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73-453: [REDACTED] WOLF-TV (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Hazleton, Pennsylvania , United States, serving Northeastern Pennsylvania as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is the flagship property of locally based New Age Media, LLC , and is co-owned with Williamsport -licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WQMY (channel 53); New Age also provides certain services to Scranton -licensed CW affiliate WSWB (channel 38) under

146-639: A VHF station, while WFTC was a UHF station, FTS decided to switch the affiliations in 2002, with Fox programming going to KMSP and WFTC taking over the UPN affiliation. FTS then bought KDFI in Dallas in 2000 and WPWR-TV in Chicago in 2002 to create duopolies with Fox-owned stations, KDFW and WFLD, respectively. FTS also made two other trades in 2002 to create more duopolies. Former Chris-Craft station KPTV in Portland, Oregon

219-712: A barter in some cases. Fox Television Stations Fox Television Stations, LLC (stylized as FOX TV STATIONS ; also known as FTS ) is a group of television stations in the United States owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company , a subsidiary of the Fox Corporation . It also oversees the MyNetworkTV programming service and has a half-interest in the Movies! digital sub-channel network, which

292-876: A local marketing agreement (LMA) with MPS Media. All three stations, in turn, are operated under a master service agreement by Sinclair Broadcast Group . The stations share studios on PA 315 in the Fox Hill section of Plains Township ; WOLF-TV's transmitter is located at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top . However, newscasts have originated from the facilities of sister station and CBS affiliate WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana , since January 2017. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit for Hazleton's first full-service television station on September 30, 1982. The new station, given

365-468: A chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. Renaissance Broadcasting had previously sold WATL to FTS in 1993 to become a Fox owned-and-operated station, the first network-owned station in Atlanta. FTS was in the planning stages for a news department at the station, and WATL had even gone as far as hiring a news director. However, when

438-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

511-529: A new service known as MyNetworkTV , which commenced operations on September 5, 2006, with telenovela programming that was original to be syndicated. On May 23, 2016, it was announced that one of the Fox-owned former UPN affiliates that were left out of the initial negotiations for CW affiliation a decade earlier, MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WPWR in Chicago , would be taking over the market's affiliation with

584-551: A news share agreement with ABC affiliate WNEP-TV (then owned by The New York Times Company ) in 1991. The outsourcing arrangement resulted in one of the nation's first prime time newscasts to debut known as Newswatch 16 at 10 on Fox 38 . The show originated from WNEP's facility on Montage Mountain Road in Moosic featuring the ABC outlet's on-air personnel. When channel 56 became the sole Fox outlet for

657-635: A re-purchase) and KCPQ and KZJO in Seattle to Fox Television Stations, and would purchase from Fox WJZY and WMYT-TV in Charlotte. This gives Fox additional two bigger NFL team market stations in the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks while losing the Carolina Panthers market. On January 13, 2020, FTS launched Fox Soul , a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel targeting

730-483: A station in nearby Bellingham , for $ 10 million; the purchase, submitted for FCC approval on October 3, was described as a "strategic option" for Fox by an insider. Tribune then agreed on October 17 to extend its affiliation agreement for KCPQ through July 2018, and pay increased reverse compensation fees to Fox for the broadcasting of the network's programming beginning in January 2015. Fox's application to acquire KBCB

803-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

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876-525: Is multiplexed : WQMY cannot be received over-the-air in the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre areas due to its transmitter being in Williamsport, so it can be seen on WOLF-DT3. WOLF-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, on January 19, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45, using virtual channel 56. WOLF-TV serves one of the largest geographic markets in

949-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1022-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

1095-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1168-512: Is shared with Weigel Broadcasting . The Fox Broadcasting Company 's foundations were laid in March 1985 through News Corporation 's $ 255 million purchase of a 50% interest in TCF Holdings , the parent company of the 20th Century Fox film studio. In May 1985, News Corporation, a media company owned by Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch that had mainly served as a newspaper publisher at

