A statement regarding the future of WMGM-TV
As you may or may not know, over the past year, there have been many changes here at WMGM-TV NBC40.
In 2013, NBC decided that they no longer wanted to have a separate affiliate in South Jersey. Effective January 1st,
WMGM-TV will no longer be an NBC affiliate. Additionally, the station
was sold last year. In the meantime Access.1 Communications has been
continuing to manage the station and will do so until December 31st of this year.
Here
is the good news – while Access.1 will not be operating the WMGM-TV
channel, the company has taken steps to continue and expand our news
product on a new broadcast channel. This plan calls for our new company
to be comprised of our current news, sales, management, and
administration teams and would expand to nine counties in southern New
Jersey, filling a much needed void for news, weather and sports coverage
here in South Jersey.
If all goes as planned, we hope to once
again be serving the area with a bigger and better newscast in the
spring or early summer of 2015, so stay tuned.
http://www.nbc40.net/story/27586450/a-statement-regarding-the-future-of-wmgm-tv
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Thursday, January 01, 2015
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There is hope that the new group of Access One can come up with about $3 million in funding to get a channel in the 700 band and at least bring the news team back but a lot of it hinges on getting that money. For now Longport Media has taken Dan and Pete on for a 600pm to 630pm news slot starting late January. Kravitz had assumed he would still have"Pinky" till spring as the station was planning to do paid info commercials till then. He was totally taken aback last week when a caller informed Comcast had assigned channel 4 to Soul of South starting 1201 am 01 January. The rumor out there is that when the staff got their severance pay there was a gag order along with it to keep quiet about all that what lead the the stations demise. Only an uncomfirmed rumor but there obviously were problems.
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