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TVB Assignment 3
New Digital Channel for San Diego
Jessica Northey
Television Business
Carol Wonsavage
October 18, 2012
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I. Preface: Brief Executive Summary
The new digital channel reflects the needs of the community in San Diego for local sports
fans. The television channel will cover all aspects of local sports from high school, college, and
professional sports. In addition, the local station, KFMB, will produce their own content in their
studios and around the city of San Diego to include local celebrities such as sports anchor,
athletes, and more.
The station’s website only provides the broadcast schedule for the games and news
articles with photos. The new channel would provide game reports on videos during the game
through live streaming on the local channel’s website. The niche channel covers local sports for a
target audience of younger people who follow sports and may be active in the local recreational
sports themselves. The new channel would have programming such as sports related news in the
morning and evenings, as well as recreational sports coverage of local businesses such as fishing
and beach volleyball games. Also, would provide sports recruiting shows, about local high
school, college, and pro sports coverage. Other programs will cover the past sports season for
baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey.
More entertainment driven programs such as a NFL video game competition in a game
show style, reality television shows of past and present local sports players. The new digital
channel will be on sight for all recreational activities to include the Miramar Air Show with the
Blue Angels, to other extreme sports video content sent in from local viewers. To also include
series of the history of sports in San Diego, past player talk shows, and charity spotlights. For
less serious programs, there would be a show of edits during sports coverage and play blunders,
how to make it as a cheerleader, and a reality television show of the wives of local sports players.
II. Analysis
The local TV station in San Diego for the new channel is the CBS Station, KFMB
Channel 8, owned by the Midwest Television.
Station Background
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Their website is www.cbs8.com. The station’s ownership is a company called Midwest
Television. “KFMB also benefits from being privately held. It's Midwest Television's only
station: the misleading company name stems from when it initially owned stations in Illinois.”
(Malone, 2010) In 2011, the station adds a classic TV multicast channel Me-TV, website is
metvnetwork.com (“Me-tv me-tv adds,” 2011).
“KFMB is a television station in San Diego, CA that serves the San Diego
television market. The station runs programming from the CBS network and
identifies itself as ‘News 8’. KFMB is a digital full-power television station that
operates with 14.87 kilowatts of power and is owned by Midwest Television”
(“Television station information,” 2012).
The News 8 Team Anchors include Carlo Cecchetto and Barbara-Lee Edwards on
weeknights. Dan Cohen and Nichelle Medina reports on weekdays, Phil Blauer and Marcella Lee
on weekends, and Matt Baylow and Shawn Styles for weather. For sports news, Kyle Kraska and
John Howard are the top anchors. The News 8 Team Reports include Richard Allyn, Alicia
Coates, Shannon Handy, Larry Himmel, Angelique Lizarde, Angie Lee, Steve Price, and Jeff
Zevely (“News 8 team,” 2012).
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Strengths – High Ratings
On January 25, 2010, Broadcasting & Cable newspaper reports an article about KFMB
and the affect the economy has had regarding ratings and selling advertising. “The station easily
won total day ratings in November, along with primetime, early evening and late news, its 4.6
household rating/10.1 share at 11 beating McGraw-Hill's ABC affiliate KGTV.” (Malone, 2010)
“KEMB won the 2008 revenue race, according to BIA/Kelsey, its $47.98 million ahead
of KNSD's S45.8 million and KGTVs $42.6 million. KFMB President/General Manager Ed
Trimble credits multiple factors in the station's long run of success in San Diego, such as airing a
bevy of Chargers games, community service efforts, and consistency in both the newsroom and
on the schedule. KFMB airs a 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. news seven days a week, which conditions
viewers to tune in at that time for local content regardless of what day it is. “That consistency
builds up expectations of what will be on in that time period,” Trimble says. “We treat the
weekend like the rest of the week.” (Malone, 2010)
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Strengths – Community Outreach
The local television station, KFMB, is doing so well with their community outreach
programs that the station won an award in 1998. It was presented by Electronic Media for
outstanding public service at the “Promax and BDA Conference & Exposition in Toronto.” The
CBS affiliate station, KFMB, ran a campaign using the “Eight MADD Mobile, a 32-foot
recreational vehicle used for “presentations to children age 7 to 16 about the dangers of alcohol”
while traveling around Southern California (Spring, 1998).
