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You have to wonder if companies like Allen have been making these moves on purpose simply so the stations can be so far gone, that the acquirer can legally acquire them with a failed station waiver. It seems the only innovation left in broadcasting is the boardroom manipulation to squeeze out any penny on the working level before cashing out and letting someone else deal with the carcass...

Handled...I think.

Regardless of the free reign that the broadcasters think they'll have, I think as toothless as the FCC and DOJ seem to be, they'll still prevail. We're really living in a f-around and find out time...

Sheinelle Jones returning on Friday

This is thread-worthy in itself. While it's not the end of PBS and NPR, it could very well be unwinding the network of stations through the elimination of federal funding and oversight of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/corporation-public-broadcasting-begin-shutting-operations/story?id=124284902 Basically the result will be any surviving "Public Broadcasting" stations that rely on viewer and state/local support. PBS will likely survive in name only and through their ongoing member stations. Are we great yet?

it looks like KSNV recently updated their studio with a new anchor desk and upgraded LED panels. The refresh debuted during yesterday’s newscasts.

Allen Media Group somehow had the budget to (at least) consult with, of all design agencies, Vivid Zero/Defiant to come up with some drafts of a standardized look for its stations. There was a (now locked) thread on here a while ago where someone claimed that Allen stations would be getting a mandated look, and these could possibly be the package in question. These screenshots came from Defiant's most recent studio reel of news graphics.

If I find one or if I can produce a decent screencap, I’ll post it. Their website and social media have been quiet about the updates.

Congratulations, 10 years, that was a long run. Did you save your masters - there are some TV production archives that preserve this sort of thing, one in Northern California for example.

Third-Rate newscasts, crap-tastic syndication packages (as @Megatron81 noted Allen foregoing Wheel, J!, TMZ, ET, etc. for lower-tier shows), and if your network can't deliver in primetime... You could very well get there at this point.

Their ratings have to drop below about 4% of the total day viewership before such can occur.

There's nothing funny about that Bennett, can we please do anything about them? They don't post anything but inappropriate reactions.

And would also think that instead of jettisoning local meteorologists, Allen would have taken a cue from the competition and integrated their local experience, as applicable, to weather situations- like Fox Weather has done with their O&O Mets. Alas, Allen does not think logically.

In France, an update on the 20h saga! Léa Salamé has been named the new anchor of 20h, and with her arrival, updated set, and updated graphics! In an interesting move, the headlines now come before the intro, obviously the norm here in the States, but it is usually the opposite in France. The new intro is an actual graphical intro, not involving the set, a departure for France 2, though it takes inspiration from the last intro's use of circles, and then exits gracefully to the shape of the desk. I'm also a fan of the graphic behind Salamé during the headlines.

Not surprised that The CW reupped with the Lil PAC with 9 members for football, Men's & Women's Basketball kinda surprised they didn't air OSU & WSU Men's basketball last year & this year.

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

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.

The way things are going, I sincerely doubt that this will be a huge priority for a new administration once 2029 rolls around. The damage would have been long done, there will have been even more consolidations, and there will be nobody left looking to buy. TV will be in an even worse and more precarious place than it is today. Who knows what the landscape will even look like? Who's to say that the affiliation model doesn't break down before then? The money is gone, and the viewers are fleeing towards the exits. The weather streamers are a huge flashing red warning light that these companies seem to be failing to notice. Weather was always one of the pillars of local news. It was one of the reasons local media executives thought they were invincible. "Everyone loves their local meteorologists, they can't get this anywhere else!" Yet, several of these statewide weather streamers, and none of the big name national ones, have any connection to local media companies. They're these startup operations with a shoestring budget, doing something that a company like Nexstar could get off the ground in a week. The reality is that I really don't think there's enough room here for there to be a huge amount of competition. Alabama could use a service that focuses on statewide severe weather coverage, but they don't need six of them, and whoever isn't first will really need to make waves to be noticed.

Looks almost like "Uncle Ant" one of the lesser-known characters from the short lived "Itchy & Scratchy & Friends" hour....

It's all seniors, the vast majority of which are Republican.

it's not an ideological show. The 5 people who watch it can also dig in for another $2500 to donate to PBS if they love it so much

I was specifically talking about the Lawrence Welk rerun demographic who almost completely overlaps with the Republican base.

And another thing PBS stations run by colleges and universities do is to educate and train journalists. This is basically their first job and hands-on experience reporting on the news in the communities they are attending school in. In return, these areas (some of which are VERY under-served) get local news coverage from a mix of students and professionals who work together. Some notable ones that run daily newscasts include WUFT in Gainesville, FL (University of Florida) and WOUB in Athens, Ohio (Ohio University). Even in the 1990s after Paxson shut down WAKC's news department and stripped their ABC affiliation away in favor of infomercials (and later PAX), WNEO and WEAO stepped in with NewsNight Akron which was a discussion show about news in the Akron area. They couldn't afford to start a news department (the stations were a joint venture of the local universities, Akron, Kent State and Youngstown State at the time) but this was a way to fill the void until WKYC partnered with Paxson to start up a local newscast again in 2001 that ran on WVPX (the old WAKC).

