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CBS Sports is celebrating 50 years since The NFL Today premiered... They really committed to the bit, from the open, well done virtual studio, and graphics. They didn't even use the ticker.

lets face it. He’ll try to interfere even if Disney fires Kimmel. Trump is a bully who likes to bully just because he can. You can be his biggest ass kisser and he’ll still treat you like shit

That's a great description for what stations like WWOR look like these days.

Sorry for being late. Life happens. Here's what's been happening in gotham city. WCBS: Comics Unleashed (syn) replaced by Funny you should ask as the former show takes hold of the post-colbert time slot at 12:35a this coming late monday, replacing the forgone After Midnight. FYSA still runs on sis station WLNY at 4p. Fire Country reruns (2x) replaces The Equalizer late night saturday at 12:05a. NCIS Hawaii (2x) late night sunday at 1:05a. WNBC: Matter of Fact with Soledad o' brien concluded the weekend of sept. 30. Nothing else much changed. WNYW: Person, place or thing, Pictionary and EXTRA (encore) replaced by TMZ rerun at 1:30p and People's Court at 2p, which moved from 4p. FOX 5 News Block (basically a 4p newscast, who you're kidding?) debuted 9/8 at 4p. "Family feud favorites" debuted this week at 12a leading into 25 words' 2nd run at 12:30a. Meanwhile, Battleground with SE Cupp, which aired during last year's presidential season for FOX O&Os, returned on FOX Local focused this time on the ongoing NYC mayoral race, thus its edition of "BG NYC: the fight for your vote" air at 11p, bumping Good night New York to 11:30p. It'll rerun at 4a before GD Wakeup and 1a on My9. Why don't they air other FOX local produced shows like 'Portia' or 'The Jason Show', which has since expanded to other FOX (non o&o) affiliates, on their or their My9 sked instead of treating more like a rerun farm is telling to me but I digress. WABC: "She's in the game" airs as a weekend filler (ex. one time sun morning at 5a) Nothing else changed. WWOR: Divorce Court airs solo at 8:30a, replacing People Puzzler. The former replays on FOX Soul at various times. Although the latter is still in syndie circuit, it's not appearing elsewhere as other stations relegated it to overnight or early morning since last year. GDNY simulcast its 9a hour on My9 starting this past week. "The noon" repeats at 1p, started last week. J-Hud + Sherri encores switch slots at 3p + 4p respectively. Dish Nation departed last week. Its spinoff, Side Dish, lives on at FOX Soul, YT and Tubi. Crime expose with Nancy o' Dell departs for WLNY 9/22. In turn, Family Feud will run 5-8p. That's 3 hours of feud, alongside the other hour at 10p, four total. Reminder that My9 is essentially an independent, not so exclusive + rerun program farm. If it's first run alone, it's airing elsewhere on other platforms. Also, MNTV in NOT a network, don't @ me. The sked resembles more of an abandoned parking lot at the old 9 broadcast plaza, waiting for demolition, but I digress. WPIX: Tribunal Justice (2x) airs at 11a, replacing Mathis Court, moving to WLNY. Live PD Presents (2x) airs at 3p, replacing the zombified Dr. Phil. WLNY: Scrambled up at 4a, Court cam at 4:30a, the 5:30a slot is filled with mystery + true crime filler featuring' cruise ship killers', 'alien discourse files', 'top secret files', 'almost unsolved', and 'heartland homicide', some featured from true crime network. Judge Milian's justice for the people runs 1x at 12p, making room for Mathis court (1x) at 12:30p. Crime expose moves from My9 to 10/55 at 3p, joining Icrime at 3:30p this monday. Fire Country + NCIS Hawaii reruns replace The equalizer at least on Saturday nights 8-10p. CBS Saturday morning gets a double run at 12p. American Housewife left syndie last week, so did the zombified Paternity Court.

I'm trying to catch up on this situation... Sinclair and Trump are on the same... all talk and no action. I have to wonder did they just chicken out, or did ABC threaten them with legal action for preempting their programming? If anything this should be the final straw for Sinclair, and if they lose the ABC affiliate base, the walls will start crumbling from within.

At what point do you think that will ever happen that the administration will do that? The answer is never. Want to cancel? Great. Have at it. The government wins either way.

If you look at WPIX's report last night at 10pm, their introduction to the story was very transparent: "ABC decided to pull the plug on the show after Nexstar, which is PIX11's parent company, announced that its ABC affiliates would pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely over its Charlie Kirk comments"

This is never going to happen. The only ones who should be giving an apology is Disney, ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair. Jimmy Kimmel Live's ratings surpassed NBC's The Tonight Show because he focused on politics. It might be annoying to MAGA, but MAGA has lots of other things to watch. The country is never going to unify, the right has gone way too extreme for that to ever happen.

Of course, because there is no way to discuss this without making Disney and ABC look like pro-MAGA censors that only care about those on the far right. In the little coverage ABC News has given the story, they act like the FCC gave them no choice. While the FCC chairperson did make a threat towards ABC, no official action was taken. I think the U.S. government is no different than the government of Russia as they have proven rules and laws don't matter to them, but in this case they never actually took action against ABC, if ABC is going to try and blame the FCC for this, they should have let the process play out and see what the FCC actually ended up doing, self censoring yourself before the authoritarian government actually gets a chance to do anything just shows how weak and spineless Disney and ABC are. It also says to viewers that they shouldn't trust anything they see on ABC News because the network has flat out admitted that they are terrified of upsetting the far right authoritarian government. CBS News proved you can't trust anything they broadcast by hiring a far right MAGA ombudsman to police coverage and ABC isn't even willing to keep an entertainment comedy show on the air, and the ABC News program where they discuss :hot topics" isn't allowed to talk about it. As I said before. U.S. media is now no different than media in China or Russia. Australia's ABC News asks tough questions to Trump, because Australia still has credible media outlets, America's ABC News "journalists" know that if they ask any questions that upset Trump, Disney will fire them.

Looks so cheap with the green screen.

Then we could see companies like Nexstar and Gray acquire the networks...