Today, KFMB has several signature community outreach programs. Adopt 8 is a project
where Marcella Lee introduces the viewers to local children who need to be adopted. Buddies
For Life is a project of the station supporting the battle against breast cancer. The 8’s Cool
School are News 8 highlights schools that have been nominated for San Diego’s coolest local
schools. To support the green movement locally, a project called Earth 8 providing solutions.
Another project the station endorses is to protect children to keep them safe from predators
called The Greatest Save, as in the one you safe from anything bad happening in the first place.
KFMB is “the best place for kids to be on weekend mornings in News 8 CBS kids” called
Morning Kids. Another project the station has is called Speakers’ Bureau where viewers can
request to “have a News 8 personality speak or appear at your event.” In addition, there are two
other community projects called Volunteer 8 and Weather Wednesdays. Nichelle Medina and
Dan Cohen show viewers how they can “take action in their community” and Matt visits “San
Diego County schools each Wednesday.” He teaches classes about reporting the weather.
(“Community projects,” 2012)
Strengths – Media Convergence
Media convergence is when a program spans over the three screens, as in the television,
mobile phone, and the computer. Not only does the station broadcast over free airwaves through
their parent station, CBS television station. The local news does a fantastic job of providing the
news over the Internet and mobile phone. The station’s website, cbs8.com, reaches out to their
viewers through a variety of social networking links for KFMB as well as providing videos to
watch the latest news, RSS feeds, or sign up for specific newsletters through email. The website
provides a live feed of the CBS News video (“Cbs news live,” 2012).
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The Twitter.com page for CBS 8 San Diego News is twitter.com/CBS8. The newscast and
station do a great job of up-to-date tweets about local news in San Diego and includes photos of
the news stories reaching about 15,000 followers. The station, CBS 8 – San Diego News has a
Facebook page, www.facebook.com/News8 with over 8,500 Likes, photos, as well as widgets for
contests and the ‘Election Center’.
A viewer can access San Diego’s local news through an application on their mobile
phone through Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Android users, BlackBerry users, mobile web access, a
CBS 8 – San Diego News iOS App (designed for the iPhone), and an application for premium
applications and video.
“News 8 is now as close as your mobile phone. Wherever you go you can
receive updated San Diego News, Sports, and your exclusive MicroClimate
Forecast. CBS 8 is just one more reason why News 8 is San Diego's number one
source for news” (“News 8 to go,” 2012).
Weakness – Sports Coverage
A weakness KFMB has is with the cable channels that may not air the sports content
depending on which side of San Diego their viewers live on. Approximately half of San Diego
will not be able to watch their favorite sports programming unless they are at a friend’s home or
a sports bar with the right cable network access. The satellite provider battle is limiting places
sports fan can watch their teams. “The broadcast rights to the San Diego Padres are owned by
Fox Sports Network. That channel is found on Cox Cable (and DirecTV) but not on Time
Warner Cable.” However, Time Warner Cable SportsNet has purchased the rights to broadcast of
sports games such as the San Diego’s men’s basketball team, the Aztecs. The rights were bought
from CBS Sports after the Mountain West contract had ended. “Time Warner SportsNet starts on
October 1 and will be on channel 403 in San Diego” (Bob, 2012). The station’s website only
provides the broadcast schedule for the games and news articles with photos. However, the
station could provide game and report videos during the game to provide a service to those who
are Time Warner cable subscribers.
