tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 FTVlive is reporting that Quincy is reportedly selling WSJV to our favorite company....well maybe our second favorite company now that Deathstar is swallowing MG..... http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/6/7/ae-to-swing-in-south-bend It's threadworthy since NOT a single WORD has been spoken by EITHER company...which means it could be total BS or a super secret deal that will result in lost jobs and/or channel sharing since a duopoly is impossible here. Why on earth would Quincy sell here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Since JSAs are allowed again, WSBT and WSJV can finally get hitched. Downside is an obvious loss of a news department, but could South Bend support FOUR newsrooms? Definitely not! Plus, WSJV is an anomaly in that it's the only Fox station in the Quincy group with its own news department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 557 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 This makes no sense for Quincy to sell this station. Yeah South Bend probably can't support 4 news operation but I would think that WBND would be the one sold and not WSJV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Maybe Sinclair could move WSJV's programming to a WSBT subchannel (perhaps a merger with SBT2, which would upgrade to HD?). WSJV's license would then be spun off to Howard Stirk Holdings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Quincy never sells and according to Wikipedia, has owned WSJV since 1974, just their second station they've ever owned at the time after, of course, flagship WGEM-TV which was founded by Quincy in 1953. Considering how good FTVLive has been lately, I think Quincy is selling and if so, not surprising, given that WSJV doesn't air as much news as the BIG three in South Bend or as much as most of Quincy Media's news departments, despite WSJV being Quincy's third-biggest market (after Cedar Rapids with KWWL and Madison with WKOW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 Under Schurz, WBND was set to merge with WSBT and it would have been free and clear since WBND was and still is a low powered station. For whatever reason, (Schurz claimed lack of action by the FCC) the deal was abandoned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2050 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Under Schurz, WBND was set to merge with WSBT and it would have been free and clear since WBND was and still is a low powered station. For whatever reason, (Schurz claimed lack of action by the FCC) the deal was abandoned... It was right when the WTVJ/WPLG merger was nixed because of the same thing (along with the public interest/Neilsen finagling issues); they just never started the clock on that proposal and Schurz and Weigel walked away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Free Press was the one that complained on Schurz getting Weigel's 3 LPs. They feared that Schurz would have too much control in the market (since they already owned the paper (South Bend Tribune), the radio stations, and Channel 22). FCC did greenlight the WBND app, but didn't grant the other two LPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 An update and it looks to be official when even employees at WSJV were shocked and had no idea that this was going on. Sinclair is buying WSJV from Quincy: http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/6/8/dropping-a-bomb-in-a-south-bend-newsroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 96 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Don't you mean one of Sinclair's sidecars buys WSJV from Quincy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Don't you mean one of Sinclair's sidecars buys WSJV from Quincy? FTVLive doesn't say but it looks like its gonna be SBG itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 FTVLive doesn't say but it looks like its gonna be SBG itself. If S!nclair is buying WSJV, then what happens to WSBT? It makes little sense that the Fox station is going to the main company while a Big 3 station is going to a sidecar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I believe a trade would make since, oh wait it's Sinclair they want to own everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1804 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 If S!nclair is buying WSJV, then what happens to WSBT? It makes little sense that the Fox station is going to the main company while a Big 3 station is going to a sidecar. I know this bothers people on here, but this would mean little to nothing to the stations themselves or their advertising clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I keep asking myself "How much it enough?!" Is Sinclair getting greedier of buying and destroying good tv stations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2050 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 This South Bend Tribune article posted Memorial Day weekend pretty much says this is preparing for several situations post-auction since the LP Weigel stations aren't protected from the auction and WNIT/PBS is also in the auction (I guess they completely forgot that cable/sharing channel space with WHME, which has some empty spectrum, would be possible). South Bend is one of those in-between markets in the Chicago/Grand Rapids/Indianapolis triangle that looks like it'll lose some slots, and Quincy or Sinclair could be looking at selling that spectrum, possibly in a joint venture. It's prime spectrum too; where I am in Sheboygan the SB signals, even WBND and WCWW, carry very well all around northern Illinois and Indiana and into Michigan and Wisconsin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Man that would suck to be 100% in the dark about your station being sold and to learn about it online because somehow it was leaked to someone and they posted it on their site as if it was common knowledge. It would suck even more to learn that it's highly unlikely you'll have a job but they kept it secret so you would keep coming in to your job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Man that would suck to be 100% in the dark about your station being sold and to learn about it online because somehow it was leaked to someone and they posted it on their site as if it was common knowledge. It would suck even more to learn that it's highly unlikely you'll have a job but they kept it secret so you would keep coming in to your job. In the TV biz that's just called 'Tuesday". