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It very unfair for John and Maurice especially Maurice who didn’t have to leave WCBS for this job. They barely had any chance to develop. Why I don’t watch CBS.

At least with someone like Perry Sook, he's just LARPing as a media mogul. Not only is Byron Allen LARPing as a wanna-be media mogul, he's been trying to be a comedian his whole career as well....

is it me or does every host era for the CBS Evening News get shorter? The duo of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois might be, the shortest host era that CBS Evening News ever had, even shorter than Jeff Glor.

There also needs to be time before the launch for producers to update their master rundowns with the new templates and the directors having to make adjustments in whatever automation systems the control room uses as well. There was probably a rehearsal or two that week (maybe). Lots of prep work involved to launch beyond the graphics team rendering out new opens.

And, not to go off topic, but especially local outlet's sorry attempts. "Hey fellow kids! This show is about what's on social media, you like that, right?" Yet a lot of graphics or montages still have Google+....

Are you surprised? It is no different than getting your product on an endcap at Walmart or Target... Everything's location in a retail store is carefully planned, and usually negotiated. Pay the company more money, get better positioning on the shelf. Is it fair, right, just? Of course not. But alas one of the benchmarks of capitalism

I concur to social media being the problem. Especially when we have social media owners manipulating the algorithm to prefer their own political views in addition to the LA Times and the Washington Post also being guilty of said manipulation. Also the hypocrisy is, apologies for my language, bullshit. They made a big deal about Joe/Kamala's flaws and yet gave Trump a free pass despite his health and policy issues. They didn't care about the American people, they just wanted money in their pockets.

WHOI is no longer a diginet but an actual legitimate television station, even if MyNetworkTV is not a network. Now that Gray owns WHOI, WEEK has turned it into a MNT-affiliated station, now known as MyTeam Channel 19. Keeping up the tradition of Gray's expansion of sports networks, it features a mix of MyNetworkTV primetime, syndicated programs, sports programs seen on Gray's other networks, and WEEK's half-hour weekday newscasts at 7:00am and 9:00pm that were previously seen on streaming only, plus the new weeknight 25 Sports Overtime at 10:35pm. https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/09/19/week-tv-announces-new-channel-more-options-sports-entertainment-local-news/

Journalism is a fun career. The great part that elevates being a reporter from a regular 9-to-5 is doing something new every day. It's also great in that you're not confined to an office, you can eat lunch and be on your phone whenever you want, and you can be outside in the world. Information gathering as a reporter is now the easiest it's ever been thanks to the Internet and smart phones. Of course the cons are constantly being expected to pitch story ideas (which requires hitting up contacts on your off hours, eroding work life balance. Competing for stories is stressful. Constantly having to move from city to city to upgrade salary or just get hired is also hard. Reporting career that's easier when your single with no children. It doesn't help that people aren't watching the product as much, and salaries are going down. This is the worst time in broadcast television history to become a reporter. only going into this career if you're really passionate about it and you're confident that you can make it far enough to get a good salary.

I didn’t know it was that bad. Maybe I should stick with studying Spanish instead of journalism. I can’t keep not ignoring the warnings people are telling me this isn’t the career to take, I though about studying atmospheric sciences/meteorology at UNC Asheville, they have a broadcast meteorology concentration in the program almost like Mississippi State program however it includes the Gen Ed’s to make it a degree, but I’m not really passionate about weather. But anyway in general I think society is burned out everyone is literally a slave the rich keep getting richer while everyone forced to work long grueling hours. I understand why she left.

This entire situation is reminding me of what ABS-CBN went through when their license was pulled under obvious political pressure...and somehow the company seems to be working just fine with several time buys and adjusting their cable channels to that new reality, so there is a template for a move from broadcast to cable/streaming in the world, and as I said when they began to ramp up their stake in Hulu, a rebrand of that to ABC is not out of the question at all (or as a Disney+ sub-brand). Freeform is back on Spectrum too so they can easily shift that channel and finally talk CBN out of giving up their time for a good financial price. But there's also the affiliates that are happy with the network and found the entire Kimmel thing stupid because they don't run entire news arms devoted to being lower-tier Fox News Channel clones and as long as they don't have someone drop a C-bomb on purpose or expose anything on-air, they're just fine, grumpy old viewers be damned. Those are the stations I worry about more if that happens. That, and I'm not ready to give up on dramas and sitcoms that still exist.

