MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 644 Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I grew up in Dorr -- half way between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Before cable/satelitte came our way, I could always get WOOD-TV by antenna no problem. WZZM I got 90% of the time. WWMT I had a very hard time to get... Kalamzoo/Battle Creek is one of those "sub-markets" were they can be serviced by a number of larger markets surrounding them... That's why I'm shocked to see WWMT at #2... Although I do see that WZZM and WWMT are struggling to find decent talent for mornings and evenings... The only name I recognize at WZZM now is Juliet Dragos and George Lessens... WWMT I only recognize Chief Met Keith Thompson... But I am curious to see if Byron can pull WZZM out of their rut.. I know in the early 2000s, they seemed to be giving WOOD-TV a run for their money... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjj 1 Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 On 4/28/2023 at 5:59 AM, tyrannical bastard said: Allen Media has a long way to go to decent respectability. Owning the Weather Channel is a good start, but the bottom line is Allen Media (and Entertainment Studios) are the slumlords of daytime TV with all of their cheap "court" shows. His shows are junk but I have to admire what he has built from those shows. Allen made some of the cheapest shows he could make, package them up, and gave them to stations to air anytime the stations pleased. 2AM? No problem. 4AM? Sure. 9AM on a Saturday surrounded by informercials? Yes! A lot of syndicated shows didn't want to be in those ugly time slots so Allen was abled to get his shows shown practically nationwide by accepting those odd times. He saw the need and filled it. But yeah we are still pretty far from Allen being decently respectable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1111 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 If y'all think one of Byron Allen's shows airing for short time on one broadcast network is either a cause for alarm or a giant joke (or both LBH), then you'll get a big kick out of Allen himself showing interest in buying another broadcast network-- ABC (along with FX and National Geographic). https://tvline.com/news/abc-byron-allen-sale-talks-fx-national-geographic-disney-1235043961/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS8609 58 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 That would be absurd. Disney is not just going to sell ABC without ESPN. Because a big chunk of ABC’s ratings are tied to ESPN and the sports department runs as one joint unit, it would be impossible to sell to Allen in this sense without causing a mass disruption of the sports media market. The most ideal situation for ABC and ESPN would be Hearst teaming with Berkshire Hathaway (just like the latter funded Capital Cities’ purchase of ABC long ago) to buy the networks and perhaps National Geographic which could be collapsed into the A&E Networks structure. I would however consider Freeform instead of FX though - since FX is still in form a Fox network at heart airing Fox repeats, even if they are no longer a News Corporation Fox entity. All that Hearst can then do is turn its ABC affiliates into O&Os along with WBAL in Baltimore (which Hearst has owned from day one in 1948), and sell most of the rest of its stations to Scripps. It’s not that Byron Allen isn’t capable of pulling off a big acquisition, but to me him acquiring a significant share of Gray and playing a key cog in further investing into the Atlanta media scene where the likes of Tyler Perry and Steve Harvey have had a sizable presence (and Allen already has links to CBS via TWC and NBC dating back to his days with Real People) would make more sense. Atlanta is already home to TWC as well and has been since day one. 1 3 1 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rollo Smokes 161 Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 On 9/17/2023 at 4:54 AM, SS8609 said: That would be absurd. Disney is not just going to sell ABC without ESPN. Because a big chunk of ABC’s ratings are tied to ESPN and the sports department runs as one joint unit, it would be impossible to sell to Allen in this sense without causing a mass disruption of the sports media market. The most ideal situation for ABC and ESPN would be Hearst teaming with Berkshire Hathaway (just like the latter funded Capital Cities’ purchase of ABC long ago) to buy the networks and perhaps National Geographic which could be collapsed into the A&E Networks structure. I would however consider Freeform instead of FX though - since FX is still in form a Fox network at heart airing Fox repeats, even if they are no longer a News Corporation Fox entity. All that Hearst can then do is turn its ABC affiliates into O&Os along with WBAL in Baltimore (which Hearst has owned from day one in 1948), and sell most of the rest of its stations to Scripps. ...and that would be compensation for essentially handing WMAR-TV the NBC affiliation in Baltimore once again. But here go the conflicts...Cincinnati, Fort Myers/Naples, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. Also, KSBW-TV in Salinas/Monterey has both ABC ("Central Coast ABC") and NBC (on main channel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1268 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 (edited) 13 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said: But here go the conflicts...Cincinnati, Fort Myers/Naples, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. Also, KSBW-TV in Salinas/Monterey has both ABC ("Central Coast ABC") and NBC (on main channel). I would-- *vanishes in a cloud of topic re-railing* [Update: Continuing the Hearst discussion here.] Edited September 20 by mre29 Why are we talking about Hearst in the Allen thread? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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