I'm trying to make sense of your ramblings best I can, bear with me. I remember the Watercooler too... but let's ignore the fact that you're citing all of your knowledge from conversations in a toxic cesspool 15+ years ago... there's a reason why that message board isn't around anymore (and why this website was created). Public media has absolutely had layoffs, even during 2008. That said, when a beloved 50+ year old institution gets attacked and defunded, of course it's going to make the headlines. If you think public media doesn't report on the local media industry, you're wrong. Just because you didn't see it, and let's be real... you probably aren't a viewer/listener, doesn't mean it didn't happen. CPB's looming shutdown this fall is akin to Scripps closing up shop overnight and leaving all of their stations out in the cold scrambling to survive without any infrastructure support. If that actually happened, public media newsrooms would absolutely report on it. But that hasn't happened. Scripps, Allen, TEGNA... they're all still alive. Commercial media has been slowly bleeding out these past 15+ years like numerous other industries that public media newsrooms are also reporting on. The media industry across the board, public and commercial, is in a tailspin. Public media isn't immune to the changing landscape and has been doing what it can to reinvent itself, just like local news has been trying and both have been doing this as financial resources and viewership numbers drop. With PBS moving into streaming via Passport and NPR getting into the podcast game, their viewer/listener/donor base's average age is trending downward. If you think there aren't public media stations that have staffers doing the work of 2-3 people or that positions haven't been reduced for consolidated/centralization efforts like in commercial media, well, I really don't know what to tell you. Has your local NBC affiliate been reporting on that during the last 15+ years prior to the federal funding fight? Saying that no one is interested in public media and that people are flocking to local television news in droves is the most nonsensical thing you've included in your diatribe. One of the great things about public media is that it is for everyone. If you think an independent press and educational programming aren't worth fighting for or funding, I totally understand that. Not everyone values facts, nuance, or public service. Some people just want noise that confirms their biases. Please, just don't confuse your personal disinterest with the facts. Some of us still care about democracy and the truth. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/26/americans-more-likely-to-support-than-oppose-continuing-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs/ https://current.org/2017/02/farewell-tote-bags-pbs-passport-draws-younger-donors-as-membership-reward/ https://current.org/2021/06/how-to-build-the-next-generation-of-public-radio-listeners/ https://www.npr.org/2008/12/10/98098442/npr-cuts-jobs-cancels-programs https://current.org/2009/06/fiscal-year-end-layoffs-include-10-of-pbs-staff/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gannett-journalists-across-the-nation-walk-out-over-pay-management-issues https://www.pbs.org/video/how-sinclair-broadcasting-puts-a-partisan-tilt-on-local-news-1507678399/

ok well please, clue us then... i came to America in 1995 so maybe I don't know even though I talked to a lot of these people in South Florida and beyond for 15 years. What am I missing? I was around for the TVSpy forums. PBS/NPRfolk look down on commercial local news and talent as being unsavory, low brow and not news [hello PBS Beat The Press]. As well, local newsers often think of PBS/NPR staff as the rejects who couldn't hack it at WABC, WSVN etc. or who weren't good enough to hire in the first place. That's no secret, to say otherwise is to lie. When one half of the most watched West Palm anchor duo got canned, and landed at the local PBS three years later, local TVfolk laughed, I think those comments might have survived on the sfltv database and still be visible. That's one. Also, public data from PBS/NPR shows average donor age is 69 years old! Nevermind the age, for the three South Florida PBS stations, less than 1% of the 6.5 million population is donating to "critical and important PBS and NPR." Which means, there's less than 1% chance anyone decrying the cuts is a donor, but statistically they pay $10-$20 a month just to Netflix, don't know about $10 daily lattes I'm more of a bulgarian airyan guy. Maybe it predates my landing in America but why is PBS/NPR the sacred cow that must survive at all costs and cannot have layoffs at any time ever, for any reason even if no viewers are interested? Local news, which actual people tune in droves on purpose, has been cut and bled since 2008. A lot of those laid off had to reinvent themselves to survive. I just checked on a couple of former anchors of top rated newscasts and they're between jobs again. Take Scripps and Allen stations, their employees for years have been doing the jobs of 2-3 people after mass layoffs. Anyone out there, NPR/PBS, notice and write reams of articles every day for months on end, about how impacted those people are? Nope. Or... I have no clue

Little public service announcement. Please don't report posts that you simply don't like. That's an abuse of the feature. Don't let it happen again, and I hope to not see anyone else report a certain post in this thread. No rules are being broken by having a differing opinion.

You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.

Or still use Uri Berliner's words as excuse to claim that NPR isn't reliable.

"wind-down of its operations" and cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September" commeuppance, as they say. PBSers snickered and thumbed their noses at local newsers losing their jobs bEcAusE tHeY d0n't d0 rEaL nEwS and serve the cuhmuneteeeh... now the chickens have come home to roost. "Much health" as we would say in Bulgaria all the people bitching about PBS/NPR could just donate, they pay $10 for tub of "latte" every day we've been lectured about how essential PBS is, if it were essential PBS now won't have to lay anyone off just like they didn't during the 2008 crash when stations like WTVJ were almost wiped off the map

But not to worry. Job creation numbers are about to go through the roof once a lying hack is doing the orange one’s bidding.

