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?

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.

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!!!!

With the 10am hour, which burnoff is more pressing...her contract or the one with the Blue Bloods syndicator?

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It would all depend on when the affiliation agreements are up with these stations and *if* Nexstar uses its power to decline a renewal, or if the other owners decide they don't want to run a network that's now largely owned by a competitor. If Nexstar uses "plan A", that could possibly cause some antitrust issues even if the station is good to go as a subchannel...it all could hinge upon market share if Nexstar swoops in to take what's theirs and make their slice of the pie too much....

The key word here is "ownership" of the property, so it would be Gray Television's to do as they please. I imagine they've been leasing Reserve Square since the big switch to CBS and move of both stations from Shaker Heights and Parma... Malrite probably made a killing in the 90s to sell the old WUAB site to a developer. It became an Office Max when they were an up-and-coming retailer headquartered in Cleveland, and Parmatown Mall was still a draw to shoppers. Most TV stations prefer to own their property, and many have done so for decades... What was old is new again, as WOIO and WUAB could very well move out of Cleveland and back in to the suburbs...

I've noticed the Tegna "music" creeping into in-show bumpers.....has anyone complained about THAT?

Likely, the affiliation agreements in place will be status quo for now, but when they expire, they could terminate their deals with competitors and help themselves to an instant O&O in any affected market. They would be foolish to drop any "big 4" affiliation, unless their fortunes really tank between now and then. DOOL and DWTS moving to streaming could further accelerate more scripted content leaving broadcast for streaming.

Birmingham is not too far from Huntsville, home of Baron Services, the other major supplier of broadcast weather systems next to IBM (WSI/WeatherCentral/The Weather Company). It was founded by meteorologist Bob Baron, who worked at WAAY and WAFF in the 80s and 90s. WBRC also uses Baron products including their VIPIR radar. WTVA has always punched above its weight for that market size. It's been a trailblazing station going all the way back to its founder, Frank Spain, who literally built the station by hand (the equipment) back in the early days of television. It's good to see Allen Media keeping the station above the pack.

Another Kelly Clarkson replacement for Ellen... WEAR in Pensacola is putting it in Ellen's old timeslot (3pm). WKRG's sister station WFNA ran it in daytime (after WKRG cast it aside for a 4pm newscast) and ran it on WKRG as well late nights after the Late Late Show.

If Larry King was still with us, his infomercials would have higher ratings!

That, and helping out their Gulf Coast stations (WJHG, WALA, WLOX, WVUE) if a tropical storm or hurricane were to strike, especially if one was knocked off the air.

With the return of J-P Dice to WBRC, they will now have SEVEN meteorologists on staff. Likely the most out of any station in the southeast region. https://marketshare.tvnewscheck.com/2022/08/08/wbrc-birmingham-adds-familiar-face-increasing-meteorologists-to-7/ IMHO, they should have stayed at 6, it would matched their channel number. And lest we forget down at 33/40, where one reigns supreme over all...

WNEP is doing what avid fans of the station have done for years.... They're uploading old newscasts of theirs to YouTube, and even featuring them on their OTT feeds! I don't know if "Talkback 16" went back that far, but it would be interesting if it did!

This move could produce a single digit barrage of calls to the local NBC affiliate, when it finally goes away. The same number are the ones who light it up when DOOL is pre-empted by some kind of NBC News special report or local weather warning.

Considering that KVVU did not start doing regular newscasts until 1998... that's a long way from the initial half-hour 10pm show they launched back then. Fox must have lit a fire under them to get a newscast going, because the way Vegas was growing, it was likely one of the largest markets without a Fox station airing news at the time.

As a result of this deal, the ENTIRE former Northwest portfolio as well as hot potato WHBQ in Memphis have been sold off. CoxPollo basically bought Northwest to get a stronger retransmission deal, and the way that they're trying to get Tegna with Standard General is to expand this so-called retransmission superpower, correct? And will Imagiconn have this same superpower to unleash upon the pay TV companies upon renewal time?