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  1. tyrannical bastard
    Good to see that they didn't get sucked into the Byron Allen void of daytime TV.
  2. tyrannical bastard
    Seeing as how WLUC is the absolutely dominant station in the area by a longshot, there's little incentive to change.
  3. tyrannical bastard
    The GrayOne package looks nice and all, but I still hate the main font. I thought I read somewhere it was chosen because it was "easy on the eyes?" And the fact that Nexstar has a package that uses it in many markets....
  4. tyrannical bastard
    Back in the day, KDKA's viewing area was referred to as "KD Country". It probably has some casual mentions now and then, but it's likely been shelved by all of the CBS mandates over the years...
  5. tyrannical bastard
    Apologies for the bump, But NewsNation has been obsessed with UFOs lately. How long before before they hire Giorgio A. Tsoukalos as an on-air personality?
  6. 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.
  7. tyrannical bastard
    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....
  8. tyrannical bastard
    Yes they did. After the repack forced them off of 50, they went back to "4".
  9. tyrannical bastard
    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....
  10. tyrannical bastard
    Perfect idea for a filler on CBS.....6o Minutes II... oh wait...
  11. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  12. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  13. tyrannical bastard
    Byron Allen be like...
  14. tyrannical bastard
    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....
  15. tyrannical bastard
    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...
  16. tyrannical bastard
    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...
  17. tyrannical bastard
    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...
  18. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  19. tyrannical bastard
    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?
  20. tyrannical bastard
    I'm assuming they will be airing the eastern feed "live" and airing the pacific feed at it's normal time (6:30?)
  21. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  22. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  23. tyrannical bastard
    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".
  24. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  25. tyrannical bastard
    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?
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