Fox buying Charlotte's WJZY/WMYT

[AaronQ 282]

WJZY dropped the "CW46" branding and gone through the same route as WCCB.

[Rusty Muck 4390]

WJZY will probably wait until this fall when the news share agreement with WBTV is up. Until then, expect that newscast to be moved back to WJZY for the time being.

I would think that they would want to have a news program running by the start of the NFL season

It depends on how far they are with building a news department (or on how close to completion they are with construction at the Speed studios). If I'm not mistaken, after Fox bought back WFXT in 1995, they kept a news sharing agreement with NECN for a few months until they could take the newscast in-house.

 

Unless there's a stipulation in the WBTV contract that says otherwise, moving the newscast to WJZY with the switch makes sense as an interregnum. But doesn't it feel like FOX is keeping a lot of the internals under wraps?

[NewsMaster 226]

It depends on how far they are with building a news department (or on how close to completion they are with construction at the Speed studios). If I'm not mistaken, after Fox bought back WFXT in 1995, they kept a news sharing agreement with NECN for a few months until they could take the newscast in-house.

 

Unless there's a stipulation in the WBTV contract that says otherwise, moving the newscast to WJZY with the switch makes sense as an interregnum. But doesn't it feel like FOX is keeping a lot of the internals under wraps?

The agreement says that WJZY can move the newscast there.

[T.L. Hughes 901]

It depends on how far they are with building a news department (or on how close to completion they are with construction at the Speed studios). If I'm not mistaken, after Fox bought back WFXT in 1995, they kept a news sharing agreement with NECN for a few months until they could take the newscast in-house.

 

Unless there's a stipulation in the WBTV contract that says otherwise, moving the newscast to WJZY with the switch makes sense as an interregnum. But doesn't it feel like FOX is keeping a lot of the internals under wraps?

The agreement says that WJZY can move the newscast there.

WBTV's 10 p.m. newscast originated on WJZY back when it was a UPN affiliate, WJZY then moved it to WMYT last year. So the way the news share agreement with WBTV is structured, it's very possible that the newscast could return to WJZY by the time it joins Fox.

[AaronQ 282]

WJZY rolled out another promo about the affiliation switch to FOX. This time is with the NFL on FOX logo and theme song.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

 

Fox: Bite my *ss!

[channel2 982]

And the Fox logo is off-kilter, too.

[24994J 5621]

It would help if this was the real logo.

[NewsMaster 226]

Numerals look like the old CBS 46 Atlanta logo.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

Numerals look like the old CBS 46 Atlanta logo.

Yep. Century Gothic, but my 46 has been placed in bold.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

Double post. Please ignore.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

Triple post. Please ignore.

[CLTNewsWatch 4]

Israel Balderas (News at 10 anchor) left the station as of Monday. Also new promos have run out promoting CW Shows and WCCB News. They will be keeping the name WCCB Charlotte

 

http://charlottemediascene.blogspot.com/2013/05/anchor-israel-balderas-leaves-wccb.html?m=1

[AaronQ 282]

Israel Balderas (News at 10 anchor) left the station as of Monday. Also new promos have run out promoting CW Shows and WCCB News. They will be keeping the name WCCB Charlottehttp://charlottemediascene.blogspot.com/2013/05/anchor-israel-balderas-leaves-wccb.html?m=1

I mentioned about Balderas' departure on the "Out and About" thread.

[CLTNewsWatch 4]

This is the new promo from their website

 

http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/features/the-cw/This-is-WCCB-Charlotte---The-New-Home-of-the-CW-207591391.html

[AaronQ 282]

Here is WJZY's third promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXImdaYdjSQ

[Mrtraveler01 738]

Here is WJZY's third promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXImdaYdjSQ

I see that they're really trying to play up the "new home of the NFL on Fox" angle. Which makes sense because most of the Panthers games will be on WJZY this fall.

[Mrtraveler01 738]

Please delete

[jero23 105]

It's going to be weird seeing that "46" font within the "FOX box" considering how long it took me to get used to its most recent CW46 logo. However, it's going to be interesting watch WJZY evolve into a FOX O&O in due time.

[Rusty Muck 4390]

This is the new promo from their website

http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/features/the-cw/This-is-WCCB-Charlotte---The-New-Home-of-the-CW-207591391.html

The stacked logo WCCB features on this promo looks oh so much better than the one shown on their first OTA CW promo.

[CircleSeven 1960]

Looks like Fox has acquired another former WGHP personnel.

 

TVNewsCheck has stated that former WGHP Creative Service Director Council Bradshaw will be appointed as the new VP of Creative Service at Fox 46. This will go in effect on Tuesday.

[jero23 105]

FOX is going just plucking people left and right from former O&O WGHP. I guess they miss the stability of ownership and perks that comes from being an employee of NewsCorp versus Local TV LLC whom could wind up in the hands of anyone in the next few months (or years).

[Jess 1116]

It's possible some of the staffers might still be getting benefits from Fox. I know of at least one station where some people were still getting benefits from the owner that sold them 15 years prior...

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

I'll let the picture do the explaining....

[CircleSeven 1960]

Well we know that the "WCCB, Charlotte's CW" brand will no doubt stick. The question still remains on the definitive news brand. Will it still be WCCB News or change on up to become Charlotte's CW News. The latter would uber-stupid. I'm not happy about this new logo. To me Being local is the only way to go. And with a station that have rich history, they're following the mantra of many other stations to have a CW branding.

 

It's sad that almost 35 years ago, WCCB lost ABC in the '78 affiliation switch. ABC was moved to WSOC 9, while NBC was moved from 9 to WRET 36 (now WCNC). 18 was stucked being an indy for eight years until Fox came about. Now history is going to repeat itself again, with WCCB losing another big affiliate.

 

Now for its newscast, I wished they can stop with the two half-hour separate news and have it under one name for the hour. If they wanna call it "WCCB News Edge" for the 10pm, call it that. I know its been recently since they extended the show from 10:35 to 11pm. They need to treat their 10pm like its a full hour news show, instead of treating it like a two-half hour shows.