Ch 7, the News Station

[Kevin Vahey]

I was in Rio the past 2 weeks and NBC people there told me Channel 60 is
not what they are going to use.

The most likely option is that Ion and NBC swap 60 and 68 with a little
cash thrown in. 68 has a very favorable slot with Comcast (803).

But the big rumor is Hearst and NBC are exploring options - Hearst has many
NBC affiliates and the Peacock might be willing to do some horse trading
with Hearst which involves NBC O&O's in San Diego and Hartford and possibly
Miami to get WCVB/WMUR/WMTW.

NBC is shipping equipment from Brazil to NECN in Newton but they have come
to the conclusion Wells Ave simply can not handle everything which also
includes CSN which is in Burlington. WCVB gives them all the land they
need.

I pointed out to the Hearst people this that ABC would not allow this and
they said Hearst is willing to sell their 20% of ESPN to Disney in return
to allow markets such as Kansas City, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City and others
to drop ABC for NBC.

Ansin waved the white flag which indicates he knows what NBC plans to do,
The new Channel 7 lineup is really weak.

https://sunbeamwhdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/7news20173.jpg?w=720&h=974

This Hearst deal sounds insane but I was hearing it from the people Hearst
had sent to Rio.





On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
wrote:

> <<On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 00:01:15 -0400, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu>
> said:
>
> > On Thursday, August 18, 2016, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> wrote:
> >> Brookline has both Comcast and RCN.  I think RCN is also in Somerville.
> >> Maybe other places as well.
>
> > I meant customer wise. I can't think of one person I know who has RCN.
> Very
> > unscientific, of course. I know RCN is making a renewed push in Boston
> and
> > is wiring more of the city (e.g. South Boston), but it's  20 years too
> > late.
>
> I have RCN business Internet at home, and Comcast video/phone.  It
> would be somewhat harder to do the reverse because of where the wires
> in my condo go, but I could make it work.  Or I could dump both for
> FiOS.  (The RCN Internet replaced Speakeasy DSL that I dumped after VZ
> started sabotaging the few remaining good copper pairs -- it's about
> the same price as I was paying but an order of magnitude faster.  I
> ended up with RCN because Comcast wouldn't give me a straight answer
> about whether I could have residential video and business Internet at
> the same address.)
>
> Changing the Internet setup in my home office is sufficiently painful
> that I'm really only willing to do it once a decade or so.  (For one
> thing, much of my mail processing depends on it, which is why it's
> business service in the first place.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>