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How many homes does NewsMax reach versus NewsNation? If NewsMax can pull in five times the numbers that NewsNation is pulling in for their shows.... The question is, how much better would NewsNation be if they gave up and went back to doing Matlock reruns? (as good old Superstation WGN)

Joce Sterman has jumped ship from Sinclair to Gray, where she'll be part of the "InvestigateTV" unit: https://www.investigatetv.com/page/meet-the-team/

Given the pattern of Nexstar sets over the past several years, I can see where WKRG is heading... Like most people on this forum, I hated the old set, but Nexstar really did a good job of getting some mileage out of it with the re-configuration they did a few years back. Hopefully, WALA's refresh this past winter was a band-aid that Gray will take care of in a year or two....much like the WKRG refresh was.

For WTRF, it's an improvement. Not much of one given the station and market, but nevertheless.... Given the station's freefall ever since they swapped affiliations with WSTV/WTOV, even ending up as a WVMH station qualifies. With their dual-affiliation status, I figued that the KOIN package would end up here, since all of the others (sans ABC & FOX) are in use by the former West Virginia Media stations.

It sounds like all of the Georgia stations they are launching will all be part of a network based out of the affiliate they are launching in Atlanta. So this may be the way that Gray is entering Macon without having their own full powered station in the market.

Somebody must have checked the wrong layers in the AfterEffects file.

At the very least, in the places like St. Louis and Denver with a shared operation with the FOX look, give the CW stations the WDKY variant? That way it looks LESS lazy than the way it is now with BOTH stations sharing the same look. They have the unfortunate distinction of having the same schedules (and counter-program opportunities vs the others) as network affiliates, so they need to be as different as possible.

The "honeycomb" look is probably the closest thing Gray has for a national package right now, only because it's the package they're using for their "Local News Live" channel that uses their stations' content to fill time on each other's streams. Outside of the Southeast, are there any other major clusters of stations that have picked it up? The only other two I can recall are Clarksburg and Harrisonburg...

That's better numbers than Nexstar's NewsNation for sure.... Maybe they should run a Matlock marathon? It could easily double or possibly even triple their current numbers... And if they make it available on OTT...oh wait...

I"m hoping the WBTV package is the one that WVUE eventually ends up with. It's probably the most "major market" look they have right now. Then again, it would look a lot like WGNO's package, especially with the way the lower thirds are designed. Graphic packages aside, as long as it doesn't look totally awful and makes the on-air product look like garbage, WVUE should be just fine.

Well, when you consider that it was a legendary image campaign launched by WFAA-TV almost 35 years ago, and it's been going strong almost as long on WNIR with very little change....

Tom Skilling for sure....now if Nexstar lured away James Spann to CBS42, then they could have a chance. They could have had Alan Sealls (back), but Nexstar sort of bungled his contract at WKRG, which is why he crossed the street to Sinclair and WPMI. Alan worked at WGN (and later WMAQ) before getting the WKRG chief meteorologist position which he had close to 20 years.

Weigel may be looking to use W27EA-D for either MeTV+, the soon-to-be-launched Story, or even snag some or all of WBNX's Weigel offerings. Being that WBNX is WBNX, and how they lost the CW under mysterious circumstances, could Gray and Weigel know something about them that we haven't found out about....yet? WOIO/WUAB is way overstuffed with channels, so they could likely afford to lose something like MeTV, and bump MyNetworkTV somewhere else.

Moving WGUD to the west seems like thing to do, especially to better cover Biloxi & Gulfport. To the west is two more low-powered Channel 31s, KNOV-CD in New Orleans and W31EL-D in Baton Rouge. Way up in Meridian, MS is the full-powered WGBC on 31 as well. Technically, as long as they don't have any issues with all of these stations, then all is well. So even if all of these low-powered stations are neck and neck with each other, then all is well, right? Even if they clog the airwaves with their low-powered signals?

