Two more markets I overlooked in the UPN/WB merger...

[Scott Fybush]

At 09:18 PM 1/24/2006, Doug Drown wrote:
>I wonder whether CBS will sell off some of its former UPN "O & O"s, such as
>WSBK.  Why would CBS want to own indies?

Why wouldn't it? They're dirt cheap to run (most of the staff and all 
of the facilities are shared with WBZ-TV), they're profitable even 
without the 12 hours a week of prime time that UPN provided, they can 
share programming with WBZ (expect a Dr. Phil rerun in prime-time), 
and they'd be hard to sell as separate stations now, since the buyer 
would have to build brand new studio facilities. (The old WSBK 
studios on Leo Birmingham Parkway are now being used by WBCN and 
WODS, after all...)

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