![]() ![]() The former studios of WMGM-TV, which now houses the triopoly's news bureau, in Linwood, New Jersey Local advertising on WCAU and WMGM is also separate WMGM's local commercials target Cape May, Atlantic, and Cumberland Counties exclusively, while WCAU's local commercials target the rest of the Delaware Valley and the Lehigh Valley. WMGM airs the exact same programming as WCAU, the only differences being the timeslots that some syndicated programming airs in. ![]() Access.1 retained ownership of the former WMGM-TV studios, which now serves as the NBCUniversal Philadelphia triopoly's shore news bureau due to a deal between the two companies, while some former WMGM staff members were relocated to Bala Cynwyd. Upon assuming ownership, NBC made WMGM a semi-satellite of WCAU for the fringe areas of the shore that could not pull in NBC 10 over the air. Amid a public outcry from Jersey Shore residents without cable who could not pull in WCAU over the air, NBC agreed to continue their affiliation with the station and offered LocusPoint a record price (which at present time has not been disclosed) to purchase the station. ![]() On December 31, 2014, WMGM-TV was slated to end its 48-year affiliation with NBC, its management agreement with Access.1, and its news operation. Comcast, NBC's parent company, purchased the station from LocusPoint. The sale proved controversial, due to speculation that LocusPoint only bought the station so that it could sell its license and wireless spectrum to the FCC during its upcoming spectrum incentive auction, and was not interested in its further operation. The company retains ownership of the station's low-power transmitter, WMGM-LP. In October 2013, the station was sold to LocusPoint Networks for $6 million, but remained operated by Access.1. WMGM-TV was owned by the New York City-based Access.1 Communications. WMGM is the only major network affiliate licensed directly within the state. The station is officially considered part of the Philadelphia market, but primarily serves Southeast New Jersey. Master control and most internal operations of WMGM originate from the studios of WCAU and WWSI at the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia, the triopoly's Jersey Shore News Bureau located on West Patcong Avenue in Linwood, New Jersey (NBC 40's former main studio locations), and its transmitter is located along Avalon Boulevard in the Swainton section of Middle Township, NJ, east of the Garden State Parkway off Exit 13, sharing a transmitter with Millville-licensed TBN O&O WGTW (virtual channel 57). WMGM serves as a semi-satellite of WCAU for the fringe areas of the Jersey Shore that NBC 10's Roxboro, Pennsylvania-based transmitter does not reach over the air. Both networks are owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Comcast. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal and operates as part of a triopoly with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania licensed fellow NBC owned-and-operated station WCAU (channel 10) and Mount Laurel, NJ licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WWSI (channel 62). WMGM-TV, virtual channel 40 (UHF digital channel 36) is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey. ![]()
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