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KCPQ 13 Seattle might lose their Fox Affiliation

FOX 33? (or FOX 3 to reflect cable carriage. Probably change the call letters, and move Ion to a subchannel)
 
swhyde1980 said:
FOX 33? (or FOX 3 to reflect cable carriage. Probably change the call letters, and move Ion to a subchannel)
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Reading the link, they point out that this may be a negotiating ploy. Sinclair's largest market is Seattle. Tribune (Fox affiliate) wants and needs Seattle. I don't think they will play around with this at the end of the day. But I guess all bets are off.
 
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Wait if KCPQ, KTXL and other Sinclair stations loses the Fox affiliation then supposedly there going to be this New Sinclair Network where Mark Hyman and Boris Epshteyn were going to have a primetime show in the Rumors.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Wait if KCPQ, KTXL and other Sinclair stations loses the Fox affiliation then supposedly there going to be this New Sinclair Network where Mark Hyman and Boris Epshteyn were going to have a primetime show in the Rumors.
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Then they'll discover the difference between having entertainment shows and having conservative talk shows. Based on the cable ratings, they could lose more than half of their viewers by doing this. Certainly the biggest loss will be NFL football on the weekends.
 
TheBigA said:
Then they'll discover the difference between having entertainment shows and having conservative talk shows. Based on the cable ratings, they could lose more than half of their viewers by doing this. Certainly the biggest loss will be NFL football on the weekends.
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Yes and I would bet on the side of Football personally to boost ratings and revenue for a station though but given various articles from the Bill O'Reilly to Sinclair rumor to the Sean Hannity to Sinclair Rumor there seems to be a PR campaign from Sinclair's leaders and critics over this rumored network though. Maybe all they need is Trump's base and Sinclair supposedly insists that they can attract supposedly more Trump voters than cable news/talk channels on one article where there was a supposed meeting with a Trump cabinet member and Sinclairs leaders.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Maybe all they need is Trump's base and Sinclair supposedly insists that they can attract supposedly more Trump voters than cable news/talk channels on one article where there was a supposed meeting with a Trump cabinet member and Sinclairs leaders.
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There's a reason why Fox News is on cable and not broadcast. The reason is that you can sell a cable network to advertisers with an average audience of about 2 million people, mostly over the age of 50. That size and that demo is death on broadcast TV, especially in major markets. Fox understands this. If the people at Sinclair don't, and let their political ideology interfere with their business decision, it could lead to them losing hundreds of millions of dollars. It DEFINITELY won't be popular in Seattle home of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
 
TheBigA said:
There's a reason why Fox News is on cable and not broadcast. The reason is that you can sell a cable network to advertisers with an average audience of about 2 million people, mostly over the age of 50. That size and that demo is death on broadcast TV, especially in major markets. Fox understands this. If the people at Sinclair don't, and let their political ideology interfere with their business decision, it could lead to them losing hundreds of millions of dollars. It DEFINITELY won't be popular in Seattle home of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
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I also agree on this argument too. Fox when they got KTVU Fox 2 in the 2014-2015 timeframe Fox knew that you had to treat your local affiliate with general programming from Fox Primetime, Fox Sports programming specifically like 49ers games and San Francisco Giants games from the Fox Sports division.
Also San Francisco Bay Area /Silicon Valley/Napa Wine Country area is mainly a blue city with DNC type Voters' as the majority.

Yes Cable TV tends to operate for specific niche audiences though than local TV does like what you said.
 
Oh that is stupid! Let's hope that doesn't come true. Fox tried to pull this crap with KBCB and it didn't work -- obviously. I don't think KWPX will become a Fox station, if so that would be a terrible move on Tribune and Ion's part. And since every syndicated show is gobbled up by the other stations, KWPX wouldn't have anything to show (besides news and infomercials) outside Fox programming.
 
crainbebo said:
Oh that is stupid! Let's hope that doesn't come true. Fox tried to pull this crap with KBCB and it didn't work -- obviously. I don't think KWPX will become a Fox station, if so that would be a terrible move on Tribune and Ion's part. And since every syndicated show is gobbled up by the other stations, KWPX wouldn't have anything to show (besides news and infomercials) outside Fox programming.
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KBCB going to Fox was only a few months though and that was at the same time when Fox Sold WFXT Boston for KTVU and KICU San Francisco. KBCB was basically a placeholder just in case Cox refused to sell KTVU to Fox.
 
Pretty typical for other smaller players trying to get into the fray. If anything, it's done as a delay tactic to either push the incumbent deal into more concessions, or to slow the rush to close.

In the end, I think the board at Tribune would rather take the $6.6B in cash, than screw around with playing the long game involving FOX, Ion, and whatever other upstarts, hoping to complicate the deal with sweetening the retrans pot.

People here and on other boards seem to focus on Sinclair's conservative editorial slant as a reason this deal won't go through. From the FCC perspective editorial slant means zero, and with a Republican Congress in place, I see little chance of them getting in the way of approval.
 
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