1994 United States broadcast TV realignment

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The 1994 United States broadcasts a television rearrangement comprised of a series of events, especially those involving the affiliate switch between television stations , resulting from a multimillion dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company (commonly known as Fox) and New World Communications, a media company that - through its recently-established broadcasting division - owns several VHF television stations affiliated with major broadcast television networks, notably CBS.

The main impetus for change is to allow Fox to increase the coverage of its local affiliates, in preparation for the commencement of its rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) television package, granted by the National Football League (NFL) to the new network in December 1993. As a result of various agreements others that followed as a result of the affiliate switches made by the agreement between Fox and New World, especially the purchase of CBS by Westinghouse, the switches are some of the major changes in American television. history. As a result of this rearrangement, Fox rose to the status of major television networks, comparable in influence to the Big Three television network (CBS, NBC and ABC).

Nearly 70 stations in 30 media markets across the United States changed affiliates from September 1994 and continued into September 1996 (though additional affiliate switchover will occur in February 1997, through the launch of new stations acquiring network partners through one of the additional offerings) along with the January 1995 launch simultaneously from The WB Television Network (a joint venture between Time Warner, Tribune Company and chief executive of the networking network, Jamie Kellner) and United Paramount Network (UPN) (founded by Chris-Craft/United Television, through a partnership program with Paramount Television), both affiliated with certain stations that lost their previous network partners through affiliate agreements - mark some of the most extensive changes ever made on American television.

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For some time dating back to preparations for its launch, Rupert Murdoch - chief executive officer of News Corporation, the parent company of Fox Broadcasting Company - wants a major league sports presence for its network. Murdoch thought that a live sports-sports package landing would help build Fox's newborn profile and upgrade it to ABC, CBS and NBC levels, the three major commercial broadcasting networks that existed in the United States at the time.

In January 1987, while preparing for entry into prime time programming, Fox decided to bid for the rights to Monday Night Football - then the crown jewelry program - from ABC, for about $ 1, 3 billion, the same amount paid by the current network for the contract; negotiations between the league and ABC to renew the previous contract have stalled due to increased costs for rights. However, the NFL, in part because Fox has not established itself as a major network, opted to decline the offer and then continue the discussion with ABC, finally reaching an agreement to keep the Monday Night Football package on it's network. Six years after Fox's first attempt to gain rights has run aground, the NFL opened negotiations for a television contract for both conferences as well as for prime time football packages on Sunday and Monday. Fox decided to make another bid to the NFL, this time, making a more aggressive move to successfully secure a league contract, on recognition that it would likely be necessary to bid a much higher sum than an incumbent network that seeks to renew or expand their NFL television rights. there will choose to offer to get a part of the package.

On December 17, 1993, Fox shocked the world of sports and television by winning a $ 1.58 billion four-year contract with an effective NFL with the 1994 season to broadcast regular season matches and playoffs involving teams in the National Football Conference - a package already owned by CBS since 1956, fourteen years before the NFL and American Football League (AFL) resulted in teams compiling two leagues each split between the NFC and the American Football Conference (AFC) - as well as the Super Bowl XXXI (to be held at January 1997). CBS, then run by cost-cutting Laurence Tisch, has reportedly offered only $ 290 million to retain the rights to the NFC television package and does not want to approach Fox's bid price, which exceeds the offer made by CBS for $ 1.29 Ã, a billion (or more) of $ 100 million per year).

At the time of Fox's offer, several stations were owned and operated (except those in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and Salt Lake City) and most of its affiliates were UHF stations that were transmitted at lower radiation strength. from his VHF counterpart. Most stations that run network programming also have little to no prior history as major network affiliates; however, some (among them, outlets in the three previous markets where they own stations) were once affiliated with at least one of the Big Three networks or even DuMont Television Networks earlier in their history. When Fox collects a new sports division to close the NFL, he seeks to affiliate with the VHF station (broadcast on channels 2 through 13) that have more established history, and brings more value to the advertisers.

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New World Communications Agreement

On May 23, 1994, Fox agreed to buy a 20% stake (an investment of $ 500 million) in New World Communications, a media company controlled by New York City-based investor Ronald Perelman, who bought the company in 1989 in the mid- under restructuring under Chapter 11's bankruptcy declaration.

The New World - founded by actor/producer/director Roger Corman and his brother, film producer Gene Corman, on July 8, 1970, as independent producer of low budget feature films, and started in the 1980s, began producing television programs such as The Story of Crime and Santa Barbara and The Wonder Year - expanded into a television broadcast on February 17, 1993, after Perelman bought a 51% stake in SCI Television based in Denver (a group derived from former Storer Communications undergoing complex debt restructuring) from Gillett Holdings controlled by Apollo Partners for $ 100 million and $ 63 million in newly issued debt. The day before the deal, SCI bought WTVT in Tampa, Florida, from Gillett Holdings in a separate deal worth $ 163 million. New World expanded its broadcasting in May 1994, when it purchased four Argyle Television Holdings (acquired Argyle from Times Mirror Company last year) with a $ 717-million option-structured deal, followed three weeks later by the purchase of four stations owned by the Great American Communications (which, months later, will be renamed Citicasters after the completion of the corporate restructuring) worth $ 350 million in cash and $ 10 million in stock warrants.

Fox's partial equity gain on New World Communications also includes a multi-year agreement, whereby it will link most of the television stations owned by the company directly or in the process of acquiring from Argyle and Great American with that network, once individual affiliate contracts with each - the network partner in the station ends. The following stations are part of the deal:

Existing New World Station

• KNSD (channel 39), San Diego, California - affiliated with NBC
• WAGA-TV (channel 5), Atlanta, Georgia - affiliated with CBS
• WITI-TV (channel 6), Milwaukee, Wisconsin - affiliated with CBS
• WJBK-TV (channel 2), Detroit, Michigan - affiliated with CBS
• WJW-TV (channel 8), Cleveland, Ohio - affiliated with CBS
• WSBK-TV (channel 38), Boston, Massachusetts - operated as an independent station
• WTVT (channel 13), Tampa, Florida - affiliated with CBS

Stations obtained from Argyle Television

• KDFW-TV (channel 4), Dallas, Texas - affiliated with CBS
• KTBC-TV (channel 7), Austin, Texas - affiliated with CBS
• KTVI (channel 2), St. Louis, Missouri - affiliated with ABC
• WVTM-TV (channel 13), Birmingham, Alabama - affiliated with NBC

