[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Sep 11 2005, 06:22 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 11 2005, 07:10 PM\'][quote name=\'Terry K\' date=\'Sep 11 2005, 03:39 PM\']I believe KCOP does its news at 11 since KTTV does its at 10. That was one of the Foxisms that Murdoch put in.
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Was that in fact mandated by Fox, or are you speaking wholly ex-rectum?
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I recall reading in several trade journals that Fox did move KCOP's newscast to 11 so as to avoid competing with KTTV. Now, whether
they were speaking ex-rectum or not is another matter. :-)
If my memory is correct, Murdoch wanted to do likewise with WWOR's newscast to avoid going up against WNYW in New York -- and he wanted to combine the operations of both stations as was done in Los Angeles. But the usual interest groups complained, as did some New Jersey politicians since WWOR is licensed in New Jersey and not New York, and Murdoch backed off; he's still awaiting formal approval to keep WNYW, WWOR and the New York Post, and probably doesn't want to make any more enemies.
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The switch of what was then WOR was made from New York to New Jersey in the 80s under complaints that New Jersey didn't have a major commercial TV station outside of the Atlantic City market. The current studio facility in Secaucus was built in 1987.
Seems to me that although the new version of "A Current Affair" is on WNYW in New York, it's actually produced at 9 Broadcast Plaza in Secaucus--they built studios for national production there, but they haven't been used since the days of Richard Bey and Howard Stern's first TV show.
And in terms of union-avoiding, something that Murdoch always likes to do, seems to me that WWOR is a union shop, so there's no advantage in moving WNYW across the Hudson, unless Murdoch wants to try some union-busting. Considering that it is North Jersey, that may not be a wise thing to do, if you get my drift...