1241-888: The Financial Times reported that FTS was finalizing a deal to acquire as many as 10 Fox affiliates from Sinclair, as part of an effort to reach FCC approval of its proposed acquisition of Tribune Media. The deal would likely include Seattle's KCPQ (as Sinclair already owns ABC affiliate KOMO-TV there), KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City (Tribune already owns KFOR-TV ), KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City (Sinclair already owns KUTV ), KTVI in St. Louis (Sinclair owns KDNL ) and Tribune's Fox/CW duopoly of KDVR and KWGN in Denver. This deal would bring several former O&Os previously divested to Local TV, LLC (which

1314-467: The Thursday Night Football package from CBS and NBC . After Tribune terminated its merger agreement with Sinclair on August 9, 2018, however, the sale of the seven aforementioned stations to FTS was likewise nullified. On December 14, 2017, after rumors of such a sale, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would purchase FTS's parent company, 21st Century Fox for $ 52.4 billion, plus

1387-569: The National Football League (NFL), primarily covering games involving teams in the National Football Conference (NFC). Because NFL games generate high ratings, owning these stations outright allows FTS to also collect the local advertising revenue, as well as use them as leverage during retransmission consent negotiations with cable and satellite providers. The original 1994 affiliation deal with New World also triggered

1460-753: The Nexstar Broadcasting Group ) entered into a new outsourcing agreement. After taking over production of nightly prime time newscasts on WOLF-TV starting New Year's Day 2010, WBRE expanded the show to an hour each night and changed the title to Fox 56 News First at 10 . The program later originated from a secondary set at the NBC affiliate's studios on South Franklin Street in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. The space had previously been used to produce separate newscasts on CBS affiliate WYOU. On April 2, 2012, WBRE became

1533-511: The Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the transmission of full-power television signals. Owned by MPS Media, LLC; operated by New Age Media through local marketing agreement (LMA). Fox stations air outsourced local newscasts in prime time. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in

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1606-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

1679-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

1752-507: The 2000 acquisition of the Chris-Craft/United group, which gave Fox ownership of several stations then affiliated with the UPN network (which had been a partnership between Chris-Craft and Viacom ( Paramount 's subsidiary) until March 2000 when the latter company bought the former's stake), and also created several duopolies (two stations in the same market owned by the same company). When

1825-498: The African American community. Also in 2020, FTS launched LiveNOW from Fox , a streaming news channel jointly operated by KSAZ, KTTV, and WOFL. The channel carries live coverage of breaking news events throughout the day as directed by a small crew of digital journalists , leveraging resources and raw footage from Fox's local news departments. The service originated from a Fox 10 News Now webcast that had been run by KSAZ; amid

1898-602: The FCC granted its approval of WUTB to Deerfield Media, which was formally consummated on June 1. On January 28, 2013, FTS announced that 17 of their stations would be affiliating with new subchannel network, Movies! , which is a joint venture between FTS and Weigel Broadcasting , on their subchannels. That same day, the company announced it would be acquiring the Charlotte duopoly of CW affiliate WJZY and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT-TV from Capitol Broadcasting Company . The deal

1971-718: The Fox network is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont. The former Metromedia stations WNEW-TV (originally known as WABD) and WTTG were two of the three original owned-and-operated stations of the DuMont network, and the former base of DuMont's operations, the DuMont Tele-Centre in Manhattan , eventually became the present-day Fox Television Center. On December 31, 1986, WXNE-TV in Boston (later renamed WFXT on January 19, 1987), became

2044-717: The New World affiliation deal was signed, it was agreed that New World's and Atlanta 's longtime CBS affiliate WAGA-TV switch to the Fox network. As a result, Fox cancelled the plans for a newscast on WATL and put the station up for sale. Renaissance Broadcasting had also sold KDVR in Denver , along with its satellite station KFCT in Fort Collins, Colorado , to FTS on November 15, 1994, in exchange for acquiring KDAF in Dallas . One of original core stations that FTS acquired from Metromedia, it

