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PBS News Hour sent a statement last night at the end of the broadcast... They're here to stay. And good for them.

That's the timeslot for GMA3. 1ET/12CT.

Looking on TVPassport & I have posted this on the Broadcast Plaza Discord, but they have the first day schedule for the new ABC Miami. 4:30-5AM GMA First Look 5-7 Today In Florida 7-9 Good Morning America 9-10 Today In Florida 10-10:30 Extra 10:30-11 Deco Drive 11-Noon The View Noon-1PM 7 News at Noon 1-2PM GMA3 2-3PM General Hospital 3-3:30 & 3:30-4 25 Words or Less 4-5 Tamron Hall 5-6:30 7 News 6:30-7 World News Tonight 7-7:30 Extra 7:30-8 Deco Drive 8-11 Primetime 11-11:35 7 News at 11 11:35-12:37AM Jimmy Kimmel Live 12:37-1:06AM Nightline

Anchor and reporter Morgan Parrish is joining Good Day Philadelphia. She's a South Jersey native and is coming from Fox 35 in Orlando, FL. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2025/07/21/morgan-parrish-fox-29/

Hell has frozen over..WFRV has finally joined this entire 'cyberspace revolution' and has a 'WFRV+' TV app...while somehow doing absolutely nothing with the 2013-vintage iOS app that is under the same code . At least now I finally can stop having to spoof Paramount+ into thinking I have a cabin in Valders just to watch their newscasts. That it took Nexstar this long to livestream newscasts seamlessly is unacceptable.

John Ziegler and Lauren Leamanczyk is in or heading to Atlanta to WXIA 11 Alive to handle the streaming side for KARE11 while they deal with getting power back and getting back on air.

My last update on this hopefully for a while… KARE did get a 6:00 show to air from the Telefarm. The newscast opened with Julie Nelson standing under a tent explaining the situation and acknowledged that the newscast would be historic and different, and also said they will be out of the studio for the foreseeable future. Reporters appeared one after the other with the one handheld mic, and all b-roll and interviews/stories ran with whatever editing they were able to do. The commercial breaks were all PSAs, and the only graphics they had on the screen were a couple weather stills that Met Jamie Kagol said were prepared via text by WXIA as he explained the weather (possible severe) while looking at a radar on his phone. All in all, an impressive feat pulled off by everyone at KARE tonight.

Good on Sunbeam to do this. Had a feeling they would after seeing the initial report on this on 7 News & Craig Stevens (whose FB page looks to me like he's kinda a fanboy to ABC with all the posts relating to the switch) stating they'd be doing an ad campaign ahead of the launch of ABC Miami.

billboards going up around town. I wonder if they were smart enough to buy social ads against WPLG's FB profile and followers https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/7/21/ba-bye-local-10

Not - "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!" What does Cronkite have to do with the Late Show? Nothing. At least that awful, hateful creature Ellen is gone finally. Now the three windbags will be gone. All through their own doing. Losing 80% of viewers handed to them by Jay Leno and David Letterman, losing $40 mil a year in revenue, all while making $15 million a year is reason enough. Anybody else would've been fired long ago. There's nothing to salvage from Johnny Carson's legacy anyway.

It's almost surreal to see WSVN promoting FOX. (From Craig Stevens on LinkedIn)

They really shoved GMA3 to 1pm for Deco reruns Sunbeam doing Sunbeam things

Also, I'll add that WPLG's last 10pm news for WSFL will be Fri., Aug. 1st as they've stopped doing the weekend 10pm for some time there. WSFL already has Morning Rush from Scripps News and that'll go from 8-10am. Two new programs from the streamer will be added, including Today As It Happened at 6pm (hour-long) and The National Report at 11pm (also hour-long). The former of the two will push Inside South Florida, WSFL's only locally-produced show, to 5:30pm.

Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on this:

^^This, all of this^^ It was sad to watch the fall of KRON into obsolescence

I have 42 Nexstar stations (not counting WFRV) that are left in launching their own OTT apps.

Daybreak has a newcasts at 8AM on WOODTV+ seen promos for it, always surprised that they never put a morning newscast on WXSP with then owners LIN TV/Media General/Nexstar I wonder if it has to do that, they didn't want to go up against the cash cow that is Today? As FOX17 is the only morning newscast at 7AM although I think the 5AM to 7AM is anchorless and just do news stories other than weather. I don't know that as I don't watch the morning news as I'm not a morning person.

