wqcw and wsaz

[genlock]

CHARLESTON and HUNTINGTON, W.Va., Nov. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray") announced today that it has agreed to enter into a shared services agreement with Excalibur Broadcasting, LLC ("Excalibur") for WQCW(TV), Portsmouth, Ohio and WOCW-LP, Charleston, West Virginia (collectively, "WQCW-TV"). WQCW-TV serves as the CW affiliate for the Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia television market, where Gray owns and operates WSAZ-TV, the market's NBC affiliate. Under this agreement, Gray has agreed to provide back-office services and limited programming to WQCW-TV.

Earlier today, Excalibur reached an agreement with Lockwood Broadcast Group ("Lockwood") to purchase all of the assets of WQCW-TV for $5.5 million. Gray and Excalibur will begin the shared services agreement upon Excalibur's purchase of WQCW-TV.

Excalibur's President and owner, Don Ray, is a resident of Huntington, West Virginia, and the former long-time General Manager of WSAZ-TV. He said, "Acquiring the Tri-State's CW while simultaneously leveraging the resources of WSAZ for WQCW's benefit presents an incredible opportunity to provide better service for area viewers and local businesses."

[Mr. Jones]

What took them so long? Figured WQCW would have been SSA'd to Gray or Sinclair long before now.

[genlock]

WQCW transmitter is located on WOWK tower.
They use the antenna WOWK used while wowk was in the dtv conversion.
It will be expensive to relocate to wsaz tower.

9pm news anyone?

[Mr. Jones]

Well since The CW programs 8-10, and WQCW is HD as compared to MyZ, wouldn't you just move your strongest stuff to WQCW & turn 3.2 into This TV full-time?

Just spitballing here.

[genlock]

News on the CW at 7pm and on the CW sub-channel at 9pm.
Give the news people something to do on the long break from 6:30 to 10 pm.
Telemundo needs a home too.