2117-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

2190-449: The area in 1998, the newscasts stayed here as well under the title of Fox 56 News at 10, with a secondary title of Newswatch 16 at 10 on Fox 56. In November 2009, it was announced WNEP would move its production of the news at 10 to a second digital subchannel called "WNEP 2" which had recently gained Retro Television Network (RTV) affiliation. That happened December 31 of that year after which WOLF-TV and NBC affiliate WBRE-TV (owned by

2263-764: The assumption of $ 13.7 billion in debt by Fox, subject to government approval. FTS, along with several other assets was spun off into Fox Corporation , a company owned by the Murdoch family. The deal was completed on March 20, 2019. With the loss of Twentieth Television in the deal, Fox Stations set up its own syndication arm, Fox First Run, despite some of their syndicated shows being distributed in conjunction with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Dish Nation has barter sales with Trifecta Entertainment and Media . On November 5, 2019, Nexstar Media Group announced an agreement to sell WITI in Milwaukee (effectively

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2336-558: The call letters WERF, was owned by James Oyster and was to broadcast from a tower south of the city. At that location, the station could serve its city of license but not the main cities in the market, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre . In April 1983, WERF applied to move its transmitter to the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top where WNEP-TV (channel 16), WDAU-TV (channel 22, now WYOU ), WBRE-TV (channel 28), and WVIA-TV (channel 44) also housed their transmitters. The application

2409-449: The call letters of channel 38 to WSWB and made that station an affiliate of The WB . That station's owners had sought for many years to move either the channel 38 or channel 56 transmitters to Penobscot Knob. On January 4, 2007, WOLF-TV, along with most of the Pegasus stations, was sold to investment group CP Media, LLC with the sale consummated on March 31. For the first time in its history,

2482-621: The country. This area is very mountainous making UHF reception difficult. However, the station is in unique situation since Scranton and Wilkes-Barre is a " UHF Island ". As a result, it operates a digital translator to repeat its signal. W24DB-D on UHF channel 24 has a transmitter northwest of Scranton and I-476 in Lackawanna County . WOLF-TV also operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 27 in Waymart . This channel exists because wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources at

2555-428: The deal was finalized in 2001, this immediately created duopolies (two stations in the same market owned by the same company) between Fox and former Chris-Craft stations in markets such as Phoenix (KSAZ and KUTP ), Los Angeles (KTTV and KCOP-TV ) and New York City (WNYW and WWOR-TV ). Although former Chris-Craft station KTVX would have also created a duopoly with Fox station KSTU in Salt Lake City, FCC regulations at

2628-487: The dismissal of its application to sell WOLF-TV; the next day, Sinclair purchased the non-license assets of the stations it planned to buy from New Age Media and began operating them through a master service agreement. On May 8, 2017, Sinclair entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media , which had operated WNEP-TV through a services agreement since 2014. It intended to keep WNEP, selling WOLF/WQMY/WSWB and eight other stations to Standard Media Group . The transaction

2701-470: The first network-owned station in Utah. FTS gained a bulk of stations through the 1997 purchase of New World Communications , succeeding a 1994 business deal between the two companies which led to all of New World's stations switching from other networks to Fox during 1994–95. A significant factor that resulted in Fox's affiliation with, and later purchase of, New World Communications was Fox acquiring TV rights to

2774-521: The first segment of Fox 56 News First at 10 and the weather forecast segment. Along with its main studios, WBRE operates news bureaus in Scranton (on Lackawanna Avenue), Stroudsburg (Main Street), Williamsport (on Pine Street), and Hazleton (East 10th Street). On October 5, 2016, the Hazleton Standard-Speaker reported that WOLF-TV would end its outsourcing agreement with WBRE on December 31, and

2847-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

2920-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

2993-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

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3066-519: The market's second television station to upgrade local news to high definition level. The WOLF-TV shows were included in the upgrade complete with an updated secondary set at WBRE's studios. As was the case with the WNEP-produced broadcasts, if there were network obligations or overruns of Fox programming that prevent WOLF-TV from showing the WBRE program, it was aired on WSWB instead. Its website posts video of

