Re: WFVX Bangor's Fox 22

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Randazzo" <nova828@yahoo.com>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: WFVX Bangor's Fox 22


> Oddly enough, WCKD is still on the air on UHF channel
> 30.  Back when WPXT out of Portland which used to be
> on the cable system here switched to WB, WCKD tried to
> dump UPN for FOX, but UPN would not let them out of
> thier 5 year contract with them.  So what do you do?
> Start a third TV station of course!  All the shows
> that used to be on WCKD are now on Fox 22, and all
> WCKD does now is run shopping network, except for
> primetime when they show UPN...very clever of them...

So is WVII now operating both WCKD and WFVX?

How will WCKD survive without being on cable?  I can't imagine anyone buying
ads on a LP station in Bangor, Maine that is not on the local cable system.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine