KVHP, KPLC have services, lease agreements
Published 5:57 am Sunday, May 14, 2017
Why am I seeing the same people on Channel 7 news and Fox 29 news? Channel 7 weather is on Fox news. Why is that happening?
National Communications Inc. sold KVHP (Channel 29) to KVHP License Subsidiary LLC, part of American Spirit Media, for $2 million in 2016.
American Spirit Media then signed shared-services and studio-lease deals with Raycom Media, owner of KPLC (Channel 7).
Under the shared-services deal, Raycom — described in the documents as “Provider” — agreed to furnish “live-feed, fully-staffed and produced newscasts for broadcast on KVHP … provided that such newscasts will not comprise more than 15% (by duration) of the programming broadcast on KVHP during any broadcast week.”
“Provider will use reasonable efforts to provide such newscasts that are of a quality appropriate to Licensee’s market,” reads the shared-services agreement.
“Such newscasts will be produced exclusively for Licensee for broadcast on KVHP, but may include non-exclusive videotape, graphics, news stories, field reports and other material. Licensee personnel will determine the title and format of such newscasts, and such newscasts will have an ‘on-air appearance’ as if they had been originated by Licensee through KVHP.”
The deal says KVHP must pay Raycom a services fee of $172,000 a month, “adjusted annually on each anniversary of the Acquisition by a percentage equal to the change during the preceding twelve (12) months in the consumer price index for Dallas.”
Under the lease agreement, which runs for eight years and includes an automatic two-year renewal, KVHP agreed to pay KPLC $12,500 a month, or $150,000 a year, for studio space at KPLC, 320 Division St.
Additionally, Raycom, in a separate deal, acquired KVHP’s transmission tower and the land it stands on.
Measurement reflects rainfall at LC airport
The May 8 paper shows that we have had 5.49 inches of rain month to date. I thought we got over 10 inches on May 3. We certainly got over 5.49 inches that day. Why is there a conflict?
Roger Erickson, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the 5.49 inches were recorded at Lake Charles Regional Airport, site of the weather service office.
But he said some rain gauges in areas north of Interstate 10 measured over 10 inches of rain on May 3.