Weakness – Background/History Info
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The KFMB website, cbs8.com, does not have any specific information about the history
or background of the local affiliate station of CBS. There is room for improvement for their
website to include a timeline from when the station began and to keep it current over time. There
is an opportunity to create a documentary about the history of CBS and their affiliates and
partner with the History Channel for advertising barter deals.
Weakness – Negative Stories about Staff
Over the years, there have been several reports about negative stories about various staff
members. The drama varies from undercover agents working as camera crew in the station’s
history and a neighborhood caught on fire in recent years. In 1968, the Columbia Journalism
Review reported an order by Attorney General Ramsey Clark regarding “Carl Gilman,
cameraman reporter for KFMB-TV in San Diego, testified to having accepted pay from the FBI
for undercover work while ostensibly on duty as newsmen.” The Attorney General states that in
order to maintain free access to information sources that are sensitive in nature is compromised
of integrity under these conditions and must not be allowed to continue by implementing a law
imposing a penalty for any reporter acting as ‘undercover men’ (Reporters as, 1969).
In 2007, KFMB San Diego, Reporter Larry Himmel, experienced his home burning from
the California wildfires. This particular event was declared in some areas as a major disaster,
compared to the disasters of Hurricane Katrina. Many local news anchors reported the story, but
none was able to report in the same manner as someone literally experiencing the fire in his own
home. Larry was able to produce a video that had been published to YouTube with hundreds of
thousands of views. The viewer watched his home literally turn to ashes; his report must have
been very emotionally gripping for the reporter and his captive audience. (When the story, 2007)
Although this story has a negative storyline, the experienced brought KFMB a unique experience
to be able to get an inside story in the moment of the crisis. Larry says that while he was
reporting, he was experiencing a range of emotions such as adrenaline and being shell-shocked.
He even took the time to walk around his neighborhood giving people hugs. He must have
earned loyal viewers in spite of the tragedy that followed him.
Opportunity – Contests
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The station can build more on their promotions and publicity through having a variety of
contests. There currently are contests regarding sports and the community; however, the station’s
website and Facebook page do not reflect the same contest information. There is an opportunity
to reflect the same information on all websites, as well as partner with local businesses in San
Diego that would like to offer viewers an opportunity to compete to increase their publicity as
well. On the website, Channel 8 Rewards section has the winners list, contest, awards, sports
picks, fantasy golf contest, and a community related sweepstakes (“Cbs 8 contests,” 2012).
Opportunity – Syndicated Talk Shows
A popular syndicated talk show can bring high ratings for a local television show. In
2006, CBS affiliate KFMB landed The Oprah Winfrey Show from KGTV to replace the 4 p.m.
news hour. The local station in San Diego, KGTV the station ranked No. 1 in early evening local
news.” After Oprah left the station to air on KFMB, the ratings dropped approximately “50% to
a 1.9 rating.” Almost immediately, KFMB experienced a rise in their ratings for the 5 p.m.
“newscast from third place in May to the top spot in July.” This caused all of the local television
shows to begin “experimenting with counter-programming Oprah.” KGTV first tried to replace
Oprah with a light-hearted, infotainment show called 10-4 San Diego; however, average ratings
caused the show to be replaced with traditional newscast by August. The shift in time and
channel of Oprah caused a ripple affect in the market where all of the local television stations
begin shifting time slots or adding local newscasts.
“San Diego stations took in $288.8 million in gross revenue in 2005,
according to BIA Financial. In recent years, the market has been strong and has
experienced robust population growth, driving it lo No. 18 in total TV revenue,
per BIA.” (Romano, 2006)
Currently in 2012, KFMB is no longer airing Oprah, replacing the slow is now a show
called Anderson Live. The host of the new daytime talk show is Anderson Cooper, an award-
winning journalist returned for his show’s “sophomore season on Monday, September 10th.” The
show is a “nationally syndicated, Emmy-nominated, daily, one-hour, live daytime talk show”
(“About the show,” 2012). The opportunity for the station is to have a popular talk show that will
bring high ratings and serve additional audiences.
