mre29

I believe there's a saying for this: "If it bleeds, it leads." The fact that it bled five hours ago is apparently immaterial.

FTFY.

There's always HLN, though she'd have to switch her focus to true crime.

All we need is "MSNBC Overnight".

Or, y'know, just not base their purchasing decisions on games involving grown men getting concussions and throwing weirdly-shaped objects wrapped in pigskin. I'm sure people in St. Louis would love for someone to do the same with KDNL.

And, more importantly, since MyNet programming is just reruns. In fact, since MyNet isn't considered a network anymore but simply a programming service, its affiliates are effectively independent stations.

Looks like WBZ got the new site: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/

Maybe they should move all the opinionated shows to HLN. It'd be better than 19 hours a day of Forensic Files.

More info here: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/chris-wallace-cnn-sunday-1235270703/

The original point was to provide an option for the WB and UPN affiliates who weren't going to be CW affiliates and who were deathly afraid of becoming independent again. Never mind that their programming was an untested experiment -- 65-episode serials running nightly for 13 weeks -- that was eventually abandoned. Never mind that viewers were increasingly moving away from broadcast television even back then in 2006. Stations needed to make money, and apparently they were utterly convinced they couldn't do that as independents. Actually, I imagine a lot of the CW's viewers who keep up with the shows watch them on the network's streaming app(s). As for their presence on Netflix...well, the shows are slowly moving to HBO Max and Paramount+. You may want to read this article about the CW's recent show cancellations. Well, maybe just KSTW, WTOG, and WUPA -- the stations that aren't part of duopolies.

It would be ironic if MyNet outlives the CW.

Who Cares About Your Opinion? Why the Foxification of British News Isn’t Working (Column) https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/piers-morgan-uncensored-talktv-gb-news-foxification-1235266461/ Fantastic.

Or, y'know, an election.

Their website looks like it was designed for mobile devices with no consideration for desktop browsers (or anything with a screen resolution greater than 1000px wide). That's just lazy.

I look forward to all the corporate synergy that will arise.. "And now, the HBO Max Original Series, My 600-Pound Life." (Am I being facetious? Absolutely. But that show actually does exist on TLC...)

WMUR's Tom Griffith is retiring in a few months, with his last day being June 3rd. https://www.wmur.com/article/wmur-new-hampshire-tom-griffith-retirement/39653352#

That's more like two or three decisions, but either way, he's ending strong.

Huh. I've been wondering if Sinclair would do something like this to alleviate their debt situation. I didn't expect it from Coxpollo.

Any chance you could remove that black background? The link in there is pretty much invisible.

Well, it wasn't an exit interview per se, but Colbert did devote a segment of tonight's show to Licht's news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_rVUr3g5Gs

I wasn't aware that Scripps had started a news operation on WBPX. Are WHDH's numbers for their 10pm news counted with or without WLVI? Because if it's with, that seems unfair.

Colbert should given him an on-air exit interview. I'm completely serious.

I imagine Tegna being put up for sale as a complete set and not piecemeal didn't help. None of the other broadcasting companies out there (Hearst, Graham, Hubbard, Scripps, Weigel, Bahakel, Griffin, etc.) could afford to buy Tegna because it was so big and expensive. Yeah, I know groups are sold in their entirety for tax reasons, but that's starting to feel like a loophole being exploited.

Aha. Well, no one posted that link here, and I'm not psychic, so...

Sorry, but where does it say that Cox will be getting WLNE and KLKN?