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He merely suggested she be added as co-anchor with Marc. He's not breaking any news.

Here's a free link to a Deadline article that confirms the number of stations (up to 60) as well: https://deadline.com/2024/09/sinclair-tennis-channel-ceo-ousting-dr-phil-1236080980/ Sinclair should have never have bought that many stations to begin with. Groups like Sinclair are in way over their heads right now and viewers are paying the price because of their greed, especially in markets where competitors have been consolidated and decimated.

Although his tie to the news world was only that as the continuity voice of CNN for many years, legendary actor James Earl Jones passed away today at age 93. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html

Ewww, court show repeats are cheap, but also so tacky, especially on a station like WFAA. I don't even like it for Judy's shows. And the long and slow sad decline of ET from the paragon of entertainment reporting to just IE-level filler that's easily pre-empted without CBSMV or viewers even ruffling a feather continues.

The ghost of KidsClick has bit Sinclair, their sidecars, and six of Nexstar's stations in the ass when they least expected it. Fines have hit Sinclair, all of their sidecar stations, and Nexstar's KDVR Denver, KIAH Houston, KTLA Los Angeles, KTXL Sacramento, WGN-TV Chicago, and WGNO New Orleans for a program-length Hot Wheels commercial during the kids program Team Hot Wheels. TL;DR - Sinclair has to pay up $2.65 million, Nexstar's six stations have to pay up $26,000 each, and Sinclair's sidecars have to pay up $20,000 each. All in all, its a combined $3.3 million fine. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-88A1.pdf

In sort of a throwback to the latter half of the Johnny Carson era of the Tonight Show, Variety is reporting that Jimmy Fallon will now be producing new episodes of Tonight just four nights a week, instead of five. Repeats/"Best of" shows will air on Friday nights going forward. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-four-nights-per-week-nbc-1236135343/

I agree 100%. All they really needed to do with the other one was change the font from DIN to Proxima and it still would've looked nice... And the new L3's are busy and exciting vs. the new Weather Impact boring white box on the U3... No cohesion

The new graphics are too big and distracting. They occupy too much of the lower third of the screen. I liked that the previous graphics were minimalistic and not too huge. I think these were Tegna's best graphics, minus the distracting upcoming headlines bar below. It was dark, slightly translucent, and compact.

Video that really explains the CW's current lot, Especially since the Nexstar takeover.

Lovely tribute to THE LEGEND as seen here, just hearing that classic theme and Jones' line together again IS GOLD.

I will never understand how they completely missed this cost and crew efficiency opportunity; Tonight in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, there were skeletal remains found and it's likely those of a child that went missing this winter. You have WGBA in the market, while WTMJ gets some coverage in the county, but certainly not in Two Rivers. There is absolutely nothing happening at 10pm in front of the Two Rivers Town Hall. Most stations would either just mention that they're waiting for new details and send nobody out, or have someone pre-tape a report in front of the town hall for the 10pm because the only news broken is literally contained in a sheriff's department Facebook post. WBAY did send their reporter devoted to it out live, but she has been with the story since day one and you would expect she'd want to be live for any piece of breaking news arising out of it. That move I won't question. Guess what the Scripps station did? If you said that they both wasted gas, reporters and crew and made them wait out football, and then go live after the game's end just to say 'we know just as much as the sheriff's Facebook post', with WGBA's reporter at Two Rivers Town Hall and then the WTMJ reporter at Two Rivers City Hall...you must be a Scripps station (WTMJ) that doesn't trust their sister station (WGBA) enough to report the story in a coordinated live shot simulcast on both stations. I know WGBA has really cut back, but I think they'd still know how to time a live shot with 'TMJ. That way, they didn't needlessly go 75 miles north to just read a Facebook post and get some generic 'oh I hope they found them' interviews with locals just because your station's ego is that wounded if you had to depend on your sister station to report on it. I'm just shaking my head; this is beginner's stuff and they've been sister stations for twenty years now. I'm less mad at WGBA here than WTMJ because the former did have an interest in being there, but either way, this isn't a good reflection of Scripps even able to get one of their prime stations to stop treating their sister like a red-headed stepchild.

