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WPTV has reached a milestone today. 65 years on the air. And you can't celebrate the occasion without cake.

Same vid as the one used on the Gray stations. Channel 2 just added some local scenic shots. Vid courtesy of Gray's YT page.

That's WPVI.

That's not true. Last September, ABC started producing America This Morning at 3:30am/ET. Only WPVI is only eastern station to air ATM at 3:30am. Of course, its up to the station's discretion if they want to expand to 4am, but I'm sure there are other reasons why the other O&Os haven't done so yet. But should they do expand in the future, expect stations having a different anchor pair for the midday show.

No. He meant the new LP they lit up last year. KCWH-LD, The CW affiliate in Lincoln (repeated on KNHL (formerly KHAS) 5.3). Gray has that Cornhusker state locked from Omaha to Scottsbluff.

WCIU in Chicago is one of the big stations in top-3 markets that will air Greta's program.

It appears that CBS & AT&T has reach a new deal, ending the three-week blackout on DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-Verse.

New M&A. Entravision is buying a Harlingen, TX station, KMBH from MBTV Texas Valley, LLC, for $2.9M. Entravision already owns a Univision affiliate KNVO, and a plethora of LPs airing Fox & The CW. KMBH was a former PBS station, before it was sold to the current owners. But they kept the PBS feed, aibeit on the station's subchannel (38.2). I'm not sure how long that's going to last under Entravision's ownership.

I think the gripe isn't with the graphics itself. It's the stations ain't willing to use a different font on the L3s other than Helvectica (or tweak with the coloring). If they woud've used the font that KFDA & KWQC uses, it wouldn't look all that much...... "plain".

Give kudos to Mike Nurse for staying there that long, five years after the Lighthouse took over. I strongly don't believe any changes in management is going to change the status quo. Viewership habits are hard to change.

New M&A. Ben Tucker is cashing out in Tucson. Tegna is exercising its option to acquire the MyNet outlet KTTU outright from Tucker Media for $296K. Tegna already owns the Fox station KMSB. This will be the first time in nearly six years where both KTTU & KMSB be commonly-owned, even though both have stayed together through a sharing arrangement. When Gannett bought out the duopoly's former owner Belo in 2013, Gannett couldn't own the stations outright because of its ownership with their paper, the Arizona Daily Star. The old newspaper-broadcast crossownership (NBCO) rule prohibits entities from owning a newspaper and TV station in the same market. And because of the eight-voice test rule, Sander couldn't buy both KMSB & KTTU because the market would end up with just seven unique owners. So Tucker ended up getting KTTU. After Gannett's split of its TV & publishing arms in 2015, Sander sold KMSB to what is now known as Tegna. The NBCO & Eight-Voice Test was thrown out after Pai relaxed the media ownership rules in late 2017.

Looks like another cost-cutting move. Gray's WABI in Bangor will be simulcasting its weekend news on sister station WAGM in Presque Isle, starting this weekend.

The FCC greenlighted the deal today.

Almost eight years (9/24/11). They're moving to a fresh new (yet-to-be constructed) building in a few years. Might as well keep what they got until then.

The deal was completed last Thursday (7/25). I assume they'll file to upgrade the station's signal (the current strength is small) before network placement.

The weekend anchors are back downstairs for the 11. And it looks like they've replaced the video wall behind them (no longer see the lines).

Given that the network is airing all those live sporting events that would eat up all that time, I'm surprised that KUSA is not airing E/I stuff at 12:30pm every weekday. That would only leave one E/I show to air on the weekend.

I'm not sure when this happened. But it appears South Bend's WNDU has done away with its longtime News Center 16 brand. They're now branding all of their newscasts as 16 News Now. Prior to just recently, the 16 News Now brand was only for its 4pm, while using News Center 16 for the later shows. And I can careless of how "outdated" the name was. News Center 16 was their brand. The new one is just too generic and overused.

The Lighthouse's flagship outlet celebrated a milestone this week. WCPO celebrated its 70th anniversary. And throughout their newscasts this past week, they've replaced its main bug for its old 60s "9" logo for this occasion.

The deal was completed on Thursday. And so did the switch of format. They're now a Rhythmic CHR radio station "WE 102.9"

The Meredith stations could be removed from Dish Network on Monday Night at 7pm/ET.

They'll likely add the network on a new subchannel, while keeping the other diginets in tack. Look at Charlotte (where WJZY/WMYT share the same frequency) they carry eight separate channels in one frequency.

The FCC greenlighted the sale earlier this week (7/1). Also upon the deal's completion, Alpha will change the station's calls to KVWE.

And the deal is done. Completed on Wednesday. Byron Allen now owns WEVV & KADN/KLAF. Now DuJuan McCoy will be waiting for the completion of Nexstar-Tribune to acquire WISH-TV.

The time/temp bug and the bumper music is back on tonight's 11pm. So i assume that last night was probably a "technical" issue.