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Exactly. Why not just say CW 33 Miami? Significantly smoother. CBS is also terrible at wordy brandings. And the call letters and license city don't need to be at the bottom of the logo, it's an eyeful.

For all intents and purposes, stations that show MNT are essentially Independents.

If you’d like to edit it, be my guest! Sorry I shared it.

Its still talked about, 50 years after its first appearance on the telly, and 12 years after it left the BBC airwaves.

CMIIW, but the call sign for KCOP-TV meant for the defunct Copley Press.

Maybe they could put on... (beat) ...more cop shows. I mean, it already has the call letters for it...

Didn't I read that CBS owned stations are moving to single anchors. That probably means DuBois won't be replaced at 5 and 6, and he may anchor alone at 11.

It’s doesn’t have the same recognition MCTYW does. WLS had numerous themes before News Series 2000 in the 90s, and they were only number 1 in the market for a few newscasts by just a hair against WGN. For WPVI, besides the short lived “Action News” theme, they have used MCTYW since 1973, and there are commercials from 1979 showing that MCTYW was already a favorite in Philly. Thats because WPVI has always been the number 1 station in the market by a long shot.

I wish Chicagoans revolted the same way when WLS get rid of their iconic News Series 2000 theme.

For the late night games you figure that the West and Mountain time stations are good with it, and most of the Nexstar and Sinclair CW base is pre-empting filler like True Crime News and The National Desk, and had enough time to bump their local coverage to their MyNet sister or to the DT2 subchannel. As for the Fox stations it can only really help their coverage since they don't have to rush footage and pack editing suites to get their entire segment done, so it gives everything more time to breathe, and worse comes to worse, any pre-emptions have a full two days in overnights to be covered. And for Fox's O&Os they've begun to push their late newscasts to Fox Local on-time and a replay after the game, so at least for them there's no extra pain or having to wait until midnight to get on-air. For other groups with sister stations, things like "First on Fox" and "Most Wanted" aren't aired and the Big Three newscast is repeated late, or centralcasters like Coastal had the show well done outside weather before the game even started. The thing I don't get though is why Fox hasn't killed the Saturday late night hour. No SNL rival is oncoming and you can't keep justifying a reality show repeat these days in that slot. And they might as well put Weekend Marketplace out of its misery already because the little money it makes when it does air can't even be a lot these days.

Another point that Fox doesn’t care about MyNetworkTV anymore. Put it into graveyard slot showing that they are on slow death.

The good news is that this did happen and KICU picked up MyNet... for 3am-5am, which is the bad news. You might as well not even call them an affiliate of MNTV at this case, or even an O&O.

You have to realize that Miami DMA is only 3 counties with one of them, Monroe County being the Keys and a mostly uninhabited swamp on the mainland. Plus, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area is the highest COL in the state and many middle class have been priced out of there and moved to Orlando and Tampa areas. Tampa is a much bigger DMA overall in land size and had explosive population growth post-COVID from many Northerners and South Floridians.

A new 11-minute video about the infamous 1996 theme change: https://6abc.com/videoClip/action-news-theme-music-mix-of-96/15326680/

Households can have more than one person in them.

Not on the level of Weeters, but as a mod, the top-4 market sections were created in a much different time. The industry was healthier and the demand for it on this site was greater. We've also always had reasonably strong Philly representation to warrant its existence. New York and Chicago conversation is similarly active. Los Angeles, admittedly not as much, but leaving out market #2 would've been weird. I'm just not sure we have the interest for such a channel for individual stations in DFW. We had briefly kicked the tires on a Texas section, but that wouldn't be my call.

Use a fill-in reporter to cover street cams.

Ever since Emily Barr left, the new leadership seems determined to torch these stations. KSAT was absolutely obliterated by the buyouts. Now the local media reporter is claiming KPRC parted ways with its morning traffic anchor … and doesn’t plan to replace her?!? How do you do news in Houston and not have a morning traffic anchor and be taken seriously? (Again, assuming the report is right …) And don’t get me started on that horrid set KPRC installed that was overseen by the ND who left just a few months after it debuted.

Can anyone show me a difference in numbers like the year-to-year change I feel like Sacramento made a higher gain. Tampa being larger than Miami is nuts.

They done this before during previous elections, my guess is this is the same thing, only temporary.

WPLG was inconsistent in rolling out new everything (except for music). New set came first, then new opens, and just within the last week or so, new graphics. Now I'm not saying that's the right or wrong way to do, but WPLG was inconsistent. At least WSVN's new everything back in 2015 launched everything new at the same time: new Newsplex at the time, new version of its music, new graphics, new opens, new everything. WPLG wasn't ready to launch everything obviously and it clearly showed over the last month or two.

After nearly 13 years with NBC 5, Lauren Petty announced on her Facebook page that tomorrow is her last day with the station. She is going to leave broadcasting and pursue a new adventure outside of broadcasting.

While not a dispute, this could be a future problem for network affiliates. More and more money for less in return. https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/will-stations-revolt-over-network-payments/ Let's just say Nexstar has had it coming ever since they started shaking down cable companies for carriage dollars.