Really, the only things keeping broadcast tv going at this point is news (the morning shows), live sports, "live" reality shows (like DWTS, AGT, etc...) and the ability to broadcast breaking news. Anything else is cheap filler (like daytime game shows rebooted in primetime) or better off on streaming. The way things are going, if the FCC is going to be weaponized like the rest of the US Government, people will be running towards streaming if the FCC starts really cracking down and controlling stations to the point of dictating their output. Then when this regime is over (if ever...), the next FCC can pick up the pieces and put the stations in the hands of community members who can better serve our communities. Nexstar may be serving 90+ percent of the country by then, but at least some of the airspace could be back in the hands of local broadcasters using broadcast to better serve their communities...we can only hope...

Koplar didn't want ABC since they had Cardinals and Blues games

I can't remember the last time any media company listened to these analysts. They've called for Disney to spin off ESPN so many times, and that's never happened. They were calling for Time Warner to spin off HBO in 2015, and that never happened.

And the FCC Chair is going to reward both companies the permission to buy every tv station in every market and keep pushing false information. It will probably hasten the switch to network programming to their streaming services, (except O&Os) and render both companies worthlesss. You can't be successful programming the cheap dreck on the CW.

While Sinclair (and Nexstar) have been busy keeping Jimmy Kimmel off the air, they've been back to their old tricks of peddling misinformation. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/29/sinclair-broadcasting-takes-a-break-from-protecting-local-communities-by-banning-comedians-to-spread-tylenol-disinformation/ It's past time the networks pull their affiliations from Sinclair. That's the only way they'll learn.

WKBW is not known for much wins, if any at all. However, they do have this small win here... a team together for 10 years. For Katie Morse and Ed Drantch, its been that way on Good Morning Buffalo for the last decade. This is from the Buffalo Broadcasters Association on FB:

Sad day for media on the Central Coast. The folks at KION sure tried. Just checking in via streaming, it was obvious multiple folks wore multiple hats. The sports guy was mostly a news anchor, the news director did it all (news/weather/managing), and the assistant news director anchored the morning news.

I'm guessing they were losing money for a while and couldn't sustain it. KSBW is the 100-ton gorilla in the market and California doesn't bring in political dough very much, being a very one-sided state.

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.

must be a good chunk of change needed to get 700 Club off the schedule. Be crazy if they also can't do it period. WGVU has had operting loses even in 2023 with federal funding, they'll have to beat that, then donor attrition, along with 9.4% yearly rise in "administrative expenses"

This article is fascinating, especially in the wake of WPLG Miami and WANF becoming news-heavy Independents. The title is: The Independent Station Era Is Coming — Here’s How Local TV Can Survive It. https://www.tvrev.com/news/the-independent-station-era-is-coming-heres-how-local-tv-can-survive-it

Exactly. Excessive amounts of local news only works in LA and even then those channels use the almost-daily live high speed pursuits as agonizing filler. More local news only shows the sheer brain rot from overpaid high-ranking executives who have no other ideas. It never translates into better working conditions or higher wages among the staff that have to front the burden while the fatcat owners don't give a rat's butt. Unlike others who seemingly are unable to ever see the point, I don't need to know where you live. Cleveland has an excessive amount of local news, as does Toledo or even Tuscon, Arizona. It's endemic.

Minor update -- the weather graphics got refreshed.. I'd call this a refresh of the WSB graphics, as they've added more angular/diagrid looks and the 7-days are definitely a refresh of WSB's...