Stations acquired from Great American Communications

• KSAZ-TV (channel 10), Phoenix, Arizona - affiliated with CBS
• WBRC-TV (channel 6), Birmingham, Alabama - affiliated with ABC
• WDAF-TV (channel 4), Kansas City, Missouri - affiliated with NBC
• WGHP (channel 8), High Point, North Carolina - affiliated with ABC

Exceptions

Some stations owned by groups involved in the acquisition of the New World are either sold to others or left out of the deal:

• The New World retains ownership of KNSD and WVTM for a while, with both stations still being an NBC affiliate; in the first case, KNSD will not join Fox - regardless of its network affiliate agreement with New World - because Fox already has a VHF affiliate in San Diego at that time, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico-based XETV (channel 6, then CW affiliate and now a Canal 5 station targeting Tijuana). The New World will eventually sell the two stations to NBC's operated and operated station group, NBC Television Station, for $ 425 million on May 22, 1996. NBC then sold WVTM to Media General on April 6, 2006, as part of its sale of owned and operated stations in four intermediate markets - with WCMH-TV (channel 4) in Columbus, Ohio; WJAR-TV (channel 10) in Providence, Rhode Island; and WNCN (channel 17, now CBS affiliate) in Goldsboro, North Carolina, all three were acquired through the purchase of The NBC Outlet Company in August 1996 - for $ 600 million (to acquire WVTM, Media General sells Birmingham's stations, CBS affiliates, WIAT (channel 42), to New Vision Television for $ 35 million on August 2, 2006, although the sale of WIAT was conducted in compliance with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) media ownership clause banning the general ownership of two of the top four television stations in the market the same, the FCC grants Media General a waiver of temporary cross ownership to allow it to maintain both stations for six months after the purchase of WVTM is completed).
• Since the FCC media ownership rules at the time prohibited one company to have more than twelve national television stations (Argyle and Citicasters purchases, combined with its existing seven stations, gave the New World fifteen overall) and banned the common ownership of the two commercial television station in the same market, New World established a trust company in preparation for the sale of WGHP and WBRC, which will station station in September and October 1994. Under the arrangement, the New World has WBRC and WGHP licenses, while Citicasters keeps control of their operations at under an outsourcing agreement. In April 1995, Citicasters transferred WBRC and WGHP operations to its Fox Television Stations broadcasting subsidiary, which took operational control through a time brokerage agreement with the New World. Both stations were sold directly to Fox Television Stations three months later on July 22, 1995, in exchange for $ 130 million in promissory notes.
• The New World excludes WSBK from a Fox affiliate deal as Fox TV Stations has chosen to regain WFXT (channel 25) - previously owned from 1987 to 1989, when it sold the station to the Boston Celtics (at the time of the original sale, News Corporation have Boston Herald and WFXT through a cross-ownership abandonment, because the FCC rules prohibit the public ownership of full-fledged newspapers and television stations in the same market). Due to the same television ownership limit that caused WBRC and WGHP to be sold to Fox, WSBK was then sold to Paramount Stations Group, and became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) charter when it was launched on January 16, 1995.
• Great American Communications/Citicasters retains ownership of WKRC-TV (channel 12) in Cincinnati, Ohio (the NFL franchise, Bengals, is part of the American Football Conference, which then maintains a broadcast rights deal with NBC) and WTSP (channel 10 ) in St. Petersburg Petersburg, Florida - both ABC's affiliates at the time. In the case of Tampa, New World chose to maintain WTVT, which has a higher audience and a wider coverage area, which - unlike WTSP - includes Sarasota (short-range WTSP transmitter to avoid signal interference with WPLG (channel 10) in Miami, ABC retains its affiliation with WWSB (channel 40) to serve the southern portion of the Tampa market), while the Fox WXIX-TV affiliate, despite being on the UHF 19 channel, still (and still) competes with other markets. station and far ahead of the only other power-rich independent commercial station on the market, WSTR-TV, which is on channel 64.

NFL connection to handle

The key to the deal is that Fox is upgrading its stations in some markets. Prior to the deal, of the fourteen NFC teams at the time, only four - the Los Angeles Rams, the New York Giants, the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins - were in the market with VHF Fox affiliates. Of the four Fox market stations, WNYW (channel 5) in New York City, KTTV (channel 11) in Los Angeles and WTTG (channel 5) in Washington, D.C. are three of the six original outlets operated and owned by the network; an affiliate of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, California-KTVU license (channel 2), is owned by Cox Enterprises at the time, and will not be acquired by Fox until October 2014.

Most of the stations involved in the New World deal are located in the market with a team at the NFC, which is then considered more prestigious than the two NFL conferences. In particular, the conference had teams located in nine of the ten largest television markets at the time - with the exception of Boston, whose NFL team, the New England Patriots, played in the AFC. In addition, most NFC teams existed before the formation of their predecessor American Football League and therefore contained a longer history, competition and tradition. During this time, the NFC is also in the midst of a 13-game winning streak against the AFC in the Super Bowl. Many stations scheduled to join Fox are CBS-based affiliates where NFC teams are located, so fans will continue to see at least their team's road games at the local VHF station (same).

The NFC team in the market related to transactions

• Arizona Cardinals (KSAZ-TV)
• Atlanta Falcons (WAGA)
• Dallas Cowboys (KDFW and KTBC)
• Detroit Lions (WJBK)
• Green Bay Packers (WITI)
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers (WTVT)

The AFC team in the market related to transactions

• Cleveland Browns (WJW)
• Kansas City Chiefs (WDAF)

KTBC and WITI serve a market that contains a significant fan base for nearby NFC teams. KTBC has aired the Dallas Cowboys (including pre-season exhibits) for years in the Austin market; WITI, meanwhile, has been broadcasting the Green Bay Packers game to its Milwaukee audience since September 1977, six months after rejoining CBS in the April 1961 affiliate swap reversal with WISN (channel 12) where both stations have traded their respective affiliates with ABC and CBS (The Packers have played regular season games in Milwaukee during the 1994 season). Since Green Bay is a Nielsen market that uses only diary papers for most of its history, the larger (and continuing) Milwaukee market is often cited further for ranking purposes by the NFL and the network that brings game league figures for the Green Bay market. smaller. In Cleveland and Kansas City, the WJW and WDAF each aired Browns (except after relocating the team to Baltimore in 1996 before their recreation as an expansion team in 1998) and Chiefs games only when Fox aired a match featuring NFC opponents (ironically in Kansas City), WDAF aired most of the Chiefs games as an affiliate of NBC by way of network rights to the AFC).

