Local TV Stations Fight FCC Localism Proposals > Why move?

Why move?

I suggest you actually read the background information before posting. This is not about coverage.
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Toolmaster of La Grange.

I suggest you actually read the post before replying.

Orange County and certainly Glendale are both local to Los Angeles. Whether their station is located within the city limits of Los Angeles doesn't change anything in terms of how easy it is to get to the station or locality of programming. If anything, having the station in LA it makes it worse in terms of accessability.

You obviously have zero clue about Los Angeles traffic or the LA market and LA isn't Chicago or New York City. These Greater Los Angeles stations serve about 13 million people in the LA area and 17 million are in range of these stations. Less than 1/4th of these serviced people are actually in LA. Local programming like news covers thousands of square miles and millions of people OUTSIDE the city of LA. In terms of KABC, they're doing just fine with local programming and accessibility from their new studios in Glendale including Ventura, Orange, W. SB and W. Riverside Counties. Changing their street address doesn't so anything other than cost the station millions and millions of dollars and make the already horrible traffic worse.

Guess what, I read what you posted. It is irrelevant. Thank you for showing your utter lack of knowledge of what this is all about though.
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Toolmaster of La Grange.

Whatever troll.

reply to RadioDoc
If I didn't know what happened to KNTV, I would be wondering the same things as Skeedatl.

FYI, KNTV broadcasted local news for Monterey Bay and San Jose. Then, someone bought it, and the signal for Monterey Bay was eliminated (the tower was moved from Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Monterey Bay and San Jose to some hill overlooking instead San Francisco), and the programming for Monterey Bay was also eliminated, and San Jose's programming was severely reduced if not eliminated. The previously strong signal to San Jose is now a very, very week signal that needs special antennas that cause court battles, city council sessions, fights with landlords, etc. to receive.

So, in other words, they completely eliminated a station from Monterey Bay, and removed most of it from San Jose.

Why does anybody care? Well, there are considerations of the cost to bring TV to that frequency in San Jose and Monterey Bay. Perhaps it wasn't something that was profitable. However, having that same frequency in use in San Francisco precludes it being used in Monterey Bay or San Jose, so if it was profitable down there, then they stole it. The above is not the full story, then.

KNTV (11 San Jose) was affiliated with ABC for many years, for the Moneterey/Salinas market. KGO (7 San Francisco) is a ABC O&O in SF. Part of the affiliation agreement was that KNTV would reduce power so as not to compete with KGO in the SF market. KNTV ran for years with the power levels turned down, but their license was never modified, so they were allowed to return to their previous level if they chose to do so.

KNTV lost or terminated the ABC affiliation a few years ago, and went independent for a while, increasing power to their previous level. When KRON (4 San Francisco) had their NBC affiliation come up for renewal around the same time, NBC tried to reverse the normal order of things, and charge KRON to carry NBC programming. KRON told them where to put that idea, and went independent.

NBC was now left without an affiliate or O&O station in the SF area. They tried to buy KRON, but were not willing to pay the asking price, which was not unreasonable, but was more than the fire sale price that NBC was willing to pay.
NBC then grudgingly affiliated with KNTV, and eventually bought the station.

Now they have two stations covering into the Monterey/Salinas area (KNTV, and KSBW 8 Monterey), so they start figuring out how to move KNTV (licensed to San Jose) north to San Francisco, while still maintaining coverage of San Jose. They managed to move the station, but coverage? what coverage?

I'm told that KNTV production facilities are still in San Jose, but their news coverage seems highly biased towards San Francisco.

KSBW (8 Monterey) used to cover the San Jose area as well, but they moved their tower south to better cover their primary coverage area, which was a bit annoying, as I liked their programming.