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Worst Stations and Markets for Local TV
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KQTV/KVFD-TV Fort Dodge IA. Within a year after Ed Breen sold his 1200' tower and channel 21 license in a swap with Iowa Public Television, his original 500' tower carrying a new channel 50 signal at the Fort Dodge studio was hit by a tornado. Breen vowed to rebuild, but unfortunately he was stricken by cancer and died before reconstruction could begin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVFD-TV
While the original channel 21 was a separate licensee from IPTV's channel 21, a case could be made that channel 21 is the longest continuously occupied UHF channel west of the Mississipppi, except perhaps for California.
While the original channel 21 was a separate licensee from IPTV's channel 21, a case could be made that channel 21 is the longest continuously occupied UHF channel west of the Mississipppi, except perhaps for California.
because he posts the same thing over and over and over and over and you get the point at every website he can
Why not ask him to stop posting the same ol' stuff? "Just go away" is unnecessarily rude.
Give me some reasons for each station being cursed.
WDHS Iron Mountain has been off the air more than on. And when it has been on the air, it was usually religious of some kind. Also no cable coverage.
WZMQ, as WMQF, was the FOX affiliate for Marquette in 2003. It was owned by Equity and had a really bad signal. When Equity went bankrupt, it was sold and lost the FOX affiliation to a subchannel of WLUC.
WGTU in Traverse City and WLAJ in Lansing are very weak ABC affiliates, weak enough that neither station ever had out-of-market cable carriage. Also, both stations, prior to Dish and DirecTV, did not have full market coverage.
Mark Nalbone first had KLWY as a FOX affiliate in Cheyenne, and KFNB/KFNE/KFNR as a ABC affiliate in Casper under WyoMedia. In 2003 KCWY sign on with NBC by picking it up from KTWO and KKTU, while KKTU went to ABC while KTWo didn't pick ABC til KFNB entered into an agreement with KTWO to pick up the ABC affiliation with KFNB switching to FOX as a full time satellite of KLWY in 2004. Mark Nalbone would acquire KTWO from Equity in 2006 for Silverton Media while KKTU got retained by Equity with ABC staying on KTWO and later get carried on KLWY DT2 digital channel after KKTU dropped carrying KTWO feed to flipped to Retro Television Network in 2006 as KDEV KQCK suffered a transmitter failure that forced it to shut off it's analog signal early. KQCK would be part of the Equity bankruptcy as well as KTUW in Scottsbluff with KTUW signing off in 2009 due to Equity bankruptcy while KQCK is still on the air as a MundoFOX station targeting the Denver market. Mark Nalbone for Mark 3 bought KGWC/KGWL/KGWR in Caspar from Chelsey Broadcasting in 2006. KGWC was connected to KGWN in Cheyenne til Benedek bankruptcy in 2002. Chelsey Broadcasting split up KGWN and KGWC with KGWN and KSTF going to Sagamore Hill, later to Yellowstone who in turn also bought KCWY from Intermountain West Communications Company/Sunbelt and eventually sell both KGWN and KCWY to Gray with KGWN being reunited with the majority of the Benedek stations going to Gray in 2002 and KGWC going Mark 3 under Mark Nalbone.
I favored the idea of Gray buying KGWC/KGWL/KGWR to have it get reconnected with KGWN/KSTF with KGWN airing KGWN CBS on the DT1 and KCWY NBC on the DT2 and KGWC airing KCWY NBC on the DT1 and KGWN CBS on the DT2. KCWY could give RF channel 12 to KPTW and KGWC could use channel 13 as it's virtual channel while continue to use channel 14 as it's RF channel with RF channel 14 mapping out to virtual channel 13 for 13-1 KCWY and 13-2 KGWN. That way Mark Nalbone would have better focus on the ABC and FOX stations in both Casper and Cheyenne.
I favored the idea of Gray buying KGWC/KGWL/KGWR to have it get reconnected with KGWN/KSTF with KGWN airing KGWN CBS on the DT1 and KCWY NBC on the DT2 and KGWC airing KCWY NBC on the DT1 and KGWN CBS on the DT2. KCWY could give RF channel 12 to KPTW and KGWC could use channel 13 as it's virtual channel while continue to use channel 14 as it's RF channel with RF channel 14 mapping out to virtual channel 13 for 13-1 KCWY and 13-2 KGWN. That way Mark Nalbone would have better focus on the ABC and FOX stations in both Casper and Cheyenne.
