tyrannical bastard

Even sadder if they cave towards the Trump administration by "bribing" them the 20 million dollars in his frivolous lawsuit against their news coverage. If that happens, CBS may as well be done for as a credible network and news organization. Even though ABC caved as well, Disney is in far better shape overall.

There has to be some dirt between Byron Allen and CBS. It's like he's extorting them to air his garbage shows on a network timeslot. After all, if his stations are now all leased down to the coffee maker and toilet paper....

As long as Matt Laubhan is still there. He's literally the James Spann of the market, even down to the suspenders! I refer to him as "James Spann Jr."

Hopefully this fixes the stations that cram entirely too many words into one super. These are the ones that have the constant L3 that switches from the story, to the person on camera, back to the story. With text sizing, these supers are downright unreadable. Wish a group would bring back a form of "Texta", this was the non-obtrusive lower graphic that summarized a story that was introduced by WKRC in Cincinnati. It lasted through Citicasters into Jacor, Clear Channel and Newport, and Newport rolled it out to many of their stations. Some Nexstar stations (post-Newport) even used it and it survived on several ex-Newport Sinclair stations until the respective Sinclair package was introduced.

We have another meteorologist coming to WEWS.... Frank Marzullo, most recently at WXIX in Cincinnati and worked at WTAP and WFMJ in the past, has been hired by WEWS part-time. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2025/05/25/wews-adds-meteorologist-after-firing-mark-johnson/83851974007/ This may be a temporary gig for the Cleveland native, as he appears to be contemplating his next move in Cincinnati.

You bring up some very valid points with the way ownership has transpired over the years there. Making matters worse is the consolidation that brought in WXVT and allowed the creation of WNBD-LD, bringing all locally owned television under one roof. Would you agree that it would have made more sense to pipe in distant affiliates of networks not already there? This would have preserved more diversity in voices, and has been an issue in smaller markets that have had the ability to bring in local affiliates, at the expense of out-of-town stations that the local viewers have relied on for years, if not decades.

Longtime WSFA-TV anchor Bob Howell, who anchored at WSFA from 1976 to 2012, has passed away. https://www.wsfa.com/2025/05/24/longtime-former-wsfa-news-anchor-bob-howell-has-died/

I still can't wrap my head around how Gray has decimated this uber-dominant station. Have they really fallen that far to where the once non-existent WDHN is actually making a dent in viewership? Then again, I realize that it's probably a true dollars and cents move since ratings and revenue don't matter. Gray just thinks the station costs too much money for the retransmission revenue it brings in and the viewers of Dothan be damned....

With those moves, it's more sameness and centralization. Even Cox introduced a centralized package to their ongoing stations. Gray stripping stations of network logos takes out even more, but it's a good preemptive move once the networks start walking away...

When was the last time a station or group actually introduced a new package? That's how stale and boring everything is right now. The industry is stuck in 2019.

Or in 47s case, try and flood the room with chaos that has nothing to do with him because it's all about him. Someone remind me...who is Skydance and why should they buy Paramount? This and all of the other chaos is driving CBS/Paramount into the ground faster than Jeff Zucker did with NBC and CNN, combined.

The broadcasters only have themselves to blame. (and one in particular that uses it to THEIR advantage....looking at you Nexstar...) When they started shaking down the cable companies for retransmission dollars, the networks latched on for their own share. This now became the lifeline for broadcasters and the impetus for networks to take their business elsewhere when the stations balked at payment terms. If anything, this could have serious effects on the affiliate model as stations may be forced to go it alone with only the revenue they can cough up from forms of advertising. Get ready for news-intensive independents and some stations to possibly go dark once the networks pack their bags for good.

For anyone needing a Mark Johnson fix now that he's no longer on WEWS.... He is still forecasting, only on his Facebook page. I still think once the dust settles, he'll end up on another station. Even if something opens up in Youngstown, he could always pull a Mark Koontz. He was hired at WFMJ and worked his way up to Chief Meteorologist, retiring two years before Dick Goddard did from WJW.

Even WISH-TV's look keeps it alive after Nexstar traded over to WTTV/WXIN. And WXIN's new look looks like a more refined GrayOne. GrayOne hasn't even made it's way around the country yet and it's getting stale. I wonder if they ever intended to take it national after it debuted at WANF.

Mark Johnson's talent agent (also an attorney) could be filing suit against Scripps and WEWS over his termination... https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/05/attorney-for-mark-johnson-calls-wews-meteorologists-firing-unjust-and-disappointing.html