3139-497: The network from rival WGN-TV in September of that year. MyNetworkTV remained on WPWR as a secondary affiliation until 2019, when the CW affiliation transferred to WCIU-TV . On December 21, 2007, FTS announced that it would sell eight smaller-market stations to Local TV, LLC , a division of Oak Hill Capital Partners . Six of the stations that were sold were ex-New World stations, including

3212-719: The newspaper it had also published, the Boston Herald . In 1989, Fox placed WFXT in a trust company; the following year, it sold the station to the Boston Celtics ' ownership group. News Corporation then later sold the Boston Herald in February 1994, eliminating the potential regulatory conflict with reacquiring WFXT. On October 5, 1994, Fox announced it would exercise the purchase option; it retook control of WFXT on July 7, 1995. In 1990, FTS bought KSTU in Salt Lake City, making it

3285-478: The only acquired Chris-Craft station during this time that FTS did not trade away or create a duopoly with. The Fox-owned UPN affiliates were not included in the UPN/WB merger (The CW) , which was announced on January 23, 2006. Soon after, these stations removed references to UPN from their on-air branding and websites. On February 22, 2006, FTS announced that all nine of their non-Fox outlets will be charter affiliates of

3358-625: The operation of the WOLF-TV web site. On December 4, 2011, the station's transmitter was damaged and for the next month WOLF-TV was carried on WBRE's channel 28.2 subchannel. On September 25, 2013, New Age Media announced that it would sell most of its stations, including WOLF-TV and WQMY, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group . Concurrently, sister station WSWB was to be sold by MPS Media to Cunningham Broadcasting , while continuing to be operated by WOLF-TV. On October 31, 2014, New Age Media requested

3431-1054: The other affiliation changes, most notable was Westinghouse Broadcasting 's affiliation deal with CBS in 1995. This set off a complex trade of Philadelphia stations between CBS/ Westinghouse and NBC ; FTS instead independently bought its own Philadelphia station, WTXF-TV . When New World's sale to Fox closed in 1997, ten stations became Fox owned-and-operated stations: KSAZ-TV in Phoenix ; WTVT in Tampa, Florida ; WAGA-TV in Atlanta; WJBK in Detroit ; KTBC in Austin, Texas ; KDFW in Dallas ; WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri ; KTVI in St. Louis ; WJW in Cleveland ; and WITI in Milwaukee . FTS gained stations through

3504-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

3577-632: The restructuring that stemmed from the News Corporation /21st Century Fox split, it was announced on July 8, 2013, that 20th Television , which was until that time under FTS, will operate under the management of 20th Century Fox Television . On June 24, 2014, FTS announced it would acquire its existing San Francisco Bay Area affiliate KTVU , along with its duopoly sister independent station KICU-TV , from Cox Media Group in exchange for WFXT in Boston and WHBQ-TV in Memphis. The station sale/trade

3650-447: The seventh Fox-owned property, and the first to be acquired separately from News Corporation's 1986 purchase of Metromedia's six television stations. However, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibited the common ownership of a television station and a newspaper in the same market , News Corporation had to apply for and was granted a temporary waiver in order to retain WFXT and

3723-502: The station was no longer co-owned with WSWB. However, the new owners of that station signed a local marketing agreement (LMA) with CP Media meaning that the stations continue to be commonly operated. Eventually, CP Media formed a new broadcasting group, New Age Media. More recently, WOLF-TV launched a new website using the Fox owned-and-operated station platform licensed from Fox Television Stations ' interactive division; this lasted until some time in 2010 or 2011 when WorldNow took over

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3796-679: The stations into in September and October 1994 respectively. Under the arrangement, New World owned the licenses of WBRC and WGHP, while its previous owner Citicasters continued to control their operations under outsourcing agreements . In April 1995, Citicasters transferred the operations of WBRC and WGHP to the FTS, which assumed operational control through time brokerage agreements with New World. Both stations were sold directly to Fox three months later on July 22, 1995. FTS also acquired WHBQ-TV in Memphis in an unrelated deal on August 18, 1994. Among