I'm not aware of this until now, and this must be new, but WPLG now airs repeats of their 6:30, 10, and 11 pm newscasts overnight as a replacement for ABC World News NOW and ABC ATM. Weekdays: 02:30-03:00 AM: Local 10 World News 03:00-04:00 AM: Local 10 News at 10:00 04:00-04:30 AM: Local 10 News at 11:00 Saturday mornings are the same except for the 11 pm repeat at 4:30 am. They don't do this on Sunday mornings, however, which is odd and weird, as they elect to air Comics Unleashed instead, except for the 11 pm repeat at 4:30 am.

Yes, the networks need to be more fearless and stop worrying about Trump messing with their assets. The assertion however that networks, Fox & Sinclair aside, are biased in favor of Trump is not true. The majority of network news coverage of Trump is (rightfully) negative. There's not a day you don't turn on an evening newscast with red breaking news graphics, ominous theme music, a picture of Trump frowning, and some sort of protest going on. Even if NBC News doesn't go as blowhard as MSNBC you don't walk away with a positive impression of Trump after watching any NBC newscast. I don't think any mainstream news network is trying to paint both sides as equal. Those accusations came up when networks rightfully questioned the previous president's mental agility for office, and held democrats to account for pretending he was okay. Yes one side may be lesser of two evils but EVERY side is subject to media scrutiny.

Three channels from HBO and three from Cinemax are being renamed. TL;DR: HBO2 -> HBO Hits HBO Signature -> HBO Drama HBO Zone -> HBO Movies MoreMAX -> Cinemax Hits ActionMAX -> Cinemax Action 5starMAX -> Cinemax Classics https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-renames-linear-channels-1236361141/

Trying to keep them relevant when HBO Max also exists.

Schedules indicate that WJZY's .8 Rewind TV (aka subchannel Siberia) is carrying it in primetime, but that could just be to run out the contractual string the next two weeks for all we know.

Just flipped the TV on to check and WCCB has been removed from YTTV. Youtube (Hulu too) only adds channels if there's enough demand from customers, or if the channel will generate signups and retain customers. WMYT officially a CW on 55.1 in 720p. I rescanned channels and there doesn't appear to be a channel for MyNetwork so maybe it's gone in the Charlotte area. WCCB renamed itself, new branding is gold-on-black, and they didn't go with news round the clock - 5am-9am, 9-11pm and some other local programming. The Edge is also coming back at 10:30pm with Ashley Anderson, Morgan and Fred https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2025/09/01/your-guide-to-watching-wccb-charlotte-and-our-new-lineup/

The WMYT My12 website is still alive as well. They are now Charlotte’s CW https://www.qcnews.com/my12/

After a longtime of being at Univision Deportes (17 years), Lindsay Casinelli has since left and joined Telemundo Deportes. Right on cue as well for upcoming coverage of the Olympics. https://ahoramismo.com/entretenimiento/lindsay-casinelli-reacciona-debut-telemundo/

Noticed in the video mentioned in the thread about the possible Allen Media group pack that the recent Defiant demo reel has what looks to be a prototype of a Scripps look that never made it to air.

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.

Pac-12 and CW are extending their partnership thru the 2030-31 season. In addition to more football games, men's and women's basketball will join the lineup. CW will have the semifinals and championship games on the women's side.

Did whoever wrote this just crawl out from under a rock? Seriously. Some of this is already happening ("Community roundtables and town halls") and it's usually a snoozefest that doesn't attract any more eyeballs than normal. Nobody is going to run "Neighborhood lifestyle shows, spotlighting local eateries, artisans, cultural scenes, and hidden gems." without there being some kind of time buy for the privilege. Broadcasting high school sports would have been a big deal 15 years ago... when a lot of schools started streaming themselves. A lot of stations with union representation would find the costs to do this in-house enormous and not worth the effort. This reads like broadcast stations should turn into public access outlets, which already exist.