In 1995, St. Louis became the ninth NFC market with VHF Fox affiliates as a result of Rams relocation from Los Angeles, and KTVI - the ninth station (and the sixth in the NFC market) involved in the New World deal to switch - affiliated with the network. That year, the Carolina Panthers joined the NFL as an expansion team, making WGHP the other satellite "home" station for the NFL team because the Panthers are based in Charlotte, just south of the Piedmont Triad area where WGHP serves.

Due to the FCC's time to approve the News Corporation investment in New World and the subsequent purchase of Burnham station (as well as to wait for the affiliate contract to expire), long-time "lame duck" affiliate NFL broadcasts the NFL until the end of the 1995 season in some markets. For example, most Cowboys games are aired on KDAF (channel 33, now CW affiliate) in Dallas and KBVO (channel 42, now CBS KEYE-TV affiliate) in Austin, while Lions look at WKBD-TV (channel 50, now owned stations and operated by CW). WCGV-TV (channel 24, now MyNetworkTV affiliate) in Milwaukee brought Packers live until WITI was banned from CBS on December 1, 1994; The WCGV carrier from Packer during the first three months of the 1994 season marked the only break in the WITI train from team play since rejoining CBS in 1977. The New Orleans Saints game was performed at WNOL (channel 38, now CW affiliate) until December 1995.

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Burnham Broadcasting

In March 1994, Fox and Savoy Pictures established a business called SF Broadcasting to acquire and operate additional television stations. Fox holds no voice in the company (which is held entirely by Savoy Pictures chairpersons Victor Kaufman and Lewis Korman), but supplies 58% of the initial capital of $ 100 million. A few weeks after the New World deal, SF acquired four stations owned by Burnham Broadcasting:

• KHON-TV (channel 2), Honolulu, Hawaii - affiliated with NBC
• WALA-TV (channel 10), Mobile, Alabama - affiliated with NBC
• WLUK-TV (channel 11), Green Bay, Wisconsin - affiliated with NBC
• WVUE (channel 8), New Orleans, Louisiana - affiliated with ABC

SF Broadcasting bought WLUK-TV on 29 July 1994, for $ 38 million, and WALA, KHON and WVUE a month later on August 25 for $ 229 million. The deal gives Fox upgrades in the home markets of the Saints and the local Packers market (Fox has acquired CBS affiliates in Milwaukee, Packers other official home markets), giving Fox VHF affiliates in eleven of the fifteen NFC markets. On September 23, 1994, NBC petitioned the FCC challenging WLUK purchases, alleging that SF is a shell company created by News Corporation to avoid FCC limits on the amount of capital foreign companies can invest in American television stations. ; NBC withdrew the petition on February 17, 1995, and the FCC approved the deal two months later on 27 April.

Burnham separated ABC KBAK-TV affiliates (channel 29, now CBS affiliate) in Bakersfield, California, to Westwind Communications, a company founded by several former Burnham executives. The season after WLUK first started carrying the Packers as the Fox station (1996), the team won the Super Bowl XXXI, the first Super Bowl that was broadcast by the network.

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Repercussions

The informal affiliate change began on April 17, 1994, when the ABC KARD affiliate (channel 14) in Monroe, Louisiana, became a Fox affiliate, through an agreement not affiliated with the network group affiliation agreement with the New World; CBS KECY-TV (channel 9) affiliate in El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona, also transferred its affiliates to Fox in the same year.

The switch officially began on September 3, 1994, when the CBS affiliate, WJW-TV became the first station involved in the New World agreement to transfer its affiliates to Fox; CBS affiliate in Cleveland by itself moved to affiliate market affiliate CHO WOIO (channel 19). Sister WDAF-TV station following suit on September 12, affiliate trading with original Fox KSHB-TV affiliate (channel 41; New World has completed the acquisition of KSAZ-TV and WDAF just three days before the last switch from NBC to Fox). The majority of New World stations switched their affiliations to Fox between December 1994 and August 1995 (WGHP and WBRC did not each become Fox stations until September 1, 1995, and September 1, 1996, due to their affiliation contract with ABC). The affiliate changes officially ended on September 1, 1996, when the WBRC officially joined Fox as an operated and owned station; however, additional affiliate transactions caused by an agreement triggered by the Fox-New World agreement occurred on February 1, 1997, when the novice WJXX (channel 25) in Orange Park, Florida, signed up as a new ABC affiliate for the Jacksonville market, replacing WJKS 17, now WCWJ), which became a WB affiliate under the WJWB callsign.

With ABC, NBC and CBS suddenly need new affiliates in the market affected by the New World deal and Burnham, a major affiliate reshuffle begins. In some markets (such as Kansas City, Austin, Cleveland, and Honolulu), old Fox affiliates assume only new Fox affiliate affiliates; in other markets (like Detroit and Phoenix), the former Fox station is affiliated with a network that is not a previous affiliate of the new Fox outlet, resulting in swaps involving multiple stations. The reshuffle involving the Big Three network is largely along the path of the station group, which also affects markets where either the New World or Burnham has operated the station.

The WBRC transition in Birmingham resulted in the most elaborate exchange, in which six stations changed affiliates. Although Fox Television Station assumes ownership after the purchase of the station from New World-controlled trusts completed in January 1996, it must continue operating WBRC as an ABC station for an additional nine months because its affiliate contract with the network does not end until August 31, 1996; because Fox had bought WBRC the previous summer, it gave ABC a year's slack to find new affiliates in the area. In January 1996, he reached a unique agreement with Allbritton Communications where WCFT-TV (channel 33, now WSES commander & affiliate icon) and WJSU-TV (channel 40, now WGWW, also Heroes & Icon affiliates) each of the CBS affiliates for Tuscaloosa and Anniston (both of which had been annexed from Birmingham's Appointed Market Area by Arbitron in 1977, and ultimately torn back into the market by Nielsen in September 1998), will jointly become an ABC affiliate for central Alabama (the week before the deal, Allbritton has signed an agreement with Osborne Communications Corporation to take over WJSU operations under local marketing agreements). However, since the over-the-air reception of both stations in Birmingham is marginally the best and is unlikely to be counted in Nielsen's ratings report for that market because WCFT and WJSU are officially outside the market station, Allbritton purchased a low-power independent station W58CK ( channel 58, now WBMA-LD); under the deal, Albritton will also be affiliated with W58CK with ABC and make it the main cluster station, while WCFT and WJSU will serve as the satellite. Gadsden Fox WNAL-TV affiliate (channel 44, now WPXH-TV) replaces WJSU-TV as a CBS affiliate for northeastern Alabama - the second in the area, with Birmingham's WIAT (WNAL will become Pax TV (now Ion Television) O & for the entire Birmingham market in August 1999, three years after it was acquired by Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks), the network holding company). WTTO (channel 21) and its semi-satellite WDBB (channel 17), Fox affiliates for Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, became independent stations before affiliating with The WB in February 1997, a few months after WDBB became a full-time WTTO repeater.

