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26-1257: For the American news service, see NewsON . Newson is an English surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: People [ edit ] Surname [ edit ] Bob Newson (1910–1988), South African cricketer George Newson (born 1932), English avant garde composer Henry Winston Newson (1909–1978), American physicist Jared Newson (born 1984), American basketball player Linda Newson , academic Lloyd Newson (born 1957), director, dancer and choreographer Kendall Newson (born 1980), American football player Marc Newson (born 1963), Australian industrial designer Mark Newson (born 1960), English footballer Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), American mathematician Moses Newson (born 1927), American journalist Percy Newson (1874–1950), English banker Thomas Newson (born 1994), Dutch DJ and record producer Warren Newson (born 1964), American baseball player Zoe Newson (born 1992), British powerlifter Given name [ edit ] Newson Garrett (1812–1893), English brewer Fictional characters [ edit ] Richard Newson ,

52-591: A CBS affiliation with WGN-TV). The newly merged American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres , as the company was known then, could not keep both stations because of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations then enforced that forbade the common ownership of two television stations licensed to the same market . As a result, WBKB's channel 4 license was sold to CBS, which subsequently changed that station's call letters to WBBM-TV ; that outlet would move to VHF channel 2 several months later on July 5, 1953. The old WBKB's on-air and behind-the-scenes staff stayed at

78-483: A character in Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge See also [ edit ] Newsom , another name All pages with titles beginning with Newson All pages with titles containing Newson [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to

104-1105: A large signal overlap with WABC-TV, but the merged company successfully received a permanent waiver from the FCC after citing CBS ' ownership of television stations in New York City ( WCBS-TV ) and Philadelphia (at the time WCAU-TV ) under grandfathered status . Capital Cities' WFTS-TV in Tampa and ABC's WXYZ-TV in Detroit were divested as a pair to the E. W. Scripps Company 's broadcasting division (then known as Scripps-Howard Broadcasting). Capital Cities' WTNH-TV in New Haven and WKBW-TV in Buffalo were sold separately to minority-owned companies (Scripps would eventually buy WKBW in 2014). In 1994, New World Communications signed an affiliation deal with Fox Broadcasting Company , resulting in most of New World's stations switching affiliation to Fox. This set off

130-764: A new subchannel owned by E. W. Scripps Company subsidiary Katz Broadcasting . Laff was added to the DT3 subchannels of the ABC O&;O stations effective on April 15, 2015; within that announcement, ABCOTS stated that Live Well Network would continue on their eight stations on their .2 subchannels in HD, but no longer be distributed outside of ABC O&O stations. ABCOTS also indicated that its stations' 3rd subchannel would affiliate with Laff network upon launch on April 15, 2015, but until then LWN would run on both subchannels. Campbell, president of ABC Daytime and ABC Owned Television Stations,

156-1233: A streaming website. NewsON was announced on June 9, 2015, as a venture formed by five of the largest TV station groups in the United States. The founding members were ABC Owned Television Stations , Cox Media Group , Hearst Television , Media General , and Raycom Media . Hubbard Broadcasting announced its participation as an investor in November 2015, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its investment in January 2016, and Nexstar Broadcasting Group (now Nexstar Media Group ) announced its investment in April 2016. Current participating station groups are Berkshire Hathaway , Block Communications , Capitol Broadcasting Company , CBS News and Stations , Cowles Company , Cox Media Group, E. W. Scripps Company , Fort Myers Broadcasting Company , Forum Communications , Hearst Television, Heritage Broadcasting Company , Hubbard Broadcasting, Morgan Murphy Media , News-Press & Gazette Company , Paxton Media Group , Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tegna Inc. The service launched to

182-523: Is a division of Disney Entertainment operated by Disney Networks Group that oversees the owned-and-operated stations of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a division of The Walt Disney Company . The division also operates the Localish network. The ABC Network 's first TV station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV (not to be confused with current CBS-owned WJZ-TV Baltimore),

208-502: Is produced in-house at WABC-TV. Wheel and Jeopardy! have been syndicated to ABC-owned stations since 1992, as part of a longstanding relationship with what is now CBS Media Ventures dating to when the syndicator was still known as King World Productions . During the graveyard slot , ABC's owned and operated stations air rebroadcasts of Tamron Hall, ABC World News Tonight , and Live with Kelly and Mark . Every ABC owned station, except for WPVI and KABC , airs Daytime Jeopardy! ,

234-624: The New York Post reported that Disney considered selling the station group given the current wave of consolidation between station holding companies that has increased station values since 2010. On October 25, the Triangle Business Journal reported that multiple Disney spokespeople denied that information On June 9, 2014, ABC Owned Television Stations vice president Peggy Allen and president Rebecca Campbell jointly announced to Live Well Network's staff that they planned to shut down

260-566: The 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment , a chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. To avoid being consigned to the lower-signal-quality UHF after losing its affiliations to New World's WJBK in Detroit and WJW-TV in Cleveland, CBS heavily wooed both E. W. Scripps Company 's WXYZ-TV and WEWS-TV . Scripps then told ABC that unless it agreed to affiliate with

286-506: The channel ended its experimental phase originally. The group changed its programming on secondary channels to ABC Plus, a local news and public affairs format. ABC teamed up with AccuWeather to launch a multicast service starting on ABC stations' third subchannel beginning with WPVI-TV in September 2005 followed by KFSN-TV with the next wave of four by December 31, 2005, then the final four by March 31, 2006. The Live Well Network (LWN)

