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Affiliates are in the weakest position they've ever been in to make demands. Disney should put all the pressure on now and not let them get away with this behaviour.

Watching the monologue on his first show back, and I have to say Nexstar and Sinclair look real dumb right now.

United Kingdom 1955 music? The first-ever ITN logo at the end board? Yep, all used tonight at the end of News at Ten to mark 70 years of ITV and ITN.

Although Nexstar has not been overtly far right in coverage, commentary and speaking points like Sinclair is, they have decided that they are the censors for all of America, and it's a biased censor. That is wrong. The choice should be up to the viewer. The viewer is the ultimate censor. If they don't like a show, or a commentator, or a news product, they watch something else. Most of us have made those choices before. Sadly I am traveling to a market where all commercial TV is now controlled by either of these companies. If I watch the news, it will be streamed from my home market where Sinclair does not exist and Nexstar has a distant 5th place station.

I can confirm KTBS won't be boycotting Kimmel. For that matter, WICS and WDAY aren't either.

Nexstar and Sinclair may force all network streamers to reconsider. One way the networks can fight back is to have a live feed and available to cable customers to show both that there are alternative distribution channels that make them irrelevant. Time for Disney, Paramount and Comcast to take the aggressive approach with these broadcasters.

Very well deserved. A fantastic anchor. He's been working weekends at WKMG for what feels like forever.

I think the only Disney-owned cable channel that would be available and have widespread coverage is FX. FXX might be a better fit content-wise, but it doesn't as much carriage as its sister station. And Freeform effectively doesn't exist between 11pm and midnight ET. (IYKYK.)

I've already seen it, I'll post the video later, but it's a completely different set!

True on that...a temporary night on cable would probably be better than coordinating subchannel networks; I'm just disappointed that unlike the UK, Canada and Australia, the Big Four networks have never really developed secondary broadcast networks (no, MyNet and pre-Nexstar CW do not count).

News-Press & Gazette’s KION (CBS/Fox) is ending their news operation after 56 years, effective immediately.

The show will be on Hulu the day after it airs. No idea what time, though, but probably no sooner than 6:37am ET (12:37am Hawaii time). And, of course, segments will be released to the show's YouTube channel. I actually think that tonight's episode should be made available there in its entirety so that as many viewers as possible can see Kimmel's first episode post-suspension.

And they announced it:

And do the viewers who pay for cable or Disney+/Hulu have the ability to stream the show in pattern? If that's not the case then it becomes a consumer issue, Nexstar and Sinclair are taking away access to something consumers are paying for. If they are not getting what they're paying for, they deserve to be compensated. It may be a fractional amount, but it's based on principle because they are being willfully denied programming that they are obligated to receive from their local affiliate. In this day and age, only a breaking news or weather emergency should deny local viewers access to a network show. And even then, the show should be made cleanly available to paying customers to watch alternatively.

This is going to get ooglay.

Leslie Sykes' last newscast was today. Here are the final minutes: https://abc7.com/post/leslie-sykes-set-sign-off-abc7-final-newscast-tuesday/17866719/

WJXT Jacksonville is the #1-rated Independent television station in the country. They started it and now its a masterclass as to how its done. (via WJXT on LinkedIn) It does mention other stations that air news, such as WPLG, WANF, WHDH, KTVK, KUSI, KCAL, and KSTC, among others. Yes, they even included stations like WTVZ, WMYV, WUAB, WRDC, and others because even they know that MyNetworkTV is NOT a network.

The damage has definitely been done. Sinclair is not about to be having any ABC affiliated stations come renewal time. I'm gonna call it now.

For the past year and a half or so she's only worked 6-8 am Monday-Wednesday, so they've kinda already went in that direction.

Nexstar will continue to preempt Kimmel as well

Weekday morning anchor Leslie Sykes announced this morning she’ll retire in about a month from now following 30 years at ABC 7 https://abc7.com/post/leslie-sykes-announces-plans-retire-more-30-years-abc7/17662382/