That seems like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen, especially if the TVs are otherwise still fully usable.

my TV came built with 3.0 tuner, most/many have it now, outside of LG which doesn't want to pay $6-$10 per ATSC 3.0 tuner. The cost to get approval for decryption is also high so there are many TVs being sold that will see 3.0 encrypted channels but won't play video. Lon.TV reported people have contacted him saying their TVs periodically fail to decrypt with video and audio are cutting out or becoming entirely unavailable for periods. A big thing with ATSC 3.0 encryption many people are unaware of - every ATSC 3.0 tuner comes with a cypher certificate inside it that expires on a set date. The duration depends on what the manufacturer paid ATSC for decryption rights but reports on AVS Forum and elsewhere say it is as short as 5 years, and others 10 years. Same model devices could have different expiration dates set in the factory. Once the decryption certificate expires encrypted channels won't be viewable and it will require a new device as there's no mechanism to update the certificates. A lot of devices also deploy decryption with Google Widevine (Big, bad BigTech) that requires connection to the internet, either once or periodically to get a decryption key. Here in Charlotte the big 4 are airing from WAXN's tower to the north of me in uptown. Clear from the skyscrapers, TV tuner couldn't see them with the paperclip even though I picked up nearby LPTVs. Had to get antenna. All but WJYZ are encrypted, 1080p, WAXN is at 720p. I saw no discrenible difference, maybe a scooch better than 1.0 but hard to tell, granted Family Feud and QC Life were on at the time, it didn't look to me like a real 1080p broadcast. Youtube 1080p looks much more clear and sharp so they're probably upscaling.

ATSC 3.0 is a fever dream of the broadcasters who choose to push it on to the consumer....who have virtually no way of adopting it even though stations have been pushing it out for the last 5 or so years. All it is at the moment is the same channels available in upscaled HDTV, aside from a few worthless subchannels no one will go out of their way to watch. And is any of this in 4k? I can't for the life of me even figure out a TV or even a dongle that's readily available to pick up these channels. Until it's an actually regulated thing (likely by force), it's dead in the water. Streaming delivers the 4K and is readily available through easily obtainable devices without the headache and bureaucy of the FCC. But it will cost you.

these industry people really are stuck in their programming from 1995. Someone update their firmware. Yesterday, I wasted $15 on a Philips antenna because the paper clip wouldn't pick up 3.0 Charlotte stations. Ran into WBTV's QC Life, while browsing channels, which fits into what TVRev sees as the future of local TV. It' has worse production values than a kid Youtuber. Minimum viable content vibes, a cooking segment, segements featuring area small business which is good but overall probably a paid program. With a male host that should really go check his voice and a blonde female host version of Mortitia Adams in civilian clothes, with giant pink claws gesticulating at viewers while talking. It looked so ridiculous on my 70-inch tv. DecoDrive at least has a bite and moves with creativity.

It's a cute pie-in-the-sky pollyanna wishcasting piece. Which is all that can be said.

Loud whispers: All of this requires more money, planning, and thinking than making existing underpaid and overworked producers, anchors, meteorologists, and directors add additional newscasts that sound nearly identical to the previous hour to their existing responsibilities. This would take investment at a level very few station ownership groups are willing to do in 2025 and beyond. Great idea in a vacuum. I'll believe it when someone tries, appears to succeed, and the new programming lasts multiple budget cycles.

Parents... Its 10 O'clock. Do you know where your children are? KFOR is bringing this tradition back. https://kfor.com/news/local/in-by-10-reminds-parents-to-get-kids-home-by-10-p-m/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMQ5RVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHi_9aIoepmWstIm3TbcG9SWEbkH6yyIJnSBV0K9LSejSlEP_VOGTjOGLv9kV_aem_ZFnvMYMKTzYrIKXaLth0iw

Yes.

WEWS has launched this package today.

This is about as generic as you could possibly get I think…

You'd be on the mark because they've already got a case study up... https://defiantla.com/work/scripps-news-group-rebrand/

Scripps' graphics hub is in the same building as WFTS.

Usually when a TV station employee is wrongly detained by police or whatever the TV station puts out a statement criticizing the arrest, yet neither WGN or Nexstar have put out a statement criticizing the ICE terror group for arresting their employee. Meanwhile NewsNation's website is posting pro ICE propaganda stories about how "scared" the ICE terrorists are.