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7 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

 

 

Standards and practices (if they even have one) will have their work cut out for them.  Expect Perry Sook's swear jar to be overflowing...

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.

5 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

Cable is linear... Do you mean Broadcast vs Cable? You compare Linear to OTT. You compare FAST to SSS.

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

On 12/7/2023 at 7:15 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

Honestly, I won't be surprised and will laugh hysterically when this has consistently better ratings than News Nation.

Sooooooo..... day 2? 

On 12/6/2023 at 6:54 PM, hmaxhanson said:

...And I guess its also proof that Nexstar won't be changing CW's name after all.

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

On 12/6/2023 at 4:03 PM, T.L. Hughes said:

I’m not fully convinced it’ll be a fully cable/satellite-exclusive network. TBN’s various networks—Inspire, Smile, Enlace USA and Positiv—are available on its OTA stations (they are pay-TV-exclusive in markets where TBN doesn’t own or have an affiliation with an OTA station), so there’s a decent probability that Merit Street ends up getting a subchannel slot on its O&Os, either as a new subchannel or as a replacement for TBN Inspire or Positiv. Merit Street does plan to offer FAST channels, whether that includes the main network is the question.

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

On 11/26/2023 at 12:39 PM, Yankees4life said:

What a waste of space. As if the world needs MORE cable channels...and more cable channels to not watch and be forced to pay for...

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.

On 12/4/2023 at 4:47 PM, CircleSeven said:

The deal is now closed. Consummated on Friday (12/1).

Any word on the Montana stations?

On 11/29/2023 at 10:28 PM, MediaZone4K said:

Then again, the syndication options are dry. What could NBC have put there? They've been reduced to airing Dateline  on o&o stations.

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

15 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

This got by. but Bloomberg reports that Byron Allen now wants to acquire some of Scripps’ stations (read: those in small and, possibly, some mid-sized markets).

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

On 11/16/2023 at 2:48 PM, T.L. Hughes said:

According to the Baltimore Sun, Smith was once arrested in August 1996, for “committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes.” First time I’ve heard about this.

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

1 hour ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:

THAT RIGHT THERE. So, let's just say this was all without an affiliation agreement.  Well then, at any point, Nexstar themselves could have easily pulled the affiliation. But let's say that Nexstar and Adell had gotten into it after the CW began airing WWE and acquiring whatever other events and then Nexstar had pulled the affiliation and gave it to whoever.  

 

Adell would STILL be crying nonsense. This is the man that had a major network affiliation in 1994 all but handed to him on a gold (never mind silver) platter but managed to mess that up and sent them to a station no one knew existed and is just now relevant. Adell is what would have happened had Weigel been run by wackos and it's an insult to even mention Weigel in this post. 

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?

1 hour ago, nickp said:

What a great move if this was the year 2004

Yup, another good reason to drop cable TV.

1 hour ago, Geoffrey said:

And the host has been announced:

 

https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1719891910884544993?s=20

Alternate source for anyone who'd rather stay away from Elon's Folly: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/taylor-tomlinson-host-cbs-after-midnight-stephen-colbert-1235776942/

6 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

The CBS independent stations are now rerunning CBS Saturday Morning from noon-2pm.

WSBK isn't.

11 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

Last Man Standing no longer on NewsNation it is all Blue Bloods until NewsNation goes 24/7 7 days a week.

Not true! There's infomercials.

On the bright side, it looks like Blue Bloods is limited to weekends.

17 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

*ba-da-bum*

 

Seriously though, Yom Kippur is the holiday in question.

Thanks!

2 hours ago, NowBergen said:

It would at least allow writers to write scripts for shows, and hopefully a framework for a deal with SAG-AFTRA.  Assuming a deal is reached tonight.  They won't negotiate tomorrow due to the holiday.

Hate to say it, but neither National Comic Book Day nor International Research Administrator Day are that big.

2 hours ago, ATLNewsExpert said:

Sky News UK or Sky News Australia? BIG DIFFERENCE. If the former, that'd be great, if the latter....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe that's self explanatory! 

The UK version, if I recall correctly.

Besides, If it was Sky News Australia, would we even notice?

Which of his sons was it that wanted to make Fox News more like Sky News?

13 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said:

But here go the conflicts...Cincinnati, Fort Myers/Naples, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. Also, KSBW-TV in Salinas/Monterey has both ABC ("Central Coast ABC") and NBC (on main channel).

I would--

*vanishes in a cloud of topic re-railing*

[Update: Continuing the Hearst discussion here.]

On 9/18/2023 at 3:52 PM, CoopInTheHouse said:

CBS to air back-to-back reruns of Comics Unleashed after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert starting tonight.

 

This is because of two reasons:

 

1. The current Hollywood labor disputes (in other words, the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes).

 

2. The cancellation of the Late Late Show and the inability to make its scheduled successor due to the disputes.

I'm surprised CBS didn't opt to run repeats of procedurals like they did back in 2014-15 when they were last between hosts for either late-night slot, or, even better, just keep the Late Late reruns going indefinitely.

36 minutes ago, Samantha said:

Morgan Murphy makes its Marks in Michigan with a $13.375 million purchase of the Marks family's Michigan broadcasting operation. WBKB, WBKP, and WBUP are included along with radio stations in Houghton and Iron River.

 

The Marks family has been slowly divesting the properties the late Stephen owned, though this is the first TV M&A:

• An AM-FM pair in Park Falls, Wisconsin ($210K to Civic Media)
• WOWZ-FM Accomac, Virginia, to its LMA operator

What's left? The famous KXGN and KYUS in Montana plus the Montana–North Dakota radio cluster with stations in Glendive, Sidney, Forsyth, Miles City, and Williston, and Belfield (near Dickinson).

I would imagine Scripps is the obvious buyer of KXGN as they already own the rest of the MTN stations. They could also buy KYUS and just maintain the time brokerage deal with Cowles. Or Cowles could just buy the station itself.

1 hour ago, AmericanErrorist said:

Narrowing that down to what is actually realistic: The feature films don't fit in the timeslot (and Paramount only owns their post-1951 features, the Republic library, and the films that previous incarnations of CBS have financed), Much of the early CBS primetime was wiped or not owned by the network, and Worldwide Pants owns the entirety of the CBS late night talk show lineup from 1993 to 2014, leaving for CBS The Pat Sajak Show. That still leaves a significant library of 70 or so years or surviving comedy or drama programming owned by the network, Paramount Television, other smaller producers Paramount owns, or their cable networks.

As an aside, I'm surprised CBS hasn't put more of their back catalogue on Pluto TV, particularly The Pat Sajak Show and the post-2014 late-night shows. Older episodes of 60 Minutes could also be worth putting up, too.