mre29

Oh, what would we do without our daily dose of 48 Hours?!?

Prior to Nexstar buying a majority stake in the CW, I'd have said the easiest solution would be to take ABC for KPLR and send the CW to KDNL, but that's not likely now that Nexstar has a good reason to keep the CW affiliation. Maybe Weigel could be convinced to make room for it on KNLC or Scripps could take it for WRBU.

Could the networks threaten to pull affiliation to get Sinclair to invest in their stations? Or require certain affiliates to be sold to new owners? I'm thinking of KDNL in particular.

Or a certain orange-skinned individual. This would be a very good time for Sinclair to sell some of their stations, and not just small ones, either. But something tells me the company's response to that would basically be, "If we can't control those stations, NO ONE CAN!"

Or under the weight of the giant bird he's wrapped around his neck...

Leave it to Nexstar to lay off individual words.

I didn't think HBO had that few. This is why I'm waiting for the inevitable mass-culling of cable channels. There are so many channels that aren't pulling their own weight and are still around only because they're bundled with their more popular siblings. At some point, one of the parent companies -- Disney, Comcast/NBCU, WBD, Paramount, etc. -- needs to say, "Yeah, this isn't working out anymore." and start winding channels down. But which company is going to blink first?

Anyone read this Variety article from last week? Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2023’s Winners and Losers You can click through to read the entire article and see the full tables (one for total viewers, the other for the top 50 for adults 18-49), but for this board's purposes, I'll just note the following from t he total viewers table: Are business news channels just not a thing anymore? Because CNBC was just barely beat out by a channel that should be in The Walking Dead. I'm guessing a lot of viewers were getting the Max (nee HBO Max) streaming service as part of their HBO subscription and realized the streamer was more valuable to them than the linear channels. I'm also guessing it's the main channels that were tracked, not all of the digital multicast channels. Time to wind those down, I'd say.

With the Comics Unleashed reruns on CBS set to end later this month with the premiere of After Midnight, I have to think the owners and managers of some affiliates must be quietly relieved -- specifically, anyone who owns or runs a CBS affiliate in a market where Allen Media owns a competing station. Sure, the episodes are all over a decade old and yes, we're talking about the 12:30am ET time slot, but the show was hosted by the guy who now owns a station that directly competes with them. At the very least, it must have been a bit weird.

No wonder I couldn't find it in any of the FAST services I have on my iPad.

Comcast should have pushed harder for some of those zombies to be dropped, especially the ones that only show music videos. We have YouTube for that. But, then, someone at Comcast seems to think MusicChoice is worth keeping around, so...

Good to see. That said, I was hoping Hearst would take the opportunity to reveal a new site design, but I guess they're keeping the current look for now.

I could see Paramount merging with a pre-WBD Discovery, as the latter was basically just a bunch of cable channels at the time. But this.....

What the hell is an "all-name team" and do the athletes have a say in whether or not they're on it? Sigh... College football with college-level humor, because that's what sports coverage really needs. Enjoy, sports addicts fans.

Linear includes both broadcast and cable. Also, how does FAST compare to a single-serving site?

Sooooooo..... day 2?

I would think dropping three letters and a space from what was a six-character name qualifies as a name change.

My mistake. I really should have written "linear channel" instead of "cable channel".

The fact that it's launching as a cable channel says a lot about who the target audience is: older people who are more likely to still have cable TV.

Any word on the Montana stations?

Lifestyle shows? Home renovation shows? Travel shows? I'm sure NBCU has some of those available in its back catalog.

The article's paywalled. Could you provide a link to non-paywalled coverage? Thanks.

That happened in 1996? Assuming Smith was never arrested again, I would think it'd be a non-issue 27 years later.

So you're saying that he's so bad that people and companies we consider to be terrible owners would be better than him?

Ion and the CW airing live sports. Whodathunkit? What's next, candlepin bowling on MyNet?