WCCB Charlotte, NC To Lose Its Fox Affiliation

[Mr Tony]

The affiliation landscape in Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 25), will be changing. Bahakel Communications, the station group that owns WCCB, a Fox affiliate for 27 years, will lose that affiliation in the wake of today’s announcement that Fox Television Stations is buying Capitol Broadcasting’s two stations in the market: WJZY (CW) and WMYT (MNT).

Jim Babb, Bahakel executive vice president and COO, said Fox had put his station on notice this morning that the network planned to switch affiliations in the deal’s wake.

“Obviously we’re disappointed with the news,” Babb told TVNewsCheck. “But we’re determined to find a way to be successful going forward, and we’re already exploring various options.”

Nathaniel Brown, a spokesman for Fox parent News Corp., declined comment.

The price of the sale of WJZY and WMYT was not disclosed and the deal is subject to FCC approval.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/65069/wccb-charlotte-to-lose-its-fox-affiliation

 

[mike123abc]

Ouch having the network buy a station and take away your fox license and put it on their own station!

 

[Teehar]

Yea,that will kill WCCB ratings wise.They'll probably be trying to finagle a way to get ABC,or NBC.WBTV will never lose CBS imo.

 

[The Fat Man]

My guess is that WCCB goes CW when all is done.

 

[Teehar]

My guess is that WCCB goes CW when all is done.

That might be their only option.The CW is a far cry from Fox though.

 

[mike123abc]

That might be their only option.The CW is a far cry from Fox though.

Like 1/5 the audience or less. I would be really upset if it was my station.

 

[thomasjk]

Yes. This news sucks big time in Charlotte.

 

[Mr Tony]

CW will probably go to WCCB
What else would they go to? MeTV is a subchannel already so maybe make it a Main channel?

 

[Dah-Henny]

Wow! Bummer. I like WCCB.

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[Teehar]

WCCB's news division will suffer as well.I think WCCB already carries Metv as a sub-channel.CW or trying to snag NBC or ABC is the only options they have.Cw being the easiest.

 

[Mr Tony]

yes they carry metv as a subchannel right now

 

[Dah-Henny]

I doubt that wccb can snag any of the big boys. I do hope that they can survive though.

 

[Mr Tony]

The owner (Bahakel Broadcasting) does have an agreement with CW on a couple of their other stations (subchannels) so possibly they'll take the CW. The thing is the syndicated programming WCCB still has the rights to it. So Jerry, Maury, Steve, TMZ, Anderson WCCB has the rights to it for the season so those may not move

Heck they could go Indy for a while if they wanted to

edit: Just saw another former Fox station (WTVW Evansville, IN) is gaining CW starting Thursday. Just for Prime time. Maybe WCCB could do that. A affiliate could just take the national CW stuff (2 hours a night and Saturdays) like they do here in Minneapolis (they show syndicated stuff otherwise) or they could get the CW+ feed that has programming 24/7

The CW would probably be the best option

 

[Teehar]

The owner (Bahakel Broadcasting) does have an agreement with CW on a couple of their other stations (subchannels) so possibly they'll take the CW. The thing is the syndicated programming WCCB still has the rights to it. So Jerry, Maury, Steve, TMZ, Anderson WCCB has the rights to it for the season so those may not move

Heck they could go Indy for a while if they wanted to

Yep,they used to be independent years ago.Always had decent kids fare on.I was always mad because we couldn't get WCCB.

 

[Mr Tony]

I edited part of my post above....If all they have to do is get 2 hours a night and 3 hours on Saturdays from the CW and keep the same syndicated stuff they could do that

 

[Teehar]

Not that there is much on My network,maybe they could go with MyCW?

 

[Trip]

CW+ is only available in markets 100-210, not in a market like Charlotte.

- Trip

 

[Mr Tony]

Not that there is much on My network,maybe they could go with MyCW?

My is already taken by one of the 2 stations that they (fox) bought

 

[Mr Tony]

CW+ is only available in markets 100-210, not in a market like Charlotte.

- Trip

but there are affiliates in the top 100 that do have it.
But with the existing programming WCCB has they could just fill the 2 hours a night with CW and keep the existing programming on there

 

[Teehar]

So Fox will have both their own Fox channel plus Mynetwork?Kind of figured they might go with the new movie channel on WMYT.