Among the many deals, ABC reached a group agreement with Scripps-Howard Broadcasting on June 16, 1994, after CBS approached WEWS (channel 5) in Cleveland and WXYZ-TV (channel 7) in Detroit about replacing WJW and WJBK as affiliates for the market the. Under the agreement, in addition to renewing affiliate agreements with two of the company's largest stations, Scripps also agreed to replace affiliates from four other stations (NBC WMAR-TV affiliate (channel 2) in Baltimore, CBS WCPO-TV station (channel 9) in Cincinnati, and two Fox affiliates are set to be moved by the New World deal, KNXV-TV (channel 15) in Phoenix and WFTS-TV (channel 28) in Tampa) to the network. McGraw-Hill and Allbritton Communications also expanded their relationship with ABC, adding a combined five affiliates (two of whom are managing satellite stations, including the W58CK/WCFT/WJSU cluster in Birmingham) as part of an agreement that renewed agreements with existing ABC stations owned by both companies.

Westinghouse Broadcasting (known as the W Group), is concerned about its renowned Baltimorenya station WJZ-TV (channel 13) losing its ABC affiliation to WMAR-TV, reaching an agreement to affiliate with WJZ-TV and its two NBC affiliates (WBZ- TV (channel 4) in Boston and KYW-TV (channel 3) in Philadelphia) with CBS on July 14, 1994, as part of an agreement that renewed network affiliate agreements with KDKA-TV (channel 2) in Pittsburgh and KPIX (channel 5) at San Francisco. KYW-TV switches to CBS push the network to sell O & amp; O WCAU-TV (channel 10) to NBC (coincidentally, the New World briefly considers buying WCAU with the intent to convert it into a Fox affiliate, Paramount Stations Group will sell WTXF-TV's existing affiliate network (channel 29) to Fox Television Stations, while in turn, obtained an independent WGBS station (channel 57, now a owned-and-operated station by CPS WPSG) - which Fox attempted to buy in August 1993, before ending the deal to get WTXF - from Combined Broadcasting). After CBS found out that direct sales of WCAU would result in it having to pay high tax rates on the results obtained, CBS, Group W and NBC entered into complex trade agreements involving four stations. NBC trades KCNC-TV (channel 4) in Denver and KUTV (channel 2) in Salt Lake City, to CBS; in the meantime, CBS's WCIX (channel 6, now WFOR-TV on channel 4) in Miami exchanged transmission facilities and channel frequencies with NBC-owned WTVJ (channel 4, now on channel 6) as compensation for trade.

As a result of losing the National Football Association's broadcasting rights to Fox, the CBS problem increased as it struggled to compete in the rankings (lagging behind ABC and NBC, but placing ahead of Fox) with a row of programming that attracted audiences. older than other networks. As a direct result of the Fox-New World alliance, only six of the new CBS affiliates are VHF stations (including KTVT (channel 11) in Dallas-Fort Worth, KSTW (channel 11) in Seattle-Tacoma and KPHO-TV (channel 5) at Phoenix, although KSTW will lose its CBS affiliates to its previous affiliates in the market, KIRO-TV (channel 7), on June 30, 1997, in an agreement producing KSTW assuming UPN affiliates held by KIRO since January 1995); in Atlanta, Detroit and Milwaukee, CBS found itself in a very undesirable situation ending up at a low-profile UHF station with much less transmitter and viewer power than previous affiliates or even a CBS-affiliated UHF station in other markets, in part because unwillingness by other local stations to agree to switch to a struggling network. While former CBS affiliates in three markets - WAGA, WJBK and WITI - are all considered rank competitors, local viewers for CBS programming dropped significantly after the network moved to a low profile UHF station, which has virtually no significant history of former major network affiliates or as stations independent level first. The network's impressions finally recovered, and CBS became the most watched broadcast television network in the US in 1999.

One of the major positives that comes from the deal is an increase in the local news program on new Fox affiliates, the benefits that come as the network has asked its affiliates to launch a news release in the launch of Fox News Channel and Fox NewsEdge news affiliate news service in August 1996. The new Fox affiliates retained most of their existing newscasts but expanded their morning news broadcast by an hour or two and nightly newscasts by half an hour to replace news programs broadcast by their previous networks, with the majority also adding news broadcasts in the last hour prime time (9:00 or 10:00 pm, depending on the time zone). However, most of the twelve stations involved in the New World-Fox deal chose not to carry Fox's children's program block, Fox Kids, which resulted in Fox deciding to allow its owned and operated stations and affiliates to cancel blocks if other local stations interested to display it. A complication of this is that the religious-religious independent KNLC (channel 24) at St. Louis, owned by the New Life Christian Church, chose to send ministerial messages (dealing with controversial topics such as abortion, same-sex marriage and execution). Instead of advertising during the block break program, Fox moved the block to KTVI on the month September 1996.

Many of the new UHF Big Three affiliates find it difficult to get an audience, and all but two of them have to give up to launch a news release to support the national news program provided by the network. Four stations are affected by the switch - WEVV-TV (channel 44) in Evansville, Indiana (which became a CBS affiliate after losing Fox affiliates to WTVW (channel 7, now CW affiliate) through a separate deal), WWJ-TV (channel 62) in Detroit , KDNL-TV (channel 30) at St. Louis and WXLV-TV (channel 45) at the Piedmont Triad - failed to gain appeal with their local news competitors and eventually canceled or diverted their news releases (Although WWJ-TV, KDNL-TV and WXLV have made other attempts at news programs in several forms for mixed results; WEVV-TV was the only one who failed in the previous news program to fully resume in-house news operations, launched a news department in August 2015, months after its sale to Bayou City Broadcasting was completed). Generally, stations that continue broadcast news broadcast to this day are generally finished in third or fourth place behind their VHF competitors, although some have gradually grown rankings.