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Opportunity – Internships/Jobs
The local station has several internship and high-level career jobs in San Diego. There are
a variety of job openings on KFMB-TV News 8 website. The website listed the following jobs:
Associate Producer, Creative Services Director, and Reporter. Also listed on the website, 100.7
JACK-FM and 760 KFMB-AM (KFMB Stations) have listed the following jobs: Web Designer,
Internship, Promotions Internship, and Interactive Internship (“Jobs at the,” 2012). There is an
opportunity to create a community program to help college students connect with their
Internships or an online career fair for the executive or reporter positions on their website.
Threats – Local News Competition
A threat for KFMB is the local news competition of NBC high viewership of their
morning news. NBC 7 San Diego News in the Morning reports the sweeps competition of
February 2012 ratings ranked #1 during the morning time period Monday through Friday at 5-7
a.m. They have ranked #1 in this market for “19 consecutive sweep periods and annual averages
show NBC 7 San Diego News in the Morning as the #1 choice for local viewers for the past 10
years.” The 5 a.m. News averaged a 1.3 rating / 8.0 share HH, 6 a.m. News posted a 2.4 rating /
10.2 HH, both ranking #1 during the morning time period. (“Nbc 7 news,” 2012)
Threats – The Recession
Starting when the recession began in 2009, television stations had cut backs on key staff
positions, such as photographers. KFMB joined a local news-sharing venture with NBC in 2010.
The purpose of Local News Sharing (LNS) is to “jointly cover routine happenings so that
resources could be freed up for more enterprise reporting.” The threat of the recession has caused
the number of staff positions to decrease over the past few years. A partnership can assist with
the stations being able to consistently have local news to report on a daily basis. Each station has
its own agenda about how they want to tell the story to their viewers; therefore, the content will
not be identical news reports. However, KFMB has been able to turn this threat into an
opportunity in the past and can continue to free up resources for important news coverage, while
the partnership shares the everyday, typical news stories. “NBC has a deal with the CBS affiliate
in San Diego, KFMB” (Bednarski, 2010).
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Threat – Major Network Counter-Programs
An opportunity KFMB has is from their network affiliate CBS is to air more programs
with high ratings before the news. CBS Evening News with Scott Pelly is dominating the evening
news, which grew their viewership by +3% in the 2011-2012 seasons (Ariens, 2012).
“The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY is the only
network evening news broadcast to post year-to-year ratings gains among
households (+3%, 3.9/08 from 3.8/08) and adults 25-54 (+8%, 1.4/05 from
1.3/05) for the week ending Sept. 7, according to Nielsen live plus same day
ratings” (Kondolojy, 2012).
In comparing the total viewers for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, which is
down by -3% and ABC World News with Diane Sawyer is down by -4% (Ariens, 2012).
“For the week of September 17, 2012, the final week of the 2011-12
season, ‘ABC World News with Diane Sawyer’ averaged 7.32 million Total
Viewers and a 1.5 rating/6 share/1.77 million in Adults 25-54, according to
Nielsen Media Research” (Kondolojy, 2012).
These ratings reflect the threat that other local stations have the ability to take
over ratings at any point with their counter-programming tactics.
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Conclusion
Although the recession has subsided since 2009, the economy is still weak. A problem for
the television station is continuing to provide rich content on a daily basis while keeping pay roll
at the minimum costs. A new channel that highlights the partnerships within the community for
content sharing channel niche programming could solve the need for hiring more staff to add
more content for news in the community. The cable networks have divided up the city and sports
coverage is only seen on the cable networks with the right deal with the sports franchises. A
niche channel could include a live feed of the local sports reporters covering the game through
creating their own content in the studio, reality televisions shows, and more sports related
content. The new audiences the partnership channel would attract males between the ages of 18
to 34 who watch sports as well as many others depending on the nature of the partnerships.