3869-789: The time of the TCF Holdings deal, agreed to pay $ 2.55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U.S. cities from the John Kluge -run broadcasting company Metromedia : WNEW-TV (now WNYW ) in New York City , WTTG in Washington, D.C. , KTTV in Los Angeles , KRIV in Houston , WFLD in Chicago , and KRLD-TV (now KDAF ) in Dallas . A seventh station, ABC affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston ,

3942-508: The time prohibited one company from owning two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. FTS thus traded both KTVX and the former Chris-Craft station KMOL (now WOAI-TV ) in San Antonio to Clear Channel Communications in 2001 in exchange for WFTC in Minneapolis, creating a duopoly for FTS with former Chris-Craft station KMSP-TV . Because KMSP had the stronger signal due to being

4015-419: The two stations that were first acquired by FTS directly in 1995 ( WGHP in High Point, North Carolina and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama) and four via the 1997 merger ( WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri ; KTVI in St. Louis; WJW in Cleveland; and WITI in Milwaukee. The other three were KSTU in Salt Lake City, and KDVR in Denver and with its satellite station KFCT in Fort Collins, Colorado. The transaction

4088-582: The world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

4161-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

4234-409: Was acquired by Tribune) back under Fox ownership. On May 9, 2018, Fox announced it would purchase KCPQ, KDVR, KSTU, KTXL in Sacramento, KSWB-TV in San Diego, WJW in Cleveland and WSFL-TV , the CW affiliate for Miami-Fort Lauderdale. The move would give Fox stations in the home markets for the Seattle Seahawks , Denver Broncos , Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins as the network takes over

4307-487: Was approved by the FCC on March 11 and completed on April 17. As part of the deal, WJZY became a Fox owned-and-operated station on July 1. The station community believed that the Charlotte station's purchase by FTS is proof that Fox is interested in owning a TV station in NFL markets (specifically those with NFC teams, as Charlotte is ) to up the station groups' "bargaining power in retransmission consent negotiations with cable, satellite and telco operators." As part of

4380-405: Was beginning to hire staff for a new in-house news department. The newscast began on January 1, 2017, using local reporting staff, with anchors originating from a secondary set at Sinclair's CBS affiliate WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana . Until May 2023, the anchors for WOLF's 10 p.m. show also hosted the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts for NBC affiliate WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio . The station's signal

4453-674: Was completed in 2008. In January 2009, NBC Owned Television Stations and FTS set up the first Local News Service with their Philadelphia stations after testing since the summer 2008. Fox and NBC then added other markets where they both own stations. On May 15, 2012, as part of a five-year affiliation agreement extension between Fox and Sinclair Broadcast Group 's 19 Fox affiliates (including company flagship WBFF) that will run through 2017, Fox included an option for Sinclair to purchase WUTB, exercisable from July 1, 2012, to March 31, 2013. On November 29, 2012, Sinclair exercised its option to purchase WUTB through Deerfield Media . On May 6, 2013,

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4526-441: Was completed on October 8, 2014. Fox's motivation for acquiring KTVU was that it was another NFL market with an NFC team . In addition to FTS's aforementioned purchases of Charlotte's WJZY in 2013 and the San Francisco Bay Area's KTVU in 2014, Variety reported that Fox is also interested in acquiring stations in the following other NFL markets: Seattle and St. Louis (the latter's KTVI had previously been owned by Fox, but

4599-406: Was denied, however. Oyster changed the station's call letters to WWLF-TV on July 25, 1984, then sold the construction permit to Hazleton TV Associates on December 13. Two months later on February 20, 1985, the station was sold again, this time to Scranton TV Partners who completed construction of the station and brought it on-air on June 6. WWLF was a satellite of co-owned WOLF-TV in Scranton which

