Stations "Gone to Jesus"?

[mleach]

The actual quote from the station prez (Lowell Register) is:

"I had somebody tell me they’re running a good bit of gay and lesbian stuff on it, that’s really just in-your-face so to speak, and I’m not sure that’s appropriate. That’s happening in prime time," he said. "I’m not really happy with it."

So, the head honcho of the station isn't even familiar with his own programming? He's acting on the basis of others' perceptions and reports -- or more accurately, apparently one person? (He does use the singular "I had somebody tell me," not "I've had many [or even several] people tell me.")

And chances are I bet this dude believes ABC's "Cougar Town" is an educational show about cats and how they live in the jungles of Africa so therefor "Cougar Town" is very appropriate to show in school to a second grade geography class.

Anyway, as I pointed out earlier I still believe there is more to this story than just "gay and lesbian stuff".

[M.J.]

* KTGF ch.16, Great Falls Montana -- was an NBC affiliate until 2005, when it flipped to Fox, later becoming independent. In Steptember 2009, financial problems led KTGF to be flipped to JCTV, TBN's young adult network. That station was what inspired me to start this thread, especially since this station, once a Big 3 affiliate, "fell" the farthest.

Going the other way, in the early-to-mid 70's, Pat Robertson built his 2nd station in Atlanta (WHAE/46), which is now the CBS affiliate (with a little help from the great New World (Order) swaps that included WAGA to Fox)

As was the case with WXNE/25 in Boston, which was originally owned by CBN when it signed on in 1977. It gradually became a conventional independent during the early 80s, and CBN sold it to FOX in January 1987. Although the station affiliated with FOX in October 1986, CBN refused to air the Joan Rivers show, and FOX ended up airing the show not on another TV station such as WSBK, but on a radio station. The station is now WFXT.

[Matt Smith]

We can add one more here . . . .

Multicultural Broadcasting sold WRAY-30 in Wilson, NC (Raleigh-Durham Market) to Tri-State Christian Television.  I'm not sure if an LMA was involved, but sooner or later it will flip to TCT's network feed.

Later . . . .

[Tim from Springfield, IL]

Also Dubuque, IA's KFXB-40, which was previously, from about 1995-2007, a repeater for Fox affiliate KFXA-28 in Cedar Rapids, IA (Cedar Rapids/Waterloo/Dubuque market).  Before that, from 1970-95, it was the market's second standalone ABC affiliate as KDUB (KCRG-9 Cedar Rapids is the market's main ABC station).  It was sold to a religious broadcaster in 2007 (and IIRC now carries programming from CTN).