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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

This is as good a place as any, no? From today's news.

UPN Facing "Devastating" End?

Viacom has asked the FCC to reconsider its rules barring a single company from owning more than one network. Under those rules, it will be required to divest itself of its 50-percent ownership of UPN when its merger with CBS is completed. In a filing on Monday, Viacom pointed out that UPN lost more than $177 million last year, bringing its total losses over five years to $750 million. It also pointed out that much of the network's programming is aimed at minorities and that forcing it to pull out of the network would be devastating to the network and its affiliates. In a separate filing, Viacom asked the FCC to allow it to have two years to shed its interest in UPN and to comply with rules barring any company from owning stations that reach more than 35 percent of U.S. households. (Currently the combined Viacom-CBS lineup covers about 41 percent of the country.)

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Well, if they do the last, at least Voyager will have its chance.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Yeah. And maybe then Voyager will be on every Wednesday at 10:00 instead of every Wednesday there isn't a hockey game

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Well, that's just your Boston one (?), Fabrux.

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Posted by Lt. Tom on :

Detroit UPN 50 preempts VOY for all sorts of sports events on a regular basis. That's what happens when the local UPN affiliate has the local contracts for baseball, basketball, and hockey.

Two years, eh? I'd say they're pretty much concerned with VOY and VOY alone.