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The Sturlaugsons didn't even want KXGN-TV. It's obvious that KDZN-FM propped up channel 5 and just about everything else. Just as much as KYUS-TV was only being run as a public service and relayed KULR at no charge to Cowles. WJSU and WCFT say hello.

New details coming to TVNT: Curt Fonger is leaving WPEC-TV. Fonger, CBS 12's 6 & 11pm anchor for 22 years is leaving tomorrow. Fonger joined WPEC in 1989 and was the original anchor of the 5 p.m. newscast, according to CBS12.com. In 1991, Fonger was tapped to anchor WFLX Fox 29’s 10 p.m. newscast, which WPEC TV 12 staffed and produced until January, when WPTV NewsChannel 5 took over the contract providing news for the West Palm Beach Fox station. Fonger's last day is tomorrow. KTVK reinstating it's 10pm Newscast. Belo independent KTVK Phoenix (DMA 12) expands its live news coverage to nine hours a day with the premiere of 3TV News @ 10 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22. The 30-minute newscast will be anchored by KTVK reporter Carey Pena and Fields Moseley, a veteran reporter/anchor who joins the station from KUTV Salt Lake City. It will also focus on breaking news, weather from meteorologist Royal Norman and sports from Tim Ring. After less than a year at WTXL-TV, anchor Russell Motley is leaving the Tallahassee station. He joined WTXL in 2010 from Jacksonville duopoly WTEV/WAWS.

WPLG being dropped from YouTubeTV, Hulu, etc. at the start isn't surprising. The network negotiates the retransmission consent rights for all the affiliates. So, WPLG was covered by the agreement ABC made with Google. No ABC. No agreement for Local 10. They will have to hammer out deals with all the vMVPDs. To be honest, not being on YouTubeTV isn't the end of the world. While it is the largest platform of its kind by far, it has about 9.4 million subs nationwide. There are 125 million TV households in America. So YouTubeTV has about 7% of the national population. Let's assume that a metropolitan area like Miami skews slightly higher than, say, a rural Midwest market where internet connectivity may be slower. Even if YouTubeTV has 8 or 9% of the Miami market, WPLG can survive. But it might be enough to shave off just enough viewers to cause some pain. On the flipside, WSVN's ABC feed is immediately covered by all ABC agreements once that feed is live. It will be interesting to see if it is up and running on day one. (It should be since they have had plenty of lead time)

Here's the thing: Unless you're a die-hard local news fan, I don't think most people are going out of their way to watch FAST. Viewers want bespoke content that is picked for them, not to watch a broadcast on a app. We cut cable because we wanted a level of control from our content vendors to choose exactly the kind of information/entertainment that we want to watch and having an algorithm recommend additional content based upon what we liked or psychologically attracted to. Swapping OTA for FAST for identical content ignores the entire reason that viewers cut the cord anyway.

It took four years to resolve this?

The thing with these non-major network broadcast stations on Youtube TV and such is that they either has a deal with the owners of these stations or not. So this means they do not have a deal Berkshire Hathaway.

WKRN's Davis Nolan is about to hang it up on August 22nd after a stellar and amazing 44 years there. https://www.facebook.com/daniellebreezytv/posts/bittersweet-day-my-friend-wkrn-davis-nolan-announced-he-will-be-retiring-on-augu/1280706163420280/

I watched it live and had to double back to verify that I saw what I saw. It was 6:01 and 69° and the poor meteorologist had no idea.

The FCC has reached a consent decree with TEGNA over an incident that occurred on KREM back in October 2021 where somebody hacked into one of the monitors on KREM's set and displayed a pornographic clip for "approximately 13 seconds" during a weather segment. TEGNA will pay $222,500 and implement a compliance plan. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-573A1.pdf

I'm gonna be curious about that myself. At first, I suspect ABC won't be immediately available, but there will be time before they shuffle everything along, at which point ABC will be available. This move will also affect WPLG internationally via the Bahamas, USVI, or other places that carry it for the ABC feed.

Double yeesh. How long before they elect "must carry" status with cable and satellite? They better be streaming all of their shows on the apps or else they have really screwed the pooch with this move.

The missing time at 11PM makes for an easy, modification-free repeat in the middle of the night. The nights you see a time/temp, that show probably doesn't air again.

I suspect a lot of hotels in Miami-Fort Lauderdale will be dropping them from their lineups come next month, too.

I can only assume they'll try to go the FAST direction or go heavy on promoting streaming through Local 10+/YouTube Live since they're ramping up the news schedule and there's no point in having that carriage when right now they only have three hours of syndicated programming on weekdays and by September, that will all be streaming next day itself (Live with Kelly is on Hulu, J!/WoF on Hulu/Peacock, The First 48 is on anything with an A&E library deal). It'll just simplify their digital reach overall. I wish them luck, but not being on those platforms will likely backfire and be reeled back if they decide to go for pro rights.

So they're doubling down on linear television? That's not going to work well for them. BH doesn't have the infrastructure for that.... Frankly there's demand for non-linear targeted stories, but not without the cost offset for the SAAS development.

Was looking through the team page again, no changes since Yu's sudden removal (and she still has ABC7NY on her Instagram?), however I realized that they've never added Lindsay Tuchman for some unknown reason.

This looks better than Scripps, which is saying something about Scripps

Canada Corus is in a really bad shape financially. Want more proof of that? These channels will cease to exist come September 1st: • ABC Spark • Disney Jr. • Disney XD • La Chaîne Disney • Nickelodeon This will leave two things: • CMT as the last Paramount-owned network in Canada owned by Corus. • Disney Channel as the last Disney/ABC-owned network in Canada owned by Corus. The Canadian TV industry continues to fall rapidly... (This link is paywalled): https://cartt.ca/corus-to-pull-plug-on-some-kids-channels-amid-financial-pressure/

Plus, HBCU GO sports as well from Allen.

From their FAQ page:

Isn’t Lindsay on freelance? That’s probably why she doesn’t have a profile up.

If there was one thing worse than TBN itself, it was this deal. Second place goes to CTN putting Newsmax as a subchannel on their stations. Sure, it looks like a nice public service move, but we all know their motives. Separation of church and state be damned.