Maybe Canada should have its own Out and About thread.

Agree with you on the channel basically being dead, but you'd think that having actual competition (AccuWeather, WeatherNation, and Fox Weather) would get the channel to rise to the occasion.

Yeah. That is exactly why I post the emoji, followed by the name of the country, because not everyone will know that. That's Poland, Georgia (the country, not the U.S. state), the Czech Republic, and one of my favorites, Spain, in that order. Speaking of the latter... RTVE took part in a 20-second blackout of their programmes with Reporters without Borders earlier this evening to protest the recent killing of journalists inside the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war. La 1: La 2: Canal 24 Horas: Canada I wanna add Canada in here because in case it was forgotten... Corus has officially pulled the plug on six of its networks in Canada: ABC Spark, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Jr., La Chaine Disney, and Nickelodeon. YouTuber Molly Mcgee has done a fantastic job of capturing them all, but its mainly the same thing. A Corus ident pops up, stays up for two minutes, and then the message This channel is no longer available shows up. ABC Spark: Disney Channel: La Chaine Disney: Disney Jr.: Disney XD: Nickelodeon:

So sad. I remember him when he was a sports reporter in Buffalo for what's now Spectrum News 1 Buffalo (YNN at the time).

Here's the WYMT special from earlier this evening.

Ugh. Another great one gone too soon. Former WYMT Chief Forecaster Brandon Robinson has passed away after battling with brain cancer for 9 years. He was 42. Usually, WYMT is not on the weekend anymore due to Gray's cuts from a year ago. However, tonight at 6:00pm, it will be an exception as a tribute to the forecaster who spent and devoted 17 years to the station and to Eastern and Central Kentucky. https://www.wymt.com/2025/08/31/long-time-wymt-forecaster-dies/

A legendary, well-known face in Arizona journalism has died. I consider him one of KTVK 3TV's giants since he was one of Arizona's first Hispanic anchors. Frank Camacho was 75 and passed away this morning after a battle with cancer.

KOMU sports director Ben Arnet has unexpectedly passed away at the age of 43.

Only a short time at WAPT and a heart attack killed her. Celeste Wilson has unexpectedly passed away. Damn. https://www.wapt.com/article/celeste-wilson-16-wapt-news-weekend-anchor-dies/65913634?fbclid=IwY2xjawMcR6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpXZm-Nq_UC7CPNL9xgfJmkto34AAsHcQVkyeE6a_yONTZGRoRVgaksozyUD_aem_OK2ueZFiBECh4a3o68k9fA

And just days after Ken Schwall passed on. https://www.wbir.com/video/life/people/remembering-ken-schwall-the-newsmans-newsman/51-a13fc4b4-5fe4-4d66-a118-1ae92b95b32d

This one hurts. A GIANT. A treasure. THE Walter Cronkite of East Tennessee. Beloved former WBIR anchorman Bill Williams has passed away at 91. Robin Wilhoit couldn't hold it together while delivering the news at noon today, and understandably so. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/bill-williams-passes-away/51-52960a4b-54cf-4548-9323-58d68a0574b3

Without CPB, what kind of infrastructure will there be for PBS and NPR itself? It will basically be a group of stations sending programming to each other. NPR is more centralized than PBS, so changes may be the most apparent there. Key member stations (WETA, WQED, WNET, WGBH, etc...) produce a lot of PBS's programming, so the member stations may have to create a cooperative to feed programming to each other.

Outside of the areas adjacent to bordering states such as Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama, a good chunk of Mississippi (including the Jackson metro area) will shut be out of NPR/PBS programming. Like Mississippi, three of those four also have statewide NPR and PBS networks. The state of Tennessee government had a hand in launching public television stations across the rest of the state (except Memphis and Nashville), but they all are individual operations. We'll see where the next shoe drops, as far as what individual, regional, or statewide public broadcasting operation drops NPR and/or PBS next. Surely, there will be some consolidation of individual NPR/PBS operations in the same geographic region, possibly forming regional or statewide networks.

I have no words for this.

As a result of the CPB cuts, Mississippi Public Broadcasting will eliminate all PBS and NPR programming by next July.

Doubtful "77000 members and sponsors" across 6 stations, in a state of 6 million $21 mil in revenue, $29 mil in assets. $3.5 mil cash. $3.1 mil in investment income for 2024. They can stop complaining if they can afford to drop $2500 a year on a PBS membership to see their names printed on a paper

As I sadly expected, the first victim of the PBS/CPB cuts on-air isn't one of the 'woke' documentaries the GOP targeted, but older reliables like Lawrence Welk repeats which have heavy ASCAP/BMI fees. PBS Wisconsin is pulling it after this Saturday's episode. And yes, the old folks who put in a lot of money into their member stations are mad (rightly so).

Longtime WHDH Boston reporter and host of Urban Update Byron Barnett has passed away. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=24243204915299789&id=100001108530363