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Good luck with that. WDFL's signal is very weak and unless they significantly upgrade it, more people will access ABC Miami via WSVN 7.2 than WDFL 18.1.

Over 17.1 million Americans watched a national evening newscast last week. In this fragmented media environment, that is a sizeable audience. What's your source on this? Have you spoken to his successor? Is he set on selling to Nexstar, or will he entertain offers from other groups?? I'll put my sarcasm aside to say, I don't understand this overly dramatic doomsday prediction for WPLG. Dropping a costly network affiliation is a "self-destructive" effort that is a"recipe for disaster" and "the biggest blotch" on Warren Buffett's career (as if he made the decision himself). The people who made this decision at Local 10 have a wealth of data to consider. They know what they are paying to ABC. They are aware of their news production costs, syndication programming costs, and so on. In short, they have made a business decision that leaving a 70-year partnership is the more financially beneficial path. Now, not all business decisions work out for the best. WPLG may very well come to regret this decision. But it may be a success. Remember, you don't have to be #1 to be a financial success - owning all of their inventory sure makes that revenue column balloon. I'm not trying to force anyone to root for WPLG's success or failure. I just think it is a bit extreme to make such a bold prediction of a catastrophic collapse without knowing the business factors and fiscal numbers that went into this decision.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea for WPLG. I mean, what else can they do when losing network affiliation other than fill up on news and syndications?

Los Angeles is the market that can sustain such ludicrous amounts of newscasts (and that's including stuff not really news i.e. police chases with people doing it solely for the attention). And it's not like Nexstar wants to use KTLA to actually develop non-news shows, that's crazy talk.

ABC Miami will also be offered on channel 18.1.

And now two years later a new deal has been reached; all those networks are actually coming back to Spectrum, along with Hulu with ads access. I think we can easily see that Spectrum held out and Disney realized that fewer children watching their channels did make a difference in depressing their other properties, like Elio's box office performance last week; kids are not watching interviews with the adult voice actors on Good Morning America and certainly not The View (the only real prominent promotion I saw for the film).

That story is a very interesting way to spin away from the fact that they've just lost half their weather staff, and Tyler and Kristen felt so underappreciated (you can easily argue Kristen was doing so much more work/shifts than the actual chief, and Tyler basically ran the day shift all by himself), that they just gave up and looked for other opportunities. The days of Paul Joseph and John Malan keeping that station the market's gold standard are truly over.

TMJ4 meteorologist Brendan Johnson is being bumped up from weekend mornings to weekday morings. He replaces Tyler Moore who is leaving. Meteorologist Kristen Kirchaine is also leaving the team.

Does all this affect Glendive's status as a Nielsen DMA? It would be interesting to see how ownership changes, loss of NBC, and viewership there makes Nielsen feel about the Glendive area.

Surprised this wasn't posted yet. Former WCAU reporter Orion Reid passed away last week. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/orien-reid-philadelphia-wcau-tv-channel-10-reporter-dies/4213726/

Spain (using a bull because its something synonymous with Spain, plus the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona is next month. Its almost that time once again) RTVE is making changes once again to its flagship news product, Telediario. Marta Carazo will leave her duties as presenter of the 9pm edition after just 18 months at the helm in September (she originally took over for Carlos Fraganillo when he left to helm the 9pm edition of Informativos Telecinco). This article states that it'll be Lluis Guilera from Canal 24 Horas. There were earlier reports that Silvia Intxaurrondo could've taken over the role (where she would've been moved over from the morning program La Hora de La 1) but several journalists were discontent over that choice, so nothing is certain as of right now. https://www.esdiario.com/chismografo/medios/250622/161681/tve-encuentra-sustituto-marta-carazo-frente-telediario-2.html Also, Sirun Demirjian will be leaving her post hosting the morning edition of Telediario after a five-year run of doing so. Cristina Pampín from Canal 24 Horas was given the position, but she has flatly rejected it. The only certain thing coming in September is that Alejandra Herranz will continue to anchor the 3pm edition of Telediario who she took over from Ana Blanco when she stepped down from the desk after a 30+ year run back in 2022 to work on other projects and programs for TVE (Blanco is now retired). https://www.eldebate.com/cine-tv-series/20250620/malestar-dentro-tve-ante-posibilidad-silvia-intxaurrondo-presente-telediario-2_309138.html One more thing, they're making these changes to better compete against their main competition, Informativos Telecinco, and the undisputed leader right now (and my favorite), Antena 3 Noticias. For example, last Thursday, Juneteenth here in the U.S., the 9pm edition of A3N (anchored by Vincente Valles, himself an ex-Telecinco and TVE anchor) got a 22.2% share, well past TD2 (11.2% with Marta Carazo) and I5 (7.5% with Carlos Franganillo). This article also states that Marc Sala, who also anchors La Hora de La 1 with Silvia, is looking to possibly leave the program in favor of hosting some sort of program on Radio Nacional de Espana (RNE; Spain's public radio broadcaster). https://www.eleconomista.es/informalia/television/noticias/13425333/06/25/tve-ultima-cambios-en-los-informativos-pero-silvia-intxaurrondo-esta-descartada-para-el-telediario-2.html

