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I would suspect many would think moving the Ellen to 3pm would be a better option. But I guess they probably want to clear Daily Blast Live since it probably don't have an earlier feed.

Looks like WFMY is the latest CBS station to finally placing CBS This Morning in-pattern like the other stations. Looking at the guide, next Monday (12/2), as they're going to debut a new local 4pm show entitled Four2Five, WFMY will be dropping its 7am portion of the Good Morning Show to air CBS This Morning in-pattern from 7-9am. Ellen moves from 4pm to 9am.

Looking at the guide, the half-hour 7pm is being kept. With Daily Blast Live airing at 7:30pm.

Newly-acquired WVIR replaced its WorldNow style site for a Raycom template site (the same one KEYC/WWNY switched to earler this year).

And the FCC has greenlighted the Marquee deal today.

No one's upsetting anyone. They were allowed to use these graphics, the same way they allowed WOIO to use their new gfx. I'm sure if the higher-ups would've have a gripe, we probably wouldn't see these gfx on the air.

I don't think its in-house. This WAVE's new gfx pack (the L3s specifically) looks like the one some of the Meredith stations use (i.e. WFSB).

New Station. WIS has the WMC package.

Follow-up. December 1st will be the launch date for NBC/CW programming of KMNF. So follow-up regarding WWPI. They have filed an app to move closer to Presque Isle proper. From this contour map, it won't be transmitting from WAGM's tower facility, but It looks like it'll be will be transmitting from the WAGM's studio facility.

WWL meteorologist Chris Franklin has been promoted to Chief Meteorologist for the station. He replaces Carl Arredondo, who left the station back in February, after nearly 28 years at Channel 4.

Ratner was used during the 2000s decade on WCBS & later WNBC. And I'm sure Tracey was also used on WPIX at one point or another. Should Chapin be used on Channel 7 permanently, this will be the third station he's been used in town, after WNBC during the 90s thru the early 2000s (the original 4NY & NewsChannel eras), and WNYW during the mid 2000s.

That's strange. Because I've watched WBTV (before their switch), and KCBD currently, where they used the Raycom gfx, and used the Gray ticker on the bottom. I'm sure there'll change it in due time.

So follow-up regarding KMNF. They did some testing on their new signal this week. They didn't announce a launch date but it did say it should be in full operation once testing is completed.

And here's the 11pm Open tonight. Vid courtesy of Daniel Garcia Media from YT.

WALB just posted this 11am digital update with the new graphics. It appears to be the WVLT gfx package. It also switched the music to Guardian.

WTVG has had those graphcs since the summer, at the very least. Vid courtesy of Daniel Garcia Media from YT.

Speaking of WYCI.... Gray will be acquiring the station for $1.1M. And it'll use the pre-2017 "failed station waiver" rule to acquire it.

Anywho, here's the open from last night. Vid courtesy of dma37dude from YT.

Reminds me of KALB's CBS subchannel logo.

WNDU used this theme for its weekend morning shows during the 90s & early 2000s. I've heard this Killer Tracks theme used on local ads throughout the mid-90s.

So one month after KOIN 6 took over KRCW's 10pm broadcasts (after the closing of Tribune deal), they're expanding it to a full hour tonight.

Here's what their old graphics looked like. From last Friday (7/11). I would be looking out for the legacy Gray stations (who has an older gfx pack), to see if they're switching to one of the newer packs.

Follow-up. The name of the new service will be called Circle. The diginet will be launched early next year on the Gray stations. The new over-the-top service will launch late Spring.

AT&T and Sinclair reached a new retrans deal.

The paperwork was posted on the FCC site last night. Purchase Prices: KGWC (Big Horn) - $10.7M ($10,733,333) KFNB (Front Range) - $1.7M ($1.766,667) KTWO (Vision WY) - $1.5M Total - $14M. Front Range appears to be the parent because it will operate the Big Horn & Vision stations via an SSA. If i remember correctly, Gray was buying the properties for around $20.5M (that included the price that Legacy was paying for ABC & Fox). So this is just a few million short. I'm personally not happy that it had to come down to this, after the DOJ stuck their head into the now-scuttled Gray deal last year. As I stated last year, if they would've done that deal all over again, Gray should've partnered with another broadcaster (not Legacy). Let that unrelated third-party (i.e. Coastal/Vision) get the ABC & Fox. Gray could've at least kept CBS because the FCC approved that part of the deal. After the FCC greenlighted the KDLT deal last month, I was seriously thinking that Gray should go back to Wyoming and try that Casper deal again. And if DOJ files suit to block the sale, then Gray shouid fight it in court. But with the Third Circuit vacating Pai's dereg rule, that somewhat complicates things now.