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312-639: The deal stemming from NBC's trade of KCNC and KUTV, in 1994, ABC also had a group deal with McGraw Hill to convert the Denver and Bakersfield stations from CBS to ABC, while renewing affiliation agreements in San Diego and Indianapolis. The ABC Owned TV Stations (ABCOTS) were paired with ABC Radio Network and eight TV stations in CC/ABC Broadcasting Group in Capital Cities/ABC (CC/ABC) when CC/ABC

338-598: The first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. KGO-TV in San Francisco and KECA in Los Angeles, signed on during the next 13 months after WJZ. In February 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres (UPT), the former theater division of Paramount Pictures . UPT subsidiary Balaban and Katz owned WBKB (which shared

364-535: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newson&oldid=1117171279 " Categories : Given names Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles NewsON The app is available on mobile phones, tablets and connected TVs, including iPhones , iPads , Android phones , Android tablets, Roku connected TV devices, Fire TV and Apple TV . NewsON also offers

390-582: The marketer had adopted this practice at NBC before. In June 1998, ABC parent The Walt Disney Company entered into negotiations to purchase the eight Allbritton stations and its local marketing agreements involving fellow ABC affiliates WJSU-TV (now WGWW ) in Anniston, Alabama and WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida , for a reported offer totaling more than $ 1 billion; the latter two stations had been involved in an affiliation deal between Allbritton and ABC that

416-414: The network in January 2015. Campbell and Allen stated that despite the success of the network, the division wanted to prioritize "local content" and its "core local news brands". Many of the shows from ABC's stations ended production with a possibility to be picked up by fyi cable network, a DATG partially owned A&E Networks cable channel. On January 15, 2015, ABCOTS announced a pickup of Laff ,

442-479: The new WBBM-TV, while the WBKB call letters and management moved to channel 7 (from 1965 to 1968, a "-TV" suffix was included in the station's calls, modifying it to WBKB-TV). On March 19, 1985, Capital Cities announced that it would purchase ABC for $ 3.5 billion, which shocked the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time. The newly merged company, Capital Cities/ABC Inc. ,

468-601: The other Scripps-owned stations, it would switch both Detroit and Cleveland stations to CBS. A fourth Scripps station was included in a separate deal, that of the Cincinnati station in 1995. As a contingency, ABC bought WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio from SJL Broadcasting in 1995. ABC also had a partner deal with Allbritton Communications to convert most of these affiliates to ABC, also in 1996. In response of

494-533: The public on November 4, 2015 on iOS , Android , and Roku . Viewers can share what they’ve seen on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter . On January 1, 2020, ABC Owned Television Stations removed their eight stations from the service. In November 2021, Gray Television removed their stations from NewsON in favor of Zeam (formerly known as VUit). NewsON Platform Expands with Launch of Local News Video Browser Experience ABC Owned Television Stations ABC Owned Television Stations

520-697: The same time. Later in April, Allen Media Group announced that the ABC Owned Television Stations had picked up This TV as a replacement for Laff. Then three years later, ABC Owned Television Stations announced that Charge! , a network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, would replace This TV effective April 1, 2024. Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license . ABC's owned and operated stations' syndicated offerings (as of April 2023) include The Tamron Hall Show , Live with Kelly and Mark , The New Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! , and Small Town Big Deal . Live

546-580: Was broadcast on all ABC station's primary channels on November 4, 2018, with WPVI-TV (Philadelphia) also on November 3 then on their LiveWell Network subchannel (.2) from November 4 through 11, 2018. On January 21, 2020, ABC Stations announced that the network would be rebranded as the Localish on February 17, 2020. At the beginning of 2021, Laff was removed from the ABC Owned Television Stations (excluding WLS-TV , which had removed Laff in 2017) and moved to Ion Media stations which were acquired by Scripps around

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572-629: Was forced to sell off some stations due to FCC ownership rules. Between them, ABC and Capital Cities owned more television stations than FCC rules allowed at the time. Of the former Capital Cities television stations, the merged company opted to keep KTRK-TV in Houston , WTVD-TV in Durham , and KFSN-TV in Fresno . FCC rules could have also forced a sale of Capital Cities' WPVI-TV in Philadelphia as well due to

598-495: Was launched on April 27, 2009, in high definition by ABC's O&O stations on the stations'.2 subchannels. On November 3, 2010, Broadcasting & Cable magazine announced that SJL Broadcasting , now owned by the principal owners of Lilly Broadcasting , made an agreement with Disney to buy back WJRT-TV and WTVG , the two smallest stations in ABC's O&O portfolio. The sale was completed on April 1, 2011. On October 17, 2013,

624-617: Was named President of Disney EMEA in September 2017. Wendy McMahon , the stations' senior VP of digital, was named station group president effective January 1, 2018. ABC Owned Television Stations launched its Localish digital media venture the week of September 20, 2018, with four shows. Localish focuses on mobile millennials with national appeal local short stories produced by the stations and released on digital and social platforms. The first series, More in Common , had already appeared via Facebook Watch. A More in Common compilation special

650-411: Was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In June, ABC's top marketing officer announced that the owned-and-operated (O&O) stations would adopt a "one-channel" marketing strategy; the stations would, for promotional purposes, de-emphasize referring to themselves by their call letters, and instead refer to themselves using "ABC" and the station's channel number ("ABC Seven," for example), as

676-668: Was reached in response to the May 1994 affiliation deal between New World Communications and Fox that affected WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama . Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. ABC News Now was launched in 2004 in the US on digital subchannels of 70 ABC O&O stations and affiliates . On January 31, 2005, ABC News removed ABC News Now from owned and operated and affiliated TV stations' subchannel as

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