Centralcasting - Users

Users

Individual users of centralcasting facilities include:

• Barrington Broadcasting operates centralcasting facilities in Clio, Michigan to serve its stations in Michigan and Ohio, all but four of them NBC affiliates. (The exceptions include two CW affiliates, an ABC affiliate and a Fox affiliate, each sister station to the NBC affiliate in their respective market.)
• Cox Media Group uses centralcasting.
• Cowles Publishing Company's three Washington stations (which include KNDO and KNDU and their SWX Right Now channels), are operated from a centralcasting facility at flagship station KHQ-TV.
• Equity Media Holdings operated a unique C.A.S.H. (Central Automated Satellite Headend) system which allowed it to programme all of its stations nationwide from one central hub in Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual station sites in the system were little more than satellite-fed broadcast translators. This system, once one of the largest examples of central broadcast automation, was shut down as a result of Equity's 2009 chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• Fisher Communications uses centralcasting.
• Fox Television Stations centralcasts from Las Vegas, Nevada, a market in which they don't own a station.
• Gannett centralcasts from Jacksonville, Florida.
• Hearst Television uses centralcasting.
• KQED originates six digital subchannels of programming for sister stations KQEH San Jose and KQET Watsonville-Monterey, California in a tapeless/file-based automated operation.
• LIN Broadcasting serves eleven stations from a centralcasting hub in Indianapolis, Indiana and an additional 15 from a hub in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• Media General controls all 18 of its stations from two hubs. Its ABC, CBS and CW affiliates are controlled from WSPA in Spartanburg, South Carolina; and its NBC affiliates are controlled from WCMH in Columbus, Ohio.
• Meredith Corporation controls all of its stations from two hubs. Stations east of the Rockies are operated from WGCL in Atlanta, Georgia, and all of its stations out West are controlled from KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona.
• NBC owned and operated stations use centralcasting.
• Newport Television operates New York Digital CentralCasting facilities at WSYR-TV Syracuse to serve former Ackerley stations in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester and Watertown with additional regional hubs serving Oregon and California stations.
• Post-Newsweek Stations centralcasts from Jacksonville, Florida.
• Some PBS member stations are using centralcasting facilities on a limited scale as a means to deploy additional digital subchannels and remotely monitor unattended overnight broadcast operations.
• Radio-Canada generates individualised French language television feeds for each of multiple Canadian time zones from one facility in Montreal
• Raycom Media uses centralcaasting.
• Sinclair Broadcasting uses centralcasting.
• Time Warner Cable operates four 24-hour cable news channels (YNN Central New York, YNN Rochester, YNN Buffalo, and YNN Capital Region) from two hubs, one (for news anchoring) in Albany and the other (for all weather operations) in Syracuse. While the news channels mostly use different anchors for each station, all four stations get their weather forecasts from the same team of meteorologists.
• Tribune Broadcasting centralcasts its stations.
• The majority of Wisconsin Public Television's operations for its six full-power and translator television station originate from the public broadcaster's Madison, Wisconsin facility, with the other stations in the network mainly maintaining only basic engineering and studio operations in their city of license.