Lake Shore Broadcasting

Lake Shore Broadcasting is a media company owned by Johnf1976 based in New York City, with offices located in both Middletown, New Jersey and Erie, Pennsylvania. Lake Shore Broadcasting was named for two regions that the founder of the company has lived in. "Lake" represents Lake Erie, in which the city the founder lives in, Erie, is near, and "Shore" represents the Jersey Shore, the founder's native area. The company was founded in 2017, with plans to purchase some television stations in the Northeastern United States. The owner is primarily focusing on purchasing stations affiliated with smaller networks, or "netlets," in the hopes of assisting the networks' parent companies in elevating the netlets to major network status by picking up high quality syndicated programming for air outside network programming hours. According to anonymous sources within the company, Johnf1976 plans to negotiate for the rights to air Family Feud, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune for at least some of the stations, hoping to give the netlets the stations are affiliated with leverage in upgrading their network status. Upon completion of their purchase of then-primary MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM-TV in Erie, PA, Lake Shore successfully secured the local rights to air Jeopardy! and Wheel for the station, to take effect in September 2017 (WABM already airs Feud). The company subsequently secured a primary affiliation with The CW for the station, with MyNetworkTV becoming secondary effective April 24, 2017. On May 1, 2017, Night Owl Poker, a late night televised poker program produced by Lake Shore Broadcasting, debuted on WABM On June 26, 2017, WABM changed their call letters to WCMB-TV. The company hopes to have the poker program syndicated to stations across the country, including stations not owned by Lake Shore. On September 11, 2017, MyNetworkTV moved to WCMB's 9.2 subchannel, replacing Antenna TV, which affiliated with another station in the market.
=== Stations owned by Lake Shore Broadcasting ===
Call letters	City of License	State	Network affiliation	Channel number
WCMB-TV 	Erie 	PA 	The CW 	9.1
WNWP 	Erie 	PA 	Freemax 	50.1
 	 	 	 	
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