WISH Faces Uncertain Future Without CBS
CBS is ending its 58-year affiliation with LIN’s WISH Indianapolis on Dec. 31. WTTV, owned by Tribune Broadcasting, will be the new home for CBS programming. WISH GM Les Vann, even with his station stripped of major-network entertainment and sports, is keeping his sights set on the top. For starters, the strategy is to expand news programming by four hours each weekday. “We want to ultimately be the No. 1 independent television station in the country,” Vann says. “With our rich heritage, we can build to that point. We’re not starting from scratch here. This has been a very good television station for six decades.”
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Wagner Pereira
And the countdown continues to expiration of the NBC Affiliation agreement, as Media General has 14 NBC Affiliates and current WTHR / Dispatch Broadcast Group has only 1 (Indianapolis) and only owns 2 stations total.
Joe Jaime
KRON-TV San Francisco has not done very well since the loss of their NBC affiliation. Hopefully WISH can pull it off.
Keith ONeal
WISH can learn from WJXT 4 (Jacksonville, Florida) on how to be a successful Independent. WJXT lost its CBS afflilation a decade ago.