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Anybody want to buy a TV station? Move-in condition
By adamg on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 4:23pm
All Access reports that Cox, which bought Channel 25 from Fox, is looking to sell the Dedham-based station - along with the 13 other TV stations it owns. If there's any justice in the world, somebody will form a company called Lox and buy it.
H/t Dan Seitz.
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SINCLAIR
Let's hope the Sinclair Broadcast Group doesn't become the new owner.
They Are A Pox !
I think the buyer might be a consortium...
Lox, Stox, and Barrelx
Too bad
I've heard from the station engineering staff that Cox is far better to work for than when it was o/o Fox.
Hard to see this ending well for the local employees.
Nesn buys it
And calls it Sox
DREAM COME TRUE
As long as it's not f*$&ing
As long as it's not f*$&ing sinclair media.
What a disappointment cox's ownership has been
Now, I'm not at all surprised, but I used to watch 25 in the morning, back before Cox took over, and before channel 7 split from NBC and gave me a real morning show to watch. They're local, they focus on local news, and they give me the shit I need when I'm getting ready for work: traffic, weather, headline news, both local and national.
But boy did they go downhill. No more interviews with local politicians. No more fluff pieces. I guess there's still a firehouse friday and a zip trip? Meh. Who cares? The real news is on stubborn as all hell WHDH.
yup
I agree. I used to watch Fox25 quite a bit, and its changed a bit. A lot of the old fav personalities are gone. I think I only tune in to watch Kevin with the weather but even that's kinda mehhh now.
I hope they don't get bought by Sinclair also. We're the only market that doesn't have an Sinclair owned station (they do own a station in Providence however)
Fox
Count me in too. Fox 25 team was part of every weekday morning for 6-7 years for me. Gene, Kim, Anquenette, Cindy, VB and Doug M seemed to genuinely like each other too. Miss those Mail Calls, Let it Rip, VB rants and on site interviews. You see these people 5x a week and it’s comfort. Once the sale happened I haven’t watched since.
BOX?
BOX, as in Idiot Box?
I gotta admit, SOX is a good idea, wish it were mine.
Wonder if Ansin/Sunbeam would
Wonder if Ansin/Sunbeam would want to buy them.
Thinking the exact same thing
I think Ansin has been looking to make WHDH a Fox affiliate ever since NBC took away their affiliation. The only problem - their sister station, WSVN, may lose their Fox affiliation in favor of another station (WSFL).
Two possible scenarios:
1. Sunbeam buys WFXT (channel 25); WHDH (channel 7) becomes Fox, WFXT becomes an independent station.
2. Another company buys WFXT, offers to give Channel 7 the Fox affiliation in exchange for CW affiliate WLVI (channel 56). WFXT becomes a CW affiliate, and WLVI becomes an independent station.
Any chance for Red Sox or Celtics to return to the air?
We have not had a Red Sox or Celtics network affiliate in Boston for a few years now. Is this an opportunity to bring one or both of the teams back to TV?
I wish.
I wish that would happen, but given that the Sox own a majority interest in NESN, I don't think they're going to be moving their games to broadcast TV.