I'm originally from the Macon, Georgia area; it's also where I attended college. So I tend to keep up on occasion with what's going on back in my hometown.
As I was browsing the news today, this Macon Telegraph article about a change in the local TV landscape caught my attention:
"FlashForward" two months, and the viewers of "Grey’s Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives" may be "Lost" after the ABC television network shifts its affiliation to a new station in Macon.
Lowell Register, the president of WPGA, said his family-owned station had been discouraged by risque soap operas, as well as sex and violence across its shows. He declined to give specifics, but he said he didn’t want to turn his station over to ABC’s liberal agenda that doesn’t mesh with a family-friendly station.
"I had somebody tell me they’re running a good bit of gay and lesbian stuff on it. That’s really just in-your-face, so to speak, and I’m not sure that’s appropriate. That’s happening in prime time," he said. "I’m not really happy with it."
It's not just ABC's fictional content that has Register upset, either. To quote this other article, from the local CBS affiliate:
The reasons include both money and dissatisfaction with ABC news and programming, he said. [...] He also said ABC's news, like broadcast competitors CBS and NBC, has a liberal slant.
But wait, it gets even better. From the Telegraph article (emphasis mine):
Register said he’d be keeping " ‘Ellen,’ Martha Stewart,’ ‘Judge Mathis,’ ‘People’s Court’ — all the programming that people already see during the day, other than the soaps and this pretty rough prime-time programming we won’t be running."
Y'know, the out-and-proud talk show host who had a prime-time sitcom on Register's own channel a decade ago which involved that "gay and lesbian stuff"? Yeah. That Ellen.
The good news, however, is that ABC has found a new home; it will be put on a digital subchannel of one of the other network affiliates in Macon.
Which one, you ask?
Fox 24.
Honestly, I couldn't make this stuff up even if I tried.