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New scuffle.

Dish Network has blacked out the Standard Media stations (KLKN, KBSI/WDKA & WLNE).

On 1/8/2021 at 3:22 PM, Samantha said:

Another station wants to go U: KCTS Seattle, which wants to trade in channel 9 and move to channel 17.

Follow-up.  

Almost two years since they'd filed, the station have now withdrawn this petition. 

So after exactly one year after a graphics changes & technology upgrades and whatnot, now they're going to install a new studio set? 

All of that should've been taken care off last year.

On 10/31/2022 at 11:51 AM, Nelson R. said:

KCBS has flipped Drew Barrymore and Let’s Make a Deal as of today…both half hours of Drew move to 2pm and LMAD moves back to 9am. 
 

https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/cbs-kcbs-los-angeles-ca/2172

I don't know why they switch LMAD off the 9am in the first place last season. Glad it's been corrected.

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Anywho, Kelly Clarkson just been rewarded a two-season renewal on the NBC O&Os today.

5 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

Does that mean Gray can't have CBS in Anchorage anymore and they have to sell it?

Nope. The FCC ordered Gray to just pay that fine. No divestitures.

20 hours ago, SFTV said:

I thought the same as well when they shifted Spencer Christian from 4 and 6pm weekdays to weekend evenings.
 

They have a huge weather team, with Mike leaving they’ll just have it like the old schedule and extend Drew to middays, Frances, Spencer or Lisa to replace for Mike’s shift at 4 and 5pm and with Sandyha at 6 and 11.

Hold the phone.

Nicco didn't do the 5p. He did the 11a & 4p. Sandhya does 5 & 6p.

So the press release states that Rudabeh will be paired with Jamie on the 7-10am portion. 

Kalyna will solo anchor the 4am half-hour, as well as traffic anchor throughout the show.

And assuming they're keeping Marci & Chris on the 4:30-7 portion, who's going to anchor the 10am hour? 

Big Follow-Up.

The FCC is following through with the $518,283K fine. Gray said it will appeal through the courts.

Here's the forfeiture paper.

A deal was made between Nexstar & Verizon Fios today (10/28), ending a two-week blackout.

13 hours ago, dialhoang said:

As long as Zanesville doesn’t get its own ABC affiliate I think they’ll be OK. 

What's to stop WHIZ of getting ABC? Sinclair doesn't own a station in the Zanesville market.

Okay a couple a things.

New Petition. Gray wants to make a switch to one of its newly-acquired allotments from that auction.

They want to move the Yuma allotment from VHF 11 to UHF 27. 

Also, WWDP's petition (10 > 36) has been advanced to NPRM yesterday.

They should've gotten this set in 2015.

It's probably too early to talk about March Madness because College Basketball season doesn't start for another two weeks or so. But there could be a major change to its post-season event after the end of this season.

Longtime CBS Sports personality Jim Nantz has announced he will call his final NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Houston this Spring. But according to the NY Post, Nantz is not leaving the coverage completely, as he'll continue to handle the trophy presentation.

Nantz has been involved in this March Madness tourney since 1986, first as a studio host, then calling the games since 1991.

Nantz will continue to call the NFL games and Golf coverage. Ian Eagle will take over Nantz's spot as main play-by-play announcer in 2024.

Three months after Marquee acquired the station, Zanesville, Ohio's WHIZ is adding Fox on its subchannel 18.2 on November 14.

On 10/18/2022 at 9:13 PM, mrschimpf said:

I would've thought this would be used for "Fox 6's" own stick, but other than ATSC3 I'm confused with this one. Telemundo is already O&O'ed in Hartford and Springfield, and the 'Fairfield County' version of WFSB is just the main station with Fairfield ads now since they cut all syndicated product that could be claimed by NYC stations, so a hop down there doesn't make sense.