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III. Recommended Digital Channel Strategy
A. KFMB8 SPORTS TV
Logo:
B. Overview of channel: Includes local sports coverage, news, and highlights. In addition,
the channel offers unique programming to cover sports topics and new content for
competitions and interviews with local iconic sports celebrities from the past and present.
KFMB8 SPORTS TV is a one stop channel for everything local sports for San Diego. Due
to the cable network access division in the city, it has created lower viewership for the
local sports games. “The broadcast rights to the San Diego Padres are owned by Fox
Sports Network. That channel is found on Cox Cable (and DirecTV) but not on Time
Warner Cable.” However, Time Warner Cable SportsNet has purchased the rights to
broadcast of sports games such as the San Diego’s men’s basketball team, the Aztecs.
(Bob, 2012).
C. Goal: To bring the local sports to all televisions in San Diego regardless of the cable
provider an audience member may or may not use. This will benefit the parent station by
increasing the viewer ratings and thereby strengthens the station by increasing the price
for advertising sales for commercials. This will potentially attract new audiences that are
sports fans of all ages to watch channel 8.
D. Target audience segment for the channel: The new audiences the new digital channel
would mainly target males between the ages of 18 to 34 who watch sports who may have
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children who watch cartoons or competitive reality television shows to older audiences
during the weekend evenings in order to have something for all sports fans in San Diego.
As of 2010, the city of San Diego has an estimated population of 3,095,313 people. (“San
diego county,” 2012) According to the Census.gov website, the population of San Diego
as of 2000 was 2,813,833 total people. Of that total, 37% of the population are male 18
years and over. San Diego has a population of 674,313 people who are ages 20 to 34
years old. (“American factfinder,” 2012) This choice for a niche television programming
for sports fans is justified by the mass audience appeal to increase the station’s market
share, which would up the revenue stream for advertising dollars that covet the
demographic target market for males 18 to 34. The target audience’s lifestyle and
interests are typical of popular sports local recreational activities in the community.
Showing support for local businesses will in turn gain support for the channel from the
community.
E. Programming strategy:
• ‘Original programming: produced by the channel as original production’
1. Local Sports News
• Length: One hour
• Reporting on local recreation, high school, and college sports in
San Diego (SD)
2. Chargers in the Community
• Length: One hour
• The SD football team, the Chargers, stories covering the efforts for
charity in the community
3. How to Kayak on SD Bay (“Kayak on san,” 2012)
• Length: One and half hours
• Coverage over kayak lessons in SD
4. SD College Sports Recruiting
• Length: One and half hours
• An ongoing Documentary series going behind the scenes of the
greatest college sports moments over the past ten years
5. KFMB This Morning
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• Length: 1 hour
• News morning show covering local sports related recreational
activities for families
6. The Fisherman’s Landing Show ("Fisherman's landing current," 2012)
• Length: 1 hour
• A live reality television show about teaching novice fishermen
how to go fishing and the adventures the day will bring
7. The Kyle Kraska Sports Show (“Kyle kraska,” 2012)
• Length: One hour
• Kyle is a KFMB sports anchor that will discuss his opinion on
sports related news headlines
8. A Touch of Football for CCFA (“A touch of,” 2012)
• Length: Ten hours
• Sports Games coverage on location (live streaming online) of
sixteen teams compete in flag football tournament.
