Nexstar bids for Media General

[CircleSeven 1944]

If you look at the Multiple Ownership Showing, it says Ramar will not be acquiring the Fox affiliation and will switch KASA to Telemundo (which is currently seen on KTEL-CD). This probably means KASA's current programming will move to KRQE 13.2.

 

I didn't pay attention to that footnote on p.2. Thanks for pointing that out.

[mvcg66b3r 97]

FOX would most likely move to KRQE 13.2/KBIM 10.2/KREZ 6.2. At No. 48, Albuquerque would be the largest market by far (and first Top 50 market) to have FOX on a subchannel of a Big 3 station. Folks, this is Chattanooga all over again, only this time Sinclair isn't involved.

[NEOMatrix 1295]

I think you are forgetting that KRQE operates KWBQ (CW) and KASY (MyNet). It's probably just as likely that Nexstar moves the Fox affiliation to one of the Tamer stations.

[bobvick 9]

FOX would most likely move to KRQE 13.2/KBIM 10.2/KREZ 6.2. At No. 48, Albuquerque would be the largest market by far (and first Top 50 market) to have FOX on a subchannel of a Big 3 station. Folks, this is Chattanooga all over again, only this time Sinclair isn't involved.

And don't forget Birmingham market 45 with ABC on a .2 thanks to Sinclair. What is most ridiculous to me is it's ABC 33/40 on 17.2, 40.2 and 68.2.

[mrschimpf 2059]

At least in this case it's a network people actually watch in a market; Telemundo really comes out the winner here with great transmission facilities and equal footing with Univision (if not the rights to PSIP 2), and a .2 Fox affiliate isn't really that bad of a fate. I get more annoyed at station sell-offs that end up with subchannel networks on a main allocation than cases like this. KASA seemed run like an inconvenient afterthought anyways, no matter if Raycom, LIN or MG was running it.

[CircleSeven 1944]

I think you are forgetting that KRQE operates KWBQ (CW) and KASY (MyNet). It's probably just as likely that Nexstar moves the Fox affiliation to one of the Tamer stations.

 

A likely senario would be placing Fox on 13.2 before the Nexstar/MG deal closes. Then sometime after transaction, Nexstar could acquire one of the Tamer stations outright. But remember, Wheeler is placing a proposal of the ownership rules that would forbid stations with duopolies to acquire another network affiliation that would eventually make the second station a top-4 station in the market.

• Local Television Ownership Rule: (1) Retains the existing rule, with a minor technical modification to address the transition to digital broadcasting; (2) Extends the current ban on co-ownership of two top-four television stations in a market to network affiliation swaps, to prevent broadcasters from evading application of the rule; and (3) Declines to limit dual network affiliations via multicast at this time.
  

In other words, he doesn't want to see something like WTTV happen again.

[channel2 869]

At least in this case it's a network people actually watch in a market; Telemundo really comes out the winner here with great transmission facilities and equal footing with Univision (if not the rights to PSIP 2), and a .2 Fox affiliate isn't really that bad of a fate. I get more annoyed at station sell-offs that end up with subchannel networks on a main allocation than cases like this. KASA seemed run like an inconvenient afterthought anyways, no matter if Raycom, LIN or MG was running it.

 

Seems to go all the way back to the Belo days; they inherited it from the Providence Journal Company and dumped it onto Raycom two years later.

[scrabbleship 427]

Seems to go all the way back to the Belo days; they inherited it from the Providence Journal Company and dumped it onto Raycom two years later.

 

Or even further. Prior to ProJo they were owned by Sunbelt which cashed out around the time of the move from 14 to 2. Remember, until the Rogerses began winding down Sunbelt/Intermountain West was one of those companies that rarely walked away.

[mardek1995 200]

A likely senario would be placing Fox on 13.2 before the Nexstar/MG deal closes. Then sometime after transaction, Nexstar could acquire one of the Tamer stations outright. But remember, Wheeler is placing a proposal of the ownership rules that would forbid stations with duopolies to acquire another network affiliation that would eventually make the second station a top-4 station in the market.

 

In other words, he doesn't want to see something like WTTV happen again.

But in WTTV's case, they already had a legal duopoly a decade before that even happened, and the affiliation switch did nothing to make the ownership illegal. The real problem is if tribune decides to sell the station (as unlikely as many of yall seem to think), because since WTTV/WTTK is now a big 4 affiliate (and has been for a year and a half now), they'll have to divest the stations to separate owners.

[Mrtraveler01 737]

Speaking of KASA, it looks like they're getting ready to move the Fox affiliation to 13.2 as they've rebranded it from 2KASA to Fox New Mexico.

 

http://kasa.com/

 

https://www.facebook.com/FOXNewMexico/

[GoldenShine9 1509]

But in WTTV's case, they already had a legal duopoly a decade before that even happened, and the affiliation switch did nothing to make the ownership illegal. The real problem is if tribune decides to sell the station (as unlikely as many of yall seem to think), because since WTTV/WTTK is now a big 4 affiliate (and has been for a year and a half now), they'll have to divest the stations to separate owners.

 

That would be the status quo though, since both WXIN and WTTV are top 4 stations now in the market?