 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
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| I wonder if they'll buy out the local TV stations My favorite TV station for local newscasts is 22 News WWLP-TV, which is the local NBC affiliate. It is currently owned by LIN corp.
I wonder if the terms of their NBC affiliation prohibit them from getting into carriage disputes with Comcast. WWLP-TV is currently fighting with Charter.
Or maybe Comcast never gets into carriage disputes, gives into the TV station/programming provider demands, and just turns around and raises rates on it's ratepayers.
I have my DVRs set to record the 22 News at Noon, 5 and 6 pm newscasts.
I like the old logo better. Everybody seems to be changing their logos and packaging lately. Wendy's, Sears, TD Banknorth, and a few others have changed their logos. Gap had to go back to their old logo after customer backlash. Even sodas have changed their packaging with Mountain Dew being changed to Mtn. Dew. My favorite is Diet Mountain Dew which is packaged as Diet Mtn. Dew.
I wish they would bring back the old Pepsi logos of the early '90s. And I remember the days when a can of soda out of the machine was 55 cents. Now they sell it by the bottle at $1.50 per container and they have even put debit card readers on the soda/candy machines. |
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Glen Head, NY | said by IowaCowboy:My favorite TV station for local newscasts is 22 News WWLP-TV, which is the local NBC affiliate. It is currently owned by LIN corp. I remember back when I was a student at WNEC (WNEU now) in the 80's and that station was still under the control of William L. Putnam. He used to have interesting editorials. A college friend lived near their tower and used to joke he could hit 22 with a .22.
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said by IowaCowboy:I wonder if the terms of their NBC affiliation prohibit them from getting into carriage disputes with Comcast. WWLP-TV is currently fighting with Charter.
Highly doubtful as affiliate agreements are usually for 10 years, and this one in all probability predates the Comcast take-over.
said by IowaCowboy:Or maybe Comcast never gets into carriage disputes, gives into the TV station/programming provider demands, and just turns around and raises rates on it's ratepayers.
Possibly. If Comcast owned the local affiliate, they'd get paid on retransmission rights and paid as a cable service provider. The reality is however, that free over the air TV is NOT in Comcast's best interest. Comcast would much rather have you paying an exorbitant amount of money per month for the most cheaply produced programming targeted at the lowest common denominator. |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | if they owned the station, The station could "charge" comcast a huge retrans fee and then Comcast writes it off as a business expense come tax time. However in reality the money never left the company.
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