tyrannical bastard

Former longtime WALA chief meteorologist John Edd Thompson was attacked at a gas station this past Tuesday.

https://www.fox10tv.com/2023/07/28/retired-fox10-chief-meteorologist-john-edd-thompson-attacked-81st-birthday/

Thankfully, he is ok.  Why someone would do this to an 81 year old man, even one that is considered legendary in the Mobile area is absolutely sickening.

On 7/25/2023 at 3:45 PM, jase said:

The Battle for CNN…

 

‘Over 18 months, a battle of backstabbing has been raging within CNN that involved Jeff Zucker, David Zaslav and Chris Licht.’

 

A very interesting piece from Variety. 

I've said it before, but Jeff Zucker should never be entrusted with anything, ever again.

The fact he's trying to have the article retracted is proof he's the Svengali behind the Orange one and all of his illusions and distortions of the truth....

7 minutes ago, LexTVandRadio said:

Didn't WOAY re-brand as TV50 for many years going with their digital channel, then the station went back to channel 4 even though they are on digital channel 30. 

Yes they did.  After the repack forced them off of 50, they went back to "4".

And then there's Sinclair....case in point WPMI.

Had a long-standing morning news program that even pre-dated their switch from FOX to NBC.

Over the years, it expanded to 2 hours, and under Sinclair, even expanded to 4:30am.

Because of their arrangement with Deerfield and cross-ownership of WEAR, they had to cancel the 4:30am due to going over the 15% programming limit that an operator can produce on a JSA/SSA station.

The competition responded by expanding to 4:30am since they were freely able to.

Fast forward to Sinclair creating The National Desk, their hot, new national broadcast that's sweeping the nation!

This past April, bye-bye went the local news in the morning, and was replaced by TND.

In the carnage, other Sinclair markets were severely cut back, and even had local newscasts eliminated altogether, replaced largely by TND.

Now with Scripps cutting back at their stations, nationalization of local newscasts could slowly be turning into a thing....

7 hours ago, GodfreyGR said:

Rock Center with Brian Williams Lester Holt!

Perfect idea for a filler on CBS.....6o Minutes II...

oh wait...

It just goes to show how these other means of delivery eclipse the network that started it all.   Look at how NBC has repurposed "NBC News Daily" and "Top Story with Tom Llamas" on the network.

Now that the network needs content to fill, digital is where it's likely going to come from.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a primetime newscast or magazine extension (cough cough dateline, 2020, 48 hours mystery) fill some holes in the schedule as well.

Byron Allen be like...

It could be worse, like a religious network masquerading as a news network....or vice versa....

But maybe it's time to revisit the must-carry rules, since 99.9% of the stations that opt for them are worthless garbage programming of little benefit to the local viewer....

2 hours ago, atlnews2 said:

Raycom was producing the ACC games that aired on Bally, they just used Bally’s onscreen graphics for presentation purposes 

 

 

Interesting that 2 ACC homes markets (Pittsburgh and atlanta) don’t currently have a CW affiliate….Nexstar better start making some calls 

Pittsburgh has neither Gray nor Nexstar as owners...while Atlanta has WPCH that could align with the CW.

The overlap that Wheeling-Steubenville had in the old analog days could have come in handy here...

1 hour ago, CircleSeven said:

This definitely came from the Bally contract they ended up voided earlier this year.

I'm amazed that Raycom Sports (now part of Gray) will be producing the games.

Nexstar and Gray, while two big broadcast companies, are about as far apart as can be when it comes to things like cable, digital and OTT...

If "character" was ever an issue the FCC cared about, Sinclair would have been shut down years ago.  But even by their failed and misguided attempt to purchase Tribune, payola, plugola and regulatory blunders over the years, all they got was some fines and consent degrees...

1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

I had thought that the FCC had no authority over subscription based services channels HBO. 

 

It surprised me to see that movie air because I thought basic cable channels could only do such a thing at night.

 

 

 

Only longstanding standards and practices adopted by the cable networks and their parent companies.  Since these channels are merely jukeboxes to air programming stuffed and covered with ads and promotional snipes/bugs, what's the use anymore?  They still exist because ESPN/Sports networks and live news channels are the ONLY reason cable and pay TV remains a thing. 

Once ESPN goes rogue, it may take pay tv with it, but it's high cost may put it in the same bind that Diamond Sports got into.

