CircleSeven

1 minute ago, Georgie56 said:

 

Then what's the point of Fox attempting to buying WSFL at this point?

Remember that was during the Sinclair-Tribune deal, when Fox attempted to buy those handful of Tribune stations.

During the Nexstar deal, WSFL was Spun-off to Scripps. Fox backed out of buying any spin-off, leaving the door open for Scripps & Tegna. Even them both outbidded Apollo.

For anyone who thought that Ansin was going to lose Fox in Miami (including me), think again. The network just renewed it.

Super Bowl LIV at the Hard Rock will air on 7.

27 minutes ago, Sshepard82 said:

Have they stopped airing encore presentations of Action News late night? It seems like they haven't been on this week. I won't be happy with the local abc affiliate if they have stopped airing as I can't always watch at 11PM.

Not sure when this happened. Earlier this month, the guide stated that the 11pm repeat at 1:07am after Nightline. But it now shows Jeopardy, before a Tamron Hall repeat.

The Fox O&Os and its cable networks are blacked out on Dish Network.

33 minutes ago, Greggo said:

KPRC is now the third Houston TV station airing an hour of news at 4p, joining KHOU and KTRK. Started this week. They had been running 30 minutes of news, followed by Extra. Extra will continue to be seen at 12:30p and 3:30a. This is a return to an hour of news at 4p for KPRC. They cut it back to half an hour several years ago citing news overload. But I guess those ad dollars were too good to pass up ...

 

https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2019/09/kprc-2-expands-4pm-news-to-one-hour.html

Could've gave KRIV Extra, but they would've buried it to after 11pm. 

But it was only a matter of time before 2 brought back the 4:30 news.

26 minutes ago, who?cares said:

Well, this just aired on WTHR. 

It was accompanied by SAM's "Everywhere I Go."

It's only a matter of time.............

On 8/5/2019 at 1:45 AM, CircleSeven said:

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. 

It was greenlighted last Friday (9/20).

On 1/1/2019 at 5:57 AM, CircleSeven said:

 

Follow up regarding KNCT. This is exactly what Gray is going to do.

 

The station just filed an app to move its signal to KWTX's tower. when they repack to RF 17. 

 

The contour would damn near match KWTX's with the move.

 

Looks like October 15th at 8am, KNCT will move to KWTX tower on RF 17. Gray is telling viewers to rescan to get KNCT on that date.

Should that (as in moving to 10's tower) be the case, Gray should drop MeTV on 10.3, since it'll already be carried on 46.2.

It'll be later than 11pm because of SNF (hope the game goes to overtime so folks can sleep and not have to watch this trainwreck).

Channel 9 aired its final Cubs home game from Wrigley earlier today.

There are two more broadcasts left, with the final one from St. Louis is this Friday (9/27).

On 9/10/2019 at 7:58 AM, CircleSeven said:

We have a brand new carriage dispute. And this is a big one.

 

AT&T/DirecTV and Disney/ABC. 

Looks like a deal has been reached "in principle" between AT&T & Disney.

5 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

It also looks like Sook wants to keep WGN 720 and to have more overlap between both stations.

Uncle Perry also said that if someone was willing to give him an offer he wouldn't refuse, he would sell WGN Radio and WGN America in a hot second, since it's a non-core asset for him. That's why he kept Compton in to run those assets. So if it does get sold, Sook wouldn't have to deal with him after that. I strongly don't think he'll keep WGNA & 720 in long haul. I also don't think he'll keep ownership of the diginets (Antenna TV & This TV) long-term either. He has long said that he's not interested in anything national. He's only for local. And despite some stations dropping the channel (or are in the process of doing so), I wish Weigel would repurchase This TV. 

In regards to airing a fraction of local games over-the-air, I wouldn't say Sook can't ink a deal. And I know it'll have a drawback for some folks who don't have cable and rely on watching the games OTA. But I don't think that would be enough to bring back some games to regular TV. And I believe we have pretty strong cable rate in this market. You know, strange things have happen. But I'm with most of you. After next week, I don't think we'll see another local game OTA for the forseeable future. 

On 3/9/2019 at 10:41 PM, bhratbrat said:

Promo for the cubs final season 

Follow up from above, as the season (and the station's time with the Cubs) is about to end.

Looks like WFLA is also dropping MeTV as well. It's going to Hearst's WMOR.

No word from Channel 8 on what will occupy that 8.2 allotment.

I'm surprised Nexstar didn't drop MeTV in Vegas (KLAS).........

WFAA is celebrating 70 years on the air.

Nexstar is also dropping MeTV on Nashville's WKRN 2.2. They're replacing it for Bounce TV. With MeTV moving to HC2-owned WJFB 44.1.

3 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

Slightly off-topic:

 

Nexstar is dropping the very popular MeTV from WCMH 4.2? What gives? Or are they going to replace with Antenna TV (which sucks)?

WCMH is replacing MeTV for CourtTV.

Meredith & Dish has reached a new retrans deal, two months after blackout.

19 minutes ago, news89 said:

 

You got to be bleeping me. Seriously. What the hell is this?!!

Forget the lottery ball, this is worse.

It looks like they took the "3" from a sign out of a street corner. This is not a TV logo, it's an outdoor sign. I swear you can't get any worse than this.

Pitiful. Just plain and extremely pitiful.

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Not to mention... a new circle 3 logo coming.

3 hours ago, tjt24 said:

Which also looks absolutely hideous...

3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

So is WKYC getting a circle 3 logo or is this sarcasm?

 

Dead serious here.   I don't know what to think anymore from whatever comes out from Tegna these days....

Where's is this new logo? Let me see it..

I don't think this was mentioned on this thread (you can correct me if I'm wrong). But I want to know who composed this theme. This is from WTTV in the mid-80s.

Vid courtesy of kyndel hewitt from YT

Is this theme based on its station promo "4 The Good Times"? Listen closely.

Vid courtesy of TheClassicSports from YT.

Vid courtesy of Chuck D's Classic TV Playhouse's YT page.

Sounds like changes are ahead on the morning show.

We have a brand new carriage dispute. And this is a big one.

AT&T/DirecTV and Disney/ABC. 

That's not just the eight ABC O&Os, but all of the Disney & ESPN networks as well.

Now they didn't mention when they'll probably pull the networks off of the AT&T/DirecTV platforms.

KGO posted this message about the dispute on its Facebook wall. 

Damn. Two former Fox 5-ers anchoring mornings Channel 9 (along with Annie Yu).

WBTV implemented the new Gray graphics last night. 

A small M&A. 

Remember KGBY? 

That was the former KJCT when the station was on its full-power signal, before Gray (owner of KKCO) sold the station to a minority-owner broadcaster back in 2014. 

Now that broadcaster is selling the station. Chang Media Group is selling KGBY to Ventura Media Communications for $375K.

Ventura Media also owns stations in Fresno, CA and Idaho Falls, ID. That includes KVUI (which was the former Fox affiliate KFXP, prior to 2011).