Why have all TV stations left or are leaving Miami? (Fort Lauderdale: home, tax)

[tallrick]

I was watching channel 10 and they are moving their station to Broward. NBC 6 moved a few years back, and while channel 4 is still in the county, it left the city a while back. Any ideas why the stations move? It it just for more space, or is the city of Miami just a bad place for broadcasting?

[compelled to reply]

Probably to move closer to their employees, as well as more (and cheaper in comparison to the city of Miami) space to sprawl. I was totally unaware 10 is moving to Broward. Since a lot of news stations tend to have transplanted employees I bet a lot of the employees had families/etc and probably chose to live in SW Broward, so it's inefficient to have your employees stuck on the Palmetto every morning when I-75 flows freely. If I am not mistaken CBS is based in Doral which is probably also home to more of it's employees than the inner city areas.

[chisoxfan]

It also makes some sense for these stations to move in terms of geographic convenience. Broward's population is almost as large as Miami-Dade's now, and there's a ton of news happening here. It's logical to be centrally located.

A few metropolitan newspapers have done this, too. The Sun-Sentinel is known as the Fort Lauderdale paper, but it is printed in Deerfield Beach because its circulation area actually stretches from the Dade-Broward line to Boynton Beach and Deerfield is in the middle. In Dallas, the Morning News is printed in a northern suburb -- that's where the growth is out there.

[Wild Style]

Originally Posted by tallrick

I was watching channel 10 and they are moving their station to Broward. NBC 6 moved a few years back, and while channel 4 is still in the county, it left the city a while back. Any ideas why the stations move? It it just for more space, or is the city of Miami just a bad place for broadcasting?

i agree with compelled, maybe because thats where their employees are based OR Broward could have under cut Miami and given them tax breaks or some sort of economic incentives.

[himain]

I used to work for channel 10 and their building isn't that big located on Biscayne Blvd. Maybe they just need bigger space..

[JSnFla]

its because broward is now the same thing as dade

[heydade]

they need more space and cities like Miramar and other places in Broward have a lot of land to build....that is cheaper to build on......and the cities offer huge financial incentives to move in. Miramar gave NBC6/Telemundo huge incentives.

[rogerbacon]

It's pretty rare for a company to care enough about its employees commute to move for just that reason. They probably moved for the same reason that rock groups don't come all the way down to Miami to perform anymore: Broward is more central to where the remaining English speakers are. They can broadcast and reach more people from Broward (and still get the few people in Dade that might be listening). They probably just feel Broward is where their core audience is located.

[PBCboy]

The possible factors:

Superior location, cheaper costs, more potential in a particular area