I'm afraid you're right. Lots of changes since the Belo sale. They will probably try to spin otherwise during their upcoming anniversary special. I don't think WFAA has ever aired a court show before, if they have, I don't remember it.

Interesting watch. Adam Conover argues that Netflix swindled consumers with its cheap $8 offering, helped kill the traditional TV model, and now that it has the lion's share of streaming viewers, it's jacking up prices and adding advertisements---its plan all along. Conover also claims their method of dropping the entire seasons at once to encourage binge-watching is causing Netflix's constant show cancellation problem. Why?: full season releases causes a season to stay relevant for a few days then fizzle. Conversely weekly releases keeps momentum and attention around a show. I think Power on Starz is a good example of that. Conover also concludes that streaming services are collapsing because audiences like free content, which made the ad subsidized network television popular. A future where all of television is multiple paid streaming services is not sustainable.

70 years of KOVR 13. They've been riding high ever since CBS took over and are now constantly getting into the top two of ratings in the market (obviously KCRA is the 1,000-lb gorilla that nobody else can touch).

In Letterman's first five years on Late Night, he was off on Fridays, and Friday Night Videos aired in place after Carson. The final six years on NBC, Letterman was on five nights a week, with Friday Night Videos airing right after; when Bob Costas, Greg Kinnear, and Cynthia Garrett all did the Later program (plus a four year period of guest hosts between Kinnear and Garrett), it aired Mondays through Thursdays, while the different incarnations of FNV occupied the remaining weeknight. As far as I remember, Conan O'Brien was on NBC every weeknight, and didn't start doing four nights a week until he moved to TBS.

They really need to go back to letting style and content decisions be made at the local level. They can control the budgets still but each station knows more about how to connect with its area than some suit in Cincinnati. If they decided to do hard news emphasizing breaking news and investigative stuff it would go a lot farther. The business doesn’t need to be reinvented. It needs to get back to the way it was 20 or 30 years ago. And a lot of that is style and writing. That stuff is nearly free.

NBC Sports Philadelphia has switched to the new NBC Sports look.

Yeah I absolutely hate it…. trust me KJRH has been doing scrippscast for a few months for the 10pm newscast the first part is live with some top stories live weather and live sports the rest is taped. Then the 4:30am is all taped except for weather.

Scrippscast has arrived at WTVR Richmond. Its Noon and 7:30pm newscasts are its first casualties and just by watching this, you can see why this kind of format is no good.

Have you noticed that WNBC is reverting their current slogan back to the original slogan "We're for New York" as seen in a new promo? Exactly 8 years since they use that slogan, which is combining it with the word "Together" to form "Together, Were for New York" since August 2016.

Today--September 3rd (yesterday for you East Coasters) marked the 30th anniversary of the first of the massive network affiliation switches thanks to Fox acquiring NFL broadcast rights. Cleveland was the first market make to the switch, where longtime CBS affiliate WJW made the switch to Fox, while WOIO took on CBS after nearly eight years with Fox. Nine days later, Kansas City conducted its own network switching, with WDAF going from NBC to Fox, and KSHB doing the reverse.

ABC tends to be #1 among the broadcast (and some cable news) networks when it comes to political news coverage (State of the Union, etc...). It's safe to assume that they don't want to miss out on the ratings bonanza this debate could produce despite them producing/simulcasting it.

It will be simulcast on all networks. Just like last time.

I don't think WTVG was ready for that since they were brand new under Gray ownership back then.

This isn’t good. And it is truly saddening. I was stationed near Dayton, Ohio for 6 NFL seasons and if I was in my car during the 1pm games I would listen to Browns games with Jim Donovan on WHIO radio over the Bengals broadcasts on WTUE because I loved Jim’s enthusiasm even if the Browns were a loser most of the seasons between 2014-2019. Prayers for him and his family.

WKBD is also reaffiliating with The CW.

