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The 2025 holiday credits from CBS 2 New York

They'll be in slime in the ice machine in heaven with those guys

Some sad news out Houston, and we lost a weather legend in this country. Former KHOU chief meteorologist and Director of the National Hurricane Center Dr. Neil Frank has passed away at the age of 94. https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/dr-neil-frank-dies/285-26cc29fe-18ee-4e47-bdf3-5039367c021a

That's just for the graphics. I think every CBS O&O is switching to that style but keeping the same brandings in place. In this case, its still WBZ News. EDIT: What I mean is the black box logo that some stations still have and I think they're trying to get rid of it once and for all, though stations like KOVR, KDKA, etc. may still go by what they call for already.

Thank goodness! She’s the best.

Yay, Cindy has returned to the ariwaves as of today at noon! So glad it was just a long break, which we are all entitled to.

Hunt Valley loses again! I think their failed Tribune deal blacklisted them.

Actually he worked Fridays and was off Mondays

Some of y'all are talking about Curt like he's 90 with one foot in the grave. Have to do one round-trip, cross-country flight a week at age 60, but it's only for 20-plus weeks out of the year, and you get Fridays off on those weeks? The horror.

Yeah, Curt probably couldn't handle the travel at his age. Strahan has been traveling back and forth for years but he's younger. And it played a factor in James Brown going back to CBS from Fox years ago, since commuting from DC (where he lives) to NYC isn't as strenuous as DC to LA.

Hopefully with a station like WEWS, they will stay put. Hopefully they don't cash out 3001 Euclid Avenue to a developer. Aside from the long-vacant building next to it being converted to apartments, there is little reason for WEWS to move and cash out, especially with all of the history that has taken place there. I know they have an Ohio Historical marker for Dorothy Fuldheim. I believe they have another for "Upbeat" which was an early syndicated music show that originated from WEWS and was hosted by Don Webster.

I called this months ago. SMH. It's a shame to see this come into fruition. Hopefully WNBC or WABC can get him somehow. I would say a station with a weak anchor bench like WNYW but that place has high turnover.

Well, that wasn't a good career move.

The only actual violation is if the ident at the top of the hour is wrong, as outside of identification call letters can be trademarked to stations.

That's the simple answer. In reality, WTVH 5.1 CBS 5 is "moving" to WKOF 15.1, which is owned by Sinclair (WSTQ Licensee) instead of Granite. But otherwise, it will still be known as 'CBS 5". Since WKOF is a 3.0 station for Syracuse, WKOF 15.1 is still on WTVH's frequency as the ATSC 1.0 home. That's the biggest stretch I've seen yet under Sinclair, or pretty much any other owner to get a sidecar back in the home garage.

truly sad to see Scripps of all companies vulnerable to a takeover attempt by a slightly better performing company that it itself is not doing too good either but they did it to themselves.

I wonder if this branch of the Scripps family is as screwed up as the other half of the family tied to James E. Scripps (brother of E.W. Scripps). They're the ones tied to Scripps Health, the Scripps Oceanography Institute and were the original Detroit News owners. There was a good American Greed (season 10, Family Fortune Feud) that described how granddaughter and heir Melissa Scripps burned through millions of dollars...

Scripps itself is trading near all-time lows, so I'm not sure if that would be a big deterrent to the family wanting to sell. We're talking about a company that was trading at ~$145 a share in 2004, and $4.42 today. Frankly, this concept that the family doesn't want to sell seems a bit absurd to me. I said this in the Discord, but I have to assume that Sinclair is aware of something that we're not, and I would presume that something is that some of the "Family Shareholders" want out. The family shares have been diluted between roughly 75 members as of 2021, and I think it is impossible they are all unanimous in agreement on not selling the company. The Family Shares are so diluted at this point, some numbers I've seen shows nobody walking away with more than $8.6 million (at the current stock price) and, in fact, most walk away with far less than that (7 members hold exactly one share, 28 hold less than 200 shares, and the ones with the most all seem to hold somewhere between 200k and 700k "family" shares, according to a document I have found). tl;dr I'm wondering if the internal process for family members to sell shares has already begun, and nobody in the family wants to sink their own money into buying more shares of a declining asset. At some point, those shares can be sold to whomever they want, and the Board can't stop them.

