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IAs a fan, I would love to see minor league baseball - have the cw have a minor league agreement and have local station televise the local mlb farm team - more money for mlb, kids that play hard, and put the fun back in baseball - I love baseball, but I even find it sometimes to be too routine - no enthusiasm

This is the future of some local stations happening now. We speculated here in the past if + when it's gonna happen. Now, some stations need to invest more into local proramming other than news + public affairs. Can you blame them, tho? Let alone a political year. Syndie business have no one to blame but themselves putting in a perilous situation toward extinction. Sure FOX/CW/MNT/Indy stations still need them, more than syndie needs them, but for how long? When a 'parking lot station' (i.e: KCOP) turned over 4 hours of its afternoon programming to simulcast their diginet Decades, it's quite telling.

KRCW (Portland) has been airing a few minor league games from the Hillsboro Hops (just outside of Portland) this year. The production values were very simple and the picture quality wasn't great. I only tuned in once and can't remember if they had a TV announcer or if it was just nat sound. I wonder how it was being produced. May have just been the feed that normally streams online? Doubt the TV broadcast was specially produced, but if it was I wonder if they outsourced it or had KOIN staff do it.

Announced Today: Vicky Nguyen & Morgan Radford Co-Anchor 12pm-2pm ET Kate Snow & Aaron Gilchrist Co-Anchor 2pm-4pm ET (4pm-5pm ET they will update for breaking news) -Vicky Nguyen will contribute her consumer reporting to the program -CNBC will provide a feature called "Money Minute" -Dr. John Torres & Dr. Natalie Azar will provide medical reporting & answer viewer questions -- Option 5-minute local news block

Completely spitballing here, but I could see another relaunch of "American Gladiators" being a good fit for the new CW... as long as they do it much like the original, as if it were a straight-up sports competition, and not like the 2008 relaunch, that was packed full of reality show tropes.

These videos mention WWE and the XFL as sports on UPN.

If it wasn’t for WFMJ wanting to counterprogram WKBN at 5pm with Maury, then Oprah, then Ellen, WFMJ would’ve done it YEARS ago.

I imagine NBC will try to angle for as many 7/7:30e starts as they’re able when SNL is new (as they do for the ND deal)

Congratulations to WFMJ for finally realizing 1988 happened 34 years ago and it's time to have a 5pm newscast.

I didn’t know that. Well move that to 7:30 and put all three BBT episodes on WPCH.

Old MG graphics mixed with Honeycomb? Looks good

That makes WSMV the second (?) Gray station to go all news outside of network programming (I know WBTV in Charlotte does this as well)… If it works in Nashville, as it apparently does in Charlotte, one wonders how many other Gray stations might try going all-news outside of network? I can see this working in maybe Louisville, St. Louis, or even Phoenix, probably. Of course, not sure about WGCL in Atlanta…..

That KSDK theme sounds like an affiliate news version of the '83-'84 'Be There' campaign

Just looking at this thread and honestly, Perry must be high on Sudafed drugs if he thinks he's going to get live sports on the CW. Many of the major sports contracts are locked up until the late 20s and heading into the 2030s (even local/regional rights deals are locked into that same timeframe) so how's he going to get them? NEWSFLASH: He can't

Here he is dropping a tease about potentially pursuing sports rights (0:49):

This month marks 15 years at WABC for Jeff Smith. Bill mentioned it, as they showed a photo of Jeff with the award, before going to Jeff for the forecast during the 6pm newscast.

