Leaderboard

MeTV is the only Weigel network not on WBNX. They carry all of the others (Movies!, StartTV, Decades, H&I). Plenty of room should they get MeTV and the new secondary network planned.

Reviving an older thread as many may have missed the brief return of Fox’s (in this case, Speed’s) early 2010’s graphics during NASCAR Race Hub’s throwback show this week. Was a pleasant surprise to see.

As mentioned in the Winston Broadcasting thread in corporate chat, the Rev. Ernest Angley, owner of WBNX-TV and Ernest Angley Ministries has passed away at the age of 99. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/05/pentacostal-televangelist-ernest-angley-dies-at-age-99.html At one time, his Ernest Angley Hour could be seen across the country on various TV stations on Sundays. He followed in the footsteps of Rex Humbard, buying his former megachurch The Cathedral of Tomorrow and used this complex to eventually establish WBNX-TV. WBNX, once a sleepy independent station launched in 1985, it forced WCLQ Channel 61 into full-time HSN programming, only after being resurrected in 1981 (after Kaiser's WKBF went off the air in 1975.) They benefited from WJW picking up FOX, and the Fox Kids programming ending up on WBNX, making that Kids Club one of the largest in the country at the time. They ended up picking up the WB from WUAB, who was also UPN, and eventually overtook them in the ratings as WUAB faltered under Raycom. The CW favored them and the ratings wins continued. All while Angley's presence on the station was limited to twice (then only once daily) airings of his Ninety and Nine Club, and maybe some free ads for the Cathedral Buffet, also located on the premises. They eventually started a subchannel that aired repeats of 90&9 as well as music programs. Billing themselves originally as "The Family Giant", the station took the extra step of bleeping out mildly-offensive words like "hell" "damn" and the like. Later when newer shows didn't permit such editing, the practice stopped. Ernest himself objected to WB's "Charmed", but there was nothing he could do about it and it aired as scheduled. Often parodied for his preaching, faith-healing and eternal hairpiece (even by Robin Williams and the Bizarre show in Canada), the last several years were marred by scandal and accusations, leading to foreclosure attempts on the church and properties. This may have played a role in the abrupt end to WBNX's tenure as a CW affiliate, with it going to WUAB. He was in ill health for the last several years, as guest hosts have hosted his TV programs, and eventually his preaching duties.

And deny the majesty of bad lip syncing, a 4:3 aspect ratio, and corny teachings?!?

WBNX does have dearth of programming because 3,5 & 8 have so many local and corporately-owned shows on them, plus the fact that the CW ended up on WUAB, so the market would be really under-stationed if WBNX were to go away as an independent. Worst case scenario, WOIO could convert 19.2 into My19 or something, and buy up all of the programming. Given how WUAB is on the same frequency, some subchannels would have to go away should they want to make it HD. Maybe keep Circle but Bounce and Dabl would be moved elsewhere. Isn't Dabl still on WQHS?

That's probably up to the board that now controls the church and WBNX (set up while Angley's health was failing). It's seems more likely now that Ernest has passed and it was the same story when Rex Humbard resigned from his own church in the 80s (moving to Florida), setting the stage for WBNX (originally owned by another related entity and purchased by Angley) and the later purchase The Cathedral of Tomorrow and related entities soon after. Easy duopoly bait for Tegna, Scripps (since Inyo owns WVPX and WDLI) or Nexstar. Or it could be sold to someone like Marquee or even Weigel to be a repository of subchannels. I doubt they'd try to keep 55.1 as an independent like they did with flagship WCIU before it picked up the CW.

Pat battle 25 years https://fb.watch/5lyX2GZq6B/

https://web.archive.org/web/19980110120633/http://tvbd.com/tvbd_news.htm "Balls and Walls" was TVBD and a second version was developed in the early 2000's for then-WOKR in Rochester. TVBD's site used to have a GREAT timeline of station work and packages.

Off topic from the mic but despite her speaking time only being about 10 seconds of that clip, Dari still managed to stumble over every other word.

Fox 5 has introduced a new mic flag, phasing out the old "box kite" logo. Here is the new one in action in this report from Yankee Stadium

I’m sure within the next few months things will start going back to normal...

I'm surprised there was any belief Fox would even dare to implement team-specific fonts to the XFL when the NFL is clearly miles ahead in popularity and ratings. Not expecting anything different if other sports they cover like MLB and college football are treated the same should they get this package. As for the TD graphic above? That's a good place to start if they want to do that for "featured" players in the NFL. Get their best shots from photoshoots or use headshots if that's more convenient for every player, regardless of who is/is not star-worthy. Not sure if I posted the evidence here, but I prefer they just use no image at all like after this TD from the Big Game itself.