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  1. tyrannical bastard
    There should be some degree of transparency when these contracts are due to expire, and ample warning if an agreement has not been reached yet.
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    Sadly, the WFNA calls still exist, on the CW station run by Nexstar's WKRG in Mobile-Pensacola. It was launched when they were WALA"s counterpart under Lin. And yes, they infer what you're thinking. Even launched a marketking campaign around it....FnA baby! (Florida N Alabama, officially)
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    Curious to see what Gray's plans for the station are.... Could Telemundo Cincinnati be in the future? Maybe even something related to 3.0. it's basically been a subchannel repository for the last decade or so after losing out on the CW to WKRC 12.2. Speaking of WKRP, when's the last time that show's been shown on TV? At least the DVD release restored a lot of the original music that was stripped from later TV airings.... And one last thing, my fellow babies....
  4. tyrannical bastard
    Depending on the outcome of damage and insurance coverage, could spell the end of WINK-TV's longstanding local ownership. It's amazing that Fort Myers has gone on as long as it has with two local ownership groups owning most of the stations in the market, leaving Scripps as the lone corporate owner there. The family that owns (and signed on) WINK is tied to the founder of the Cleveland Browns, Mickey McBride.
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    I remember during one of the storms in 2017 where WFTX had to evacuate to WFTS in Tampa. Given Scripps' expansion in the state with their stations in Miami and Tallahassee, you would think they would have a spare studio in each of their markets they could safely evacuate to should one of their markets become a target for an incoming storm. Not to dive too deep into speculation but if there are conditions with the Standard General-Tegna-Apollo deal, perhaps Scripps could also pick up a station or two in Jacksonville.
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    I don't know what is going on with WFTX. Back around 10pm, they were switching from what appeared to be a Florida 24 simulcast (basically looking like the OTT feed with countdowns during commercial breaks), regular programming, aborted live shots, some WFTS, and a makeshift chromakey studio. Did they evacuate to Tampa or choose another place to originate programming from? Last I checked they were basically in regular programming with weather crawls.
  7. tyrannical bastard
    WBBH and WZVN just combined their resources at 10pm....using all of their on-air talent and the WBBH studios and graphics package (with a modified bug with both the NBC 2 and ABC 7 logos). Update: They're using some shots in the WZVN studio as well.
  8. tyrannical bastard
    Like KWCH, WMBB's logo also survived through multiple owners. Media General had sold them off to Hoak who divested them to Nexstar because of Gray's longstanding ownership of their competition when Hoak merged with Gray. Schurz kept the logo going all the way into the Gray era after Media General divested them.
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    They kept the lightning bolt in the "12" of the Storm Team 12 logo, probably the only vestige of the Media General era. That was a common theme on their "crescent-era" stations that even made it on to stations like WCMH after they were sold by NBC. I"m surprised it took so long to de-Media-Generalize this station. Now it's KAKE that still looks like an old Gray station under Lockwood... It just goes to show you how circular the ownership in Wichita has been over the years.
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    WMBP-LD is on the air and is currently broadcasting a relay of WALA's main FOX feed on 31.3 In HD and rebroadcasting Telemundo Atlanta on 31.4 in widescreen SD. They still have to finalize the PSIP but it looks like it's going to be 31.1 and 31.2. They've also filed with the FCC and completed their change of COL from Eastabuchie, MS to Mobile, AL.
  11. tyrannical bastard
    As long as NBCUniversal is the surviving company. Warner Brothers in any form has been a train wreck, they don't even know how to deal with their own content, yet alone all of the content they've acquired over the years.
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    They were last ones on the first-generation SBG Devlin sets rolled out in 2008 with their move to HD. Probably going to get the exact same in-house set rolled out at WSET and WEAR.
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    The prior WFMJ look was a good look as well, WFMJ just never properly implemented the lower thirds (using Arial instead of the correct font). The logo itself was an improvement over the abomination they had since 2000-01.