If you click on the picture, you can see a bit inside the store, but unfortunately, there's no WRAL merchandise. Its just a marketing purpose with no real merch for us fanatics of WRAL-TV, which kinda stinks because I'd wish they did have some so I can buy some whenever I'm in the Raleigh market.

WRAL has a store in the Raleigh-Durham airport. It’s just a market with supplies for travelers. I assume its real purpose is just like any other form of advertising. It exposes newcomers and visitors to the WRAL brand. https://www.rdu.com/wral-travel-store/

That’s probably going to happen within weeks. It underscores how much of a contradiction Miami is. One half is extremely superficial and transient, the other half are the deeply paleoconservative Cuban emigres for which WPLG was blatantly pandering to with the “no bias” tagline. Neither of those groups would seem receptive to national and world news (the latter likely only regarding Cuba and for the most cynical of reasons). Unlike others here and elsewhere, to me, this feels like a recipe for disaster for WPLG. I can’t exactly give them or WANF any real chance for success when the industry is encountering so many headwinds and with syndication becoming extinct.

The thing I dread most is if this down the line just becomes a timeslot to dump 'viral video...but around the world' content rather than being made up of quality international news. The appetite for 'it was on TikTok and Storyful authenticated it, so it's news' content is wearing out very quickly (especially with AI making it much harder to verify), and most stations already dismiss world news because it either doesn't have video, it has no hook (South Korean parliament fights), or they want stories pre-edited by a wire so they don't have to translate anything. It feels like they want to copy WSVN's 'around the world' format, but also keep WNT's style of anchoring, which just doesn't work without someone who handles it well like David Muir who somehow makes their 'happening now' vernacular work. I just don't think Louis Aguirre has that gravitas. (and yeah, I remember those New World years where those stations had multi-screen 'satellite centers' and promoted 'the power of CNN'...then barely used them after awhile and once FTS took over, that focus and the CNN affiliations quickly evaporated.)

The notion of over-diluting one’s brand with too much local news continues to feel self-destructive. In what way is WPLG going to benefit by airing more news to a smaller overall audience? And especially when they are simply Xeroxing the 6:30 network newscast, which is itself a game of total attrition? To be blunt, WPLG might just be the biggest blotch on what was a sterling career for Warren Buffett. His successors can’t wait to offload it to Nexstar.

I think WPLG only has a news bureau left in D.C., but has closed everywhere else, including Cuba and Colombia.

I said this in BP and I think it goes here too. There are two markets above all where you could produce a newscast of international and national news that has a meaningful difference in a local market. Honolulu is one, and KHON has kept World Report on its lineup now for 29+ years. Miami is the other. The mix of international stories of relevance is very different in a Miami than even in Orlando or Jacksonville, with a stronger Latin American and Caribbean pull. Think how a Spanish-language newscast's mix of national and international differs from the Big Three and you might get a sense of what they can do. (WPLG has a bureau in Havana, and that's one piece of the big-picture puzzle.) It's giving 1994, but unlike some attempts post-New World that responded to "how can we look like we care about non-local news" (WDAF, for instance, did this for all of 12 months shortly after New World), Miami is not Kansas City. If they produce this correctly, this could actually be a useful news product. That's a big if.

Nothing major, but Scripps updated the top banner of their websites

I think in this instance that Local 10 is the branding of the channel, and World News is the name of the broadcast on Local 10.

Kind of an interesting idea. I really didn't care for the entirely AI-written article about their own endeavor though... it has hallmarks of ChatGPT throughout which feels really lazy.

I will say at least the new set will help with the seamless transition between "local 10 news" and "local 10 world news"

So they're going the WJXT route when they first went Independent and had Eyewitness World News for a short time. However, they may also look to KHON's Hawaii's World Report for some inspiration.

Interesting concept. Seems like it's an idea they should have tried decades ago as lifestyle programming ...cough cough "pay for play" and online interactivity was beginning to take off.

What do you got to lose? Better to try something unique to spark energy and fail, than try nothing new and fail anyway.