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I see what you mean now, especially since Scripps dropped the CW from their stations.

Bumping this thread as I caught a little of "Fox SA". Even the way they pronounce "SA" is very much like the Spanish word "ese". Keep on pandering Sinclair!

Nexstar probably had Scripps channels that were expiring to make way for CW, but what about the other way around? Unless the CW agreement with the affected stations had expired or breached, that would be the only way that they could take it for themselves, right?

Terre Haute is a pickup from WTHI which is an Allen Media station. Utica is a pickup from Heartland's last remaining station. The rest are stations that are either owned by Gray or tied to Gray through American Spirit. It's probably an expired agreement in the cases, but I have to wonder if Terre Haute's is due to Allen's current situation and if they in fact breached their agreement?

Same here. Even WBKB seemed to put more effort into their news (pre-MM) than WBUP does. Instead of local b-roll, you have still pictures and obvious stock footage used as filler. It's borderline unethical because the pictures don't accurately describe the story being told. If WJMN is operating as it always was then they should have put the current WBUP operation out of its misery once the sale closed.

Finally had a a chance to catch one of these newscasts. Basically it's a WPBN/WTOM newscast with an Alpena segment in the first part of the "B" block leading up to weather in each show. It basically amounts to a news package with the time allotted. They still use the WBKB set but now integrate the Sinclair graphics and "Queen Bee's Knee"s" copyright using Sinclair's L3.

It seems more like a compromise. Brand the station as FOX to satisfy the network and the longtime viewers used to "Fox 6" ingrained in their heads. Otherwise, play out the WBRC 6 heritage in the new branding to let Gray do their "local first" thing.... They've always done a great job of branding with the red WBRC, tied to their visible sign on their building on Red Mountain. Working the old "6" in there is even better.

Something seems wrong when you have three large companies coming together to offer a bundled package of sports content. Almost like you need an independent operator to carry the content independently....much like a CABLE COMPANY. I've said it a million times, this reeks of the vertical integration that the movie studios once had with their movie houses. This is why they were broken up and why Viacom was separated from CBS in the 1970s to syndicate it's content. And here we are today, where someone else's content on another streaming service is more of a token offering.

If it gets bad enough, that gives the networks the right to void their agreement(s) and yank their affiliations because Allen would be in default of any particular agreement. While it wasn't said why WBNX lost the CW in 2018, financial default by their owners (Winston Broadcast/Ernest Angley) may have been the impetus since their agreement with them was to last through 2021. If this was to happen, it would be a great speculatron thread. Not a lot of local options in their markets given the feelings the FCC has towards networks seeking subchannel space on another station.

At least it appears to be an option. If it was mandated, a lot of affiliates wouldn't be too happy. Lots of them do 9am newscasts and/or lifestyle shows during that time. Not to mention it took an eternity for BOTH hours to be cleared nationwide. Cough cough WWL cough....

WBRC is lucky that they can trade on their heritage since they've been a dominant station throughout their existence. Others like Fox 8 in New Orleans, Fox 10 in Mobile, and especially Fox Carolina are going to be interesting to see how they re-brand without "FOX" in their name.

I wonder how much traction stations like these get from simulcasting their parent station's newscast when they're on. But glad to see that viewers will get a second option against WUPW at 10pm. Meanwhile, Sinclair is too cheap to import a newscast from South Bend and chose to air TND instead, giving up WNWO's local newscast share once and for all.

Allen Media seems to be circling the drain in a very bad way. No wonder Tegna and others passed on their investment. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/8/12/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-allen-media https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/8/12/hiring-freeze-newscasts-dumped

In Mobile/Pensacola, GMFB Overtime will be weekday mornings at 9am on WFNA CW 55.

They also dumped the "ABC" from their logo. Probably an isolated occurrence, unlike the slow purge that Gray has been doing to many of their stations. I like it better than the WDCW package for sure. I just hope Nexstar has some new looks in the wings since the current packages are starting to get stale.

Cameron Taylor will be joining WALA FOX 10 in Mobile this September as an evening anchor. He was last at KSHB in Kansas City. Here's an excerpt from his LinkedIn page

CNN as well despite any assurance that they are a genuine news channel. If the channels' day is filled with punditry and opinion of ANY kind, that ship has sailed. Sadly, the concept of a "news channel" is long gone. The only thing that even comes close are the "live" variants like NBC News Now and Fox's LiveNow.

Hearst is laying off staffers involved in their "Very Local" FAST channels.... https://deadline.com/2024/08/hearts-television-very-local-layoffs-1236034990/ I wasn't much a fan of these channels to begin with. They never tended to have news on them at the time it was airing on their stations. Maybe now they'll make them a little more geared to their news operations.

I would imagine Gray would start their own regional sports subchannel in Pelicans territory since they have a station in every market that it covers. This would include the entire state of Louisiana, Coastal and South Mississippi and Mobile.

For some reason, I thought WGTA used personnel from WMDT to do their newscasts, but I may be mistaken. I recall WHIZ using WMDT's chief meteorologists in the past doing their weather.

At one time, NewsNet was providing weather for both the Marks stations in Alpena and Marquette, and also sports for Marquette as well. Did they still have any arrangements with other broadcasters like Coastal Television to provide "local" news or have all of those arrangements expired?

The web stream and website are still up and running as of 3:42pm CT.

Speaking of new buildings, is Gray mothballing their plans to move WOIO/WUAB from Reserve Square to Independence? It would have to be them since the other stations have no intention of moving.

I wish Scott Pelley was still an option. He made CBS News good again after the Katie Couric experiment went awry. Then again, much of the stablility and prowess of CBS News at the time was tied to the Me Too movement and the bad behavior of the people running the show back then. Ever since that purge, CBS News has been a mess and Norah O'Donnell didn't help matters. We've come a long way from Uncle Walter and even Dan Rather.

Regarding CBS and WNCN. Media General offered CBS scale at the time since they were a larger group and WRAL was a one station mom and pop shop. But in the local market, WRAL gave NBC the gift of a lifetime in instant ratings success in a market where NBC has suffered eternally while CBS got a good deal with a larger broadcaster that had an also-ran station in the same market. Moral of the story is that the parent company who paid the network bill is what matters to CBS. That's what reverse compensation has done to the local station industry. NBC took a small sacrifice to gain a lot there.