Something to watch out for...

[Kevin Vahey]

NBC most certainly owns KNTV channel 11 which is licensed to San Jose.

A few years back KRON played hardball with NBC over compensation and
NBC pulled a Papelbon by signing up with channel 11 and KNTV agreed to
PAY NBC for the rights and also gave NBC the option to buy the station
which NBC did.

The end result was KRON was destroyed as they became an independent
station. The newscasts now look like cable access as the reporters
shoot their stories and use laptops and wifi to file them.

Channel 11's website is

www.nbcbayarea.com

and the San Francisco and Boston markets are almost exactly the same
size according to Neilsen mainly because Manchester is included in the
Boston totals.


On 11/16/08, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
> Does NBC own in SanFrancisco/Oakland/San Jose/Silicon Valley? I don't
> believe so--and it's a WAY bigger market than Boston
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:09 PM
> Subject: Something to watch out for...
>
>
>> This week NBC and FOX have decided to set up a news bureau in
>> Philadelphia to cut costs on local news.
>>
>> The local FOX and NBC will pool raw footage of news stories and then
>> edit it the way they want. NBC and FOX plan to do the same in
>> Chicago
>> and then in all markets where they both own stations.
>>
>> This may include Boston as the Miami Herald is hinting Sunbeam is
>> ready to cash out by selling WSVN to FOX and possibly WHDH to NBC.
>>
>> NBC has sold stations in smaller markets to concentrate on larger
>> markets and owing in Boston would make sense. Boston is one of he
>> largest markets where they don't own (may well be the largest)
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>