MyTV joins MyNetwork

[Doug Drown]

<<Since "major" network affiliations exist in markets as close
> as Boston/Providence,  Springfield/Hartford and many more, wouldn't
> it be a better bet for 50 to affiliate with CBS, NBC or Fox?>>

Good question --- and one which raises a couple more.  I understand that
WMUR-TV was originally a CBS affiliate, but switched to ABC back around 1960
or thereabouts.  The station has changed hands twice in the past thirty
years; with each change in ownership, have the other networks tried to wrest
it away from that ABC affiliation?  And . . . Why ABC?  It gives the network
a very advantageous toehold in the state.  (I guess if I were an exec with
Disney/ABC, I'd have my answer right there.)

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: "John Bolduc" <n1qgs@yahoo.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: MyTV joins MyNetwork


> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Bolduc" <n1qgs@yahoo.com>
> > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: MyTV joins MyNetwork
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:50:21 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >
> > Just got this e-mail from WZMY Channel 50 Derry NH:
> >
> > As a member of the My TV Club you're getting this special announcement
> > before anyone else! We'll be telling the rest of the world next week but
> > we wanted you to know first. Starting in September My TV will be part of
> > the new, national TV network... MyNetworkTV! As an affiliate of this new
> > network, we'll be the home in New England for all of their exciting,
new,
> > primetime programming.....
> >
> >
> > John B
> > Derry
>
> I recall that several years ago, channel 21 in Concord, NH became an
> affiliate of the CBS Television Network.  It made sense to me;  why
> should a UHF station in the Manchester Metro Market try to compete with
> channel 9 with movies and reruns?  Channel 21 also tried  to include
> local news in the mix, but didn't have the financial wherewithal to carry
> on.   Since "major" network affiliations exist in markets as close
> as Boston/Providence,  Springfield/Hartford and many more, wouldn't
> it be a better bet for 50 to affiliate with CBS, NBC or Fox?>
>
> -- 
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