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KHQA's news has been coming out of Champaign, Illinois for several years now (WICD"s former facility). I wonder if that's getting shut down and all news will come out of the WICS facility in Springfield for WICS/WICD and Fox Illinois? I believe they did a Fox newscast out of there for that market along with the newscasts for KHQA. But yay, another company switching to the Scrippscast model. Shouldn't they be getting ready for News Central 3.0 and hiring a former Trump operative to sell Project 25 to the masses now that their lord and savior is now the King of America?

Well, that was quick. Former WLOX anchor Dave Elliott is crossing the street to WXXV later this month Typical Morris, quick to poach talent that screw up elsewhere.

I"m surprised more stations don't do this. Spot advertising has been dwarfed by retransmission revenue in terms of overall revenue for a long time.

The companies are almost undoing their local buildups in favor of the adjacent markets that used to serve them in the analog era. Building up these fill-in affiliates was only a way to get an in-market affiliation for the local viewers and exclusive DMA stations for cable and satellite. Now that those are dying, the adjacent markets are getting the slack to pipe back to the local viewers. Still a lose-lose situation since the local station is getting distant content and the other market has to water it down for themselves to deliver it. A distant viewer would have gotten an overall better product from a larger market station being piped in.

Gray is turning into another Sinclair with these draconian moves. I'll admit it, I let my guard down on this company. They seemed like a cheap company back then as they sucked up companies like Schurz and changed their cheap graphics packages on their stations like dirty underwear every few months. Then Sinclair bought more stations, and Media General succumbed to Nexstar. Then when Raycom "merged" with Gray, there seemed to be some hope. Putting Meredith out of their misery was another accomplishment of theirs along with all of their "committment" to Atlanta, WGCL/WANF, and whatever "Assembly Atlanta" is. But the problem is, and always has been the top-bottom mentality of these companies that has destroyed the stations they've acquired, instead of using the best practices of strong stations to make the company better. (Only problem, it's too expensive) It's a problem that's not unique to TV, it's everywhere as companies are leveraging their assets to the point of selling off the parts to make the top richer and the minions doing the work being laid off and whoever's left getting more work for less pay or not enough to keep up with the rising cost of everything. And if it's ugly now, just wait. God willing if this election goes the wrong way....we're literally screwed as these companies have decimated our news sources and a generation of voters has been sorely misled on what news is. That's it for me now.

Maybe Comcast should split their cable business from NBCUniversal..... ...sort of like how they were BEFORE they bought NBCUniversal......

WVIR's spin on cancelling their local weekend newscasts. WHSV in Harrisonburg (who also laid off employees) will be producing a shared weekend newscast for Charlottesville as well. https://www.29news.com/2024/11/03/new-kind-weekend-show-is-coming-29news/

What I'm reading on thelayoff.com sounds like stations including WTVY, WVIR, WHSV and WYMT suffered major losses. One claimed that half of WTVY's staff was let go.

Pretty much. Sort of a mix between the Graham package and GrayOne. All of the TV packages the groups are putting out are starting to look the same. Don't they want to stand out from their competition?

WBNX is selling for $22 million....

Let's face it, after this election saga is over (which may drag on for some time afterwards as long as DJT has a pulse), what will MSNBC do? It's existence is to solely conquer Fox "News" and counterbalance all of the stuff they put out.

I'd be curious to see if there are ANY physical assets other than the transmitter itself that may be transferred from Winston to Nexstar. The way I see it, when the sale closes, the old WBNX in Cuyahoga Falls closes down and the new WBNX launches from 5800 Dick Goddard Way in Cleveland and the WJW staffers are given another station to run. So all of the physical assets and archives of WBNX remain in the hands of Winston and are used solely for ministry purposes (basically what's left of Ernest Angley's Grace Cathedral). Even with the studio rule abolished, they don't even need a presence in Akron (or Cuyahoga Falls) anymore. Although, they may have a sales person or two out of WJW's bureau at the University of Akron (do they still even have that?) Maybe one day, the Angley complex in Cuyahoga Falls will get sold and they can do something useful with the land. It would be a great compliment to Portage Crossing, the successor to the derelict State Road Plaza that closed a decade ago. Even the majority of the WBNX/Angley complex was once a Shoppers' Fair discount store before Rex Humbard tried to build his empire there, complete with his concrete "erection" that still stands tall to this day....

