tyrannical bastard

It's the station's, but Nexstar is forcing them to use it to promote NewsNation to a certain degree.

If anything, the stations have to give up inventory (either paid or promotional) to show NewsNation ads. For a station that is not clearly number #1, giving up this prime inventory may be something that could possibly make a difference for the positive.

Another longshot possibility....take the NBC affiliation from KSL. I know KSL has fallen in line after years of selectively preempting NBC content, but if they hint at any reservation of paying for NBC, Gray maybe more willing to.... More likely, Gray could set itself up to air Utah Jazz games.

Obviously, The CW wouldn't have the marquee race on Memorial Day weekend, but carrying the other races leading up to it and any other series would be a benefit for WISH. So even after the 500 itself moved to NBC, they still tape delay it in Indianapolis?

That may be a good thing for WISH-TV in Indianapolis.

In a way, Drew Carey could be considered one. He's hosted TPIR for far longer than his namesake sitcom from the 90s.

Sinclair is (gasp) selling a station! Sort of.. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/1/22/buy-this-sinclair-station-for-13-million Probably will be consolidated into its parent station.

Sinclair is dumping their free streaming service STIRR to another company, and has stripped basically all of their content from it. https://cordcuttersnews.com/sinclair-sells-its-free-streaming-service-stirr/ This leaves NewsON as the only OTT service that carries Sinclair stations. I say good riddance. It was a mess of mismatched content and never seemed to work right. It had a lot of potential but like everything, Sinclair squandered it because, well....it's Sinclair.

Nexstar's bulk deal with CBS is also up at the end of this year, and with CBS losing the SEC games, the affiliation in these markets is much less attractive than it was before. I think NBC would be willing to affiliate with Nexstar in certain places and let CBS jump to the Sinclair station. And one of these markets is Mobile.

NBC is probably their weakest link. Despite them owning stronger stations like WJAR, WCYB, WTOV and WJAC, they have weaker stations like WOAI, and self-created abominations like WPMI, WTWC, WEYI, WNWO and WNBW. Despite WNWO and WTWC being the only ones Sinclair owns outright, it's a black eye on the markets these other stations serve. NBC can't be too happy with them these days. Even MSNBC recently eviscerated David Smith's recent purchase (and Sinclair in general) on Alex Wagner's show the other night. While the whole group going away is unlikely, it may be like what happened with WJMN in Marquette. If there's a more willing station to take on NBC and provide a better path, NBC would happily oblige. It happened years back (pre-Sinclair) to WRDC when Outlet plucked the Peacock to their-owned (at the time) WNCN after decades of failure in Raleigh-Durham.

Which network is up next for renewal? I believe NBC is up at the end of this year. LOTS of affiliates that Sinclair has never helped, or helped to drive into the ground, or FURTHER into the ground.

And the tragedy in that is these local newsrooms and network affiliates. Despite being run by Sinclair and pushing out all of their garbage, there are still a lot of talented, competent journalists they employ who know how to cover their communities, and are great at breaking their own stories that often uncover actual corruption.

Now that he'll be anchoring newscasts, will he still be doing his packages? Or in this case, nodding in a camera as each station cuts to him "live" ?

David Smith is a prime example of someone who has too much money and no idea (or malicious intent on) what to do with it. While the rest of the world is scraping for pennies trying to keep oligarchs like him from ruining anything they touch with all of their money.

Amazon will buy a minority stake in Bally Sports, making Prime Video their primary method of DTC distribution, and Sinclair will pay $495 million to settle their (mis)management services of Diamond Sports Group https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amazon-diamond-sports-investment-reorganization-sinclair-settlement-1235790585/

He needed something to do after giving the keys to Chris Ripley to blaze his own trail of incompetence and greed.

May have been isolated to Sinclair. WPMI aired a 7pm CT newscast and WTOV aired one at 8 ET, pre-empting the special.

A sad day in Baltimore, since the Sun was a vocal critic of David Smith and his escalation of Sinclair into a national powerhouse of propaganda. Given their current state under Alden, it sadly may actually be an improvement, since the paper is once again under "local" ownership.

So does this make "the" one of the forbidden words that employees are no longer allowed to say at a Nexstar station?

I"m curious...how many NBC affiliates (or station owners) opted not to show the pre-game special for the Miami/Kansas City game that's exclusively streaming on Peacock?

It's pretty sad that a company as deeply rooted as Scripps is doing this at their TV stations across the country.

And Nexstar found a way to weasel their way back into the Phoenix market. Because trying to work out an arrangement with KASW would have been too obvious... Since they picked them up in the KTVK/KPHO merger and sold them to Scripps when they needed cap space to dump for the Tribune merger.

It definitely has the FOX O&O vibe, at least with the font. Once this package gets to the other markets (especially Pittsburgh and Charlotte) it will be a major improvement. Both of those packages probably go all the way back to their launch in HD, which seems like an eternity.

Also depends on how the channels are sold to advertisers. If it's purely "added value" on a primary investment....

Operationally, how different are these actual cable channels compared to the FAST channels? They have to be operated similarly as automated video jukeboxes playing a "list" of content from the master log. All it takes is someone to ingest the stuff so it plays at the right time, and maybe a producer or two producing the promos and interstitial content. It's not like the TV of old where it actually took manpower to run a channel. And since channel capacity is a thing of the past, what actual cost savings would this realize? Satellite space? A power bill on the server? Or just another bloated excuse to cull back content because it's too "expensive"...