tyrannical bastard

For a company that's so worried about big tech, maybe they shouldn't have hitched their entire future to retransmission consent of pay TV and playing catch up supplying their content to newer platforms. Big tech isn't going to be their demise, they did this to themselves.

More BS kool-aid from Nexstar. Sure, they can expand newscasts until they're blue in the face. But when the content pool diminishes from reporter layoffs, cutting news feeds, and reliance on "old" news to fill the time. I've noticed a marked increase in "regional" news on Nexstar stations (and others like Gray that have taken over large swaths of the country). Basically, the stations are feeding each other and less and less is devoted to covering the actual news in their area. The result is a watered-down product that everyone loses from because it's the same thing across a large swath of stations, making the very concept of "local news" a farce. It's very well possible that a local station could not have a single LOCAL story on a very slow news day.

It's getting that way. Technically, "NBC 15" is now WEAR 3.2, since Sinclair played the shell game last year, moving ROAR to WPMI 15.1. Believe it or not, they've actually hired a replacement anchor for Darwin Singleton, Asha Staples, who was a reporter for WALA several years back. And they recently hired a replacement for Kelly Foster as well. Still, it's very light on Mobile-centric content and is largely padded with stories from WEAR in Pensacola and the usual Sinclair garbage.... The weekends have been done by WEAR since the massive layoffs 3 years ago. And even if NBC 15 is short-staffed or having technical issues? WEAR to the rescue!

Kelly Foster, a longtime anchor and meteorologist at NBC 15 in Mobile who left the station earlier this year, has resurfaced on WALA Fox 10 as a meteorologist working the midday shows.

Since WSRE is no longer a PBS station, a new group has emerged that could be the area's next PBS station "Emerald Coast PBS" emeraldcoastpbs.org It's unclear what this organization is, or what their plans are, but it may have plans to bring PBS programming back to a station (or even a virtual one) in the near future. They are soliciting pledges, primarily for former WSRE members who benefited from having access to PBS Passport programming, a standard feature for those who donate at least $5 a month to their local PBS station. Going forward, their best option may be a brokered spot on WPAN-TV. Their entire station is brokered content, including a full-powered repeater slot for WFBD-TV, a TCT station with a fringe transmitter. Does PBS even have any stand-alone low-power stations, or virtual affiliates that lack a broadcast signal? In WSRE's absense, there is a large part of Northwest Florida that no longer has access to PBS programming over the air.

This seems to be the M.O. for Nexstar's weaker stations going forward. WIAT CBS 42 in Birmingham has done this with both their morning and noon newscasts.

For us Simpsons fans, this merger carries a terrible curse .... We can call it Froku!

my goodness. And I've lived and worked in Central Time for over 20 years now....

Emily Leonard, longtime WTVA anchor is leaving to join former co-worker Matt Laubhan's online venture, which is now adding news to their Mississippi Live Weather channel and will be known as Mississippi Live. Even though Gray now owns WTVA, the damage Allen Media has already done still lingers and this venture can be seen as a way broadcasters will have to compete with the internet when enterprises like these become powerful enough to hire broadcast journalists away from TV stations.

Gray is purchasing Fox affiliate WHPM-LD in Hattiesburg, MS from Coastal Television. https://rbr.com/a-pine-belt-pluck-for-gray-media/ It will certainly be an improvement to put a WDAM newscast on at 10pm instead of the hubbed one that Coastal uses from their Waypoint/INN hub they bought. And much of their operations were likely hubbed out of Meridian, where they own WMDN (CBS) and WGBC (FOX/NBC).

MTV is a dead brand in its current form since music videos are all over the internet and so many FAST channels do it way better.

Good. This merger should have never happened in the first place. In saner times, Disney should be next, at least with Hulu & Fubo being under their total control now.

Basically, a virutal un-doing of the 2011 merger of NBCUniversal into Comcast. Comcast will keep the tech, wireless and delivery enterprises, and NBCUniversal (including the theme parks, networks, Peacock, etc...) will comprise of the rest. https://apnews.com/article/comcast-nbcuniversal-sky-5dc27c2e6fe45eb78eae4336e025b4e2 (mods, feel free to delete or merge this thread into the other one in General TV)

It's sad that we've come to this where the ABC O&Os have been vilified by our current FCC. Maybe in a saner time, the same should happen to Sinclair and Nexstar, who have done far more egregious things in front of our eyes, often on a daily basis.

Here's a look at WSRE's programming schedule starting on July 1st.... https://www.aol.com/articles/heres-wsre-tv-station-lineup-090919000.html (Article is from the Pensacola News-Journal but reposted by AOL)