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Wow. Not everyone has the same circumstances. No one is owed an explanation or specific timeline for something that is between her and her employer.

Her personal business is not our business. She deserves her privacy. That's between her and her employer. I'm assuming you have never lost a close relative like a spouse, sibling or parent. The time to heal varies person by person and the relationship with the deceased. With small kids, I can imagine it's even more complicated. I hope she is getting the compassion and support she needs from family, friends and colleagues. It's not any of our business. I hope when you need it, you have an employer that is patient and supportive as you go through all the different stages of grieving.

Doesn’t sound like you understand. Mind your own business.

Gulf Coast News (WBBH/WZVN) debuted Diagrid '25 today.

From the comments on her instagram, it sounds like she is going to NYC and will remain with ABC on the network level. She referenced an apple (as in the Big Apple) and said we would still be able to see her on TV.

In DC, Gannett did a number on WUSA long before Tegna was created. Sinclair destroying WJLA after Allbritton made something of them is what brought WUSA back up a few pegs.

According to one of the anchors, WDRB in Louisville is getting a new set. This set was built in 2014. IMO, it aged really well, and despite the age, it still looks better than the other sets in the market.

Not since the rebrand to Gulf Coast ABC.

So he was a dumb frat guy in college. it's allowed.

Technically, the new logo revives the 1992 WKRC-style “12”.

General inertia in Cleveland has kept WKYC as the runner-up to WJW because it's not like WEWS is any better. Nor has WOIO-WUAB ever had sustained ratings traction. That being said, I can't wait to see Nexstar use data showing WKYC at dead last and justifying the failed station waiver. It doesn't even need to be true!

The existing set looks better than the ones that many of the Gray stations got in the ensuing years. Especially the ones that got stuck with the "gray-hound" bus station look.

Clearly, which is going to make things very interesting once the Gray acquisition is done. The set has aged pretty well though. WHAS desperately needs refurbished...

Or probably a prototype. Anyway:

So, I'm guessing the previous package was temporary?

WBAY has hired WPSD meteorologist Nolan Cain to be their new weekend met (replacing Keith Gibson). Freelance meteorologist Colleen Mehlberg, who has worked the weekend broadcast following Gibson's departure, will continue to make sporadic appearances. https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/entertainment/2025/08/27/nolan-cain-is-wbay-tvs-new-weekend-meteorologist/85855432007/

Yes, I wrote the Original "Where The News Comes First" TV News theme for KCRA-TV Channel 3 Sacramento, CA. in 1983 and did multiple re-arrangements for approximately 10 years. Thank You!

Yeah that’s because black don’t cra… I mean’t she just got good genes.

KMGH has moved to brand new digs months ago. Therefore, its old digs are no longer needed. Its being demolished for a new 11-story building for housing, among other things. The report from KUSA:

YouTube and Fox have reached a short-term extension (after a statement of support for Fox from Brendan Carr) , signaling that a new carriage deal is near: https://deadline.com/2025/08/fox-youtube-tv-set-short-term-extension-carriage-renewal-1236499379/

I'd say KTLA is probably a station that could be closer to this model. They already have a slew of non newscast shows (California cooking, Frank Buckley Interviews, Off the Clock, inside California politics, LA unscripted). A lot of the shows are currently weekend only with the exception of a few. They also produce Red Carpet shows for all the awards shows; they could definitely produce daily entertainment shows. They also produce telethons. KTLA is definitely a station that could pull it off.

The only exceptions are the FOX affiliates in which Gray reupped with FOX for those with current expiration dates on them currently unclear.

Here's a list of the current contracts that Gray holds (including affiliation agreements and their expiration dates) https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/api/manager/download/f3b17ed2-ba72-2238-e3ea-5059313c19e9/95931e93-1049-436d-bd95-f3c7d73029b9.pdf It says WUAB is under agreement until 2027 with the CW. How was Nexstar able to swoop in and grab it back for themselves to put on WBNX?

WNYT is finally adding an hour of its weekday morning news over on WNYA. It will run from 7-8am starting Sept. 15th. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1164642699043834&id=100064943431758

Remember when Gannett was a good company that ran quality stations? It may have been posted here before, but this is a piece that WTCN (now KARE) produced after taking over the station from Metromedia, and all of the investment they made in the people, product and making them a factor in the market during NBC's rise from the basement in the early 80s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR79IZquMYo Fast forward to now, and all of the damage Tegna has done, and that was before Mike Steib took over. It's like they torched everything to make these stations easy targets to be subsumed by their competition. Failing station waiver material perhaps? Things like this SHOULD have factored into transactions so that companies don't torch their assets to make them qualify as "failing" or under the limits. But here we are now...

80 or so years in is anybody really confused on where to find what channel or what’s gonna be there when they turn it on? Honestly I think the network names and logos in the local branding is way worse. Most of the people watching are 902 and their dials are rusted on whatever channel they prefer.

Earl we'd love to hear your stories - the inspiration behind and creation of the music to the facts of how it evolved. Coincidentally, RIP Stan Atkinson who passed this weekend. The music you made was of the highest caliber to match his style of broadcasting.

Welcome Earl, was this one for KCRA your baby? The brassy Stan Atkinson “we have news for you…next” intro march. Your name sounds familiar from trying to lookup the author info for “Where the News Comes First” themes.

WZPX replace Scripp News DT6 with ION+ DT6 which WXMI FOX17 put on their DT4 in July of this year.

Hmm... I don't think so given the fact that Kansas City isn't that known for collage sports 'n stuff. KMCI is gonna be 38 the Spot for a while.

A little bit off topic, but I wonder if, based on the programming & branding changes that have occured at KUPX, KMCC & KASW, Scripps owned independent TV station KMCI-TV, Ch. 38 in Kansas City, MO, will eventually drop it's longtime "38 the Spot" branding & start using some branding like Kansas City 38 or even KC 38?

