U.S. Television Network Affiliate Switches of 1994 - Burnham Broadcasting

Burnham Broadcasting

See also: SF Broadcasting

Just weeks after completing the New World deal, Fox announced another purchase, this one of Burnham Broadcasting. The stations involved were the following:

  • WVUE (channel 8), New Orleans, affiliated with ABC
  • WLUK-TV (channel 11), Green Bay, Wisconsin, affiliated with NBC
  • WALA-TV (channel 10), Mobile, Alabama, affiliated with NBC
  • KHON-TV (channel 2), Honolulu, Hawaii, affiliated with NBC

Fox would become minority owner of these stations; majority partner Savoy Broadcasting, was a minority-owned communications firm. The deal gave Fox upgrades for the home markets of two more teams: the Packers and the New Orleans Saints, giving Fox VHF affiliates in eleven of the fifteen NFC markets, though in Green Bay it was a return to VHF as that market had gone through a smaller shuffle in 1992, when longtime Packer flagship WBAY-TV lost the rights to most Packers games when it took ABC affiliation in the wake of their former network, CBS's purchase of WFRV-TV. SF Broadcasting, as the Savoy Pictures-Fox joint venture was known, had been founded in March 1994. It was capitalized with $100 million – $58 million from Fox, $41 million from Savoy, and $1 million from the chairmen of Savoy Pictures. Fox had no voting stock (if they did, the stations would be counted against the FCC ownership total); instead, Savoy Pictures chairmen Victor A. Kaufman and Lewis J. Korman held all the stock.

The second season WLUK carried the Packers (1996), the team won the Super Bowl, the first time Fox carried the game.

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