probably - but would have to increase the channel sharing bandwidth from the small percentage included in the Binnie agreement.
Looking at the repack map on RabbitEars, a move of WUNI to the CBS Tower could be possible. The only stations that WUNI could possibly interfere with are NHPTV's WEKW (moving to 18) and WBZ (moving to 20). In fact, it might actually be a better arrangement than WUNI remaining at its current site because it would be co-located with WBZ, virtually eliminating the interference between them, and it would reduce the interference between WUNI and WEKW because it would be moving farther away from them. The closest channel 19 station would be Ion's WYPX in Albany, which wouldn't even come close to interfering with WUNI. Even then, the coverage map for WUNI on RabbitEars shows strong coverage into Boston (although a weaker signal south of Boston).
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Another question... can WMUR survive without ABC?
Yes, since WMUR is the only station primarily covering New Hampshire.
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That makes sense probably AT&T wanted nothing to do with owning a television station
It also gave AT&T and Time Warner a way to avoid an FCC review of their merger because WPCH was the only significant FCC license held by Time Warner.
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Gonna need you to cite your source on that. Why would WFMZ triplex with WBPH and WLVT after they flipped some of the money they made selling their spectrum into buying other spectrum in the Valley AND buying KJWP's spectrum to expand their broadcast footprint south?
Isn't WBPH's signal in the VHF band garbage anyway?
It's probably just speculation based on this article.
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TVNewsCheck reports that Max Media is selling WNKY to Marquee Broadcasting.
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According to FTVLive, Nexstar is stuck with KRON thanks to the spectrum auction being a bust.
Yeah, after the clearing cost (the total amount the FCC pays to the stations that sell their spectrum) was $86 Billion in Stage 1 of the auction, the clearing cost in Stage 4 of the auction is only $10 Billion. So Nexstar is probably better off keeping KRON, since they aren't going to get as much money as they originally thought.
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BREAKING: The FCC has approved the Nexstar/Media General merger.
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NPG is launching a low-power NBC affiliate for St. Joseph, Mo. I have no idea what the station runs right now, if anything.
KNPG-LD is currently the Telemundo affiliate for St. Joseph, but channel 21, the channel the article says the new NBC affiliate will be on, is currently KBJO-LD with The CW. This must mean they will move the KNPG-LD callsign over to channel 21.
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Does Nexstar own any stations that lack an in-house news department?
There are still a few Nexstar stations that don't have in-house news departments, among them:
- KSVI/KHMT
- WNTZ
- KASW
- WCWJ
- KWKT (Although Nexstar has announced plans to launch a news department)
- WLAX/WEUX
- KSVI/KHMT
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WTGS will be starting its own news operation this June.
https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/wtgs-starting-own-news-operation-thanks-sinclair/
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Idk if this has been talked about before in this thread, but here's the reason why WPMI 15 had to cancel their 4:30am newscast earlier this year and I didn't know about it:
Is this true? Opinions on this?
It's because under the rules, Sinclair can only provide up to 15% of WPMI's and WJTC's programming without being deemed to hold an "attributable" interest in WPMI and WJTC. If Sinclair held an "attributable" interest in them, they would exceed the ownership cap due to already owning WEAR and WFGX. However, the Wikipedia article is incorrect in saying that there is a limit on how much news a company can air in a market because it's really a limit on how much programming Sinclair can provide to WPMI and WJTC.
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The interesting thing is, WDSI and WFLI weren't even included in Sinclair's original deal to acquire the other New Age Media stations.
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So they own LPTVs in...
Rapid City SD (KIVN)
Augusta GA (WBEK - the asset purchase agreement stipulates a callsign change upon closing)*
Casper WY (KSBF)
which are unaccounted for and do not appear to be broadcasting.
It would be speculative territory to ask what the plans are for each station, though the most likely station asset buyouts in each market would be KNBN/NBC (Rapid City) and KGWC/CBS (in Casper). The Augusta station could be used to offload the My station they operate there.