Scripps board voted to insert a temporary poison pill that expires November 26, 2026. aimed at unapproved outsiders who gain 10% or more in Class A shares, cancelling their rights but allowing anyone else to buy SSP at 50% discount. tl;dr Sinclair, or any entity, or Sinclair acting with another shareholder as a 'wolf pack', will get automatically diluted if they go up in ownership from the 9.9% now. If they're already at 10% and gain another 0.1% or more the poison pill is triggered (https://scripps.com/press-releases/scripps-adopts-limited-duration-shareholder-rights-plan/)

it looks like a short fuse tactic to pressure the board into acting without giving them enough time to seek other bids. Or, Sinclair knows/guesses the family may be infighting and this would prevent them from ironing out any disagreements, splintering the vote enough to get over the 50.1% hurdle. The board can ignore the bid as they can also be sued for lack "due care" if they accept it without getting bids from Gray or anyone else who might be interested. Imo the offer isn't that good for Scripps family. They control 93.3% of the vote, if they accept, over 60% of what they get will be in SBGI stock that is trading at a 13-year low. With a 3-5 year lockup they could very likely end up worse off by the time they're allowed to cash out

Channel 11 would be the big winner in the end...

So, how bad's the overlap between the two companies? I know they both own stations in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Nashville, and West Palm Beach, and I'm sure there are others -- and I'm not even accounting for the Ion stations.

It's an attempt by Sinclair. Unless Sinclair knows that there are Scripps family members willing to vote yes and they collectively make up 50.1% of the vote this is likely dead on arrival. The family can legally ignore all investors and do as they please. They have to follow procedures obviously but they don't have to listen to Sinclair or anyone else holding Class-A stock. Scripps has dual-class structure with the family owning 93% of the voting shares. 50.1% is required for this to pass per the Scripps Family Agreement. And those that vote yes can be bought out by other members of the family who do not want to sell. Sinclair's offer is kinda crappy, 70% of the offer is in SBGI stock, that's trading at 12-13 year lows. And any stock offer like this will likely come with vesting lockups to prevent dumping ie can't sell for 5 years etc meaning Scripps members who vote 'yes' could end up worse than they started.

Arguably Nexstar and Tegna made the worst of an already bad hand because of streaming. The entire TV news infrastructure (including national and major international outlets) has been rocked by streaming, and none them have really recovered.

it's not like Scripps has any chance of surviving. I initially thought that Scripps acquiring ION would lead to more success cause of Scripps' proven track record with Katz Broadcasting, now the cracks are showing and I'm literally surprised that Scripps survived for this long without a takeover attempt. I thought Scripps and Tegna would last or at least merge together in order to be able to better survive the changing environment but apparently people don't want to even touch broadcast TV because of all the shit the likes of Nexstar and Sinclair have done to their stations that eroded trust and habits. They've dug TV's grave unfortunately.

Don't give them any ideas! Hence my wondering.

Although not directly related (as of now), Sinclair's current music/graphics are getting up there in age. Perhaps Sinclair decides to move forward with Scripps' new music/graphics and expand it to other legacy Sinclair stations if they actually manage to pull off a Scripps takeover. On a different note, last time I checked Sinclair is not in the best financial shape either - which makes this situation even more bizarre.

At one time Scripps was the largest. 30 years ago, their deal with ABC in the throes of the New World-Fox deal set off other sub-deals like Westinghouse and CBS (after WJZ getting spurned by ABC in favor of WMAR) and even the market swaps caused by that deal alone. It's tragic to see what has become of the company that Edward Willis Scripps founded almost 150 years ago. What was once a beacon of journalism has morphed into a bungled series of assets on life support after over-extending themselves over and over, while doubling down in the worst ways possible.

Very hard to tell at this early stage if this deal can even be done. There was a time until very recently that I would've considered a deal like this to not only be impossible but also a downgrade for Scripps' stations. Honestly, I'm at a point that this may be marginally a good thing for the majority of the remaining Scripps' stations. While "Scrippscasting" may have been an attempt at cutting costs, it has done far more harm with watering down newscast quality and making it nearly unwatchable. Whatever Scripps had as being a premium brand has all but been thrown down the toilet by corporate consultants. It's been very sad to watch but also undeniable. I am concerned for certain markets, especially in Nashville where Sinclair already has a significant presence. I'm sure Sinclair has its own intentions with cutting costs (i.e. merging adjacent market newscasts). But Gray and Allen are also guilty of the same thing to varying degrees. I'd rather watch a newscast produced live to air with decent attempts made at covering stories of local interest. If this deal were to materialize, I hope the first order of business by Sinclair is to rescind the Scrippscasting model and put live news back where it belongs. One thing I'll add is I do see this as a downgrade for WFTS in Tampa Bay. That has been the one station that hasn't been significantly harmed by Scripps overtime. I'm not so sure that Sinclair will continue to steward WFTS as Scripps has done there.

Meanwhile, Reuters is chiming in. Saying that this is a bully tactic. https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/sinclairs-brash-tv-ma-script-could-use-rewrite-2025-11-17/ I see 4 scenarios: 1) Scripps gets dragged in and accepts a Sinclair deal, despite being a horrific thought. 2) Scripps goes for Chapter 11 to try to stave them off. 3) Scripps talks to another company and attempts a merger that avoids Sinclair, although the choices are limited. 4) Scripps tries to wait it out, although the pressure may be too much.

