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Isn’t it somewhat common for people to visit sister stations or those unrelated to their own when on vacation especially if you have friends working there? If your on Instagram you’ll see plenty of visits to other stations while on vacation - usually to see old friends.

 

I've seen it quite often, especially former on-air talent visiting their old station if they happen to be passing through the area or somehow on assignment in their old market.

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New M&A.

 

It looks like Estrella wants to buy Miami's Spanish indie WGEN for $11M.

 

I don't think its a Spanish indie. I think its affiliated with Azteca America.

 

Unrelated to that...

 

KRGV 5.2 has been refreshed and rebranded as a local English/Spanish independent station known as "Somos El Valle." I bring this up because it now airs all newscasts from 5.1 as simulcasts, airs another two hours of live morning news from 7:00-9:00 a.m., airs a new one-hour nightly Spanish-language newscast at 9:00 and the weeknight newscast at 10:30 p.m. is now exclusively on 5.2

 

http://www.krgv.com/story/37141987/somos-el-valle-programming

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I don't think its a Spanish indie. I think its affiliated with Azteca America.

 

Another article mentioned that AZA moved back to their previous WPMF-CD in November 2017. WSVN apparently stopped airing Estrella back in July on their subchannel (it's on a light bulb with the calls WVFW-CD right now), but nobody actually noticed until just now they carry Light TV. Which just shows how these new subchannel networks carrying the same six MGM shows are getting no buzz to speak of.

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This is what happens when you hire college kids to do your on-air graphics

 

Devil's advocate: It's entirely possible the control room had that called up in their playlist, and the updated L3 didn't populate through Viz in time.

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Another article mentioned that AZA moved back to their previous WPMF-CD in November 2017. WSVN apparently stopped airing Estrella back in July on their subchannel (it's on a light bulb with the calls WVFW-CD right now), but nobody actually noticed until just now they carry Light TV. Which just shows how these new subchannel networks carrying the same six MGM shows are getting no buzz to speak of.

 

So Azteca had a very short stint with WGEN? If what your saying is right, a much shorter stint than when WJAN/WFUN had MundoFOX?

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Another article mentioned that AZA moved back to their previous WPMF-CD in November 2017. WSVN apparently stopped airing Estrella back in July on their subchannel (it's on a light bulb with the calls WVFW-CD right now), but nobody actually noticed until just now they carry Light TV. Which just shows how these new subchannel networks carrying the same six MGM shows are getting no buzz to speak of.

 

Which brings up an interesting, yet disappointing IMO, observation, why is it that Buzzr is in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, And Gainesville, but not Miami? Seriously? No Buzzr in a big city like Miami, while smaller cities get to enjoy it?

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Which brings up an interesting, yet disappointing IMO, observation, why is it that Buzzr is in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, And Gainesville, but not Miami? Seriously? No Buzzr in a big city like Miami, while smaller cities get to enjoy it?

 

Dish Network has been carrying Buzzr on Channel 245 since last year.

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Which brings up an interesting, yet disappointing IMO, observation, why is it that Buzzr is in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, And Gainesville, but not Miami? Seriously? No Buzzr in a big city like Miami, while smaller cities get to enjoy it?

 

I'm surprised that when WLVI added Buzzr that clearance on a WSVN sub didn't come with.

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Which brings up an interesting, yet disappointing IMO, observation, why is it that Buzzr is in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, And Gainesville, but not Miami? Seriously? No Buzzr in a big city like Miami, while smaller cities get to enjoy it?

 

In those situations, Fox owns stations in every one of those Florida market but Miami, and they're were the first station group to Buzzr on their subchannels. For the first several months of the operations, the Fox station group were the only ones airing Buzzr, besides a couple low-powers in Fresno and elsewhere.

 

Another article mentioned that AZA moved back to their previous WPMF-CD in November 2017. WSVN apparently stopped airing Estrella back in July on their subchannel (it's on a light bulb with the calls WVFW-CD right now), but nobody actually noticed until just now they carry Light TV. Which just shows how these new subchannel networks carrying the same six MGM shows are getting no buzz to speak of.

 

Just talking strictly about the MGM library...compared to the other major studios, I don't think they produced that much TV content compared to CBS/Paramount, Sony, and 20th Century Fox; even then, Turner/Time Warner still owns a lot of early-MGM content. At least with those studios mentioned, they've maximized a lot of use of their TV content across the diginets--Sony especially (owning GetTV and the content deal they've had with Antenna TV since the latter launched in 2011). One thing for sure...this Sinclair-Tribune deal will effect Antenna TV going forward (as well as This TV), as Sony already moved All in the Family, Good Times, and Sanford & Son to GetTV as of last week.

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