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Post-transition changes

Fox continues to upgrade its stations in at least two unrelated transactions that are struck later:

• On August 18, 1994, the Fox Television Station bought ABC affiliate WHBQ-TV (channel 13) in Memphis - a station that was once part of the RKO General's broadcasting empire, which had collapsed in the late 1980s due to corruption and false oath - from Communications Corporation of America. Former Fox WPTY-TV affiliate (channel 24, now WATN-TV) assumes ABC affiliate on December 1, 1995.
• On September 8, 2002, affiliate UPN KMSP-TV (channel 9) in Minneapolis-St. Paul - the home market of Minnesota Vikings of the NFC - became a Fox affiliate, affiliated with WFTC (channel 29, now a station owned and operated by MyNetworkTV). A similar exchange took place that year in Portland, Oregon, when Meredith Corporation switched Fox KPDX affiliate affiliates (channel 49, now MyNetworkTV affiliate) and UPN affiliates newly acquired by KPTV (channel 12); KPTV and KMSP previously affiliated with Fox from network deployment in October 1986 to September 1988, when they were both affiliated of the network due to problems with later weak programs. Fox has purchased both stations as part of the 2001 acquisition of the group Chris-Craft Industries, but trades KPTV to Meredith in exchange for WOFL (channel 35) in Orlando and Gainesville semi-satellite WOGX (channel 51) in 2002.

Another transition took place in San Diego on August 1, 2008, when KSWB-TV (channel 69) - one of 16 CW affiliated affiliates owned by Tribune Broadcasting - became a Fox affiliate, swapping networks with XETV. Although it may have been seen as a downgrade on the surface, since the analog position of KSWB is UHF 69 channel while XETV is on VHF 6 channel, the market has heavy cable penetration and most of its stations are in UHF, which is then branded by those dominant cable channel slots rather than allocation of their broadcast channels; thus, the KSWB is labeled "Fox 5" and uses only the over-the-air channel position as its PSIP virtual channel, in the legally required station ID and (from 2008 to 2012) a short sweep of the "Fox 69" logo on bugs seen during news broadcasts. With the transition to Fox, the Tribune re-established a news department for the KSWB (which produced major newscasts from September 1999 to September 2005, before production was taken over by the KNSD through a news-sharing agreement). With respect to the NFL, this transition is an irrelevant issue; as Chargers, who played in San Diego until 2017, played in the AFC, most of the team's Sunday afternoon games were shown locally at CBS KFMB-TV (channel 8) affiliates from 1998 to 2016 (ironically, the Chargers game had been aired on KNSD from 1977 until 1997). Beginning with the 2017 season, with Chargers moving to the Los Angeles area, the main station for team games on the market was CBS 'West Coast flagship KCBS-TV (channel 2).

CBS sees the affiliate downgrade from VHF to UHF in unrelated transactions in the Jacksonville-Brunswick market - home of the Jacksonville Jaguars (whose game also aired on CBS via rights to AFC) - after Post-Newsweek Station announced in April 2002 that it would terminate the affiliates network with WJXT (channel 4) due to a dispute over CBS's compensation request. On July 15, 2002, WTEV-TV (channel 47, now WJAX-TV) became a CBS affiliate market, with affiliated Fox WAWS affiliate station (channel 30, now WFOX-TV) assuming UPN affiliates are moved as secondary affiliates. The loss of CBS affiliates at WJXT, which became an independent station, led to a transition near Gainesville (where the University of Florida lives, whose soccer games are regularly broadcast on CBS through its contract with the Southeastern Conference), where WB/the main secondary Affiliate UPN WGFL (channel 53 , now on channel 28) switch to CBS to keep the network available in that area; UPN and The WB are downgraded to the station's digital sub-channels (now affiliated with MyNetworkTV, as well as low-power WMYG-LP), one of the earliest examples of established subchannels for carrying large networks before the 2006 alignment resulted from the merger of The WB and UPN to form The CW.

From CBS affiliates in 16 AFC markets, WJAX-TV and WOIO affiliates of Cleveland - in the Browns home market - are the only stations that have virtual channels associated with the UHF band. WOIO (which actually transmits its digital signals via VHF channel 10) is a Fox Cleveland affiliate charter before exchanging affiliations with WJW as a result of the New World deal, and has even held the team's pre-season game rights from 1988 as a Fox affiliate until 1995, and in 2005 CBS affiliates. Currently, WOIO only airs CBS Browns' show, due to conflict between WOIO team and news department in the past over coverage of personal issues involving team players and ownership resulting in Brown's organization choosing not to renew its pre-season agreement with WOIO after the 2005 season ; The ABC WEWS affiliate (channel 5) carries most of the team's pre-season games and other Brown programs.

On July 1, 2013, the CW WJZY affiliate (channel 46) in Charlotte, North Carolina, became Fox owned and operated, after Fox Television bought it and sister station affiliated with MyNetworkTV WMYT-TV (channel 55) of the Capitol Broadcasting Company in April; similar to the situation faced after the purchase of WBRC, the Fox Television Station must operate WJZY as a CW affiliate for three months after the purchase of WJZY-WMYT duopoly is completed, as existing station contracts with the network are not expiring until June 30, 2013. The switches result in an increase to CW through the transfer of the network to the Fox charter charter affiliated with the WCCB, as it broadcasts on the UHF 18 channel, and also has a news department (being one of a handful of CW-affiliated news station producers as a result), which WJZY did not have until January 2014 as Fox O & amp; O.

