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Gray has an "agreement in principle" to renew its affiliation deal with NBC in all 56 markets.

6 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

Fave's schedule is more reality-based, and there's no sign in their schedule of a merger at all, outside of Fave adding Everybody Loves Raymond to their own schedule at the beginning of the year.

When Fave first started a couple of years back, it was airing lots of 90s comedies like the Wayans' Bros. Was unaware of the slight shift of format.

10 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

And just out of curiosity about what 41.2 will air, it looks like Dabl is completely done after December 29th; according to its national schedule it's becoming yet another Paramount Global specialty with their networks that need to die; a rerun feed of 90s UPN/WB sitcoms; no network name known yet, so expect another big exodus of stations at the end of the year switching networks on their Dabl subs. The network's social feeds haven't been updated since mid-September so it already was on borrowed time.

ls this Fave TV?

Some of those already had a "non-network" logo on the website header, prior to the latest purge.

The paperwork is up.

Purchase Price: $18.1M.

3 hours ago, mre29 said:

Any word on the Montana stations?

There isn't an active transaction involving those stations. At least not yet....

Is that Arial I see? Hope this is a test and not made it on the air. 

On 12/3/2023 at 9:18 AM, wabceyewitness said:

They had a 4pm long ago — “From the heart of the tri-state area, street level on 5th Avenue, with Dana Tyler and Stephen Clark…” — that was replaced by Judge Judy. 

WCBS actually had The People's Court at 4pm before Judy's return to Channel 2 in 2006 (after 7 years on WNBC). 

Before that newscast ended completely in 2003, it was truncated to a half-hour at 4:30pm.

Filling that first half hour in Jan. 2002 was the Weakest Link. And that got replaced the following fall by Millionaire.

On 9/14/2023 at 4:29 PM, Samantha said:

Morgan Murphy makes its Marks in Michigan with a $13.375 million purchase of the Marks family's Michigan broadcasting operation. WBKB, WBKP, and WBUP are included along with radio stations in Houghton and Iron River.

The deal is now closed. Consummated on Friday (12/1).

On 11/19/2023 at 5:01 PM, sfomspphl said:

On the Tuesday topic...this is a 1985 demo, not many surprises in here other than high quality sound on the Lets All Be There news promo music at the beginning, KXTV mid 80s theme around 2:00, and the News 88 full theme at the end.

That image campaign (on the 3:00 mark on the reel) came from the launch of WPDS-TV 59 (now WXIN) in 1984.

Another departure. This time in Houston.

Longtime KPRC host & meteorologist Khambrel Marshall is retiring after 24 years at the station. And nearly five decades in the business.

His last day will be on December 13.

2 hours ago, Vlad said:

KABC did change their on-air "bug" though it now just says "abc.7.com" and they updated to the new smaller ABC ball.

 

The new logo on the bug has been used since August. But you only see this version for online videos after it airs.

TVNewsCheck did a write-up about the recent changes.

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Another tell-tale sign of the Tulsa market was that KOKI was one of the two "legacy" Cox stations cast off to Imagicomm (along with WLMT in Memphis).  This was one of the Clear Channel stations purchased by Newport, who instead of dumping them to Sinclair or Nexstar, sold them to Cox at the time.  Cox is still the primary cable company there, right?

WHBQ.

Two R&Os. One NPRM.

NPRM:

• KECI (20 > 21)

R&O:

• KIFI (8 > 18)
• KWNV (7 > 16)

2 hours ago, DonDonP1 said:

I believe it’s produced out of New York City.

To be fair, the OP posted this prior to the knowledge that it would be produced out of WCBS.

Channel 5 is going to simulcast four live Friday games from NBC Sports Chicago.

WMAQ will air two Bulls games in November (3rd & 17th), and two Blackhawks games in December (22nd & 29th).

Sinclair has renew its affil deal with CBS in all 23 markets.

Maurice has filled in on Evening many times. This is nothing new.

1 hour ago, GoldenShine9 said:

If that were the case, WCTV would pretty much have a monopoly on news there.

I think you didn't see it on the last page. 

13 hours ago, 24994J said:

It's WFTX.

On 2/26/2022 at 3:52 PM, CircleSeven said:

Looks like we have another hold up regarding one of the petitions.

 

This is pretty much similar to what is occuring in Medford where the LP doesn't want to move away from their allotment. King Kong Broadcasting, which owns KGNG-LD (which operates on RF 26) filed comments opposing of Scripps' channel move of KTNV from VHF 13 to UHF 26.

 

King Kong states that the KTNV's move "would eviscerate the outstanding broadcast offerings of" KGNG, since the station carries subchannels that are geared towards minority & underserved viewers. And yes, (just like what happened in Medford), King Kong has placed a "counter-proposal" to have a new full power signal on RF 26.

 

On the reply comments (p.5), Scripps made an offer to King Kong to donate its old VHF 13 equipment and let King Kong temporary operate KGNG's signal from KTNV's downtown studio (at the expense of Scripps), while they build a brand new permanent facility. King Kong turned down that offer and filed that opposition.

 

This placing a "counter-proposal" is nothing more than a "tactic" to delay KTNV's process to move to that allotment. Filing a new allotment petition (similar to what Gray did in Freeport last year) normally take years to do. And when it does get approved, they still have to wait until FCC start a new auction. That process could also be lenghty.

 

But in the end, like I stated in the Medford situation, King Kong don't have any standing. KGNG-LD is a regular low power station (not a Class A). And LP don't have protection in their allotments. And if KTNV wants to move to that allotment, it can. KGNG just doesn't want to move again, after leaving RF 47 during the spectrum repack.

 

It'll probably be lenghty, but I believe the FCC is going to greenlight KTNV's petition and throw that "counter-proposal" in the cellar.

Big follow up. 

Twenty-nine months since filing the petition, the FCC just greenlighted KTNV's move from VHF 13 to 26. 

And they've also subsequently denied King Kong's opposition & counter-proposal. This was why the process was held up all this time. Now King Kong (owner of KGNG-LD) have no other choice but to vacate off of 26.

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Four More R&Os from the new NCE allotments, plus an existing one switching.

• Ch. 2 - Colusa, CA (10/16)
• Ch. 3 - Tulare, CA (10/16)
• Ch. 4 - Alamagordo, NM (10/20)
• KDIN (11 > 34) (11/1)
• Ch. 4 - Jacksonville, OR (12/5)

Isn't that Fox 29's weather branding?

2 hours ago, susquvalleywgal said:

A 100+ Market weather branding for a Top 5 TV market.  Odd.

IIRC, WNYW used that branding back in the early 2000s. And used it for a while.

Bill Ritter is anchoring the 11pm this Saturday with Chantee Lans. 

One R&O. One NPRM.

R&O:

• WKNX (7 > 21)

NPRM:

• Weigel's Ch. 31 WI allotment (Wittenberg > Shawano)

Scripps no longer operates the station, after the Marquee acquisition.