mre29

Dear Hearst...

Smart of them to think ahead. Now CBS needs to heavily plug that video in their own coverage of this.

Trump's "presidential library"? Transcripts aren't good enough. The complete, uncut interview should also be made available for viewing,. I mean, do you think average voters are going to interested in reading a transcript when there's a video to watch? In fact, the complete, uncut interview with Harris should be made available now.

The Adweek article is dated June 24th. This Variety piece is from yesterday.

CNBC has shops in multiple airports, though they're also just news/convenience stores with branding. I remember seeing one in Charlotte back in 2007.

That was back when the FCC was under Democratic control, before Donald the Destroyer returned to office and Carr turned into his personal attack dog.

I wonder if any of the stations that used that theme will cover this.

That problem shows up on CBS during the summer with multiple nights of Big Brother. Heck, it could probably also be blamed for the hilariously-inappropriate-for-CBS Love Island.

Well, the Archdiocese of Boston owns CatholicTV, so in a sense, the Vatican has access to that.

On the broadcasting side, both CBS and NBC stayed with their scheduled programming (48 Hours and Dateline, respectively....and both were years-old episodes, too) for the 9:00pm ET hour. I was flipping through channels at 10pm, and I'm pretty sure CBS was at least starting its second (49th?) hour of 48H, while NBC had switched to live coverage. (Fox broadcasting was airing the Mets-Phillies game, so they're excused, though it looks like they did cut to Fox News for Trump's speech.)

It's as if it has.... [puts on sunglasses] ...no merit.

I imagine Cowles has de facto right of first refusal when Marks's heirs finally decide to sell KYUS....as does Scripps with KXGN.

Which country? Even if I knew every country's flag by heart, that icon is tiny.

Just for fun, I checked to see how far Spokane is from Glendive. Using KXGN's building as the Glendive end, Spokane is about 595 miles away, or about the same distance as Duluth, Omaha, a point 15 miles north of Pueblo, CO, and over halfway up into Saskatchewan. You could draw a straight line from Glendive through downtown Minneapolis and not hit 595 miles till you're just over the river in Wisconsin. So, yeah, Spokane is just a bit too far from Glendive.

Technically, KXGN's already affiliated with the MTN group, so it would be more a matter of launching a new .2 subchannel to match the other stations. Oh, and apparently those stations' .2 subchannels are "independent" but all use the MTN branding, which is actually rather clever.

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?