report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs

[Maureen Carney]

I highly doubt Hearst-Argyle would sell WMUR right now. BTW WMUR-DT is on several Comcast systems in the Boston area (I have it in Framingham.) Sunbeam bought WLVI in large part to prevent a repeat of San Jose from happening here. With WFXT and WSBK being owned by Fox and CBS respectively, that takes out the Boston full-power UHF stations out of the mix should NBC want to go that route. I would highly doubt they would want to be on WZMY or WMFP - not readily recongnizable stations even though they're both carried on Boston cable systems. Re-educating the public to where you are is no fun, and perception based on dial position (even in these digital times) is everything. Check out Detroit and the move of CBS from channel 2 to channel 62.


----- Original Message ----
From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
To: Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: (newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:08:15 PM
Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs

NBC played hardball in San Francisco when they pulled NBC from KRON
and bought a station in San Jose.

Just wondering. Suppose NBC tried the same move here by buying say
WMUR. Since Manchester is considered part of the Boston DMA could or
would cable companies in Boston then pick it up like they did for
Channel 11 in San Jose?

Part of the reason NBC bought the San Jose station was they did not
want a repeat of the deal they gave WHDH. At first the San Jose
station said they would pay for the right to carry NBC than getting
paid and then they sold it.

Losing NBC just destroyed KRON and Young Broadcasting has not recovered from it.

On 3/20/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> I personally wouldn't be at all surprised if NBC were to make a grab for
> WHDH.  If they want to focus on the top markets, it would be a good
> strategic move, I should think.  NBC wanted Channel 7 years ago.  Am I
> correct in thinking that it's the network's largest non-O&O market?
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
> To: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabrielmass.com>
> Cc: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs
>
>
> > Richard Chonak wrote:
> >> On 03/20/2008 07:45 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> >>>
> >>> WMAQ had a spectacular on air meltdown a few nonths back during the 10
> >>> PM news causing them to go to MSNBC for the news.
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's not an ideal replacement for a straight newscast, as MSNBC's
> >> evening schedule consists of opinion, analysis, and debate shows.  At
> >> 10pm, they have Keith Olbermann's show.  But for an NBC affiliate, MSNBC
> >> seems to be the fallback option.
> >
> > It was slightly worse than that, even - this was 10 PM central, 11 PM
> > eastern, which meant they went to MSNBC in the midst of the "Doc Block" -
> > reruns of "To Catch a Predator" and "Lockup."
> >
> > But it's better than going to black, I guess.
> >
> > And in fairness, WHDH had a meltdown of its own not long ago that knocked
> > out a newscast. As complex as today's TV stations are, it can happen
> > whether MCR is local or a thousand miles away.
> >
> > s
>
>


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