On Monday, July 1, 2013 9:19:37 AM UTC-4, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > By acquiring the stations of Local TV LLC (the company founded by Randy > Michaels, the man who almost ran the Tribune Co. into the ground) the Trib > is now the nation's largest TV station group with 42 stations--Local was > built around acquisitions from the New York Times Co., who wanted to get > out of TV, and Fox, who wanted to jettison their one-station markets to > focus on their duopolies (Tribune will have more Fox affils than anyone > else): > > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-tribune-buying-local-tv-20130701,0,3402241.story > > As the Trib climbs out of bankruptcy with its new boss Peter Liguori, it's > obvious that they're going to be a TV player (and it looks like they'll > hang on to WGN Radio in Chicago, with broadcast chief Larry Wert hiring his > former colleague at WLUP in Chicago Jimmy DeCastro as GM), but the > newspapers are seemingly up for sale--and people are afraid that they're > going to either Rupert Murdoch (who still has cross-ownership problems, > even with breaking up News Corp. into two) or the Koch brothers. > > The Scranton station that I thought was involved, WNEP*, went with two Norfolk stations to unrelated Dreamcatcher Media, but all will have support services from Trib.
http://www.thewrap.com/tribune-company-acquisition-local-tv Have a map... http://www.tribune.com/media/pdf/2013BroadcastMap.pdf B *I just spotted onetime Newswatch-16 anchor Paola Giangiacomo tonight (27) on WFMZ's 6pm news. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
