tyrannical bastard

In the eyes of the FCC, Mission only controls the programming and license of WPIX. Nexstar may have the "non-license assets" which likely includes anything involved in the production of newscasts, including equipment and personnel. As long as said newscasts (or any other programming provided by Nexstar) don't take up more than 15 percent of the station's airtime, then it can't be counted as ownership of WPIX. Since the people and equipment involved were most likely tied to Nexstar, than there's your liable party.

Basically, this is WTVY, the 800 ton gorilla in the Dothan market. WDHN has come a long way, but its still in WTVY's rear view mirror. The name itself started about 2009-10 when WTVY was also Panama City's default CBS affiliate and WSFA/WJHG filled out Dothan's offerings. It was originally hosted by former anchor Angie Casey, although the title leads to more of something that could have been hosted by the late Ann Varnum, a long-time "hostess" of the market who once had her own show with interviews and features. She may have been involved in it's early years.

Good for WTVY. As long as the "colony collapse" makes it to WJHG, WTVM, and any other of the "honeycomb" stations still out there...

We can only hope Nexstar is not that stupid. But then again, they still have NewsNation as a home for any disgraced journalist. Is that actually doing better / making more money than WGN America?

Purple would look good on WVUE and even WAFB. It would almost be the total subsuming of WWL over the last 20 years post Katrina. Stations like WWL made purple look good on TV.

Talk about full circle. It was WGN and Tribune that held out 8 years ago sending The CW on a soul-searching journey in Chicagoland through WPWR and WCIU, and now with Nexstar in charge and in control of the CW, it's back on WGN. As long as they don't rebrand WGN as CW9. I don't think the folks at WGN could ever live it down. I wonder now what WCIU will do with their current "U" subchannel? Change it to U-too?

I would imagine a subchannel. They would be foolish to send Fox packing to Scripps and WGNT, or worse, Sinclair and WTVZ.

...all while you have an anchor from "Greensboro" on WXLV bragging on how their news comes from San Antonio! How many other half-news departments are there? WPMI essentially simulcasts WEAR on the weekends. Both stations are worse off now that WEAR has to water down there coverage to cover Mobile as well.

Two big departures from Alabama's 33/40 Stephen Quinn has left the station after the past 8 years, spending the last 2 1/2 years as a lead anchor. https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2024/04/abc-3340-anchor-stephen-quinn-announces-final-newscast-at-birmingham-tv-station.html And now, longtime anchor Pam Huff has announced her retirement... https://www.abc3340.com/news/local/pam-huff-announces-retirement-abc-3340-news-birmingham-veteran-anchor-big-announcement-james-spann-breast-cancer-survivor Protect James Spann at all costs!

If you're an hourly employee and have to sign one, that is downright criminal. The only way they should ever hold up is if if the employee is important enough and compensated handsomely because of it.

In the scheme of things, losing a heritage brand to a corporate one these days is just another letdown of what local TV has become. And Scripps' rollout of stripped-down playlists of packages masquerading as newscasts take even more out of it. I dont know what Scripps has up their sleeve for their soon-to-be independents, but from what they've been putting out, it's a far cry from ever being able to be a dominant player in TV.

How did Cox end up with it in the first place? WSB decide to buy it after a good ratings book? As long as WPVI keeps paying for it, a good business move.

Given the hot water Nexstar is in for running WPIX, and Adell's (mis)management of WADL, a subchannel affiliation on WDIV is their best hope. And there's no way one of the Windsor stations could pick it up and retarget their signal to an American audience. That ship sailed after all of the San Diego issues with XETV in their later years. Also CBC's CBET was once CKLW which RKO once had a stake in and used the station to target Detroit.

Another huge departure at WEWS. Joe Pagonakis is leaving on April 29th after 30 years on air, many as their "troubleshooter" reporter. He even began his career there in the 1980s behind the scenes and later worked roles in Youngstown and Fort Wayne before returning to WEWS in 1993. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Xhq6bKC9iQemvdi1/?mibextid=oFDknk

My lord...Bill Bonds is probably drunk cussing from his grave about this....

Thank you for bringing us back! Even though I"m done with TV (for now), this site is still a daily one for me to keep up with what's going on in the crazy world of TV.

I've noticed with some of their NBC affiliates (including WMC and WJHG) that there are instances where the peacock is still intact. Namely on graphical transitions, on-set monitors, mic flags and promos. It's probably simple oversight of making such a minor change, or just letting the stuff play out until GrayOne makes it's debut (some day). Speaking of WJHG, WECP is still using their CBS 21 logo with the eye everywhere, so it's mostly an NBC thing.

On the other hand, the UP is a tiny market dominated by WLUC since the beginning of time. WJMN's solo efforts are only a decade old, and WBKP/WBUP strongly pales in comparison (only dating back to 1996). Amazed thet Lilly was able to jumpstart their own operation for WZMQ after they snagged CBS from WJMN.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Morgan Murphy move ABC and/or CW to WJMN. It's a far better station to be broadcasting on than both WBKP and WBUP. Also, merging news staffs would be a benefit, since WBKP and WBUP don't have that much to begin with.

Probably goes back to the origins in newspapers where photography was the means of capturing images. Even with television adopting film and later video, the term persists into this day.

Sooner or later, there won't be any affiliates that time-shift the network news. Who's left (in ET and CT?). Pacific seems to have more leeway due to their location.

As long as they dont have a "George Newman" or "Stanley Spadowski" on staff... ...us TV folks know what that means

Does Sinclair even try to promote their ARC branding? Or is it just a name for their stripped CW affiliates? The name and what they say it stands for is just a byproduct of soulless committee thinking. It doesn't help that there are still many ARC community organizations across the country (still known as such) that deal with the developmentally disabled. (the "R" referring to an obsolete term for these individuals, their acronym still exists though.)

Lead anchor Byron Day is out at Fox 10 in Mobile. Their GM confirmed that he is no longer at the station. https://www.lagniappemobile.com/news/byron-day-no-longer-with-fox10-gm-says/article_5a653196-e21e-11ee-897f-c7ecd96a25c6.html (pay walled)

So does KNOP have any local North Platte newscasts left? Since Glendive hasn't done any local news for years, this could be the smallest market that produces a local newscast of any kind. Alpena's WBKB only does a 6:30 morning show and newscasts at 6:00 and 11:00. They reintroduced local weather but relied on NewsNet for a while (probably due to staffing shortages).