4672-402: Was designated in July 2018 for hearing by an FCC administrative law judge , and Tribune moved to terminate the deal the next month. Fox required most of its affiliates to begin offering local news in 1990 to help the fledgling network. However, WOLF's facilities have never been large enough to accommodate an in-house news department. Rather than risk disaffiliation, what is now WSWB entered into

4745-478: Was dismissed by the FCC on November 20, 2014. On January 20, 2015, it was announced that Fox Television Stations would be a charter launch partner for Buzzr , a new digital multicast network from Debmar-Mercury and FremantleMedia North America devoted to classic game shows , which launched that June. Later in the year, FTS also agreed to carry Weigel Broadcasting 's Heroes & Icons network on subchannels of 11 major market stations. On April 30, 2017, it

4818-402: Was included in the 2007 sale to Local TV; with the St. Louis Rams relocating to Los Angeles starting with the 2016 NFL season, there is no word as to whether or not FTS' pursuit of a station in the St. Louis market has diminished). While discussions with Seattle's Fox affiliate KCPQ and its owner Tribune Broadcasting remained ongoing, Fox struck a deal on September 19, 2014, to buy KBCB ,

4891-440: Was part of the original transaction but was spun off to the Hearst Broadcasting subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation in a separate, concurrent deal as part of a right of first refusal related to that station's 1982 sale to Metromedia. Because Metromedia, originally known as Metropolitan Broadcasting at its founding, was spun off from the failed DuMont Television Network , radio personality Clarke Ingram has suggested that

4964-581: Was reported that 21st Century Fox was in talks to form a similar joint venture with Ion Media in an effort to counter Sinclair and displace Fox affiliations from their stations; analysts felt that the proposed partnership was meant as a bargaining ploy against Sinclair, as it would have to make significant investments into the acquired stations to make them profitable and capable of producing local news programming (Ion stations have historically had few employees or local infrastructure), and that Fox risked losing viewers through these transitions. In January 2018,

5037-440: Was reported that 21st Century Fox was in talks to purchase Tribune Media in a joint venture with the Blackstone Group . On May 7, 2017, it was reported that Sinclair Broadcast Group was nearing a deal to purchase Tribune Media, and that 21st Century Fox had dropped its bid for the company. The deal was officially announced the next day. (However, on August 9, 2018, Tribune canceled the Sinclair deal.) On August 2, 2017, it

5110-543: Was set to lose Fox programming to that market's longtime CBS affiliate, New World's KDFW . New World was also expanded its own broadcasting holdings in 1994 by buying other stations groups, but its combined purchases ran afoul with the FCC's media ownership rules at the time prohibiting a single company from owning more than twelve television stations nationwide. New World thus established a trust company in preparation for its sale of WGHP in High Point, North Carolina and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama , which it would place

5183-432: Was sold to Pegasus Television and the new owners were able to accomplish something that the station's original owner could not: get permission to move the transmitter to the antenna farm at Penobscot Knob. The completion of the new transmitter ushered in a new era for WWLF. On November 1, 1998, Pegasus moved the WOLF-TV call sign to channel 56 and made it the sole outlet for Fox programming in Northeast Pennsylvania. It changed

5256-423: Was then on UHF channel 38 and was an independent station . That station had just begun broadcasting itself on June 3. WWLF, as a satellite of WOLF-TV, was independent for a little more than a year. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter affiliate of Fox. In 1988, WWLF moved to a new transmitter on Nescopeck Mountain near the junction of I-80 and PA 93 but remained a satellite of WOLF-TV. On April 27, 1993, WWLF

5329-725: Was traded to the Meredith Corporation in exchange for WOFL in Orlando, Florida, creating a duopoly with former Chris-Craft station WRBW . FTS then traded former Chris-Craft station KBHK (now KPYX ) in San Francisco to Viacom for UPN stations KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C., creating duopolies with original Fox-owned stations KRIV and WTTG, receptively. WUTB in Baltimore was

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