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

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The agreement in principle, proposed by a mediator, includes plaintiffs’ fees and costs and — except for fees and costs — will be allocated to Trump’s future presidential library, Paramount Global said in a statement late Tuesday.

Trump's "presidential library"? 

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Paramount also said it agreed that in the future, “60 Minutes” will release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after the interviews have aired, “subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns.”

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.

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President Trump and CBS are in “advanced” settlement talks in the lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, attorneys told a judge Monday.

 

The parties requested a stay in all proceedings in the case until Thursday, July 3, suggesting that a settlement could come soon.

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.

2 hours ago, mer764KCTV5 said:

Also, doesn't the FCC (Not now, of course) make sure that not only the top 4 stations in a certain area can't be co-owned, but also trying to (semi) clamp down on ... for example, a NBC affiliate on 9.1 having a ABC-affiliated subchannel on 9.2?

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.

20 minutes ago, Dave Lampstein said:

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/wireStory/lalo-schifrin-composer-mission-impossible-theme-dies-93-123252064

 

Lalo Schifrin, the legendary Argentine–American composer, passed away today at age 93. Among his many influential scores, the “Tar Sequence” from Cool Hand Luke (1967) found a second life far beyond the silver screen—it was adopted as the signature news theme by numerous ABC-owned stations (and some affiliates) from the late 1960s into the 1990s, and even inspired later Eyewitness News packages—a testament to its driving rhythm and broadcast-ready punch.

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

47 minutes ago, Hometown News said:

They're also a crutch Paramount uses to hide their utter creative bankruptcy. When they don't have that crutch, you have Network Ten's primetime lineup of MasterChef Australia multiple nights per week and back-to-back episodes of House Hunters on Friday. Or Channel 5's parade of documentaries about air fryers and electric cars that all recycle footage from the previous 20 documentaries about them.

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. 

6 hours ago, nathannah said:

The funny thing is that EWTN and the Vatican have a terrible relationship because of a lot of things, including EWTN's hate of Vatican II. If Rome could start its own American operation with EWTN's carriage, they would dump them in a heartbeat.

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

2 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

I haven't seen them do this before, perhaps someone else has. CBS News 24/7 is simulcasting BBC's Iran strike coverage just as NBC News Now is simulcasting Sky News UK.

 

After 9PM ET, ABC News is the only major US network that was breaking into programming as far as I've seen.

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.

3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

KYUS once had a formal agreement to relay KULR but it expired many years ago.  Stephen Marks basically had a handshake agreement to continue relaying their signal solely as a public service with no expectation of payment.

 

I wonder in this day and age how NBC feels about this?  For Miles City, it's part of KULR's market area but is still 150 miles away, making it as a repeater with virtually no contour overlap.

 

As long as his heirs keep the station running, there's no telling how much longer this could go.

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

On 6/18/2025 at 11:38 AM, MarkAnimates said:

 Yesterday evening, Veo7 relaunched on DTT, replacing Gol Play. 

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

1 hour ago, nathannah said:

KXGN doesn't have that burden now, and is basically a free agent. They could choose to be merged into their existing Scripps MTN network (the Cowles deal for news out of Spokane is just absurd), or decide to go closer and be merged into one of the three North Dakota networks, be it KX/Nextar, KFYR/Gray or Forum/KBMY.

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. 

On 6/18/2025 at 9:43 AM, mer764KCTV5 said:

I am hoping that Scripps (yes, them.) would aquire KXGN-TV to fit in with the Montana Television Network.

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.

3 hours ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

Closest sister stations to there would be in Austin or San Antonio. Unless they have a studio or bureau in San Angelo?

Doesn't look like it.

14 hours ago, C Block said:

 

It's a FOX thing. Other O&Os have taken a hatchet to their sports departments too. The preference is to have a single dedicated "sports reporter" who turns stories in the field about whatever the biggest sports story of the day is. The days of four male sports anchors in crisp suits above the waist taking turns reading highlights from the anchor desk and a bunch of sports producers are over.

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.

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

It hasn't been the same since their Hearst days when the channel was much more managed and ACTUALLY focused on New England stories compared to just Boston.

 

Today, NECN only airs news on weekdays. Weekends is mainly focused on lifestyle programs, outside of weekend mornings and even then, hours were crap. The last regional newscasts are 7-10, 11-11:30am, 12-2 and 3-4pm. WBTS' news are airing from 5-7am, 2-3, 4-6:30, and 7-7:30pm. So much for New England news...

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...

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

New England is a VERY UNIQUE region and it did deserve its own regional cable news channel. It sucks that NBC ruined it and I hope that NBC doesn't get into the 24-hour local news game ever again (and I'm not talking about streaming).

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.

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In this case however, CBS won’t own the show; nor produce it. Instead, it’s leasing the time period out to Entertainment Studios, owner of Comics Unleashed.

 

This type of transaction is known in the TV business as a “time buy.” An outside media company pays the network for the right to put a show on its air, expecting to make up the cost by selling commercial time to advertisers.

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Several people aware of the CBS deal for Comics Unleashed say the plan is to run an hour of back-to-back repeats of the original half-hour episodes that first began airing in the syndicated version of the show a decade and more ago, possibly augmented by some original episodes—and jokes.

 

None of that will be up to CBS though, because CBS will have nothing to do with the production of the show—if there is any production of the show. That will be up to Entertainment Studios and its resident mogul, Allen.

1 hour ago, MD TV said:

Also would Tegna unload it's flaghip?

No one said CBS had to buy WUSA...

On 6/2/2025 at 3:53 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

If CW moves from 17 to 46,  WPCH is one step closer to returning to it's "Superstation" roots...

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!"  

On 6/2/2025 at 3:18 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

The way CBS is going now (especially with their "bombshell" in Atlanta)....Nexstar and others could be a victim of CBS pulling up stakes for whoever pays them the most.

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

18 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

I can only see Hearst buying WKOW and the Wisconsin stations to bolster WISN plus WAAY to bolster WVTM. The rest would be difficult for Hearst to imagine buying. I don't see them going back to Hawaii (for KITV).

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.)

3 hours ago, Rusty Muck said:

Think about it. Who else would want KVOA or any of the other Allen stations? Coastal? Marquee? NP&G? Gray is IMO the prohibitive favorite and the only buyer who would continue to operate the stations with any semblance of locality.

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?

1 hour ago, TVLurker said:

CBS has always skewed to an older audience but the shows they're airing right now are ridiculous, almost every drama they air ties into law enforcement in such a way that it would make right-wing America proud. There are barely any comedies on CBS anymore and one of them is just a continuation of The Big Bang Theory cause franchises sell.

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.