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  1. tyrannical bastard
    I couldn't resist....
  2. tyrannical bastard
    The DOJ, and even the FCC should force companies like Dish to some form of consent degree, where notification is required. FCC would be involved in the case of broadcast stations, especially since ABC still has their O&Os. Are ABC affiliates affected like they were on YouTubeTV back in December?
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    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.
  4. tyrannical bastard
    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....
  6. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. tyrannical bastard
    With the 10am hour, which burnoff is more pressing...her contract or the one with the Blue Bloods syndicator?
  11. 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.
  12. tyrannical bastard
    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...
  13. 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...
  14. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  16. 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
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    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.
  18. tyrannical bastard
    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....
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    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...
  20. tyrannical bastard
    I've noticed the Tegna "music" creeping into in-show bumpers.....has anyone complained about THAT?
  21. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  22. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  23. tyrannical bastard
    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.
  24. tyrannical bastard
    If Larry King was still with us, his infomercials would have higher ratings!
  25. tyrannical bastard
    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.
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