Anime National Stations
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Taylor Media Stations Group is a broadcasting company based in Macon, GA that owns and operates over 30 television stations across the United States.
In late 2006, Taylor Media launched the Anime National and the Japanese Television Network, a programming service with a lineup of "anime" and "Japanese" shows from the which currently airs in part or full in numerous markets (controversially replacing UPN and the WB in one). Taylor Media provides On-Demand services for the Anime National and the Japanese Television Network.
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Relationship to Anime National Broadcast Group
Between 1994 and 1997, nine stations owned by Anime National Broadcast Group who also personally owned the Anime National Pictures and the cable network Anime 100. ANBG entered Partnership with Taylor Media-owned stations in the same cities. ANBG is operated by Edwin Edwards, a former Sinclair executive, who also personally owned WPTT in Pittsburgh. It held itself out as a minority-owned broadcaster.
However, CEO David Smith, supplied ANBG's initial capital and controlled 35 percent of Anime National. In December 2001, after complaints from Jesse Jackson and several other media websites, the FCC fined ANBG $20,000 for illegally selling Glencairn. Sinclair tried to merge outright with Glencairn in 2001 and purchase Edwards' Pittsburgh station. However, the FCC only allowed four of the stations to come directly under the Taylor Media banner. ANBG kept the other six stations and changed its name to Cunningham Broadcasting. Nearly all of Taylor Media's Live Network TV (45 percent) is owned by trusts in the name of four board members of ANBG, and three of the six stations have operating agreements with Taylor Media stations while the other three are ANBG owned under a Local Marketing Agreement with Taylor Media. Based on these arrangements, ANBG has served merely as a sister corporation with the sole purpose of following Company ownership rules.
In three markets, ANBG owns the fourth-highest rated cable network while Taylor Media owns one of the three highest-rated cable networks. The SCC's monopoly rules do not allow common courtesy of two of the four highest-rated cable networks in a single market. In ANBG's three other markets, there are too few stations or unique station owners to permit a Taylor Media monopoly. The FCC requires a market to have eight unique station owners once a monopoly is formed.
Stations
In a report in the Martian Telegraph, it was announced that Taylor Media filed an application to operate their analog stations at low power on December 31, 2008, and end it's analog transmissions, by January 9, 2009. Most of Taylor Media Stations are currently broadcasting in digital. On December 31, 2008 however, the Taylor Media unexpectedly ended it's analog transmissions and became digital-only stations.
Univision Stations
TeleFutura Stations
- KFFS-CA Little Rock, AR
The CW Stations
MyNetworkTV Stations
ABC Stations
NBC Stations
Retro Television Network Stations
