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Meanwhile, HLN, which has been showing older Warner Bros. TV dramas on weekends -- first The West Wing, now Fringe -- has expanded that to weeknights, with Third Watch now showing at a rate of four episodes per night (8:00pm to midnight, ET). I mention it despite not being sure this is the correct thread anymore for discussing HLN. I mean, does the channel even fall under Licht's purview outside of simulcasting CNN This Morning? Do we have to move this discussion to the Breakroom?

Because FCC laws. Both stations are Big 4 affiliates, which generally means they rank in the top four in the local ratings, which means "No can do, buddy".

The political ad dollars Florida brings in? Their already strong presence in the state?

Nice to see they're both getting new shows. I think it will be weirder to me not seeing Marilyn on the People's Court. I'll miss so much of the elements People's Court had, such as the music, the iconic logo, the typewriter and gavel sound effects, and Curt Chaplin's deadpan introductions. Now I'm waiting to see if Byron brings back judges Joe Brown, Alex Ferrer or Lynn Toler back to Daytime TV. I just feel Byron's new shows won't be the same compared to WB's longrunners.

Whoops! Someone’s getting an email from a sales rep right now! (Blame the new graphics!)

We also have to remind ourselves: Edith Waterman is turning 100 in September... I'm pretty sure this had a huge reason behind the decision.

Not a huge fan of the weather desk basically next to the anchor desk... makes it look cramped in there...

Also think of these three surprising things that give strong local news brands an advantage...and wise operators are leveraging and listening to them along the way - 50% more OTA homes than 10 years ago. Who would have predicted that the drive to digital on demand viewing would result in more over the air households? https://www.nexttv.com/news/nielsen-sees-uptick-in-over-the-air-households - An aging population - news viewing has always skewed older, and the size of the cohort with the time and desire to consume news is rising - Mistrust in national news brands. Whether you like it or not, for decades a sizable minority has felt unheard by the NY-based network news operations. And local brands at least have some dissociation from that for the cohort that cares about it. Awareness and action on that mistrust is higher than it was 10 or 20 years ago for better or worse. On the flip side who would have guessed 20 years ago the evening news on 3 networks plus cable would still be around? Remember in the 90s and 2000s we were lamenting the stations in big markets that lost their affiliate status as dead men walking? KRON beat KTVU at 10pm recently. Who would have thought WHDH even more recently as an example would remain a contender without NBC, let alone lead some ratings after the split? WSVN still means 'news' more than any other english station in Miami. KUSI is a perennial contender in the San Diego market to the chagrin of some WGN leads many time slots The streamers are signing carriage agreements with the locals https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nexstar-reaches-multi-agreement-youtube-110000355.html Fact is we've already seen 25% of cable households cut the cord. Smartphones are ubiquitous as are the socials they feed. The disruption based on the elements we see today is very far along, and what you see today in habits and financials already reflects that. Future change will be things we can't see (who knows what AI does to productivity for example). CBS can brand all it wants, but NBC has played the network/local combo brand punch in O&O markets for years and it's no magic sauce for NBC. Heck the top web search term for them in LA is....KNBC...which hasn't ever been used in their on air news branding. Consumers will do what's easy for them to reach the talent telling stories they want to see, graphics be damned. The company that's most deftly handling change in the industry at scale is in my opinion Nexstar, and in ways I wouldn't have guessed 5 or 10 years ago. But investors already figured that out, perhaps too widely, given Nexstar's valuation today.

Tell CBS - their actions in this rollout are leveraging legacy brand identification elements to help viewers in several markets. Reverting to WBZ.com for the on air to digital cue, going full on KCAL, plusing up the 4 in Miami, using the star 11 in Houston, whatever is going on with that vintage 3 in Philadelphia. Fact is within streaming it’s in many ways identical to the broadcast via cable experience with a live channel guide available. That familiar feature helped accelerate adoption.

Steve Wilkos will help more guests and throw more chairs as his talk show will charge on for a 17th season. https://deadline.com/2023/03/the-steve-wilkos-show-renewed-17th-season-1235304709/

A reboot of classic game show I've Got a Secret is in the works for syndication and GSN.

Wonder if the other CBS O&Os will follow suit.

KDKA replacing Dr. Phil with a new local talk show called Talk Pittsburgh on March 20th.

Hard disagree, we have too many soft interview shows. We need conflict talkers stat. Karamo isn’t it, he went too far off the Maury path that made Maury what it was.

Karamo Brown's talk show will be back for a second season.

streaming is killing TV.