 

Only thing could be expanding WSHM coverage south into Windsor and Enfield, but I'm absolutely stumped unless there's a second hop to Pittsfield to return CBS/ABC/Fox local coverage to the Berks after WCDC was shut down.

Let me first remind you that WSHM-LD recently moved to WGGB's tower some weeks back. And its contour expanded as far south as northern Connecticut (close to Hartford). And with a larger height, it should be reachable for those southern areas you've mention. 

As for that WWAX-LD move to Hartford, that Circle diginet has not been cleared in that market. But that might not be the only reason they want to use this LP in Hartford. It'll be interesting to see what they'll do with it. With the Peacock & Weigel in the market, there's not much diginets to grab.

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New Callsign for Channel 9 Freeport.

It is NOT WIFR. It is WSLN.

No word on when it'll light up its new full power signal. But the callsign (if approved) will go in effect on 10/26.

Fox reached a last-minute deal with Altice to avoid a blackout.

However, Nexstar has yanked its signals off of Fios.

.......And another one. Fox & Altice.

Networks could go dark by Midnight tonight.

New retrans scuffle. Nexstar & Verizon Fios.

Blackouts could happen on Friday.

This should also be mentioned that KTRE have that active petition to move the station off of VHF 9 to UHF 24.

On 6/15/2022 at 11:58 PM, CircleSeven said:

They're acquiring WWAX-LD (formerly W27ER-D) from Triple Seven Media for $900K.

 

Even though its COL is Westmoreland, NH, its antenna facility is located 63 miles south in Holyoke, MA (near Springfield). 

 

Gray is in the process of moving that other LP (WSHM) to WGGB's tower (expanding its contour). Wouldn't be surprised if it move this new LP to that facility as well, should it get the FCC greenlight.

Little update regard an LP in Western MA.

WWAX-LD has recent gotten the greenlight to move its facility further SOUTH to WFSB's tower.

Well, I guess the deal is done.

Nexstar has announced the completion of The CW acquisition. 

Also announced that Nexstar board member Dennis Miller will take over as president of the network, replacing Pedowitz.

5 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

I thought that Gray renewed with CBS last year and that included WGCL/WANF? I read it somewhere on a media website I could be wrong on that. I think they should use different branding when they don't have news hours which I know is few for WANF has now being with Gray.

Gray did renewed the CBS stations it already had, last November. However, it didn't include the newly-acquired Meredith stations, since that deal didn't close until the following month.

Looking at this biennial paperwork (p.6 on the PDF) in the station's public file, the Meredith-CBS agreement don't expire until this coming July of 2023.

On 9/30/2022 at 11:15 AM, nycnewsjunkie said:

Well, I guess it’s October somewhere.

Here’s the intro. Note that the WGCL calls are still there for now.

Callsign change will go in effect on Monday (10/3). Glad to see a rare Friday launch.

But not all that thrilled that the new brand is its overall brand. My pet peeve has always been stations using "News" in their brand during non-news time periods. Using the calls WANF (at least verbally) would've been appropriate. 

Another Bay Area departure.

Longtime KGO reporter Davie Louie is retiring after over 50 years at the station.

32 minutes ago, Matt S. said:

looks pretty good. also if this holds true, the revamp saved drew barrymore and all the talk shows will be back next season 

 

only shows that look like they’re getting off the air after this season are ring nation (almost certain at this rate) and iCrime (the fact it’s a mainstream show on WFTV is crazy), in addition to whatever sitcoms are leaving next year 

It's too early to speculate whether these new shows come back next year. This is only just their first week numbers. 

The only reason why Drew's show is up is because Nielsen is counting the ratings two separate half hours together. This is similar to what they do with Family Feud ratings since that show is aired multiple times a day. 

New M&A. The LP acquisitive train continues to roll......

Cincinnati's WBQC-LD (known for its branding "WKRP-TV") was owned by Elliot Block, until his passing in November 2019. It has since been operated by a trust.

Gray is going to snag this LP for $2.5K.