NBC40 TV - Dec.31, 2014 Is The Last Day On Air

The Jersey Shore's NBC40 broadcasts out of a converted Frito-Lay factory off Route 9 in Linwood, home to cerebral weatherman Dan Skeldon, sports nice guy Pete Thompson, and steady news anchor Michelle Dawn Mooney.
For thousands of loyal viewers in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties, NBC40's 6 a.m. news is the first show they watch in the morning, and the station's hyperlocal advertisers seem as familiar as the nearest Wawa.

Starting midnight on Wednesday, though, they will be history as personalities on NBC40 when the station fades to black - a victim not of the cratering Atlantic City casino economy but broader forces in the TV and telecom industries.

Comcast Corp.-owned NBCUniversal has pulled the station's NBC affiliation so it can consolidate viewership in the regional TV market under NBC10 in Philadelphia.
NBC40 and NBC10 existed symbiotically for decades by sharing news-gathering resources. But NBCUniversal ultimately considered NBC40 a "duplicate" in the Philly TV market, an NBCUniversal spokeswoman said.
Entire story at
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20141228_Lights_out_for_local_Jersey_Shore_TV_station.html


Dan Skeldon will become The Press of Atlantic City’s first meteorologist in its 100-plus-year history beginning Jan. 26.

The chief meteorologist for WMGM-TV NBC40, whose newscast will go off the air Dec. 31, will offer daily forecasts online and in print for The Press while also reporting about weather and related topics, including the environment.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/dan-skeldon-to-join-press-of-atlantic-city/article_61a71e70-8f70-11e4-9970-e7c3b84bff35.html

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