Well we found out today I posted it from tvnewscheck on the thread with WBAY and KWQC. WANE is staying with Nexstar and WFFT is going to Heartland Media.
So out of the big 6 that had to go Nexstar Kept WANE and KLFY.
Nexstar buys Media General
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So out of the big 6 that had to go Nexstar Kept WANE and KLFY.
KWBQ was bought by Gray Television along with WBAYI am wondering what's going to happen to KASA-DT- KWBQ-and KASY-DT would be nice to have different station's total different local looks lookks great for local news
Do any of you see a trend here if your station was owned by LIN, Media General, Communications Corporation of America.
MG buys out Lin, Young Broadcasting. Then Nexstar buys out Media General.
Nexstar buys out CCA, then sells the damn Fox Station and the low power nbc station it spent all that money on to make the new affiliation and hiring staff then sells KLAF/KADN to Bayou City Broadcasting which basically its selling the stations back to the same local media area they bought it from.
So from 2012 to 2016 KLFY has 3 owners.
MG buys out Lin, Young Broadcasting. Then Nexstar buys out Media General.
Nexstar buys out CCA, then sells the damn Fox Station and the low power nbc station it spent all that money on to make the new affiliation and hiring staff then sells KLAF/KADN to Bayou City Broadcasting which basically its selling the stations back to the same local media area they bought it from.
So from 2012 to 2016 KLFY has 3 owners.
There goes the subs at WANE knowing Nexstar they just love sub channels.
WFRV and its sister station WJMN stay with Nexstar. WBAY goes to Gray Television along with sister station KWQC.
Yeah your right, usually when the buyer has to sell one of the stations they usually wait till the acquisition of the media group they purchased is approved by the fcc. Nexstar acquisition of media general scheduled to be approved in September. They've already sold and kept the stations that were on hit list already...
Nexstar just launched a deal to add Grit, Escape, Bounce, and Laff and bunches of markets. Hopefully the add some to ours...however with this deal we should be good wit ours that MG launched before the Nexstar acquisition.
We already have bounce just that one for WFFT its alright channel but rather have Grit.
I've noticed that with the Nexstar-Media General merger, that Nexstar is becoming a little more accepting of digital subchannels. They are making deals with KATZ and Bounce TV to offer their subchannels to some existing Nexstar and Media General stations picked up by Nexstar.
Update just sent an email to the new owner of KADN/KLAF and he says that, well not word for word but as of now and more than likely in the future he will keep everything as is and will closd the transaction of the sale of KADN/KLAF to Bayou City Broadcasting from Nexstar the 4th quarter of this year. So looks like no subchannel additions but KADN will keep KLAF on 15.2 and MNTV 15.3 and the lp 46.1 stays too. So no gains but we keep the NBC and the local and college sports and the MNTV
Well looks like the buyout has had some great results with all katz networks launching and MG launching several before the acquisition. Looks like Nexstar kept a MG program going as they dropped AntennaTV off WJTV 12.3 and replaced it with ION
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WBAY and KWQC now belong to Gray Television since Nexstar decided to keep WFRV and WHBF, respectively.
Er, Katz had a separate deal with M-G which is unrelated to the Nexstar deal. And WJTV was on the original ION list but was waiting for the Antenna TV contract to end.
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I would hope since KADN/KLAF is still part of Nexstar till the end of 2016 they would launch at least Laff/Escape on 15 or 46 before the sale to Bayou City is complete....I said before they should of kept Fox 15.......Yes I know MG launching Katz is a separate deal back in 2015, I had did my homework on it and I think that was a small reason why Nexstar made the huge deal with its original stations. Also when Nexstar takes over MG stations officially I wonder if they would launch Katz subnets on the new acquired stations like WTTA, KLFY, WANE, (Which were MG, Young's flagship stations just saying), I sent you a message per Alexandria, La. FOX affiliate....
local: Wane tv just signed a deal with ion last year to carry their channel. Antenna tv should be up soon for them.
KARD Fox 14 Will have Grit on DT3 soon and KTVE 10.3 and 10.4 has Escape and Laff. As of today that leaves the Lafayette Area the only Louisiana Market without Escape. 
, let the crying begin LOL
, let the crying begin LOL
I assume that the sale to nexstar from MG is not complete yet since Antenna was dropped off the CBS Jackson Mississippi Station. What we have on WANE/KLFY should stay at least some time after the sale to NEXSTAR is official and don't see us losing Antenna/GetTV for years to come anyway.....then hopefully we'll get something on the DT4, heck every Nexstar station has a sub on the .4, guess Laff or escape would be what we'd get....Nexstar and Katz will work something up....
