[BC] WFXL TV / WALB-TV 10

[Wooten, Charles]

You are right Dave....there is a lot more to the story but you basically have it right.....I used to work for Gray in my TV days in the late 60's and early 70's.....they owned (and still own) Channel 7 here in Panama City.
 
Charlie 

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In a message dated 6/8/2006 4:27:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
paul at amtower.com writes:

Then it  would seem to me if they are co owned that they put up only one new
tower  to handle both stations.


Interesting story as to why there are two towers next to each other.

As I recall the stories I have heard,  in South Georgia there was no  TV but
VHF Channel 10 and Channel 6 from Tallahassee.   Channel 10 was  NBC & ABC, 
Channel 6 Was CBS and ABC.  The U's didn't exist  then.  In fact the cable
systems even had all the Atlanta networks and  idies via a CATV relay service down
I-75 to south Georgia.

Anyway the UHF channel was allocated to Albany some years earlier,   Mr.
Gray, then mayor of Albany and owner of Channel 10 encouraged someone to  apply
for it and financed it on a leaseback.   He indirectly had  control, not on
paper.  The UHF tower was next to the channel 10  tower.  I believe the UHF fed
their video over to the Channel 10 studios  and piggy backed to the transmitter
site from Channel 10.  Later the TV  station was transferred a couple of times
and as I recall some fellow got a hold  to it and was making his lease
payments to Channel 10 etc. and was in trouible  with the feds and all of this kinda
came out in the open.

Charlie Wooten or Clyde can probably tell the story better.  Media  control
was part of the court documents.

Dave

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