Re: Univision buys Hub 66 and other USAB stations...

[Peter George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

      Oh...well.  It was nice while it lasted.....all
4 months of it.  Boston needed a real Independent ever
since Channel 68 gave up the ghost.  I thought that
Hub66 had a good chance of replacing the void (ever
since Channel 38 went UPN) in becoming a sports
powerhouse.  This always seems to happen just as soon
as you get used to watching a particular TV station.
(Double sigh...). 
      Financially, (IMHO) I do not think that Boston
market can handle yet another Spanish TV station. 
We've already got WUNI/27 (UNI), WWDP/46 and WTMU/32
(Telemundo) all with excellent cable coverage taboot.
      Oh, well. C'est le vie. 

-Pete

  
--- Kevin Vahey <crimson@channel1.com> wrote:
> sigh....
> 
> Funny thing is WHUB had a chance to become what WSBK
> once was....I suppose
> the market can support a second spanish outlet
> though like Channel 27 it
> will be hard to view in the Hispanic areas if the
> households don't have
> cable.
> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark Shneyder wrote:
> 
> > Univision is paying $1.1 billion for 13 USAB
> stations and minority
> > interest in 4 full power stations...Looks like
> one-time TV renegade
> > Barry Diller has completely cashed out of the
> business(USA
> > Network will shortly be absorbed by an
> intenational media conglom
> > Vivendi after the sale from Seagram's
> > closes. Biller is not expected to be in Vivendi's
> picture).
> > 
> > As mentioned in this afternoon's conference call,
> 2 USAB stations
> > in Atlanta and Philly will become full Univision
> affils while
> > the other 11, including Hub 66, will be a part of
> a brand
> > new network code-named "Univision
> Duo"....Univision and sister network
> > Galavision, import about 50 hours of programming a
> week
> > from Mexico's media conglom Televisa. The deal is
> not covering
> > Univision Duo but that might change. This pretty
> much puts the end
> > to any rumor that another major US network(Disney,
> NBC, CBS,etc)
> > might acquire Univsion...
> > 
> >
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001207/bs/univision_deal_5.html
> >
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001207/bs/media_univision_dc_5.html
> > 
> > -Mark
> > 
> > 
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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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