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I thought I'd start this because I feel y'all will post graphics, themes, presentations, etc. regarding tonight's election night coverage here. Not only that, I wanted to find out when the networks will be on to deliver their election coverage. However, as I was researching this, I found out that NOT every local station will follow the network's plans as scheduled (you'll see here in this post) so I highly recommend checking with your local station's listings but the majority will be status quo. This is what I found by checking TV listing sites like TitanTV, TV Passport, etc. (and all in Eastern time so it may differ by timezone as well, depending on where you live) PBS from 6:00pm-2:00am CBS from 6:30-11:00pm + 11:35pm-2:00am + for O&Os, a special CBS Mornings at 6:00am on Wednesday (meaning for some like WFOR in my market, they'll air four hours of CBS Mornings from 6:00-10:00am, including the new third hour at 9:00am.). NBC from 6:30-11:00pm + 11:35pm-5:00am (or 4:30am if local news begins by then) + NBC Nightly News on Wednesday on O&Os and some affiliates from 6:30-7:30pm. FOX from 7:00-10:00pm + 11:00pm-1:00am (however as an example, my favorite, WSVN 7 will NOT be taking FOX. No surprise there. Instead, they're going all local from 7:00pm-12:30am). However, this was the most inconsistent as some affiliates will rejoin at 11:00pm back to FOX or at midnight or whatnot so its hard to track the FOX side in this area. ABC from 6:30-11:00pm + 11:35pm-2:00am. The CW from 8:00-10:00pm (via NewsNation and their coverage. This will be The CW's first time providing election night coverage and major news coverage of this magnitude). Univision and Telemundo from 6:30-11:00pm + 11:35pm-3:00am (because they have network feeds, they are more consistent in their scheduling than the English-language ones. Plus, the feeds will keep going at 11:00pm while their O&Os and affiliates will go to local news). As I've said, check your local stations because they may be different than what I've posted here. Just because my local FOX affiliate won't take FOX tonight, doesn't mean yours won't either.

From Amazon Election Night Live with Brian Williams A long list of current and former journalists (Shepherd Smith, etc..) from around the country, etc.. joined Williams in what appears to be a curved LED wall studio in LA.

Gray is turning into another Sinclair with these draconian moves. I'll admit it, I let my guard down on this company. They seemed like a cheap company back then as they sucked up companies like Schurz and changed their cheap graphics packages on their stations like dirty underwear every few months. Then Sinclair bought more stations, and Media General succumbed to Nexstar. Then when Raycom "merged" with Gray, there seemed to be some hope. Putting Meredith out of their misery was another accomplishment of theirs along with all of their "committment" to Atlanta, WGCL/WANF, and whatever "Assembly Atlanta" is. But the problem is, and always has been the top-bottom mentality of these companies that has destroyed the stations they've acquired, instead of using the best practices of strong stations to make the company better. (Only problem, it's too expensive) It's a problem that's not unique to TV, it's everywhere as companies are leveraging their assets to the point of selling off the parts to make the top richer and the minions doing the work being laid off and whoever's left getting more work for less pay or not enough to keep up with the rising cost of everything. And if it's ugly now, just wait. God willing if this election goes the wrong way....we're literally screwed as these companies have decimated our news sources and a generation of voters has been sorely misled on what news is. That's it for me now.

With Maurice Dubois involved with network election coverage, Dick Brennan is filling in for him locally on election night.

The companies are almost undoing their local buildups in favor of the adjacent markets that used to serve them in the analog era. Building up these fill-in affiliates was only a way to get an in-market affiliation for the local viewers and exclusive DMA stations for cable and satellite. Now that those are dying, the adjacent markets are getting the slack to pipe back to the local viewers. Still a lose-lose situation since the local station is getting distant content and the other market has to water it down for themselves to deliver it. A distant viewer would have gotten an overall better product from a larger market station being piped in.

I mean... for the longest time, WFSB's ID did go by Hartford - New Haven - Springfield so they can do it again and Gray, Nexstar, NBCU, and Entravision are in both markets so its plausible but not a reality anytime soon.

Writing on the wall for EAM, I suppose; they're realizing the overhead for a web presence is much less than that of a television station, and I assume the proceeds will only help the ministry. Gotta be a bit shocked they went to Nexstar when VCY America and TCT still in an acquiring mood; they could've easily $1-and-debt'ed the operation out to another godcaster, but they found a good commercial offer. And it also gives Nexstar a chance to see if moving around channel numbers to use WJW's 8 on UHF works, and just have everything hosted off the 55 transmitter, sacrificing VHF 8 to 3.0 lighthouse duty.

It does not unless the WJW facility were to be sold.

With WJW's ownership, does acquiring WBNX now give them the UHF discount in Cleveland? They've been trying to move WJW back to UHF going back to LocalTV....I could see this as a move to increase cap space if it prevails.... Weigel will probably take back their subchannels, and what's left could all end up on WBNX's frequency. The Sinclair diginets will probably get sent packing as well.

Already decided. WUAB next fall will be part RESN and part MyNetworkTV. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/more-live-local-sports-my-network-programming-on-wuab-cleveland-next-fall/