When will you learn that nobody wants or cares about your nonsensical ranting about your fantasy world?
The studios of KSWT in Yuma, Arizona, are haunted. They were originally used by the first station in Yuma, KIVA (which went dark in 1970; channel 11 didn't return to the air until 1988). When KIVA went dark, channel 13 (then KBLU-TV) moved into the KIVA studio facilities.
Apologies for the odd website: the Yuma Sun themselves do not have the article.
Apologies for the odd website: the Yuma Sun themselves do not have the article.
Apparently WZZM is now carried in the whole market on cable, and digital means it theoretically doesn't have to worry about another Channel 13, so I've been wondering if it might eventually force WOTV to drop its ABC affiliation and Grand Rapids can finally get a full-power full-time CW or MyNet affiliate.
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Don't they have a cable system in Grand Rapids?
Thank you Raymie for an interesting story
From Montana: KBTZ Butte, KLMN Great Falls and KMMF Missoula. They were the FOX affiliates in their respective markets until 2009. They had no digital companion channels, so they would have had to do a flash-cut. But they didn’t because their owner went bankrupt. The FOX affiliations then went to subchannels of ABC stations (KWYB, KFBB, KTMF).
All of Equity Broadcasting's stations, period. They were barely able to run RTV, and for the most boneheaded of reasons chose MyNetworkTV instead of The CW when the 2006 mergers happened. Most cable providers had to grab Equity's signals off the satellite for a viewable signal, and when they went bankrupt only a few viable stations went to major broadcast groups; most of them went off-the-air, got sold off to Daystar or are now owned by spectrum speculators.
One of Equity's former stations, WNGS/WBBZ Springville/Buffalo NY, actually went off the air in 2009 because it couldn't complete the DTV transition on time. It returned in 2010 as a Daystar station. It was sold to local owners in 2011 and now airs MeTV and local programming. And it still has a crappy signal.
Y'know Jamesjimcie, I think KGWC is definitely cursed. They don't have news and are completely bare bones as a pass-through for CBS and syndicated programming. Any Big 3 (or 4, for that matter) station without news is on this list. WPGX 28 Panama City, a Fox station, fits this list as well, as does WTWC 40 in Tallahassee (NBC) and KFNB, Wyoming's Fox TV, which doesn't have a single newscast on the channel. WXLV was on this list for a while until News 14 Carolina got their butt together and finally brought local news onto Greensboro's ABC station for the first time since "News Central" circa 2004-05.
Another one to add is WYVN (now WWPX) 60 in Martinsburg, WV. Originally Fox, it started, very briefly, very strong, with a local newscast and good off-network shows, but by the next year, had "The Cisco Kid" reruns instead of the regular syndicated shows, financial problems, a newscast that was yanked and employees laid off, and loads of glitches with Fox programming Someone on this board said "The Simpsons" was broadcast in black and white! Fox said "f-you" to them and yanked the affiliation, went silent and returned as an indie, most known for their talk show with the controversial title "Midday with Gay." They went back off in 1994 due to even more financial problems and is now a crappy pass-through Ion station.
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Another one to add is WYVN (now WWPX) 60 in Martinsburg, WV. Originally Fox, it started, very briefly, very strong, with a local newscast and good off-network shows, but by the next year, had "The Cisco Kid" reruns instead of the regular syndicated shows, financial problems, a newscast that was yanked and employees laid off, and loads of glitches with Fox programming Someone on this board said "The Simpsons" was broadcast in black and white! Fox said "f-you" to them and yanked the affiliation, went silent and returned as an indie, most known for their talk show with the controversial title "Midday with Gay." They went back off in 1994 due to even more financial problems and is now a crappy pass-through Ion station.
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I should've also mentioned that most of Equity's stations, even those that launched after 2002 didn't bother to build out digital facilities even though it would've made common sense just to do that rather than build out analog plants that would be useless at the end of the decade and made their debt look even more absurd. Even ION built out their station in Wausau as digital-only even if it made them pretty much a cable-only option until coupon boxes and DTV's became more common.
It's not like OTAers are doing without the CW or MyNet (well, except for the holes in WXSP's coverage). My concern is just about having a station with its own identity and must-carry rights that doesn't make its network look too second-class, in my eyes anyway. (And it would be better prepared for where I hope TV is headed.)
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