9. Co-Ed Beach Volleyball (“San diego co-ed,” 2012)
• Length: Two and half hours
• Live coverage of a local recreational volleyball tournament
10. Chargers Cheerleader Highlights
• Length: 30 minutes
• Past half time games and interviews with cheerleaders about what
it is like to be a cheerleader for a pro football team
11. A NFL Video Game Competition Game Show
• Length: 30 minutes
• Competitive reality TV series
12. San Diego Sports Referees
• Length: 1 hour
• Behind the scenes reality TV series
13. MCAS Miramar Air Show (“Mcas miramar air,” 2012)
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• Length: 2 and half hours with 2 hour break to resume for 3 and half
more hours
• Line up of civilian performers to fly a variety of military fighter
jets to include the world famous U.S. Navy Blue Angels
14. SD High School Sports
• Length: 1 hour
• Behind the scenes reality TV series
15. Sports Party Grilling Show
• Length: 1 hour
• A cooking show with how to cook on a grill for game day finger
and grilling food for sports party hosting
16. Athletic Recruiting
• Length: 1 hour
• Interviewing coaches for advice for young athletes who want to
make it to the college and pro football leagues
17. History of the SD Surf Dawgs (“San diego surf,” 2011)
• Length: 30 minutes
• Past season highlights for the local baseball team
18. SD Sockers Soccer Highlights
• Length: 30 minutes
• Past season highlights for soccer
19. SD College Recruiter
• Length: 30 min
• Reality TV Show about the business of recruiting athletes in San
Diego
20. Local Recreational Sports Coverage
• Length: 1 and half hours
• Recreational sports such as roller derby, fishing, volleyball, and
other local community business spotlights
21. SD Retired Football Player Talk Show
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• Length: 1 hour
• Key host of a retired iconic football player of the Chargers to
interview other players who have retired to talk about how playing
the game affected their lives
22. Chargers Player Interviews
• Length: 30 minutes
• A special broadcast of the players who will be playing in the game
starting next
23. Chargers vs. Broncos Coverage (“Chargers san diego,” 2012)
• Length: 2 hours
• Live streaming of sports game from the sports news anchor’s
perspective for original content live from the game
24. Local Sports Coverage Blunders
• Length: 1 hour
• Local sports pre-recorded blunders editing together with comedian
host with sports branding personality
25. SD Padres Season Highlights
• Length: 30 minutes
• Past season highlights for pro baseball in SD
26. Chargers vs. the Broncos Game Highlights
• Length: 30 minutes
• Edited down version of the live stream from the game to show the
highlights of the game coverage
27. College Sports Bar Pub Walk
• Length: 30 minutes
• College sports bar pub walk series of the bars that regularly have
sports games on their television sets
28. Insider Sports – Interviews and Headlines
• Length: 1 hour
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• A recap of the weeks sports headlines and interviews with key
players involved
29. KFMB Sports for Charity Spotlight
• Length: 30 minutes
• College Athletes golf for charity games
30. Chargers Game Review Talk Show
• Length: 1 hour
• A talk show with the players of the current and past Chargers
football games to discuss how they keep a balance in life and
stay competitive
31. SD College Athletes Golf for Charity Games
• Length: 1 hour
• Past and present college athletes play golf together to raise
awareness and funds for a variety of charities
32. Historic Factoids of Sports in SD
• Length: 30 minutes
• A timeline story from the beginning of the history of city, to how
the sports franchise became what it is today
33. Extreme Sports in California
• Length: 1 hour
• Coverage of people in the community who are adrenaline junkies
and send in their videos of their extreme sports experiences
34. SD State Aztec Player Interviews (“San diego state,” 2012)
• Length: 1 hour
• Past and present San Diego State football players are interviewed
about game highlights and tips for future athletes
35. SD State Aztecs Game (“San diego state,” 2012)
• Length: 2 hours
• Live coverage from sports anchor at the game for original content
and streaming on the website
36. Late Night Weekend SD Sports Highlights
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• Length: 1 hour
• Highlights of the local high school and college football game
competitions over the weekend
37. Late Night Weekend Major Sports Game Highlights
• Length: 30 minutes
• Highlights of the local pro football game competitions over the
weekend
38. Sports Wives of San Diego
• Length: 30 minutes
• A reality TV series interviewing and going behind the scenes of
the lives of local college and pro football wives