That really unfair, especially that a lot of young tv personalities get to large markets in under 10 years more like 6 years a face pressure. A long time ago it would take a decade to hit a large market. Honestly I don’t like big markets personally I prefer small markets even with the shitty pay because at least you’re comfortable mistakes are made but at least you don’t have to deal with high pressure and inflated egos of being in a big market. I told myself if I reenter I’m not even gonna go my hometown, ima try to stay 30 and up. Kansas City is the most tolerable market.

Good Lord, what a time when networks used to PAY affiliates to run their programming.... When exactly did the tide shift from actual to reverse compensation? Retransmission Consent and Must-Carry rules debuted in 1993 and the only deals at the time were between corporations and their "sister" cable channels in the few places they overlapped. As companies consolidated, these overlaps became more common. KRON getting bought by Young was the lynchpin of the modern arrangement since NBC enacted onerous demands they did not want to follow. So they took their ball over to KNTV to rechristen themselves as NBC for the Bay Area. Other stations like WJXT and WISH followed because they either did not want to pay for network programming, or balked at the rate that they were being charged for network programming. And then, Perry Sook decided to shake down the cable companies at the source, demanding cash for the carriage of Nexstar's stations. Then the networks wanted their cut of this, and our jacked up form of paying for free TV exists to this day, but for how much longer? And most of the defections in recent years? CBS. Because they wanted more money. CBS shot themselves in the foot in Raleigh to get Media General / Nexstar to pay them more $$$. NBC gets on WRAL and runs with it since it's their best ratings EVER there. And with what just went down in Atlanta, they'll take their ball and go home where they can when it's not working.

Ron Pereleman had already taken over Gillett Communications by the time Letterman debuted on CBS. The station simply netted more revenue from Murphy Brown reruns and delaying Dave to midnight. Of course, they never cleared Pat Sajak because of the hometown kid Arsenio Hall and WOAC 67 cleared Crimetime After Primetime. One has to remember that CBS cut payments to the affiliates in June 1992 and asked stations to repay 25 percent of what CBS had already given them. All that in the middle of a recession. There was already antipathy towards CBS among the affiliates even before they fumbled away the NFC rights. The Fox deal in that regard was a no-brainer for a station group like New World, which also benefitted from additional local revenue at the 10 p.m. hour and the News Corp. cash infusion.

And WPLG has released their August 4th schedule on the TitanTV grid at their website. 4:30-11am: Local 10 Morning News 11am-noon: Live With Kelly & Mark noon-1pm: Local 10 News at Noon 1-2pm: Law & Order: SVU 2-3pm: 48 Hours 3-6:30pm: Local 10 News 6:30-7pm: Local 10 World News 7-7:30pm: Wheel Of Fortune 7:30-8pm: Jeopardy! 8-9pm: People Puzzler 9-11:30pm: Local 10 News 11:30-midnight: Daytime Jeopardy! Addendum: WSFL will replace the WPLG 10pm newscast with Seinfeld on the 4th.

They've also been absent from Washington Week with The Atlantic for at least the last couple of weeks.

Big one I saw this evening: The NewsHour drop the “Corporation for Public Broadcasting” credit at the start of the program during the funding credits. I don’t know how many other PBS shows have done this, but this will probably grow soon.

When ESPN hit $7 per sub per month and Les Moonves went around complaining CBS and his stations weren't getting that, but they should get that much, and more, because sports and ratings. Then NBC under Valary got the genius idea - twist affiliates' arms into letting the network negotiate retrans fee with cable on their behalf, give some of that cash money up to NBC, in exchange for a tiered affiliate agreement based on how obedient the affiliate is - bronze with 3yr affiliate agreement if you're being a peasant, gold tier with 5 years if you didn't fight NBC's demands. Couple with forced channel bundling and there you go. Btw Peacock monthly fee is going up by $3 on Wednesday, because sports.

I was surprised by the Late Show being cancelled I thought maybe they would get a new host if they couldn't renew Colbert in my opinion. It had a good run with David Letterman 22 years out of 33 years on air with Colbert. I was never into the late night shows I always preferred Jay Leno over David Letterman if I watched late night which I largely was in bed going to sleep I'd sleep with The Tonight Show on in the background as I have to have the TV on all night to sleep.

The Great Media Knee Bending of 2025 continues. Pathetic.