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 The problem with this auction is that it is mired in secrecy...not even the savviest of us (unless someone is on the inside) has any idea who is going to cash out. Really the only documented instances of "selling" are the public broadcasters here and there who are toying with auctioning their spectrum. South Bend is VERY close to a lot of people and prime spectrum could fetch a pretty penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 UPDATE: WSBT is launching "Fox Michiana" on SBT-2's old slot.... I've updated the title of this discussion now that it's official and WSJV is NOT being sold to Sinclair. As for WSJV....they're basically screwed... http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/7/25/damn-ftvlive-was-right-again Raymie beat me to it....here's what will happen to WSJV. Believe it or not....it is NOT spectrum related....per the South Bend Tribune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 UPDATE: WSBT is launching "Fox Michiana" on SBT-2's old slot.... As for WSJV....they're basically screwed... http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/7/25/damn-ftvlive-was-right-again I wonder if Weigel would play spoiler and try to pay more than what HSH will inevitably give Quincy. This selling stations deal is something new for Quincy and it would be money wisely spent for Weigel by putting ABC back on its old home. Whatever low-power station gets freed up could be sold to Sinclair in this scenario to give a separate signal for Fox Michiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 746 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 I wonder if Weigel would play spoiler and try to pay more than what HSH will inevitably give Quincy. This selling stations deal is something new for Quincy and it would be money wisely spent for Weigel by putting ABC back on its old home. Whatever low-power station gets freed up could be sold to Sinclair in this scenario to give a separate signal for Fox Michiana. That's what I was thinking. However, it would have made more sense for WSJV to be sold to or have its operations transferred under an SSA by Weigel, in such a manner that WSJV kept the Fox affiliation and its syndicated programming but integrated its news department with WBND, and in turn, add that station's signal to a subchannel to give ABC a full signal reach throughout the South Bend market. After all, WSJV already carries a Weigel network anyway. Another note, it seems unprecedented that almost every market in a single state has had a network switch involving one of the Big Five networks this decade alone. Lafayette is the only Indiana market to have had a station keep the same affiliation, and that's only because it has one commercial station. Think about it. The 2011 Nexstar dispute with Fox led Terre Haute's WFXW to become WAWV and re-join ABC after 11 years and Fort Wayne's WFFT to become independent for just under two years before Nexstar settled its suit against Granite to retake the Fox affiliation from WISE-DT2, and Evansville's WTVW going independent after losing Fox to WEVV-DT2. Then in Indianapolis last year, WISH and WTTV traded their CBS and CW affiliations due to CBS's dispute with LIN and Tribune agreeing to sell Media General/WISH the local CW programming rights. And next week, you have Fox moving from WSJV to WSBT-DT2 in South Bend, and The CW and NBC swapping places between WISE and WPTA-DT2 in Fort Wayne. However, CBS, ABC and The CW at least got main channel affiliations through the various network swaps, since when it rejoined the Alphabet in 2011, ABC hadn't had an affiliate in Terre Haute since there weren't enough stations to fit each of the Big Four when WAWV joined Fox, CBS landed WTTV and The CW landed WTVW (after WAZE shut down in 2013), WISE and WISH (although the latter two would have gained main channel affiliations in Indianapolis in any event, given how Tribune divested the rights and the number of stations there are in the market). Fox and NBC got a bit of a raw deal by the economics of the television markets in South Bend and Fort Wayne, and the once-unconventional methodology behind how the asset transfers that are relegating their affiliations to subchannels were structured. BTW, shouldn't the other thread regarding WSBT's takeover of the Fox affiliation ("The news is over at WSJV") be integrated into this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2050 Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 WSBT has pulled its story/FAQ about the 28--->22.2 move on their website; it currently 404's. Is there something going on that's suddenly gotten the ire of the FCC or CBS/Fox (or more likely the syndicators; I don't think 20th Television or Entertainment Studios are happy to learn their shows are homeless in South Bend as of August 1)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 WSBT has pulled its story/FAQ about the 28--->22.2 move on their website; it currently 404's. Is there something going on that's suddenly gotten the ire of the FCC or CBS/Fox (or more likely the syndicators; I don't think 20th Television or Entertainment Studios are happy to learn their shows are homeless in South Bend as of August 1)? Not sure why they did that. Both channels does air a boat load of Byron Allen shows. But did read a piece from The Elkhart Truth, and the GM from WSBT stated that it will simulcast the Fox Michiana on both 22.2 & 28.1 for a period of 60 days. Yet, they didn't announce it on its press release back on Monday. Nizamis said beginning Monday and for up to 60 days, Fox’s regular programming will be available on both channel 28 and channel 22.2 while the companies work on the transition. The transition period will also serve as a way to remind viewers of the move. EDIT 7/28: Even though they pulled it from the website. The video was upload on their own YT page. EDIT 7/29: And the YT vid appears to be gone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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