michael hagerty
Walk of Fame Participant
Making NBC buy Channel 4 is a dead cause and making fox go to KRON 4 why would Fox do that? Look as long as KTVU gets good ratings during KTVU News and Fox Sports programming and pays the Fox Royalties then I don't see why Fox Needs Channel 4 and Channel 2.
No one's making anyone do anything.
The original post was the rumor that FOX wants to own a station in the Bay Area.
The advantages to that over an affiliation are:
1) Ownership of an asset.
2) Several million more viewers the sales team for FOX owned stations can sell as a package.
3) Keeping all of the revenue generated by the station 24/7 rather than just the network spots.
The simplest route, if the rumor is true, would be to buy KTVU. Zero viewer confusion about where to find your product.
If Cox is unwilling to sell, though, FOX's best remaining choice for a full-market signal would be KRON.
The previous poster has some Rube Goldberg concept of NBC ditching KNTV after spending untold millions on it to move back to KRON. Not gonna happen, and it has nothing to do with FOX's intentions (if they in fact have any) to own a station in the Bay Area.