The SEC on ABC will use a revamped version of the early 2000s ESPN College Football theme. Turns out that new scorebug, graphics and music are exclusive to the SEC; all other coverage will continue using the existing 2020 graphics and music.

The remaining customer base of DirecTV, being a satellite company, is overwhelmingly rural and more likely to be without viable broadband service. Those streamers wouldn't do that much for them.

Hm. I haven't been paying attention to the repacking; I honestly thought WNEU was still transmitting from NH. Well, at least you're not saying GBH should sell 2 to NBC just so Boston could have an NBC 2...

speaking of nexstar: Any new updates on Mission Broadcasting as it pertains to the FCC condition that mission selling WPIX? haven't heard much since Mission terminated its buying of WADL Detroit.

Alix Kendall is leaving KMSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul) in September after 25 years of anchoring the Morning News. Says it's not a retirement but focusing on "a new chapter" which will include screenwriting. https://www.fox9.com/news/alix-kendall-retirement-fox-9-morning-news?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawEm995leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZCao4ih4crmkgCmyGwoOJZ3xQMw3m9LNZufoWS-CLU691tU6-o2HOaUDA_aem_UoJYZOJWDdJPTHBwI46fqQ

KPNX Meteorologist Lindsay Riley is expecting baby #3 in February 2025. This is her 3rd baby in 3 years!

With the recent Crowdstrike meltdown, l can only find the irony that Sinclair used Crowdstrike as the SOLUTION to their massive 2021 hack!

I'm not familiar with Steve Eager's work, but I'm not a fan of this practice either. Granted, commentary is fine when it's a clearly labeled editorial (or when it's an offbeat newscast like "Next" at KUSA). And I know Bill Beutel at WABC occasionally inserted some mild commentary (ex: John Gotti "can only look at the moon through jailhouse bars"), but I don't think he ever waded into politics to this degree. Generally, there's a time and place for editorializing and commentary, and the middle of a supposedly impartial newscast isn't it IMHO.

Anchor Steve Eager basically says "despite claiming his hands were tied for years regarding border security a looming election likely changed President Biden's mind..." during a report on Biden's new executive order. I know this is a Fox O&O and it's Texas but I'm still surprised to have this level of editorialization (wether or not it may be true) written into the script on local news. Typicay you'd get this as an adlib from anchors like Rosanna Scotto in NYC, and we don't even have to mention cable news. If I repost content from a local Fox station, I end up having to explain to people bias is generally centered at the Fox News Channel not really on the local level but this doesn't help lol. Note: this is not a critique on political policy or viewpoints just an observation on inserting editorial language into a newscast.

Love the new site. Great new colors and design. A breath of fresh air. Great job all around and thank you for the your work.

Glad you are back I thought it was just me getting the problems seem like everyone was having problems. Glad their fix now and back online.

Nor does Boston. Needless to say MNTV should Never have been a network to begin with.

This. VHF may have been an asset in the analog days, but in 2020 it's an albatross so big it may as well be eating sharks. It's funny how far we've come from the days where Married with Children was making jokes about UHF stations (or more specifically, pre-NFL Fox affiliates) needing large amounts of antennas to get them. Nowadays, it often seems like you need that for VHF.

The old Graham Media Group thread is archived. It’s time to start a new one, due in part to this interesting development. Graham Media Group is apparently applying the MMJ concept (one person does the jobs of two or three people) to its local management. Its six stations have job openings for a so-called “Manager of Content and Coverage.” Judging by the job description, this sounds like a mashup of an assistant news director, an executive producer, and possibly even a managing editor. I wouldn’t be surprised if this MCC person even had to line produce on occasion! Here’s the job opening for reference: https://www.click2houston.com/careers/2024/05/28/manager-of-content-and-coverage-three-openings-available/ I can’t say I’m surprised about this new development in management. Graham is in cost-cutting mode. They recently went through a round of buyouts. Plus, they hired Sean McLaughlin, the ex-Scripps news executive who spearheaded that company’s bungled news reorganization.

It appears Jessica Kartalija is out, according to her Facebook page- (1) Facebook

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