If this sale goes through, WBNX is about to be a sister station to WJW and a CW O&O. https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/nexstar-expands-presence-in-cleveland-buying-wbnx I guess hell is finally freezing over.

With WJW's ownership, does acquiring WBNX now give them the UHF discount in Cleveland? They've been trying to move WJW back to UHF going back to LocalTV....I could see this as a move to increase cap space if it prevails.... Weigel will probably take back their subchannels, and what's left could all end up on WBNX's frequency. The Sinclair diginets will probably get sent packing as well.

Damn, even I was shocked that this finally happened. I think Ernest Angley's church has mostly moved to YouTube and the internet, since any of their shows haven't aired in quite a while on WBNX. I don't think it will be much of a loss of employees for WBNX since they likely all work...er...volunteer their lives towards their lord and savior. (Lord Ernest P. Winston Angley....hopefully feeling the effects of the rapture he preached to his followers) It will likely shake up the market programming-wise since WBNX has been the dumping ground for anything syndicated, especially if Nexstar passes on anything. WUAB will probably go back to being an independent (or MNTV), and this could be leading up to them ever getting the Cavs or Guardians rights from Bally...er...whatever that dumpster fire RSN is called these days (FanDuel?)

Another Cleveland legend taken away too soon. Much like Nev Chandler and Casey Coleman who also called Browns games in addition to their sports anchoring careers.

Sinclair would be foolish to pull this with any of the other major networks they are affiliated with, but Nexstar's CW is still going to be a punching bag, especially for a rival broadcaster like Sinclair with similar (ulterior) motives...

Longtime WLOX anchor David Elliott is no longer at the station after supposedly expressing his political views on the site formerly known as Twitter https://www.sunherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article294546944.html And it is refreshing to see a newspaper not only still covering local television, but to be holding firm to the standard that anchors (and other journalists) should not express their political views, period.

I"m still surprised that Sinclair agreed on an affiliation agreement with CW post-Nexstar to begin with. It's things like this that may put a future agreement into question. At least Sinclair has grown to the size (and networks hold their ground enough) to where we don't have the mass pre-emptions on a major network (like ABC) anymore. Like the Nightline pre-emptions of 2003 and 2004 and the whole Stolen Honor situation.

Good point, this could be another layer of complexity for an on-air upgrade by having to upgrade to a new CG instead of simply loading in a new graphics package. Since most stations use the Adobe Creative Suite, these promo projects are very easy to distribute and customize on the local level.

The studio probably hasn't gotten the upgrade yet but the package for creative services has been rolled out to them. I've seen this on several Gray stations prior to their launch since it takes more to change out the on-air graphics than to deploy the templates for the promo editors to use.

A big loss in Gulf Coast television. Mel Showers, who reported and anchored for WKRG in Mobile for 50 years, has passed away. https://www.wkrg.com/news/business/mel-showers-broadcasting-pioneer-and-legendary-news-5-anchor-dies/ Being the local legend that he was, all of the local stations (and even AL.com) covered the story as well. https://weartv.com/news/local/mel-showers-beloved-mobile-news-anchor-and-trailblazer-dies-at-78# https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/10/19/longtime-local-news-anchor-mel-showers-passes-away-78/ https://mynbc15.com/news/local/longtime-mobile-news-anchor-mel-showers-has-died# https://www.al.com/news/2024/10/beloved-mobile-news-anchor-mel-showers-dead-at-78.html

If CBS pulls the trigger, you would have to wonder if the affiliates would end up of 95 minutes to fill, or would they move The Late Show up to 11/10 or even 10:30/9:30? It could do some damage to late nights, especially if they get moved up by a half hour or an hour. Seeing as to what they did post James Corden, that show is basically a filler and would be even worse to move ahead of Colbert.

I hate to say this, but there are certain markets that should have never filled themselves out with missing network affiliates. They were better off having the de-facto affiliates fill in the gaps with their full compliment of coverage, even if it was more distant. Some of these startup affiliates pushed off stations viewers had watched for decades, and were clearly inferior to what they replaced. Many of these stations were startups by companies like Allen. KLAF was one of those stations, pushing off KPLC. And given the recent storms and where they hit, those markets fit that bill perfectly.

If that's the endgame, I could see Fox merging Fox Weather into TWC. Byron Allen has proven himself to be a fraud and phony and if his company collapses, he needs to feel the wrath of justice.