CircleSeven

That sounds like Locals Only.

2 hours ago, oknewsguy said:

Not to mention, I think the Mike Davis situation should be in its own thread

Agreed. The Mike Davis discussion is moved to this thread.

On 8/8/2019 at 4:59 PM, CircleSeven said:

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

And here's the website of Greta's new show. Which looks like a modification to Raycom station's website, with a font change.

8 minutes ago, TVNewsNYFan said:

My guide lists a new show debuting next Monday called “The Noon”

 

Is that one of those new daily variety shows or is that FOX5’s new Noon newscast they’ve been planning for years now?

On the TVPassport guide, it says "The Noon Show".

Not sure if its news or a local program. I didn't see any releases on the website or on their Facebook wall about it. 

Longtime Fox 32 reporter Larry Yellen announced that he is retiring at the end of the month after 25 years at the station.

Although he's leaving the station full-time, he might show up periodically as expert contributor.

Another big Tegna departure.

Longtime KPNX sports director Bruce Cooper announced that he is retiring from the big 12 next August, after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

So just like the Gray stations, the Nexstar outlets will be playing the national anthem beginning on Labor Day.

There's going to be a new addition to the Channel 7 morning team.

Feder stated that she'll be starting on September 30. She comes from KXAS in Fort Worth, TX.

Gray has renewed its Fox affiliation in all 21 markets.

4 hours ago, newsbot said:

With the most highly-contested US Senate race in the country underway, WMTW is adding a 7PM Saturday newscast on its CW-affiliated sister station WPXT starting August 31. Gotta grab as many of those sweet 2020 campaign dollars as you can...

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

August 31st is a Saturday.

I think I understand why the 7pm show is on WPXT. ABC is probably going to air another pre-game show at 7pm in between the end of the 3:30pm college football game and Saturday Night Football, in which this year, all the games will air at 7:30pm (instead of 8pm). 

The good thing about that 7:30 start time, is that local stations in the eastern half of the country can finally (for the most part) get their late show in on time, instead of waiting to close to midnight on some weeks.

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.

3 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Oh wow! Just realized that. Sorry! WABC and WTNH are up at 4am. Everyone else is too reluctant. I think the CBS Morning News is still live at 4:00 a.m.

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.

3 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Looks like they modified the logo.  The "ABC" is much larger, and it's not the KTRK/WTVG clone they've used for years...

My biggest pet peeve is the network logo overpowering the station's entire logo. Should've kept the size the way it was. 

I hated it when KFSN enlarged the ABC logo  into their logo a few years ago.

10 minutes ago, KS-IL-IA said:

Back in the '70s, KOLN's 10p news had the highest market share of any CBS affil in the nation. KLKN has taken a little dent, but it should be interesting with Deb Mcdermott's (former KOLN PD) company.

KSNB is owned by Gray but has a completely different newscast, focusing on Kearney-Hastings-Grand Island.

If you're referring to KWCH, that's Wichita, a fur piece (as we say in Kansas) away.

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.

On 6/9/2019 at 11:26 PM, CircleSeven said:

New M&A tonight. Weigel is making another purchase.

 

They're buying Glenwood Springs, CO's KREG-TV from Marquee Broadcasting for $2M.

 

This was the former satellite of Grand Junction's CBS station KREX-TV. During Gray's acquisition of the station's former owner, Hoak in 2014, Gray decided to keep its incumbent NBC outlet KKCO, and spin-off KREX (and its satellites) to Nexstar. Nexstar spun-off satellite KREG in 2017 to Marquee to alleviate national cap space after its purchase of Media General.

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.