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First Coast News uses Good Morning Jacksonville despite the NBC station being their lead product which simulcasts on ABC. WABC calls its 10am newscast Eyewitness News Mornings at 10, despite Mornings being CBS's AM branding. While it's common practice for local stations to brand their morning newscast in line with the national AM newscast, I don't think it's a requirement or an expectation.

On the bright side, it's only 13 stations in 9 markets thanks to the sheer number of stations that Coxapollo offloaded to Imagicomm.

It's the sad truth. It's very apparent with Fox and CW going all in on sporting events at all hours. I'm getting tired of Fox putting crap sports events on a Friday night simply to drive viewership because it's consistently pre-empting newscasts that haven't usually been touched before, aside from events like the World Series. Don't even get me started on the UFL... It's literally a league invented by the networks to put crap sports on TV.

I just don't see WSVN and Fox parting ways, especially now that the Dolphins get many more games on 7 with cross-flexing and the snowbird crowd happy with their college sports coverage, along with the rare Marlins game (and don't forget the World Baseball Classic, whose de facto championship home site is Marlins Park). There's no benefit for Fox to go to the Scripps pair on 35 or 39 at all, WSVN provides them enough resources in the market, and you know very well that promotions department is beyond psyched to put a new spin on a "Power of Two" marketing campaign, especially in football season. And simply I don't see WSVN interested in individual team rights for the other sports like WSFL is. And I disagree about Fox's lack of scripted programming, they're just more judicious and selective now about what shows they roll out (Doc and The Cleaning Lady are both pretty good and perfectly tuned for a Miami Fox station). They know they don't need to compete with Netflix and that's how their primetime feels like; we're still far from a subpar lineup comparable to UPN or MyNetworkTV.

the NFL is the only think keeping Fox in “big 4” status. They’ve really deemphasized scripted programming in recent years to the point where they’re not really trying anymore

Bingo. Correct. I believe WSVN started their morning news in 1983 as Today in Florida at 6:30 a.m., six years before they would later lose NBC.

Yeah, this feels like a stopgap measure. A bandage, even.

That shouldn't matter. WSVN still uses Today in Florida which (correct me if I'm wrong) was a title it got during its NBC affiliation days. WTVJ calls their AM newscast NBC 6 News Today to differentiate. It's ironic that WSVN is often called the model Fox affiliate despite distancing itself from the Fox brand. Yes the business is changing... but as people have said before, I don't see ABC being content on a sub channel long-term in a top 20 market. If this were a smaller market, the CW or My Network TV, perhaps. We may be looking at another shake up in the next few years.

https://www.thewrap.com/fcc-chair-threatens-company-mergers-over-dei/ Completely out of bounds under FCC jurisdiction. This administration is out of their minds.

They tried to sell WVIT at the same time but found no buyers for it.

WSVN and FOX have a 30 plus-year relationship and have described each other as 'perfect partners.' FOX went as far as to say, when they renewed the affiliation last year, that their 'relationship with Ed and the Sunbeam team is one of our longest and strongest affiliate partnerships.' That doesn't sound like either party is unhappy.

I don't pay too much attention about TV affiliates outside of the big 5 (especially Philadelphia) [yes, I know], but this legit shocked me. This network/affiliate relationship is one I know is one of the strongest and longest in the nation, so to see it end after almost 7 decades is pretty crazy.

The WPLG story is big news, so I broke that off into its own thread. Please take the discussion there.

ABC being relegated to subchannel-only status in Miami of all places sounds like the biggest lateral move ever.

ABC WNT now broadcasts from Hudson Square, with "new" studio and "updated" L3 graphics.

Is the old Jennings theme just in the open or is it in the teases to commercial and the close as well? Those long form closes with the old music were incredible.

I’ve been dreaming of the day they brought back the Jennings-era theme... and am so glad it has finally happened! Love that the voiceover intros the newscast the same way it used to introduce Peter.. “from ABC News world headquarters in New York...” another throwback to the Jennings era!