F. Program Schedule Grid for KFMB8 SPORTS TV:
Program Schedule Grid Station: CBS, KFMB Channel: 8 City: San Diego Dates: 10/14-20
TIME Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3:00 Athletic
Recruiting -------------- How to
Kayak on San Diego Bay (4)
Athletic Recruiting
-------------- The Fisherman’s Landing Show (3)
A Touch of Football for CCFA (8)
3:30 Sports Party Grilling Show
-------------- “ Sports Party Grilling Show
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4:00 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 4:30 Local
Recreational Sports Coverage
“ Local Recreational Sports Coverage
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5:00 “ Local Sports News
“ Local Sports News
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5:30 MCAS Miramar Air Show Coverage Twilight (7)
Chargers vs. Broncos Coverage (1)
Local Sports Coverage Blunders
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6:00 “ “ Chargers in the Communit
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y (5) 6:30 “ “ KFMB
Sports for Charity Spotlight
-------------- -------------- -------------- “
7:00
“ “ SD Padres Season Highlights
Co-Ed Beach Volleyball Highlights (2)
SD College Recruiter Reality TV Show
SD Retired Football Player Talk Show
“
7:30
“ “ Chargers vs. the Broncos Game Highlights
“ College Sports Bar Pub Walk
SD Sockers Soccer Highlights
Insider Sports – Interviews + Headlines
8:00
“ Chargers Player Interviews
The Kyle Kraska Sports Show (9)
Chargers Cheerleader Highlights
The Kyle Kraska Sports Show (9)
Chargers Cheerleader Highlights
“
8:30
“ Chargers Game Review Talk Show
“ “ “ “ SD College Athletes Golf for Charity Games
9:00
“ “ A NFL Video Game Competition Game Show
Sports Referees Reality TV
A NFL Video Game Competition Game Show
Sports Referees Reality TV
“
9:30
Extreme Sports in California
History of the SD Surf Dawgs (10)
SD College Sports Recruiting
Extreme Sports in California
SD College Sports Recruiting
Extreme Sports in California
SD State Aztec Player Interviews
10:00
“ Historic Factoids of Sports in San Diego
Late Night Weekend SD Major Sports Game Highlights
“ Historic Factoids of Sports in San Diego
“ “
10:30
Late Night Weekend SD Sports Highlights
How to Make it as a Chargers Cheerleader Reality TV Show
SD High School Sports Reality TV series
Sports Wives of San Diego Reality TV Show
How to Make it as a Chargers Cheerleader Reality TV Show
Sports Wives of San Diego Reality TV Show
SD State Aztecs Game (6)
11:00
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G. Sales Strategy: The channel would generate revenue through advertising sales of the
products and services that local pro sports players endorse. In addition, businesses with
the same target audience, in particular, sports fans who are men ages 18 to 34.
IV. Additional Distribution
The local TV station in San Diego for the new digital channel would make programming
available on the local station’s website for live streaming events, popular social media sites, and
stories covering the program topics in local newspapers. In San Diego, an Internet radio station
called Pandora, has gained more coverage to reach audiences over all of the local television
station websites (Maloney , 2012). KFMB8 SPORTS TV digital channel will also air content on
Pandora of a variety of television shows for on air content to reach broader audiences.
V. Evaluation
The new local digital television station would evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy
over time through analysis of data from website traffic, viewership ratings, and revenues and
compare before and after the creation of the new local, digital television station.
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VI. Appendix
A touch of football for ccfa. (2012). Retrieved from
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2012/oct/20/51165/
American factfinder. (2012). Retrieved from
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtmlChargers san diego. (2012).
Retrieved from
http://sandiego.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=sandiego&cdn=citiestowns&t
m=45&f=00&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http://www.chargers.com/
Fisherman's landing current schedule . (2012). Retrieved from
http://www.fishermanslanding.com/
Kayak on san diego bay. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.sandiego.org/members/parks-
gardens/living-coast-discovery-center/events/kayak-on-san-diego-bay.aspx
Kyle kraska. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.cbs8.com/story/9495194/kyle-kraska
Maloney , P. (2012, October 21). More san diego adults go to pandora than local tv sites,
msn.com, or groupon. Retrieved from http://www.kurthanson.com/news/more-san-diego-
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