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35 years at the Tower for Allison Rosati. Reflection on her anchoring with Sirott, Norman, Saunders, Magers, Kwan, Stafford, Holt and many others. Her streak of long running evening anchor for now 28 years remains untouched.

With just days to go before their Independence Day, WANF has finally posted their plans, telling you what I've already told you but there's some new wrinkles in there. TL;DR Sounds like ATL Live will be two hours, both new, one at 10am and another at 1pm. On The Record is their new politics show on Sundays at 11am. WANF will even have a 7pm newscast on Saturdays. Uncovered: ANF Investigates, the local Investigate TV+ weekly version (let's be honest here), will air Sundays at 7pm. Atlanta Eats moves from WPCH to WANF on Saturdays at 8pm. One-on-One with Monica Pearson moves from WPCH to WANF on Sundays at 8pm. WANF will even have weekend news at 9pm on top of the 10 and 11pm news I've already mentioned in previous posts. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/12/anf-unveils-new-programming-with-expanded-local-news-political-show-investigations/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMJwGpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHizTHCSEcDM7l_7iudkrV7MzraI7A8bTrZIijDJMHzADUNVIN1vsnFWgA-GS_aem_9zQ3US4YRDdB2BfyNUAoRw

That does sound like leaving wasn't something she wanted to do. I see a lot of her co-workers have left comments wishing her well and sad over her departure.

Interesting! Never would have guessed this would ever happen

Derek Hough, Dancing with the Stars pro-dancer and judge, will replace Billy Bush as the new host of Extra. https://deadline.com/2025/08/derek-hough-new-host-extra-entertainment-news-magazine-1236485101/

In other news, Diddy wants $100 Million from Nexstar... https://www.thewrap.com/diddy-defamation-damages-lawsuit-doubles-nexstar/

1000% contract expirations. For Nexstar more control and assurances all CW programming gets aired as they expand beyond 8-10pm and deeper into sports. But even more importantly, it is likely the retransmission revenue they get from MVPDs from a CW feed is greater than the reverse compensation revenue paid by a non-owned affiliate. (Friendly reminder: if you look at financial reports Nexstar brings in more revenue from distribution/retransmission than ad sales!) And, honestly, if I was a non-Nexstar station operator in a market where Nexstar has an operation - I would have serious reservations about paying for the privilege of airing programming from a network that is owned by a direct competitor. Even if replacement programming options are limited.

I have to wonder if all these CW moves are pure contract expirations, or did the stations do something egregious to trigger Nexstar to pull the affiliation? These days, all it takes is a station or group to balk at the terms, let alone default on them.

This is boring. Nexstar's Q2 Earnings. But there's a reason why I'm posting this: Yep. The CW is on the move in Erie as well. We just don't know yet if it will be on WJET 24.2 or WFXP 66.2. https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:fbfe1fd7-bd8e-4e22-8624-a88fbc4a0104

Sinclair is off-loading the NewsOn app to Zeam... https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/ https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/zeam-acquires-newson-from-sinclair/

Sinclair is dumber than Nexstar. First Stirr...now NewsOn? I really hope some two bit private equity firm buys Sinclair simply to drive them out of business entirely.

They clearly were unsuccessful with that plan, which puts a lot of doubt on the entire station group. The reduced valuation of their stations is partly their own doing.

InDemand, what a throwback. Bumping into those Viewer's Choice PPV psychic shows on Primestar my first days in the US is a core memory. Might be place for PPV but even pickleball have their own TV "network" now and they don't have to revshare with Big Cable

Nexstar has been a mega corp. What really sucks for Tegna employees is PTO. Tegna had probably the most generous PTO in the industry. Nexstar on the other hand...they'd ban PTO if they could.

Interestingly ambiguous. Doesn’t seem like it was entirely her choice?

Another post to mention... Sounds like KDKA has quietly canceled the 8pm news on sister WPKD and replaced it with a repeat of KDKA's 6pm news. https://www.triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-more-change-at-kdka-tv-news-director-exits-with-promotion/

When WBNX lost the CW under the Ernest Angley management, that was tied to a default the ministry had with one of their investors. They were originally under contract through 2021 and WB/CBS cut the deal with WUAB that's up in September. Then Nexstar bought the CW, and then WBNX.

What changed? I remember a decade ago people said things like "CBS probably makes more money off KMOV being an affiliate than they would owning it again" amid Les Moonves' push for more and more reverse comp money...

I know WCCB’s contract expires at the end of the month but I can’t speak for the other markets

Zeam is about to get a whole lot bigger. Sinclair has sold NewsON to the Gray and Morgan Murphy-backed streamer. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/

last year when Sinclair announced they might sell up to 30% of their stations on the earnings call they said they have no sacred cows, any station will be sold if it makes sense. Not unthinkable that they could be willing to cash out in some way if they feel the getting is suddenly good A story from today (TVnewscheck I think) quoted money managers who said high networth clients and funds are feeling lukewarm on broadcast television. It doesn't help so many TV execs keep saying they're managing a declining asset

So much so, that InDemand (the pay-per-view supplier to traditional cable companies) is shutting down its operations at the end of this year... https://www.nexttv.com/news/in-demand-to-shut-down-at-end-of-2025 Surely with the end of InDemand, this may have played a role in UFC deciding to go exclusively with Paramount+ with PPV distribution of their events. However, in the article I posted, it was noted that the three key owners in InDemand (Cox, Spectrum, Comcast) will each individually handle their own pay-per-view offerings going forward. That said, with the major sports leagues having their own streaming seasonal packages on their own apps, plus a few of them also using distribution through Prime Video, we'll see how much longer the traditional TV providers keep utilizing the pay-per-view model.

Kelly Clarkson recently cancelled her latest residency dates because of her ex-husband's ill health (which was not the narrative ET and other gossip sites had been trying to push so God, they're horrible); he passed away this morning. I'm so devastated for her and her children, and will completely understand if she will not be back on the show in September, much less November.