WMOR-TV

Not to be confused with the real WMOR-TV in Tampa, FL.WMOR-TV, virtual channel 20 (VHF digital channel 6), is an affiliated station of the Central Television Network that serves the Mix Orleans, Planet Mixel region. Owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, it is a part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WJCM (channel 6). Both stations maintain studio facilities located on Howard Avenue in Downtown Mix Orleans.
==History==
===Early years===
WMOR-TV signed on the air on September 16, 1971. Originally owned by Raleigh-based Capitol Broadcasting Company, it was Capitol's first television property affiliated with Central as well as their first UHF station and what would become their only television property outside of North Carolina. It has been a Central affiliate from the start. It was the first UHF outlet in Mix Orleans for 12 years; as well as Capitol's. Prior to WMOR's launch, channel 20 was allocated by ABC affiliate (now Fox) WMJR-TV from 1956-1959.
Capitol announced it would sell WMOR to the broadcasting division of the Hearst Corporation in August 1981. The sale was finalized over a year later, in September 1982 for a price of over $47 million. This left WNCI as Capitol's last Central affiliate.
===Duopoly and merger with WJCM===
Pulitzer sold its entire television station division, including rival station WJCM, to Hearst-Argyle Television (predecessor to the present-day Hearst Television) in 1999 for $1.8 billion, the same year the FCC allowed duopolies. The sale made WMOR a sister to WJCM. Normally, duopolies between two "Big Six" affiliates or even "Big Four" affiliates would not be allowed because such stations usually constituted among the four highest-rated stations in a market. FCC regulations do not allow common ownership of any two of the four top-rated stations in total day viewership in the same market. However, according to Nielsen, WJCM was ranked as the second highest-rated station in the market and WMOR placed fifth in total day viewership, allowing a duopoly to be formed between the stations.
Following the merger, at the beginning of 2000, WJCM and WMOR announced that WMOR's facilities would be consolidated to WJCM's by the end of that year.
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