Ion and the CW airing live sports. Whodathunkit? What's next, candlepin bowling on MyNet?

From Salt Lake City: Like KMCC, KUPX has became an independent station. The branding: KMCC: Vegas 34 KUPX: Utah 16

It's not as crazy as it sounds. Look at all the stations Scripps owns within or near the PAC-12 footprint:

This move reinforces that the Ion transmitters are acting more like a national digital multiplex licensee in a European-style DTT system than anything that exists in the US. About all that's missing is one national channel number.

I wonder whether Univision would be willing to end the deal early in several markets. One market I see would be Washington, DC where Univision hosts Nexstar on RF15 as potentially clearing Grit and Bounce could make room for WDVM move into DC. Also, the other Scripps subnets air in DC on WRZB-LD and should move to WPXW in the spring.

"Grown as a brand", "for adults only"? They sound about the same to me.

The thing about Qubo is that Scripps would likely have to invest big bucks into it to make it even remotely competitive. That would mean spending big on original programming that they'd either produce in-house or otherwise lock down all the rights to. There would also likely be minimal help from the syndication market, since most of the worthwhile content (at least, animation-wise) is owned by Disney, WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal, and I can't imagine most of those companies are all that eager to help. They could perhaps look into old TGIF shows or what have you but I can't imagine they come cheap. Remember The Hub? Not even Hasbro had the acumen or the willingness to spend big to make that network competitive. Were it not for My Little Pony, The Hub would've been even more of a flop than it ended up being. I'm also under the impression that the TV business has more or less given up on children's shows on linear. Cartoon Network has basically packed it in (if only they hadn't ditched the multi-generational angle they had in their salad days!). The Disney Channel and its offshoots seem to be dying on the vine. Nickelodeon is still one of ViacomCBS's crown jewels and that NFL simulcast indicates some sort of self-preservation instinct. The fact that they have so eagerly flogged their '90s heyday and decided that we didn't have our fill of Rugrats in 1999 helps. Scripps bought ION because it's cheap and hugely profitable. Qubo will never be a factor without significant investment, and reruns of 20-year-old Nelvana shows aren't going to cut it.

When he said "mature", I'm pretty sure he meant "not grown as a brand". Of course, his company decided they don't want to grow the brand, and have put it in the line of corporate fire, like in those stereotypical Mexican executions you'd see on TV. And as for the whole kids thing, Symson said in that same call that he wants diginets to go for a younger audience - which makes the Qubo decision all the more baffling, at least to me. Even if the brand isn't that desirable, Nickelodeon was in a similar state in the early 80s before it turned around under Viacom. Obviously, the times are different now, but it still seems wrong that they're trying to go "younger", yet have decided to leave the youngest viewers of the bunch to digital services such as Netflix and YouTube, like they want over-the-air TV to die off. Basically, it just makes Symson's talk of "going younger" seem like the usual insincere corporate speak, which I'm 99.9999% sure it is.

I'm not sure why Scripps didn't at least attempt to sell it to Litton. The distribution deals baked into the original charter have some value. It seems to me that ION is moving toward the same category as MyNetworkTV, as it will be strictly syndicated primetime programming blocks and local media partners will fill in the rest of the content, likely with locally produced content and syndicated repeats (e.g. The List, Right This Minute). From a Denver perspective, I'm not sure why Scripps acquired KCDO. Grit, like NewsNet and significantly less so than TEGNA's Quest, doesn't exactly attract a wide, relevant audience. Even if their target demo is men between 25 and 55 years old, that's pretty much in line with the sweet spot of a lot of first run network programs anyway, and those networks aren't producing new westerns. Also, KCDO-TV is the only full power station, O&O or otherwise, for Grit broadcasting on it's main channel... I'm wondering if this acquisition has more to do with ATSC 3.0. KMGH has had signal issues on their main tower due to VHF interference, but that was solved when the signal was duplicated on UHF KZCO-LD (though I'm not quite sure why Scripps didn't piggy back a UHF simulcast onto 7.4 like KUSA did on KTVD's UHF signal).

We have a date! Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop will be going away on February 28. https://scripps.com/press-releases/scripps-takes-first-steps-to-realize-ion-synergies-with-multicast-networks-move/

On another note, we don't know the date for when Ion Plus or Qubo are shutting down yet.

Cool. Hopefully some different sub channels down the road.

Anything going to change with the new owners of the divested/INYO stations?

Ion Plus; guaranteed to be closed. Their schedule is just second runs of crime series and Cancon already on the main Ion, so the 'waste of spectrum' comment is on the nose. Qubo has pretty much become the last resort network for children's producers to take their shows, so outside of mass E/I credits to keep the main Ion schedule kids-free and little cable/sat pickup, it's probably done too. And not commented but for sure done; Ion Shop. The days of all-informercial channels are best left to cable systems now. Also expect them to reel back paid religious time solely to Sunday mornings.

We don't know yet. All we know is that Qubo and Ion Plus are going away.

Will Qubo & Ion Plus be closed or converted into digital services?

Scripps had a webcast this morning about how they'll be operating going forward. The only real revelation of the webcast was their rather casual dismissal of Qubo and Ion Plus. Adam Symson said that the services weren't "mature" compared to the Katz networks, and confirmed that the company will go Old Yeller on them so they can use their space for the Katz networks as planned. Basically, he brushed them off as worthless wastes of spectrum to be thrown away (and I guess they don't want their channels on their pre-existing spectrum either). Not what he actually said obviously, but that's what I got out of it.

Viacom, Disney, and MGM veteran Tom Zappala has been hired as Head of Programming for the Scripps networks.