Another important shift involving the AFC market occurred in Indianapolis, after a dispute between station management on WISH-TV (channel 8) and network during the affiliate renewal negotiations over reverse compensation demands made CBS reach an agreement with Tribune Broadcasting on August 11, 2014., where WTTV (channel 4) and Kokomo-based WTTK satellites (channel 29) will jointly become CBS market affiliates through broader agreements that renew affiliates to five existing company CBS stations (KFSM-TV [channel 5] in Fort Smith, Arkansas; WHNT-TV [channel 19] in Huntsville, Alabama; WTKR [channel 3] in Norfolk, Virginia; WTVR-TV [channel 6] in Richmond, Virginia; and WREG-TV [channel 3] in Memphis). WTTV/WTTK was originally planned to move CW affiliates to digital sub-channels on January 1, 2015, switched until the Tribune decided to sell the Indianapolis CW affiliate rights to the owner of WISH Media General (who had completed the merger with the former radio station's LIN Media three days earlier) on December 22, 2014, with WTTV/WTTK choosing to operate the DT2 sub-channel as an independent station. The switch was an upgrade for The CW, due to WISH's previous history as the main network station and the operation of the news department; it's also an upgrade for at least WTTV even if it's arguably the one for CBS, since the station has not been a major network affiliate since losing an ABC affiliate to WLWI (channel 13, now NBC WTHR affiliate) in October 1957, has not maintained the news department since November 1990 or broadcast its own newscasting since the termination of the agreement with the ABC affiliate of WRTV (channel 6) in December 2002, after the purchase of the station Tribune (a Tribune news broadcast was re-established for WTTV on a switch using resources from the WXIN news department (channel 59) there, which began operations in September 1991, but competed and maintained an anchor team largely separated from Fox's affiliated sibling stations). In fact, the main thrust of the deal is allowing WTTV to become a local broadcaster Indianapolis Colts through CBS rights to the AFC.

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Long-term impact

Fox Sports Growth

Affiliate switches help boost Fox to major networking status, equivalent to older and established competitors. By 2015, its sports division has expanded to include Major League Baseball, NASCAR, and college events from selected NCAA athletic conferences. In addition, Fox aired National Hockey League matches from 1995 to 1999 and the Bowl Championship Series (except for Rose Bowl) from 2007 to 2010. Other ex-Formal One (now held by ESPN) and Cotton Bowl Classic to ESPN by 2015). Coverage Fox Sports has also expanded to include several cable networks, led by Fox Sports Net network of its regional sports network (a group launched in 1996, consisting mostly of channels previously part of the Sports and Main Sports group) and two flagship national networks, Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 (both launched in August 2013, replacing the existing niche sports network, Speed ​​and Fuel TV).

In the fall of 2011, Fox adds regular season collegiate football games from Pac-12 and Big 12 Conference, as well as the Big Ten and Pac-12 championship games, and four games per year from Ultimate Fighting Championship. The English FA Cup Final comes to the network on May 11, 2013. In August 2013, Fox Sports signed an agreement to broadcast three major US Open Golf Association championships, including the US Open, starting in 2015. The Fox Sports property currently looks over-the -air also includes exclusive Daytona 500 coverage and UEFA Champions League final match. In addition, the World Superbike Championship race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was transferred to Fox Sports 1 in 2013.

Rise of Fox at prime time

Fox entertainment programs also benefited from the great promotions they received during sports broadcasts, including the events already aired at the time (such as Beverly Hills, 90210 , Melrose Place , Married... with Kids , The X-Files and The Simpsons ), as well as more recent programs (such as American Idol , 24 and Home ). In fact, Idol is the prime time networking program with the highest rating for eight consecutive seasons, from 2003-04 to 2010-11, the longest streak in US television history.

CBS endurance

While CBS finally recovered from the loss of the National Football Conference package, network recovery was partly linked to, ironically, the re-acquisition of broadcasting rights to the NFL in 1998 when it took over a television contract to the American Football Conference of NBC. Last year NBC held the AFC's right to see the Denver Broncos, the original AFL team, defeated the Green Bay Packers at Super Bowl XXXII, which aired on NBC and ended a 13-year drought against NFC in the Super Bowl.

Around the time CBS assumed the right of the American Football Conference, the league trend of the 1980s and 1990s was reversed, that the AFC became the dominant NFL conference over the NFC. The New England Patriots were dynasty in the 2000s in the only top-10 market at the time with the AFC franchise and no NFC team that also contributed to the spike in rankings. In fact, the main station for the Broncos and Patriots is the same as when NBC took the AFC (before each switch in September 1995 through a trade agreement between CBS/Group W and NBC) - KCNC-TV in Denver and WBZ- TV in Boston (KUSA and WHDH-TV hosted the teams' matches from August 1995 [WHDH]/September 1995 [KUSA] to January 1998). Additionally, the AFC's current deal also sees CBS indirectly awarding the rights to air games played by Pittsburgh Steelers, which are broadcast locally at KDKA-TV (which is CBS O & amp; when the network regains NFL rights , and has long been one of the strongest stations of CBS) and often gets the highest television ratings for the NFL team due to the Steelers fanatical base of fans at the national level. Incidentally, before the AFL-NFL merger, team road games had been shown in KDKA as part of the NFL deal for CBS to broadcast the game, while home games could not be broadcasted at all during this period, even if tickets for each Individual matches played at the Steelers' home stadium are sold out.

Impact on NBC

Because CBS was hit hardest by switches, partly because it was degraded into low-level affiliates in some key markets, NBC became the most watched network in the United States, not only experiencing the least effect of switching but also benefiting from a powerful programming sequence (including Friends , Frasier , Seinfeld , Law & Order , ER and Dateline NBC ). NBC will retain its rank until 1999, the year after losing the AFC television rights to CBS, which replaced it for the first place.

After Friends and Frasier ended operations in 2004, NBC largely struggled in the rankings until 2013. Although it will be aided by its exclusive rights to the Olympics (an effective deal with the 2000 Summer Olympics in which, along with defending the existing rights to the Summer Olympics, assumed exclusive rights to the Winter Olympics from CBS beginning in 2002), the problem of network ranking was also supported by a slow decline in sports division event portfolio that began with the loss of previous broadcasting rights to AFC to CBS, and then his share of Major League Baseball rights to Fox in 2000 and his contract with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to ABC and ESPN in 2002; However, one of several NBC shows to gain strong ratings during that period was Sunday Night Football, which moved into the network from ESPN in September 2006 as part of the same NFL television contract that saw the honorable ABC < i> Monday Night Football moved to ESPN. NBC Sunday Night Football finally beat Fox Idol to become the most watched program on US television starting in 2012. In addition, NBC Sports's portfolio was also helped in 2005 by reaching the right to broadcast a National Hockey League match.

