Milw12 0 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 From Upper Midwest Broadcasting: Weigel Broadcasting is buying WJJA/49 (Racine-Milwaukee) from Joel J. Kinlow for $7 million, adding a second full-power station in the market. Weigel owns CBS58 (WDJT), Independent WMLW-CA/41, and Telemundo affiliate WYTU-LP/63. WJJA currently carries the Shop at Home network and Jewelry TV. The asset purchase agreement calls for WJJA to seek special temporary authority to move its transmitter to the WDJT tower in Milwaukee. Weigel may take over WJJA programming sometime between now and September 15 if Kinlow chooses to activate a time brokerage agreement. Hopefully we will see some quality programming now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Lampstein 6 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 From Upper Midwest Broadcasting: Weigel Broadcasting is buying WJJA/49 (Racine-Milwaukee) from Joel J. Kinlow for $7 million, adding a second full-power station in the market. Weigel owns CBS58 (WDJT), Independent WMLW-CA/41, and Telemundo affiliate WYTU-LP/63. WJJA currently carries the Shop at Home network and Jewelry TV. The asset purchase agreement calls for WJJA to seek special temporary authority to move its transmitter to the WDJT tower in Milwaukee. Weigel may take over WJJA programming sometime between now and September 15 if Kinlow chooses to activate a time brokerage agreement. Hopefully we will see some quality programming now. Great. The 2nd worst company in broadcasting history owns FOUR horrid stations in Milwaukee now. Everybody dance. EDIT: Now that I think about it... if you combine the ratings from WJJA, WMLW, WDJT, and WYTU... I don't think it would equal the total number of viewers watching any ONE of the other stations in the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazynetjunkie 34 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 From Upper Midwest Broadcasting: Weigel Broadcasting is buying WJJA/49 (Racine-Milwaukee) from Joel J. Kinlow for $7 million, adding a second full-power station in the market. Weigel owns CBS58 (WDJT), Independent WMLW-CA/41, and Telemundo affiliate WYTU-LP/63. WJJA currently carries the Shop at Home network and Jewelry TV. The asset purchase agreement calls for WJJA to seek special temporary authority to move its transmitter to the WDJT tower in Milwaukee. Weigel may take over WJJA programming sometime between now and September 15 if Kinlow chooses to activate a time brokerage agreement. Hopefully we will see some quality programming now. Maybe you'll get some Svengoolie, 3 Stooges reruns, and South Park reruns just like Weigel-owned WCIU in Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Lampstein 6 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 That's what WMLW currently airs. I do watch the solid three hours of The Brady Bunch, Leave it to Beaver, and Batman on weekends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Yeah, Svengoolie has been aired on wmlw Channel 41 for some time. I do have a good feeling that they might air classic sitcoms just like WWME-CA Channel 23 and have frequent nightly movies while wmlw concentrates on their first-run syndicated lineup & re-runs of comedy from the networks. What I don't want to see is they air nothing but ethnic programming like WFBT Channel 48. But we just have to see how this turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Never heard of 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 It's about time. These last few months, WJJA did not come in on Time Warner Cable , or came in extremely poorly. At least Weigel can keep a station on the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdcnow 14 Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Weigel can't be as bad as Nexstar, can it? Nobody could be as bad as Nexstar, except maybe Sincrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GForceTV Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Maybe they won't change the programming, as the current owners insist it's "Incredible" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilium 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Yet another station to run out of 809 S. 60th Street. I am sure they will take WMLW to full power on 49 and put Ch 41 dark. They may turn it into a translator of one WCIU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCIU-TV or WWME http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWME-CA out of Chicago. From a former employee of Weigel I doubt they have any other big plans. Maybe there will be a CBS 49 in the near future. Get designing your Logo mock-ups in the Graphics Dept. forum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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