mre29

The "Broadcasting Bubble" WILL burst in the near future.

Which mega group will cry "too big to fail".

Probably Sinclair or Nexstar.

Why Sharpton will still have a show is a mystery to me. The ratings are almost as abysmal as Ed's, not to mention the conflicts of interest/ethical issues.

TPC

The Prison Channel

Zing!

(The prison documentaries also need to go.)

 

This reminds me of the aqua look Apple used on their first iteration of OSX on a different font.

 

I think they kept the same structure so their affiliates wouldn't have to update their LIDIA equipment (the hardware that plays out the ticker.) It wouldn't be that much to ask or difficult for their affiliates to upgrade the configuration file over the weekend. An engineer told me that when Today updates their graphics, NBC (which uses the same hardware as CBS) sends out an updated configuration file where they essentially upload the files and initialize the settings. This process should take less than an hour but NBC gives the affiliates a weekend where they won't trigger the ticker.

 

Wait... the affiliates' own news ticker or the network's ticker?

If it's the network's ticker, wouldn't it already be in the video before the stream reaches the affiliates' systems?

 

> On November 20, the FCC dismissed the acquisition of KBCB by Fox.

 

What does "dismissed" mean in this case?

 

You may not know that their website, kuqitv.com, is, uh, one of the greatest websites in television history.

 

 

It has a rather... understated design. It loads fast, though!

Too bad it was designed in Word, though.

(It took me less than ten minutes to reduce 21.1 KB of Word-generated HTML to a lean, mean 716 bytes of well-formed HTML and CSS. It made for a fun exercise.)

Is that all of the stations?

 

Meanwhile, Nexstar has also announced that it will be acquiring Internet Broadcasting Systems for $20M.

 

Shouldn't this be the bigger news?

 

From red-headed step-child to beloved son.

 

Only if they're at the top of the list of Belo stations to get the new Gannett sites. If they're not getting a new site till August, though...

 

With the exception of WMUR, none of these are owned by mega-chains. WVIR is owned by a Florida firm whose only three stations are WVIR, WBBH, and WZVN. The other three are locally-owned. Maybe this has to do with it?

 

Compared to Sinclair and possibly Nexstar, I'm not sure you can call Hearst a "mega-chain".

 

The other three in the top five were WVIR, WMUR and KCRG.

 

Yay!