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Current status

On July 17, 1996, News Corporation announced that it would acquire the New World directly in a $ 2.48 billion share transaction, making the last ten Fox affiliates have operated and operated network stations; The deal was completed on January 22, 1997. Today, six New World stations are turning to Fox (KDFW, WAGA, WJBK, KSAZ-TV, WTVT and KTBC) owned by 21st Century Fox - a company created from July 2013 separation Entertainment News Corporation (including Fox and its related broadcast and cable television assets, but excluding Australian owned television properties) and publishing assets. Fox Television Stations, the 21st Century Fox controlling station division, was announced on June 13, 2007 - when it was under the ownership of News Corporation - its intention to sell its nine stations, six of which were formerly owned by New World (WJW, KTVI, WDAF-TV, WITI -TV, WBRC and WGHP; Fox also announced it will sell WHBQ-TV, KDVR (channel 31) in Denver and KSTU (channel 13) in Salt Lake City). From this ninth, only WITI is currently located in the NFC market through the unique two Green Bay Packers market area that includes Green Bay and Milwaukee; KTVI, also in the NFC market, was impacted by 2016 with the Rams relocation of St. Louis to the home market earlier in Los Angeles (the main station for the team in the market now is the West Fox Coast Summit) KTTV). On December 21, 2007, Fox sold eight stations - not including WHBQ - to Local TV, a subsidiary of Oak Hill Capital Partners formed on May 7 that year to take over ownership of the $ 1.1 billion division of The New York Times Company; This group agreement closed on July 14, 2008.

Because of the FCC rules that impede the same ownership of two of the four highest rated stations by a single company, Fox excludes WHBQ from Local TV sales because the group already has CBS Memphis affiliate, WREG-TV; Fox TV station took WHBQ from the sales block on January 16, 2009, defending it as Fox O & amp; O. As part of June 24, 2014, the acquisition of KTVU and sister independent station KICU-TV (channel 36) from Cox Media Group, Fox announced that they would trade WHBQ and WFXT to Cox in exchange for a duopoly of San Francisco; The agreement was settled on October 8, 2014. On January 6, 2009, Local TV announced it would trade WBRC to Raycom Media, in exchange for CBS WTVR-TV affiliate in Richmond, Virginia. Local TV stations are operated under a joint management agreement with Tribun Broadcasting, which provides web hosting, technical and engineering services for Local TV stations, along with the sharing of news content among all stations; Local TV/Tribune stations also formed the core of Antenna TV's digital sub-channel network, which was launched in January 2011. The Tribune bought Local TV instantly for $ 2.75 billion on July 1, 2013, adding seven former Fox O & Os to six already owned affiliate Fox (KSWB-TV; WXIN; KCPQ (channel 13) in Seattle; WXMI (channel 17) in Grand Rapids, Michigan; WPMT (channel 43) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and KTXL (channel 40) in Sacramento, California), making Tribune the largest owner of Fox-affiliated stations with total market coverage (surpassing Sinclair Broadcast Group, which remains the largest Fox affiliate owner with total number of owned and/or operated stations). Sales completed on December 27, 2013.

SF Broadcasting sold its station on November 28, 1995, to Silver King Communications (a group operated by former Fox executive Barry Diller, otherwise composed of Home Shopping Network affiliate stations); Silver King then sold four Fox affiliates to Emmis Communications for $ 307 million in cash and $ 90 million in shares on April 1, 1998 (Silver King, later to be known as USA Broadcasting, finally sold the remaining independent stations and HSN's remaining affiliates to Univision Communications in December 2000 to form the core of the current UniMa network). Emmis then sold WLUK and WALA to LIN TV on August 22, 2005, as part of a $ 260 million deal that included WALA affiliated with the WBPG duo partner (channel 55, now CW WFNA affiliate) and CBS WTHI-TV affiliate (channel 10) at Terre Haute, Indiana and KRQE (channel 13) in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Emmi then sold KHON to the Montecito Broadcast Group (which later sold KHON to New Vision Television, ironically purchased by LIN in May 2012) on September 15 that year, as part of a $ 259 million deal that includes a CBS KOIN affiliate (channel 6) in Portland, Oregon, and NBC are affiliated with KSNW (channel 3) in Wichita and KSNT (channel 27) in Topeka, Kansas. KHON is one of the stations acquired by Media General in a merger of 2014 with LIN, while each company sells WLUK and WALA to Sinclair Broadcast Group and Meredith Corporation (the last of which Media General announced that they will earn $ 2.4 billion in September 8, 2015, before ending an agreement to receive a $ 4.6 billion reverse offer by Nexstar Broadcasting Group on January 27, 2016) due to ownership conflicts with two existing Media Stations, ABC affiliate WBAY-TV (channel 2) and CBS WKRG-TV affiliate (channel 5) in the Green Bay and Mobile markets; WVTM was sold to Hearst Television due to a conflict of ownership in Birmingham with WIN affiliates owned by LIN through the same merger. On May 5, 2008, Emmy sold WVUE - whose sales process was made more difficult after Hurricane Katrina, which greatly affected the New Orleans display area - into the Louisiana Media Company, founded by New Orleans Saints Tom Benson, for $ 41 million; the sale closed on July 18, 2008. On November 20, 2013, Raycom Media announced it would operate WVUE under a joint service agreement that came into force on December 16, with Louisiana Media retaining station ownership.

All stations involved in the New World and Broadcasting SF offerings, as well as other related affiliate transactions involving Fox (except two Indiana - WTVW stations in Evansville and WAWV-TV (channel 38, now ABC affiliate) in Terre Haute - are affected by network disputes 2011 with Nexstar Broadcasting Group for compensation reverse retransmission compensation, and KEVN-TV (channel 7) in Rapid City, South Dakota, which has Fox affiliates and other intellectual assets transferred to low-power stations in March 2016, in transactions related to the Schurz merger Communications with Gray Television that generates ABC KOTA-TV affiliated intellectual assets [channel 3, now KHME MeTV affiliate] is being transferred to full KEVN full power signal), remains Fox affiliates.

Westinghouse purchased CBS for $ 5.4 billion on August 1, 1995, so that all CB-affiliated Group W stations became CBS & amp; Os when the sale is completed in November. The merger deal comes just one day after The Walt Disney Company announced that it would acquire Capital Cities/ABC, the parent company of ABC's rival. Viacom purchased Westinghouse/CBS for $ 36 billion in September 1999, which created a duopoly in several markets between O & amp; Os from CBS and UPN. Viacom and CBS split in December 2005, with the current CBS Corporation (a name previously used by entities with CBS properties under Westinghouse) maintaining the company's broadcasting assets, including UPN. CBS still owns the stations it acquired through exchange stations with NBC or through its merger with Westinghouse, except for KUTV, which was sold to Four Points Media Group in 2007 (Four Points station - with the exception of CW WLWC affiliates (channel 28) in Providence - owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group).

