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CNN needs a graphics overhaul badly. That looks horrible.

They can forget to take Hot Wheels ads out of a Hot Wheels show, but they'll never forget to keep KDNL out of the ABC affiliation renewals. (not that it makes a difference now since the alternative is Nexstar)

Some free advice to CBS O&O stations- when getting the new mic flags with the CBS News [city] on them, go for the three-sided one so people have a shot of actually reading what it says. its CBS Los Angeles by the way.

Small peek at CNN This Morning's graphics and set.

Why would he sue Tegna? They’re not in charge of whether the deal gets approved or not; it’s the DOJ’s call.

Three months after Marquee acquired the station, Zanesville, Ohio's WHIZ is adding Fox on its subchannel 18.2 on November 14.

He and Dari together were abysmal.

Chris Welch in "The 6 O'Clock News". I don't know if it's going to be permanent, I'd prefer Teresa.

As long as dumb companies keep putting their stupid money into sports gambling efforts (even as Fubo tapped out and Gannett's Tipico partnership bombed) and Bally needs stuff to air without paying Jimmy Hanlin and Natalie Gulbis to show off Putt-Putt courses, Stadium will be fine.

KCBS has flipped Drew Barrymore and Let’s Make a Deal as of today…both half hours of Drew move to 2pm and LMAD moves back to 9am. https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/cbs-kcbs-los-angeles-ca/2172

Monday is a holiday.... Halloween. I wondered if that was why haha.

It's easy to root against the bankster here. Standard General will probably just be another low class operation like most of the others. Say what you want about Tegna, but they aren't Nexstar or some of the other notorious names out there.

So anyone know how the rebrand is doing? Any ratings bump? Viewer feedback?

Doreen Gentzler just announced her retirement from WRC-TV after 33 years, effective at the end of November: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/doreen-gentzler-retiring-from-news4-after-33-years/3194257/

Good point, the last thing the stations need is for more people to see them screw up. That one KSAZ issue could send Arizona’s election into a tailspin just because of all the craziness surrounding it.

If anything I could imagine Tegna suing Soo Kim a la Tribune and Sinclair. The Tegna board could have legal arsenal that we don’t know about.

Maybe because it’s the first of the month? That’s my best guess.

No. They’re not interested in the deal happening in the first place. The last thing they need is a Goliath competing against them in Jacksonville. Besides, considering how the deal is essentially stalled, any talk of spin-offs is likely to be a moot point.

Here we go again the speculation 5000 on Channel 46 and CBS. Nothing not happening and ANF is going to be just like Clear News here today gone tomorrow. This is so stupid honestly. The brand has been CBS46 and should of stayed CBS46 ANF could of come into play. At this points CBS is moving to Channel 17- here you now go run with that. SMH

I was happy that Nexstar likes Walker & it's spinoff, Kung FU, Superman & Lois. I hope they keep Stargirl, All American, Nancy Drew as Nancy & her Drew Crew have more story to tell. I don't see Fox having a problem with Nexstar owning The CW in my opinion they will get a deal done whenever Nexstar has to renew with Fox.

In Romania, Antena 3 in Romania was rebranded as Antena 3 CNN as Intact Media partnered with CNN:

Nova TV in Croatia has a new look, complete with a revolving set:

In Italy, RAI News 24 has a new set designed by the famed architect Renzo Piano:

After more than two decades, RTL Aktuell has a non-virtual set; the Power News-based musical signature remains:

A sad loss for the NBC Universal family as Gerardo "Jerry" Valdez, the VP of News at Telemundo Houston KTMD-TV 47 passed away following his battle with cancer. He joined them in 2014 following his run at KTRK ABC 13. He was 54. https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2022/10/jerry-vazquez-loses-cancer-battle.html?m=1

A dark, gloomy Halloween...access to my Internet Archive channel was disabled this morning. Looks like the VHS hobby is going on an even-longer hiatus than I thought. Unfortunately, my hobby may even end without any new videos uploaded. AVTB seems to be OK for now.

I believe Spectrum does have both in Muskingum, I don't know if WHIZ blacks out the duplicate content on WCMH though. For all intents and purposes, WTTE itself can likely remain, because it is no longer affiliated with FOX 28, because of the end-around Sinclair pulled to put "FOX 28" on WSYX 6.3, and directly under Sinclair's control instead of longtime shell partner Cunningham, who now runs WTTE themselves as a repository of sub channels with little involvement of Sinclair. FOX is pretty quick about pulling duplicate affiliations in many other markets, especially when a local affiliate signs on for the first time. This means that viewers in Muskingum County will get the new WHIZ affiliate, while all the other surrounding counties in the Columbus DMA will still get WSYX 6.3...aka "FOX 28" WHIZ (NBC) has a lot of cable coverage in the surrounding counties, but the new FOX arrangement likely won't transfer, unless they start local news casts and/or black out the FOX content outside of Muskingum County. Muskingum County will still get WSYX 6.1 "ABC 6", which means they'll still have the same newscasts they got on Fox 28, since Sinclair uses the same news department to make news for both stations.

Megan Mitchell is joining WFAA from WLWT starting in January.