I didn't have this on my BINGO card Sinclair taking a stake in Scripps at just 8%. Seems like Scripps is having none of it really what the Scripps board needs to do is fire the CEO why does Adam still have a job? Running Scripps into the ground shouldn't have bought ION a few years ago that was their undoing in my opinion. Sorry for beating that dead horse once again.

Scripps responds:

It would be suicide to move what is WJAR to 6, or to change its call letters. WJAR historically is the dominant station in RI. Dead air often beat Ch. 12 and 6 combined. It is one of NBC's oldest affiliates going back to radio and started using the three toned chime that is synonymous with NBC today. It's a long heritage and habit in RI despite Sinclair's attempts to destroy the station. I assume Disney isn't too happy with this move, but they have no where to go. The Providence market is the future. All anglo commercial stations (not including ION), are now owned by Nexstar and Sinclair. Welcome to the future if both companies get their way with a compliant FCC. RI viewers are the losers.

They should change the calls to WHNE, because the love is certainly gone. Also they could've finally settled the NBC Boston channel confusion on channel 10 by just moving to 6.1 and 6.2, but we're talking about Sinclair, who just loves to bungle things as of late.

And WLNE is still going to be owned by Standard Media... correct? While "totally separate" from Sinclair in terms of their other semi-relater sidecars, it seems like these deals don't smell quite right. In the eyes of the FCC, everything else is a non-licensed asset and can move to WJAR and Sinclair. And given "ABC 6" and their place in the market, their presence is so minimal it doesn't raise any alarms about market share either.

In this case, it's likely the first time that a separate operating unit (WPMI/WJTC in Mobile) has had to shack up on a co-owned rival's frequency (WEAR). Most of the other cases have been the same operating unit for years(WSYX/WTTE, WCHS/WVAH, KBTV/KFDM etc...), they just did the switch from the "shell" station to the parent as a subchannel. Probably the closest things have been the Fox move-ins like with "Fox Chattanooga" being the old FOX 61 that used to live on WDSI, and the "Fox Michiana" that relocated from WSJV "Fox 28" to WSBT 22.2. The others have kept their long-term branding in place on their new OTA home.

As is often the case, I wouldn't be surprised if this was Sinclair being in a hurry and not waiting until the Ts and Is had been crossed and dotted. There are examples of this, particularly with streaming: a station launches their platform but only some TVs can actually download it. (Seems to me that stations always launch on Samsung TV months later).

Several weeks after "NBC 15" moved from WPMI to WEAR 3.2, viewers are confused as hell... I wonder why? From the looks of things Sinclair has royally bungled this switch especially if the only way to watch NBC15 is in digital siberia on the main Xfinity service in Mobile (which was WEAR 3.2 while WPMI has always been on channel 11)

What an awful thing to say. If you do not mean any “disrespect” and “think she’s great” then why qualify why you think she doesn’t have the look for a major market? This is no better than unwanted viewer letters that tear people down. And in case you didn’t notice, there have been a number of weather folks in major markets with the trait you listed, notably at WNBC and WGN. SMH.

It also has nothing to do with her capabilities as a meteorologist. She is highly popular. She was more than competent considering she had stability throughout NBC and Media General ownership.

I have a pretty good idea she will be steering clear from any Sinclair stations....

Since it is the only remaining non-Sinclair operated Standard Media station: KLKN's public file shows a Rincon option agreement.

More and more it feels like that the Rincon deal was designed to get rid of some extra 'weight' and allow them to take over sidecars (and Rincon is a sidecar no matter how they spin it; that 'Sinclair, Inc.' badge is still on the bottom of all their Sinclair-hosted websites). It's bitter irony that Standard Media/Soo Kim tried to become a broadcast giant and failed catastrophically every single time, and now with Sinclair back in control of their Bootheel stations, the company may be coming to a bizarre end. And to see WLNE finally capitulate and become just the redheaded stepchild to WJAR because is a sad thing indeed. Two other effects of this; KLKN might end up as a part of NTV, and Sinclair could end up with controlling interests in both Marquee and CHSN if it turns out the direction I think it's going.

KNTV Sep 1994 6pm open. Intro dates to late 1990 and was retired in 1995.

KMAX's Good Day's 30th Anniversary special as aired last week during their 10am hour.

Here's Sinclair's press release https://sbgi.net/sinclair-launches-comprehensive-strategic-review-for-broadcast-business/ Reading this, it almost sounds like they want to be a buyer, whereas the CNBC article spins it as them wanting to cash out. I guess Sinclair will see it their way, and everyone else will see it for what it's worth.

Bonus points if Cox is the survivor or at least has more influence.

Reunited and it feels so good... Jerome Gray and Lisa Foronda, both formerly of KHOU-TV Houston. https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2025/03/lisa-foronda-and-jerome-gray-reunite-in.html

I don't know why they just don't get absorbed into the O&O stations??