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As the Birmingham switches were imminent, News Corporation offered to purchase the remainder of New World for $2.48 billion in stock; once the deal closed on January 22, 1997, Fox's 22 owned-stations (ten of which were from New World) surpassed CBS and Tribune Broadcasting as the largest television station owner in the United States with an ...
On January 1, 1989, six television stations in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, markets, exchanged network affiliations.The event, referred to in contemporary media coverage as "The Big Switch", [1] was described as "Miami's own soap opera" [2] and at times compared to Dallas and Dynasty because of the lengthy public disputes between multiple parties that preceded it. [3]
Florida's News Channel (FNC) was a regional cable news network available on Florida's cable television systems (e.g. Comcast, GTE, TCI Cable, AT&T Broadband, and Continental Cablevision) that operated from 1998 to 2003. [1]
As of 2016, it was reported that retail foreign exchange trading represented 5.5% of the whole foreign exchange market ($282 billion in daily trading turnover). [1] Prior to the development of forex trading platforms in the late 1990s, forex trading was restricted to large financial institutions.
On February 6, 2014, WNYF-CD changed its call letters to WWNY-CD; [3] on March 13, 2014, the class A status for the Watertown station was transferred from the analog channel 28 license to the digital channel 35 license, retaking the WNYF-CD call sign. [7] [8] WWNY-TV and WNYF-CD both go off-the-air, for a couple hours, during overnights. [9] [10]
The two stations share studios on Arcade Street in downtown Watertown; WWNY-TV and WNYF-CD's transmitters are located on the same tower along NY 126/State Street on Champion Hill. WWNY-CD (channel 28) is a Class A station licensed to Massena, New York, which operates as a translator of WWNY-TV.
Carthage-Watertown, New York WCNY-TV/WWNY-TV 7: 1954–1995 (secondary) CBS WVNC-LD 45 Secondary affiliation, with CBS as primary affiliation. Dropped its NBC affiliation in 1995 to complete its phase out of non-CBS network programming; after that, WSTM-TV in Syracuse or WPTZ in North Pole-Plattsburgh served the Watertown area on cable ...
(The WCNY-TV call letters are now used on a PBS television station in Syracuse, New York.) In 1981, the TV station was sold to United Communications. WWNY-TV got to keep its call letters, so AM 790 slightly changed its call sign to WTNY. Through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, WTNY had a middle of the road format of popular adult music, news, sports ...