35 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

KFSN airs WNT at their normal time @ 5:30 (like KGO).

 

 

It seems Pacific Time takes a little more liberty with things because of the delay, yet keeps primetime mostly on Eastern's schedule (aside from some "early prime" experiments over the years)

So basically Eastern Time is the only time zone that regularly airs network newscasts at 6:30 local time in most markets? 

On 6/30/2023 at 6:56 PM, MD TV said:

KFSN is launching a 3PM newscast in September and will join the other California O&O's in airing World News Tonight at 3:30:

 

https://abc30.com/abc30-live-at-3-action-news-new-show-vanessa-vasconcelos/13432962/

I'm assuming they will be airing the eastern feed "live" and airing the pacific feed at it's normal time (6:30?)

I wonder if this was the same agreement from the last time Nexstar pulled their stations from DirecTV.

If that's the case, then it's going to get ugly EVERY time the agreement is up.

4 hours ago, edutv9 said:

WTVW/Evansville is owned by Mission and operated by Nexstar, so I've got like zero hopes of it showing up on YTTV.

Their rollout of CW & MyNetworkTV stations makes no sense. 

WPIX's carriage was grandfathered under Scripps, and exists to this day under Mission...well before they started putting "most" of their CW stations.

Why pass on a network they own on a station they operate?

And there are STILL CW stations they own that are not carried....unless their rollout has been slow and plagued with technical delays...

Aside from the ones slated to pick up the CW, the only MyNetwork station I've seen picked up (again) is WMYT.  This was a station they dumped when they picked up WJZY & WMYT from Fox.

16 hours ago, compubit said:

Question about YouTube TV and Nexstar CW stations.

 

I’m visiting Huntsville, AL, and when I go to CW, I get “Unavailable in the location” - but the station is an OTA station here (WHDF/15), as well as on 19.2.  Any thoughts on this?

 

I get WDCW/50 back home in DC…

 

Jim

Despite the news I've seen about Nexstar adding their "other" stations, it's not as universal as it claims to be.

Hopefully they're working some of the bugs out with some stations,  but since this is a station that should have been added the last go-around, makes it all the more confusing.

Edit: as of this addition, there's still no WJMN, WDVM, and KOZL, and probably others not up "yet".

On 6/26/2023 at 10:04 AM, NBC 5 Chicago said:

After 3 months since it was announced,  it looks like Nexstar independents and the rest of the CW's and MyNetworkTV that have not been added yet will finally be added to YouTubTV this week. 

It begins.  Tomorrow is the official date but several stations including WGN, KRON and WMYT are live as of now.

Waiting on the subchannel CWs (WJTV/WHLT, WNCT) as well as the official return of WJMN since CBS stripped them of their affiliation last year.

Just throwing this out there, and it's a topic that's good for the speculatron.....

If Perry Sook & Sean Compton bring aboard Jeff Zucker to make something of NewsNation....

How much worse could it get?   Perhaps all of Jeff Zucker's cronies...er ass kissers will join him from CNN and finally wipe all of that baggage from there.

Now as for CNN itself, would some of the broadcast companies be willing to chip in and buy it as a joint venture?  After all, where else would they get their Jeanie Moos and TALAT packages from?

Unlike Disney, who for decades of the home video era created the artificial scarcity of limited releases before things are put back into the "Disney Vault", the stuff that's being pulled from streaming services may never see the light of day again unless somebody finds it in the dumpster, and then has to cough up the rights to have it see the light of day again.

The industry is such a mess, the streaming services can't even afford to keep EXISTING content that PAYING customers either are watching or want to watch.

I sense another A.A.P. situation where a equity firm or consortium of companies buys up dead content to license elsewhere.   What good is it doing sitting in a warehouse when it could be monetized, streamed or purchased outright?

Zucker wants to buy CNN back.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/cnn-may-be-put-up-for-sale-jeff-zucker-wants-to-buy-sources/

And my reaction....

Should Sinclair drop the CW, they could easily fill the time with TND or one of their diginets.

And if Weigel drops WCIU, WGN's the easy choice since primetime doesn't affect their schedule that much.

I've seen a lot of ads where Byron Allen's court show promos are being aired on rival stations without any local tag or even a "check local listings" mention at the end.   I'm told these are actual "time buys" where Allen buys the time regardless of whether the station airs the show or not...