Which is telling considering I just noticed (as a NON-soap opera and NON-viewer of The Talk) that Eric Braeden was on The Talk either yesterday or today. For those who may be wondering, he's the actor behind Victor Newman on Y&R, the mustache in his previous years (given my mother and her mother have been longtime viewers) being a dead giveaway. The Bell heirs sure take care of their actors quite well. Not surprised that WYFF carried Donahue considering they were the Multimedia flagship early on until that swap with KSDK in St. Louis earlier in the decade (which Multimedia took advantage of to launch Sally Jessy Raphael). Being 35 years old, you are not alone in being shocked about what your market (or other users' markets) used to air. I was shocked to find that Channel 2 (KPRC) originally had Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! at first until '86 - I thought they had been on KHOU the whole time before Jeopardy! jumped to its rightful place at KTRK in 2015. Going back to what I have discovered about Houston, one KPRC promo even showed clips from both game shows as well as The People's Court, Family Feud, plus some show with Richard Simmons in it circa '85...Seemed as if (Donahue on KTRK notwithstanding) KPRC was the go-to for first-run syndication before Belo used its drug money from The Dallas Morning News + WFAA to prop up KHOU with both of Merv Griffin's game shows + Oprah when KTRK turned them down, due to the 6pm Eyewitness News being a big cash cow (especially with Marvin Zindler), as well as their unwillingness to cancel Million Dollar Movie and let go of its film editors during a time when the oil bust hit Houston's economy so bad one fine dining restaurant had a three-course "Oil Barrel Special" for the price of crude. In any case, the Million Dollar Movie went away, which could have given KTRK carte blanche to pick up all three of the shows that they turned down, but even as the rest of the ABC O&Os picked them up, Belo most likely spent bigly to keep all three from moving across the street - wouldn't shock me if they conditioned WFAA's continued broadcast of those three shows on KHOU also picking them up in 1992, along with Entertainment Tonight right after the 10pm news, followed by talk shows hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh and Jane Whitney. (ET went to KPRC the following season right after the 6pm news as David Letterman crossed over to CBS (and KHOU, albeit at 11:05 p.m.).)

Erik Estrada? Does this mean Cool Cat is coming to the CW?

The honeycomb seems to be the small-market Gray package.

The KOLN graphics are really growing on me. For Gray graphics, they're terrific. Probably up there with the WOIO package, and the Meredith package (although technically that isn't Gray).

WGCL also stole another investigator from WXIA a few weeks back: Andy Pierrotti. Looks like Gray isn’t messing around when it comes to making CBS 46 a contender.

KOLN/KGIN, KSNB and KNOP have all debuted new graphics. In the cases of KSNB and KNOP, both have switched to different flat variants of the “honeycomb” package. KOLN/KGIN: KSNB (note that the bottom-of-screen ID has KSNB’s city of license, York, listed where its callsign is supposed to be): KNOP:

Awful Announcing reports that in 2023, CBS will keep its 3:30pm SEC window to fulfill its remaining broadcast commitments to that conference. CBS’ final year of the SEC will be concurrent with their first year of Big Ten football.

This thread has not been active for a year. But I found two other KOAT newscasts, one from mid-October 2003 and the other from early October 2004. The 2003 newscast features KOAT's unusual variation of the camera v2 graphics, and it was two-and-a-half months before the station began using the NewsMusic Central package The newscast from 2004 was when KOAT was already using the rings graphics, but the weather segments continued using camera v2 for a short while. And...I also had a dream one night that I was watching a KOAT newscast from 2021. The station was still using camera v2, Image News, their 1999 set; and Mike Lewis still provided the voice-overs.

Rest in Peace. He also worked for KGTV and KCBS.

Something tells me that WSMV and other NBC affiliates have been waiting for the arrival of NBC News Daily to hype up their station as having “Fifteen Non-Stop Hours of News”, and WSMV has the perfect voice over for it, Scott Chapin. Actually, it’s really 14.5 hours, as this News block currently begins at 4:30am.

WSMV is dropping all their syndication for more news. The midday news will run from 11-12, noon news from 12-1, NBC News Daily at 1, Today in Nashville will move from 11 to 2 and run for an hour, and add a 3pm newscast. This all starts Sept 5. Right now their syndication is Wendy Williams and Tamron Hall. Wendy is getting replaced by Sherri and she is going to Fox17(?). No word on where Tamron is going, yet.