Gray also owns two other LPTVs in Casper, K16JI-D and K18JQ-D. I wonder if a deal for KGWC would involve KTWO and KFNB as well, since KGWC's owner has close ties to the owners of KTWO and KFNB and KGWC operates out of KTWO's studios.
In Rapid City, KNBN seems like the most likely to be bought by Gray and moved to KIVN. A deal for KNBN would also get them KWBH-LP (CW), and MyNetworkTV on KNBN's third subchannel. KNBN's owner also has KKRA-LP, which had aired MyNetworkTV until it began simulcasting KNBN in 2009, and K40GS-D, which simulcasts KNBN to the Lead area.
As for Augusta, they might move MyNetworkTV to WBEK, although another possibility is Raycom unloading WFXG.
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WOIO used to air a one-hour 11PM newscast on Saturdays and Sundays but scaled it back due to the abysmal ratings.
WABC has also done this on weekends since 2012.
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The FCC actually does count foreign stations for ownership rule purposes if Nielsen lists any as being in the market. For instance, Scripps was allowed to buy WMYD to form a duopoly with with WXYZ because the CBC's CBET was listed as being in the Detroit market and provided the 8th station that Scripps needed to form a duopoly.In addition to that, since most of the full-power stations in San Diego are on the Baja California side (including two English stations, XETV and MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TDT), duopolies are a legal quagmire since there are only six FPTVs on the U.S. side of the market and you need at least eight within an American market to form a legal duopoly. I think the only way you could merge stations, and effectively news operations, in SD is through an LMA.
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So WJCL moved their site to Hearst Television's CMS provider, Lakana (the former Internet Broadcasting). However, they are not using the layout that the other Hearst stations use. Rather, they are using the same layout that Nexstar is rolling out to their stations.
It makes you wonder, if the other Hearst stations will get this layout in the near future, because it's responsive and the existing Hearst sites are not (they load a separate mobile skin when I browse on my iPad, for instance).
Check it out at http://www.wjcl.com/
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there's a logo that's different from the one they currently use. Maybe a sign of things to come?
So when will WTGS have new website?
I'm sure Sinclair is working on something for them right now.
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KLAS has gotten a new website at LasVegasNow.com
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Big changes are coming to two former ComCorp stations July 1st.
In Lafayette, KLAF will become an NBC Affiliate, while MyNetworkTV will move to the DT3 subchannel of KADN. KLAF will also have local news by early 2016.
And in Waco, KYLE will split off from KWKT and become a MyNetworkTV affiliate.
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Fox2127.com' date=' the website for WFXR/WWCW in the Roanoke/Lynchburg area is now VirginiaFirst.com
It looks like this is the new Nexstar website design, as discussed here a few months ago.
Congratulations Nexstar, you actually made a decent looking website for once!
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It looks like WHAM and WUHF have also switched to the new graphics package.
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There was no way they would get away with owning 3 out of 4 stations in the market. But WEVV is a joke station right now and likely will continue to be. It would be difficult to shut down since how do they put 5 stations onto a single signal?
They couldn't.
Even if the WEVV sale had gone through and it and WEHT shut down (which would have been the most likely scenario, since WTVW has the strongest signal of the three (1000 kW, UHF 28)), there is no way they could have put ABC, CBS, FOX, The CW, and Bounce TV on one signal without a big loss in picture quality. They could maybe do one 720p channel, but otherwise it would have to be crappy standard-def.
WEVV does have a repeater in Evansville that broadcasts its FOX subchannel in HD, but as with any LPTV signal, it takes a good antenna to pick it up outside the immediate Evansville area.
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Deborah Collura has been named the general manager of Gannett's WCNC Charlotte. Collura was previously vice president of news at KPRC Houston.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/deborah-collura-named-gm-of-wcnc_b120361
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It won't happen. That's a DTV replacement translator application that was filed back in 2009, long before Gray took over. The permit expired in 2013, although the FCC suspended the permit deadlines for LPTVs due to the incentive auction (although I'm not sure if that also applied to DTV replacement translators). Also, the coverage area for the translator is much smaller than WIYE's, and it's on VHF 2, which means the reception would be bad.