2 more Media General Stations getting Ion KXRM FOX 21 out of Colorado Springs and KSNW NBC 3 out of Wichita Kansas....
Media-General Stations Adding Ion in Some Markets
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Looks like Media is launching subchannes on all its LIN stations first then I guess they will work on the Young Broadcasting Ones next. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll get a Cozi and or a Ion...
KSNW Wichita and KXRM Colorado Springs are next to get ION. No word on whether KSNW's satellites will get it as well.
technically there is no Ion affiliate in the quad cities so they **can** get an affiliate. Whether or not you can pick it up from a neighboring DMA is moot point when it comes to stations adding subs.
Same as in Lafayette, IN. Its a different market than Indy (although most Indy stations are on cable there) so it can be added.
WANE wanted to drop Antenna TV earlier in the year, and then after viewer complaints, they extended it to 12/31/15, which is still the case as far as I know. So maybe Justice (or whatever channel they get) will start 1/1/16?
And I know Lafayette is a different market, but for example - the fiber overbuilder there, Metronet, offers from the Bloomington/Indianapolis ION affiliate: ION HD, Ion Life, and qubo. I am wondering - will they be forced to drop at least the ION HD in favor of the ION SD from WLFI? Or maybe they'll carry both? And what about the Ion subchannels?
Now - on Comcast, they only offer ION HD (Bloomington/Indy) but the same question about dropping it for the SD version from WLFI applies.
Uverse isn't available because Lafayette is a former Verizon landline market that was never upgraded to FIOS and then was sold to Frontier. Frontier sells Dish Network in bundles with their ancient DSL and POTS lines.
And I know Lafayette is a different market, but for example - the fiber overbuilder there, Metronet, offers from the Bloomington/Indianapolis ION affiliate: ION HD, Ion Life, and qubo. I am wondering - will they be forced to drop at least the ION HD in favor of the ION SD from WLFI? Or maybe they'll carry both? And what about the Ion subchannels?
Now - on Comcast, they only offer ION HD (Bloomington/Indy) but the same question about dropping it for the SD version from WLFI applies.
Uverse isn't available because Lafayette is a former Verizon landline market that was never upgraded to FIOS and then was sold to Frontier. Frontier sells Dish Network in bundles with their ancient DSL and POTS lines.
KPXR doesn't transmit from West Branch, but from Walker IA, midway between Cedar Rapids and Waterloo.
I'm sure this is probably for just the OTA folks. Ion (in most cases) is the same across the board except for the ID at top of hour. The Ion O&O's are the same including commercials (thats why DIrectv carries the national feed in HD versus uplinking all the different locals which are the same thing)
Comcast seems to shy away from carrying the subs of Ion whereas the other cable co's do carry them. Comcast in Minneapolis doesn't but Mediacom does.
So by january this WANE CBS 15 will have 3 subchannels with Antenna, Ion, and possibly Justice. I am glad for the people in this DMA and everything but why is MG leaving us (former young stations) in the dark. I was told by one of their reps that August 19 we were supposed to know something, I emailed her twice simce then and all I get is I'll get in touch with our VP of Programming thanks for your interest. IDK whats worse these media owners or our politicians. I wish Sinclair, Scripps, Raycom, Hearst, Cox, or Weigel would buy us from MG. I'm sure we'll get a subchannel or two on the station one day but at least they can keep tabs with us. I am not complaining or trying to repeat myself or anything like that I just would like to know something.
Well anyway Dan I hope now that you keep AntennaTV for good out in Fort Wayne...cause Ole Johnny is on the way.
Well anyway Dan I hope now that you keep AntennaTV for good out in Fort Wayne...cause Ole Johnny is on the way.
Yes they are Trip. Let me know if WLNS, WTEN, KLFY, WATE get ion or cozi, rather cozi but I'll take ion in a heartbeat. Also KXAN 36 NBC Austin launched ION amd they were one of the 4 that Media General launched Cozi on back in June so maybe we can all get lucky twice...
Sorry about post 34 I get carried away sometimes
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AntennaTV is going away at the end of the year on there. It was suppose to be in October but they got a end of year reprieve
Shows on KXAN too, I edited a post earlier. From what I'm seeing is that Media launched Ion on its ABC stations (From the Young Media Group) like WBAY and WRIC. I figure WATE and WTEN will launch it to UNLESS they have the ION MUX already and both markets have the ION MUX so those two stations will be getting another subchannel and so will CBS affiliate WLNS. That leaves the CBS affiliate KLFY left. Based on post on this topic. Well it could be Ion, maybe cozi, or even justice. Most important progress is being made so with the 5 month wait kodos to Media for launching something in the two markets, its a start
