tyrannical bastard

Well, if CBS doesn't want to spend money to produce TV programming, then they just might as well hang it up. This was a hit job to push their sham merger through the approval process. Unless they have a Byron Allen-like plan to produce garbage programming for as little as humanly possible.

It is somewhat gratifying to see the once Tiffany Network fall into the Temu network at the behest of Sharon Redstone and this administration's blackmail. If CBS is still around in a few years, and they think it's worth gouging their affiliates, you're going to see some more affiliate defections. Think back to when the RTN/RTV network was handed over to Charlie Luken during Equity's bankruptcy. As soon as they ended their deal carrying NBCUniversal's library, their affiliate base dropped like flies while Weigel was sweeping the country with MeTV offering a vastly superior product.

CBS is in such a terrible state right now maybe bringing Jeff Zucker back may be a good thing.... And that's after seeing what he did to NBC and CNN....

At this point in time, Paramount (as well as Warner Brothers) are better off dead than alive. Get their past assets in someone else's hands. Stephen Colbert is the ONLY reason I have left to watch CBS. He'll likely end up elsewhere. Probably on streaming like Netflix since I doubt NBCUniversal or Disney/ABC are interested. I guess I can live with Jimmy Kimmel.. But there's no way I'm watching Fallon.

I don't know if it's been brought up here but... that F O X logo for WCOV in Montgomery.....

If CBS wasn't dead to me before this, I just hope and pray his second term ends before this happens.

While James Spann won't be involved 24/7 (even though it seems like it would be given his work ethic), it's a launching pad to provide a service for all of Alabama and give timely weather information without having to break into programming, (although watching Spann on TV is a must-see when the suspenders are on!) Sinclair is lacking in the live-streaming department, especially after bungling STIRR and their limited products on NewsON. Nexstar is slowly catching up with their station apps and live-streaming, but they have a ways to go as well. Now, James Spann (and his brand) can be available to anyone with a working and compatible device, and his operation can focus on the entire state. Sinclair missed an opportunity to put him on a more visible platform in Alabama, especially when Alan Sealls stepped aside from WPMI. But Thomas Geboy is a good addiion to them locally.

The good news is (for his 33/40 viewers) is that he's sticking around...but for how much longer? Unless he has a Marvin Zindler-like contract with them, (which I highly doubt with a company like Sinclair) he's probably inching his way out the door. I wouldn't blame him after Matt Laubhan over in Tupelo-Columbus left WTVA after Allen's diabolical plans to hub weather backfired. All of these meteorologists starting their own platforms is going to put the hurt on stations covering the weather. Add in the incoming consolidation, and local broadcast TV news is about to be in a major fight for it's survival...

Gee, I never saw that one coming . Once upon a time, going from WSYX to 10TV was a move up.... My how times have changed....

It's a coincidence they were also an "ei8ht" station since they and WJW did not link up until the 1994 switch. And unlike WJW, they went straight from Citicasters (Taft & Great American) to FOX instead of being sold to New World. WJW was Storer -> Gillett/SCI -> New World -> FOX In the waning days of their FOX O&O status, they got the same "8" as WJW got when New World christened them as "Fox 8". The lineage continued as WGHP and WJW were two of the stations FOX wanted to sell off at the time.

They're not getting a new set, they're just getting new studio lighting. Since this set and graphics package was one of the "parting gifts" Tribune left their stations before handing the keys to Nexstar, I wonder how much longer these stations (WJW, WGHP, WGN, etc...) can remain status quo. (photo is from Neil McNeill's WGHP FOX 8 facebook page)

Whether they are truly short-staffed by people leaving and can't fill the jobs, or simply choosing not to, they're saving money either way. WYTV did have a technical meltdown on their 11pm show last week and ended up simulcasting WKBN's news for the rest of the show.

It looks like WYTV has ceded to WKBN doing their news on the weekends. I've seen it done on holidays, but I wonder if it's a temporary thing, or a sign of more things to come....

If this was 20-25 years ago, Univision or Telemundo would have snapped up the station to give the station the prime real estate it deserves for leading the market.

https://current.org/2025/07/montana-pbs-to-acquire-three-stations-in-underserved-region-of-the-state/ Apparently KYUS in Miles City has been silent. Probably when Glendive ended local programming and their NBC subchannel?

