mre29

Maybe Canada should have its own Out and About thread.

Agree with you on the channel basically being dead, but you'd think that having actual competition (AccuWeather, WeatherNation, and Fox Weather) would get the channel to rise to the occasion.

Which countries? (This is your friendly reminder to please identify countries by name, not just flag. Not everyone reading this board has the flags of all countries memorized, especially when the flags are represented as 18px-wide icons.)

In the markets where Nexstar and Tegna will be "merging" their newsrooms, I hope their competitors (Gray, Hearst, Scripps, Sinclair, the networks, etc.) are increasing the marketing and advertising budgets of their stations to take full advantage of the opportunity they're being handed.

That's a really nice logo. It looks good at the top of the station's website, too.

So WZVN no longer uses the alternate graphics WMUR uses?

So he was a dumb frat guy in college. it's allowed.

In Abilene and San Angelo, Texas, Nexstar owns the CBS affiliates and runs the Mission-owned NBC affiliates, while Tegna owns the Fox affiliates. Does Nexstar really think it's going to control three of the Big Four stations in those markets? (The ABC affiliates are owned by Sinclair. Those markets are screwed.)

Yeah, I noticed when I was at my brother's house last week (he has Hulu Live) that NECN now simulcasts NBC 10 Boston's newscasts. You'd think they'd at least show one from NBC Connecticut... You'd think other providers would be threatening to remove it from their systems, especially far from Boston. But, then, HLN still exists...

You probably thought that because it was a Belo station before Gannett/Tegna bought that company. I'm still confused as to how Gray is able to acquire WDRB. Is the top-four rule really gone?

Well, it won't be Hartford-New Haven -- Gray's already there.

All three are in the top 20 (#s 11, 17, and 19) and should be considered large markets. Perhaps we should consider NY, LA, and Chicago very large markets.

And that's how we ended up with station scheduless full of endless court shows, conflict talkers, and Family Feud.

The Internet is the great equalizer. Corollary: Podcasts are the fulfillment of the promise of spoken-word radio.

That seems like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen, especially if the TVs are otherwise still fully usable.

Nothing. We just have one or two conspiracy theorists here who are absolutely convinced that they know what Nexstar will want to buy after swallowing Tegna. Hopefully one of the moderators will clean things up and move all the non-Netflix-buys-Tegna posts to another thread.

I miss Superstation WGN. We had that one for about a year after we moved to NH from the Chicago area, only for it to be replaced with VH-1.

I remember when TBS was a superstation.

To the Speculatron!

Well, I'm definitely not crazy about the new name. It feels they were handed "MSNOW" and had to come up with a good backronym that didn't reference Microsoft or NBC, and this was what they came up with. They're going to find themselves explaining over and over again that they have nothing to do with MS (MIcrosoft), MS (MIssissippi), or MS (Multiple sclerosis). That should get old fast. Also, you have to wonder how many people at Microsoft facepalmed when they realized they (specifically, MSN) weren't going to finally be free of any perceived connection to the channel. I like it, though U.S. News & World Report may have something to say about it. That said, what about "Source News"? As far as I can tell, the only news org that used that name in the recent past was a now-defunct "online journalism platform" in Scotland, so getting the trademark here in the states shouldn't be hard. "My Source News" could also work. I mean, it's all right there in the logo.... Or they could just call it "The Source".

At least his first name isn't Harry....

That's a good thing?

I would think CPB only provides the funding, while the actual infrastructure is part of NPR and PBS.

So, something like...another network? I think what's needed is a service that can provide a wide variety of programming with flexibility that allows stations to determine their own schedules.

As far as I'm concerned, there are only two, maybe three markets that can support that much news output: New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. One for the Big, one for the Bang, and one for the Theory, I guess.