  14. tyrannical bastard
    In Mobile, WPMI has a "National Desk" update in the first slot, and a local update in the second. I wonder if Sinclair is mandating that these TND updates are being used for at least one of the cut-ins?
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    It's got to be some syndicated package. Like WFMJ, KRGV is part of a smaller company (who also owns WBRZ in Baton Rouge). Since TV is dominated by corporate packages anymore, any idea who could have designed this? Good lord, I missed that on the YT clip. I've been watching recent newscasts and I haven't seen that. They may have had second thoughts on it too.
  16. tyrannical bastard
    The Mahoning Valley's only locally owned TV station, has refreshed their look slightly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg9LAr0XBs Gone is the old 90s era animated 3D peacock background , in favor of the flatter, drop-shadowed variety more visible in the modern NBC look. It's a much more refined look, and is probably the best WFMJ has looked since the mid 1990s! The set remains though. And they are yet another station that has picked up Stephen Arnold's 'Guardian". Probably only because WKBN is sticking with 615's "Impact". And unlike the last look, the lower third's don't use Arial!!!!
  17. tyrannical bastard
    With the 10am hour, which burnoff is more pressing...her contract or the one with the Blue Bloods syndicator?
  18. tyrannical bastard
    Just in time for college football season, WEAR ABC 3's transmitter decided not to work... https://weartv.com/news/local/channel-3-working-to-resolve-technical-difficulties They are broadcasting the games on sister station WFGX My35.
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    I don't think there was ever a time when they were an O&O when they were a market force. Most of the 60s when they were Westinghouse was more notable before WEWS found their footing. It wasnt until the late 90s under Gannett when they finally began winning timeslots and cemented their place in the 2000s as WEWS was sinking in the ratings...
  20. tyrannical bastard
    Well, It's About Time. (Oops, wrong station!) But a long overdue move. Kill the old call letters with fire after what Meredith did to the place.... As long as CBS Atlanta doesn't resurface on an O&O in the market, although I doubt Gra wants to "fire" CBS any time soon or vice versa...
  21. tyrannical bastard
    Pretty much all of the preseason games on local TV stations are NOT produced by the station itself. Like most of sports television, they hire an outside contractor that hires freelance crew members, and any ties to the station are usually station talent, certain personnel, and their logo, nothing more. Maybe they play a hand in designing the look and feel of the graphics, but many (especially the O&O stations that have the local rights) pretty much use the network package customized to the team. And the teams themselves play a role in ensuring the branding is to their liking in their home market.
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    Another problem... For the SSA/JSA stations in a market that are already "maxed out" with content under the 15 percent rule. They can't add another hour of news without taking away from another timeslot. Then again, that may force them to merge their programming off the shell station onto the owned station's spectrum as a subchannel, much like the many Cunningham stations have done onto their Sinclair counterparts. And lest we forget that ABC has basically turned their Sunday nights into a reboot of old game shows that the network aired in DAYTIME 30-40 years ago! CBS too, with bringing LMAD back to replace Guiding Light.
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    On one hand it would be nice to have a pretty universal alternative to the FOX station doing news at 10/9. On the other hand, it may be a blow to the FOX stations that have been doing this since the beginning of time, and cause quite a problem when the NBC station is the one that is doing the FOX newscast, places like Pittsburgh and Raleigh.
  24. tyrannical bastard
    Here's a link to a WKYC story. He served as the prior sports director to Jim Donovan, after his time at WJKW. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/wkyc-sports-anchor-cleveland-browns-broadcaster-jim-mueller-dies/95-c10bc1a0-4d5d-47d5-a636-26ccf0e11289
  25. tyrannical bastard
    Jim Mueller, a WJ(K)W and WKYC sportscaster and Cleveland Browns color analyst from 1975-95 has passed away. He was also a longtime spokesperson for (Ed) Mullinax Ford and Pat O'Brien Chevrolet. I'm sure anyone growing up in Northeast Ohio remembers the jingle.
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