Even I forget sometimes that WPLG is no longer part of Graham... ...so BH Media was not grandfathered in like it was with Graham and WJXT. From the getgo, WJXT AND WJCW were both available on YTTV because Graham made that deal before they launched. WPLG's divestiture was several years before YTTV existed, so they only had their ABC affiliation as a key to get them on the streaming services. Getting retransmission payments based on a hyper-local news presence may be a disaster in the making, so they will probably opt for "must-carry" status to keep themselves on pay TV providers. By doing so does lessen their leverage to get on "channel 10", but the way cable and satellite TV work nowadays (being all digital), there's really no excuse not to be, unless the providers want to purposely stick it to them by denying that channel slot.

Well, Sinclair is buying several Deerfield stations...all in markets where they already own stations. https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/station-trading-roundup-1-deal-7-07-million/ These include KNSN in Reno, WSTR in Cincinnati, and KBTV in Beaumont. Failed station waivers, perhaps? KBTV was "subsumed" by KFDM and "Fox 4" lives there now.

Double yeesh. How long before they elect "must carry" status with cable and satellite? They better be streaming all of their shows on the apps or else they have really screwed the pooch with this move.

yeesh. Seems like a fantasy or offshore TV station come to life in Miami. Hopefully "ABC Miami" will be their main brand, but they have to educate the OTA & cable/satellite viewers on channel position. "ABC Miami" is enough for OTT. I would imagine WPLG would continue on YouTubeTV. WJXT has always been carried as an independent so carrying WPLG post-switch should be a given. ABC would pull the strings for getting "ABC Miami" on there.

If there was one thing worse than TBN itself, it was this deal. Second place goes to CTN putting Newsmax as a subchannel on their stations. Sure, it looks like a nice public service move, but we all know their motives. Separation of church and state be damned.

Since most translators are owned by local entities in remote locations like Glendive, I would imagine either Dawson County or the city of Glendive would apply to set up a local translator to relay the stations from Billings. This is the first time in recent memory that a station going away like KXGN wipes out an entire DMA. But given the diminished state of broadcasting as a whole, KXGN may be the only station left even as a member of Montana PBS. Being a future non-comm certainly derails the possibility of even attempting to relay any commercial television station from Billings without a new licensee shacking up on KXGN and/or KYUS's spectrum.

Damn, this pretty much seals the fate of the Glendive market. Since it's basically a no-man's land for local TV (since the local cable/internet company seemingly ended TV service, DirecTV never started local service, Dish's channels are mostly out of South Dakota and the only "local" station on YTTV aside from KXGN/CBS was WMAQ in Chicago), it will probably be merged into the Billings market and all of their stations will now serve Dawson County, Montana. Then again, Denver may step in for another far-off remote orphaned county like they do across Wyoming, Utah and any other state they pick up the slack for any other market that won't serve them. Also, this is the end of Stephen Marks' company since they are his (estate's) last two stations since the others have been sold. Marks' former radio stations in Glendive were sold to an entity owned by Andrew Sturlaugson, the son of KXGN-TV station manager Paul Sturlaugson. Keeping things in the Sturlaugson family, Paul's wife Dorothy was the host of KXGN's sole remaining local program "Let's Talk About it", and was also their public affairs manager.

A loophole in Colorado Springs. Scripps has K30JM-D, a longtime translator of KOAA. Even past branding has branded them as 5/30. Scripps could sell off/shut down KOAA itself and use KKTV to rebroadcast "NBC 5" as a subchannel. The only hitch would have to be converting "30" to a Class A station if it isn't already. Then a duopoly is perfectly legal since "30" is low-powered and not subject to FCC regulations.

I wonder if they have more (physical) assets than Allen Media. Either way, good riddance.

This station swap is good news for Lansing and Lafayette and terrible news for Colorado Springs. Even with pending deregulation of ownership rules, I still think Scripps is going to have to sell something in Colorado Springs to get it through. Unless there is a dire reason for consolidation (like if a gutted Allen Media station was involved), this won't pass. In Twin Falls, Scripps getting KMVT would actually give KSAW a local counterpart instead of having to pipe in KIVI news from Boise. Being low powered, It's not a regulatory issue for Scripps to get KMVT.