On November 3, 2010, ABC sold WJRT and WTVG back to SJL Broadcasting, which is now owned by Lilly Broadcasting's principal owner, for $ 30 million. On July 24, 2014, Gray Television purchased both stations for $ 128 million. On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill sold its television station to EW Scripps Company for $ 212 million, adding four ABC affiliates to the six Scripps already owned (WXYZ-TV, WEWS, WCPO-TV, WMAR-TV, KNXV-TV and KGTV (channel 10) in San Diego), making it the second largest owner of ABC-affiliated stations with total market coverage (after Argyle Hearst Television). On July 29, 2013, Allbritton Communications sold seven stations affiliated with ABC to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $ 985 million. However, in September 2014, Sinclair sold WCIV, WCFT-TV and WJSU-TV to Howard Stirk Holdings due to ownership conflict with Fox WTAT-TV affiliates (channel 24) and MyNetworkTV WMMP affiliate (channel 36) in Charleston and CW WTTO/WDBB and MyNetworkTV WABM affiliates (channel 68) in Birmingham, leading to the termination of a local marketing agreement with WTAT through its owner Cunningham Broadcasting, a WCIV intellectual unit and a calling letter migrating to WMMP, and WDBB and WABM being the only subchannel repeater of WBMA-LD (with WDBB replaces WSES as its middle-west Alabama repeater, WGWW also alienates WBMA programming programming to digital sub-channels).

Effects in the top 10 markets

To this day, Washington, DC is the only Nielsen market that entered in the top ten US television markets in 1994 outside New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago that have no major network affiliations (outside of network coverage and launch) affected impacts during and since the transfer period (Atlanta, Dallas and Detroit are affected by the New World deal, while Boston and Philadelphia are affected through the Westinghouse deal). While Houston is also unaffected by switches and its main network affiliates remain the same, it does not become Top 10 markets until 2005-06, surpassing Detroit.

San Francisco was also unaffected by the switch in 1994, because Westinghouse's KPIX-TV has been a CBS affiliate since it was signed in 1948. However, on January 1, 2002, KRON-TV (channel 4) became an independent station after a fierce dispute between NBC and Young Broadcasting station (which joined Media General in 2013); after Young beat NBC to buy a station from Chronicle Publishing Company (a publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, sold to Hearst Corporation as part of the $ 823 million asset liquidation) in November 1999, NBC demanded that Young run stations under the NBC O & amp; O as a condition of renewing its affiliates; Young refused this demand, along with affiliate updates. NBC then strikes an affiliate deal with, and then buys, a KNTV-owned Granite Broadcasting (channel 11) in San Jose, which becomes a WB affiliate (in conjunction with the existing Bay Area affiliate network, then-brother KBWB station (channel 20, now station independent KOFY-TV)) in July 2000, after agreeing to do dissaffiliate from ABC because of the market exclusivity claim for the San Jose network by ABC O & amp; O KGO-TV (channel 7). Because KNTV has served the Monterey Bay area as an ABC affiliate - more than San Jose (located 50 miles (80 km) in the north) - KGO added to the cable system in the area as compensation for losses (Monterey- Market Salinas will eventually regain ABC stations itself, when NBC, affiliated with Salinas KSBW-TV (channel 8), launched an ABC-affiliated digital sub-channel on April 18, 2011).

In Boston, WHDH (channel 7) - which replaced WBZ-TV as an NBC affiliate through CBS/Group W agreement - lost its NBC affiliate on January 1, 2017, after Sunbeam Television owner's refusal to sell WHDH to NBC leading the network to refuse updates of its affiliated agreements and create stations owned and operated from scratch; the tense relationships of the parties were twisted to Sunbeam's objections to Ed Ansin's ownership of the purchase of WTVJ 1987 by NBC to replace WSVN (channel 7) as its Miami outlet (a move leading to WSVN assuming WCIX Fox affiliates obtained by CBS on January 1989), and the conflicts surrounding WHDH's 2009 aborted plans to replace short-time talk show short strips The Jay Leno Show with a simulcast of 10: 00, pm newscasts it produced for the CW-affiliated sister station WLVI (channel 56) due to the uncertainty of potential effects of Leno ' on its 11:00 newscast viewers. Through the NBC contract with the NFL, WHDH served as a local broadcaster from the Foxborough-based New England Patriots from 1995 to 1997 (most Patriots have been broadcasted ever since at WBZ-TV, through the acquisition of AFS 1998 CBS television contract), and carrying the Patriots Sunday Night Football occasionally from 2006 to 2016.

While preliminary reports indicate that NBC will move to Telemundo O & amp; O WNEU (channel 60), finally purchased WNTSU-WBTS-LD low powered repeater (channel 8) from ZGS Communications in September 2016 to bring "NBC Boston," and began simulcasting with WNEU (which respectively transmitted the program NBC and Cozi TV WBTS-LD on two sub-digital channels) and WMFP (channel 62, which maintains subchannel rental agreements with NBC) to help provide full market coverage; WBTS established a news department through resources from New England Cable News (obtained by NBCUniversal through 2011 acquisition by Comcast), employing existing NECN staff and new hires. Ansin filed a court action to stop the planned transition on the grounds that the possibility of network transfer to Merrimack, the New Hampshire-based WNEU - which provides signal coverage from Class B to not in the southern parts of the Boston market - would violate the FCC provisions imposed from the acquisition Comcast 2011 NBCUniversal to maintain the availability of the NBC program outside the air and not to use its cable properties to influence affiliate agreements (Massachusetts District Court Judge Richard Stearn rejected the lawsuit as Comcast requested on May 16, 2016, citing the realities of corporate competition); Senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren also expressed concern that reliant OTA viewers living in outlying neighborhoods and suburbs of Boston beyond the reach of WNEU signals will not have access to the NBC program. Instead of dealing with WLVI CW affiliates, Subeam chose to operate WHDH as a news-intensive independent station, filling in the morning and evening periods previously occupied by the NBC program with an expanded morning news broadcast, and updated prime time ranks of the syndication and expansion program 2 ½ - news block (including WLVI newscast);

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See also

• 1994 on American television
• 2006 United States broadcast TV reset - the next major affiliate in America, involves closing The WB and UPN and the upcoming release of CW and MyNetworkTV
• 2001 Vancouver TV alignment - similar event te

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