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3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Another thought....WJCW?  (exists as an AM station in Johnson City, TN owned by iHeart Media)

Yeah, WCLE (AM) and WCLE-FM are both also down in Tennessee -- Cleveland, TN, to be exact.

WJJW might be available, though. The calls are on an FM station at a small college in northwestern Massachusetts; Nexstar could probably work out a deal that would allow them to use WJJW-DT in exchange for a "modest" donation.

Too bad the WCLE call letters aren't available.

6 hours ago, nathannah said:

We're talking about an audience that probably still wants Lockup to somehow return...

If the majority of MSNBC's audience actually wants Lockup to return, the channel is in more trouble than we thought.

On 3/7/2025 at 4:30 AM, TheRolyPoly said:

ABC and FOX are now gone in Guam. Sorensen Media Group has filed with the FCC to cancel the licenses of both KTGM and KEQI-LD. All that Guam has left is NBC (KUAM), CBS (KUAM.2), PBS (KGTF), and, oddly enough, The CW (KTKB).

KTGM: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff394e080a001951a1c648e4791&id=25076ff394e080a001951a1c648e4791&goBack=N

 

KEQI-LD: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff394e080a001951a8a48a44902&id=25076ff394e080a001951a8a48a44902&goBack=N

Is there a story behind that?

1 hour ago, ns8401 said:

I bet Scripps gets broken up at some point. Expanding with the crappy groups they purchased over the years was dumb. 
 

No offense to the KMGH or WTMJ fans out there. 

Purchasing Ion and most of its O&O stations (over sixty of 'em!) and not doing anything with them beyond running daily marathons of procedural dramas (read: cop shows) from the last few decades and occasional live sports is particularly dumb. I doubt they're attracting any cord-cutters with that strategy.

On 3/3/2025 at 8:23 AM, Geoffrey said:

Looks like an Apple Store.

I'm sure someone at Apple would love to have stores that look like that...with or without the video "tank" in the middle.

10 hours ago, mouseboy33 said:

Derek Van Dam tweeted about the VR EXTREME weather center. Did they need to add EXTEME to the title.

http://https://x.com/VanDamCNN/status/1897273836355321959

Link's broken. You need to remove the extra "http://" at the beginning.

1 hour ago, ScottSchell said:

More the national desk or taped news like they did to NTV.

Aha. Thanks.

I have a friend in Amarillo who mentioned that the Sinclair station there (KVII) has "reportedly ditched all local news people other than the weather team". That's the ARC thing, right?

16 minutes ago, Action Newsroom said:

- Ayman and Velshi get new (expaned) weekend hours.

I have a feeling Ali Velshi's being saved for when Lawrence O'Donnell retires.

On 2/20/2025 at 9:09 PM, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Actually, no. Reruns will stay on OWN plus on Pluto TV.

 

Not only that, the network has expanded to Canada.

 

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/dr-phil-ending-cbs-syndication-merit-street/

Still, at least Dr. Phul-Ovit is off of broadcast stations.

16 hours ago, TheRob said:

One of the young voices in Kansas City's Spanish-speaking media died while on Super Bowl duty in New Orleans. He did play-by-play for the women's soccer team and sideline reporting at Chiefs games.

 

https://fox4kc.com/sports/kansas-city-sports-reporter-dies-while-in-new-orleans-for-super-bowl-lix/

It's worse than that -- his daughter's now lost both of her parents. From the article:

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Originally from Mexico City, Manzano relocated to Topeka, Kansas, in 2018 and later earned a degree from Kansas State University. He was married to Ashleigh Boyd and had a daughter named Eleanor. Boyd died in a car crash last April.

5 hours ago, DENDude said:

 

IMAGE: WBBH / WZVN.

Interesting that the ABC logo appears "first" even though WBBH is the actual Hearst-owned station.

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Now, you’ll be able to access NECN’s written, video and interactive content covering Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont on the NBC10 Boston mobile app, NBCBoston.com and the NBC10 Boston app on Fire and Roku.

They couldn't be bothered to mention that Connecticut news is covered by their sister station that's actually in Connecticut? Lovely.

7 hours ago, Kingpeytonifx said:

I noticed that KGWN has introduced a new logo in its station IDs, but it hasn’t debuted on the news yet. The IDs also feature This Is the Place by Stephen Arnold Music. I found a video Has anyone else noticed this or seen similar updates at other Allen [Marquee] stations? Would love to hear your thoughts Video

I know we're talking about a station in Cheyenne, WY, but wow, those IDs are terrible.

Okay, that set looks quite good. I particularly love the graphics behind the anchors.

41 minutes ago, SDHIll1980 said:

Phil McGraw has always been a fraudulent assclown, and the sooner this waste of bandwidth of a TV network disappears, the better off we would all be. 

Has Oprah denounced him yet?

It's Jimmy Fallon whose show cut back to four (new) episodes a week, not Kimmel.

2 hours ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

I believe that station had by far the biggest backlash of any of them. It would probably garner Allen the most money as well if they decided to sell it.

Considering the extreme weather that part of the country gets, I'm not surprised one bit.

17 hours ago, GodfreyGR said:

 

I'm so glad they emphasized "America" in those banners. Viewers might've thought it was inauguration day somewhere else.

27 minutes ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

The Tegna stations sure dodged a big bullet - he was interested in them, was willing to buy them, but the failed Standard General deal came into play.

Quite honestly, I'm amazed Standard General is even still around.

22 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

I know he won't listen to this, but Allen... SELL NOW. Its obvious AMG can't manage anything for shit. At this point, anyone is better than them.

And sell piecemeal! If a buyer only wants a small handful of stations, take the deal. You'll be that much closer to done.

(He's not reading this, is he?)

8 hours ago, atlnews2 said:

well that was quick. Guess they’re ok selling piecemeal instead of “all or nothing “ 

About time someone was! 

4 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

I tell ya this I do not want to be a television station owner it seems stressful. If I did own a television station maybe a few stations I wouldn’t want to be a major owner. Because there be more shoestring budgets and it would be less stressful and profitable they’re are many station owners who own only a few stations and there profitable and they can do virtually whatever they want. I’d have general manager at all stations, and probably no news programming at all unless the network demanded it. My dream would be to own a Telemundo station, maybe give that a news department.

Noticias suficientes para hacer feliz a la red.

That's Spanish for "Just enough news to make the network happy." You're welcome.

11 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Once the subchannel affiliation rule is revoked (allowing a station to take another network on a .2), some of these could be toast, as there are more capable stations in these markets that can serve their area better than Sinclair.

Assuming it's actually revoked under a Republican-controlled FCC.

2 hours ago, MD TV said:

So now all 2 hours of Judge Judy reruns are on WDCA from 4-6PM. And that means between 4am-7:30pm WTTG has a grand total of 2 syndicated shows (Sherri and Jennifer Hudson from 12pm-2pm).

A news-heavy, major-market TV station in the nation's capital? I don't see the problem.