Stations Lining Up To Join My Network TV

March 03, 2006

Sinclair affils ink for My Network TV

My Network TV, Fox's new national program service that launches in the fall, got a boost Thursday with the announcement that station group owner Sinclair Broadcast Group had secured affiliation agreements with the network for 17 of its stations. The stations owned or operated by Sinclair that have signed on with My Network TV, a Monday-Saturday primetime block of programming set to launch Sept. 5, cover 11.9% of U.S. television households. These are in addition to the previously announced 10 stations from the Fox Television Stations group. Together, the Fox and Sinclair-owned stations give My Network TV clearances in markets covering about 36% of U.S. television households. The 17 Sinclair stations include current WB Network affiliates WTTA in Tampa, Fla., WCWB in Pittsburgh, WSTR in Cincinnati, WBSC in Greenville, S.C., KRRT in San Antonio, WTVZ in Norfolk, Va., WNYO in Buffalo, N.Y., KVWB in Las Vegas, WDKA/Paducah, Ky., and WNYS in Syracuse, N.Y. They also include current UPN affiliates WRDC in Raleigh, WUXP in Nashville, WCGV in Milwaukee, WABM in Birmingham, WUPN in Greensboro, N.C., and WMMP in Charleston, S.C., as well as the independent WFGX in Mobile, Ala.


That was an excert of a Hollywood Reporter report by Kimberly Nordyke.

New News Corporation Broadcast Network

This past Wednesday, News Corporation (which owns the Fox Network, Fox News Channel, and FX, amongst others) announced plans for the launching of a new broadcast television network called My Network TV, which is intened to serve the nine Fox-owned stations that are losing their UPN affiliations (CBS-owned UPN and Warner Brothers-owned WB are closing up shop in September to make room for The CW Network) and other would-be orphaned UPN and WB outlets. Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News and the Fox Television Stations group, would head up this new network.

Jane Skinner As Regular On Weekday Version Of "The Big Story?"

Looks like for the past few weeks that Jane Skinner has become a regular correspondent on The Big Story with John Gibson, perhaps taking over the spot formerly held by the now-long-departed Heather Nauert (who moved over to ABC last Spring).

Trace Gallagher Become Weekend "TFR" Anchorman

Fox News veteran Trace Gallagher beginning this past Saturday (February 4) became the new weekend anchorman of The Fox Report as well as the host of the new weekend editions of Studio B.

Here's Rick!

Here is a look at the other Fox News Channel veteran heading for News Corporation O&O WNYW in New York City. That's Rick Folbaum on the left, co-hosting with Carol Iovanna, FNC's Hurricane Dennis coverage from July 11, 2005. 

Here's A Look At Dari

Here is a look at outgoing Fox News Channel anchorwoman/news updater, WNYW(New York)-bound Dari Alexander. 

Rick and Dari Transferred To WNYW

Two Fox News Channel anchormen, Rick Folbaum, who has hosted the weekend editions of The Fox Report, and who has been the number 1 back-up on weeknights to Shepard Smith, and Dari Alexander, who until recently had regularly hosted Saturday afternoon editions of Fox News Live, and who has also been a news updater, are being shifted to the News Corporation owned and operated station, WNYW-TV, in New York City to become co-anchormen of that station's 6:00 PM (Eastern Time) local newscast.