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Doesn't look like it.

This is not a bad thing. Also, I'm guessing stations finally realized that a lot of viewers likely tune out after the weather forecast.

NECN isn't even on Spectrum here in my part of CT, so I haven't been able to watch it since we moved from NH over a year ago. I imagine Comcast not wanting to run newscasts from stations they don't own (Tegna's WCSH/WLBZ, Sinclair's WJAR, Nexstar's WWLHearst's WPTZ), but you'd think they'd at least run newscasts from their other New England-based station -- WVIT here in CT. To say nothing of, oh.... Telemundo Boston. Makes you wonder what would've happened if Hearst owned stations in more than just 4 of the 9 DMAs... I think streaming (via apps or the FAST services) is the closest they'll likely get anytime soon, especially since NBC Nonstop didn't work out in the long run.

Re-railing back to the original topic of this thread, Latenighter has an article about the deal that brought Allen and Comics Unleashed back for a second round.

No one said CBS had to buy WUSA...

And since its call letters have the exact same number of syllables as "WTBS", it could use an updated version of this classic: "Celebrate! Celebrate! Superstation P-C-H!"

Which makes. you wonder if CBS might be looking at markets it can buy its way into. CBS DC, anyone?

Yeah. IIRC, KSBW is their smallest station right now in terms of market size, and its DMA was ranked around 100. (Also, I included KWWL as it'd give KCCI an in-state sister station.)

Looking at the list of stations, I'm pretty certain they'd be a clean purchase for Hearst or Graham...but most of them are small-market, so outside of maybe WAAY, KVOA, WREX, KWWL, and WKOW, I don't think Hearst would be all that interested (and Graham even less so). Also, the work that would be involved in making the stations decent again.... It'd probably be Hearst's last significant purchase of the 2020s and 2030s.

I like it. The "Covering Hillsborough County" graphic reminds me of Hearst stations, so it must be the same font. That said, the audio in the video clip makes it sound like the music is rather....lethargic?

The popularity of franchises is a big part of why CBS has so many law-enforcement-related (or what some people call "copaganda") shows. You may be right on there not being many comedies on the network; in fact, I only count four for this coming season (Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts; The Neighborhood, and the premieres-this-fall DMV). The problem there is that there are only so many hours in CBS's primetime schedule, and with most of that time taken up by the aforementioned dramas and reality shows, something's getting short-changed. The easiest solution would be for CBS to reclaim Saturday nights for something other than reruns and episodes of 48 Hours...but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Comedy Central's schedule consists of The Daily Show (when there's a new episode), South Park, and reruns of sitcoms you can watch in multiple other places. Meanwhile, MTV has multiple channels that are barely watched, such as MTVU, which is apparently both alive and defunct. They may as well call that one Schrodinger's MTV.

FYI, only the second video is viewable here in the US; the others all just show this:

Actually, I can see affiliates demanding that CBS put something in the time slot rather than just let them have it back. Considering the time slot and that all episodes will be at least eleven years old, CBS should give affiliates the option to opt-out of airing the show if they'd rather run something else.

So, she's outside now?

From Wikipedia's page about Skydance: What other chaos? It's mostly been Trump, his pet FCC commissioner Carr, and, before them, Shari Redstone that have caused any chaos.

Spectrum is pretty solid for me in CT, as well.

Or other companies.

"FAKE SUDS!"

I look forward to the power company changing its name to....SpinCo.

Nine?!? There are basic cable networks with less original programming than that. Heck, how do they even decide which show gets a particular case?

This one being two hours on Mondays makes me think MSNBC should do something similar for Maddow's show when she returns to Monday-only and let her have two hours as well. Lawrence O'Donnell is undoubtedly eying retirement, so he might be happy to cut back to four nights.

Yeesh. I made more than the high end of that at my last job, and I didn't have to appear on-camera.

"Dad, what's a gray sport?"

Doesn't Gray have Raycom Sports, though?