With the severe weather that's been crisscrossing the southeast, another missed opportunity for NewsNation to prove it's worth. Case in point, as parts of New Orleans were being devastated by a violent tornado, WGNO was basically asleep at the wheel covering the weather and then going back into regular programming, while every other station in New Orleans was wall to wall with damage coverage. Meanwhile on NewsNation, the same old partisan drivel, trying to be another news channel. I turn on Sinclair's National Desk, and what are they covering....the storm!!!

Better Weigel than HC2. This leaves WNIR 100.1 "The Talk of Akron" as the Klaus family's only media asset. They turned in 1520 am several years ago, and cashed out WAOH-LD in the spectrum auction. The two low power stations used to be the "CAT" or Cleveland Akron television network. Much of their local programming went away in 2009 when they picked up RTV. Speaking of local programming, where did "Son of Ghoul" end up? I think it's on the Image Video stations out of Canton. And WNIR still uses THIS image package to this day.... Upgrades are coming to W27EA for sure. They probably still have the Video Toaster that W29AI (WAOH) launched with!

Putting the newspaper ad together with this clip of WEAR from 1980, does make their "Clearly Yours" campaign a work of Peters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpy8lJYqx64 The guy in the newspaper ad was Tom Scanlan, and the anchor in the newsbreak was Peter Neumann. Both of them were involved in the founding of WBKB in Alpena. They must have "flown south" to Pensacola soon after. Neumann served as WEAR's news director until 2006 and later finished out his career at WPTA in Fort Wayne. After Pensacola, Scanlan also owned WGTU/WGTQ and founded WBKP & WBUP in Marquette. Sadly, Tom Scanlan passed away in 2017 after a battle with cancer.

Well, after reviewing the application for the W31FB-D signal on WALA's tower, it's likely Gray bought WGUD-LD to either shut it down or relocate it to another frequency. When it's moved to 1000 ft, the signal blankets pretty much all of Mobile and Baldwin County, as well as providing fringe signal over much of WGUD-LD"s coverage area. https://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=25076ff37f6bcee5017f75300c8f09ca&site=1&dma=N&map=Y&contour=Y&lppc=N&int=N&pop=N&incpop=&excpop=&z1=N&nrqz=N&lprw=N&head=Y&asrn=&extras=&cir=&circen= Here's WGUD-LD's repacked 31 for comparison: https://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=25076f916940ed6e0169454873a0018a&site=1&dma=N&map=Y&contour=Y&lppc=N&int=N&pop=N&incpop=&excpop=&z1=N&nrqz=N&lprw=N&head=Y&asrn=&extras=&cir=&circen=

Looks like WBNX has a new logo, returning the "55" that's been missing since the early 2000's. Much Better, together!

The Gray purchase of WGUD does explain it's long struggle of trying to sign-on their post-repack channel. They stayed on 51 well past the other stations in the area, and after that, encountered tower issues in their new facility. They have yet to sign on their new channel. Like W31FB-D, WGUD is on channel 31, and the stations have contours that almost overlap in the western fringes of the Mobile area. WGUD was a MeTV station for the Biloxi market, so I wonder what Gray has in store for them. WLOX has a good signal on channel 32 with both ABC and CBS feeds, but lots of subchannels, so it may be an overflow channel for them, especially if they assume the MeTV feed Scranton used to run. W31FB-D may very well be a repeater or aux for WALA on UHF, since they have had longstanding signal issues there as a VHF station.

The introduction of WOIO was more of a threat than WBNX, since they were more of a Cleveland-centric station than WBNX. Also, they were very aggressive with their programming, eventually becoming the charter FOX affiliate over WUAB, which had a lot of out-of-market viewers at the time thanks to their Cleveland Indians telecasts. WOIO snagged the Cavs from WUAB and kept them until 1994 when they were moved back to WUAB under the Malrite LMA. WCLQ never really thrived in their second coming of Channel 61, especially post "Preview" and subsequent owners wanted to put HSN programming on, so that became their fate as WQHS.

As if we needed more reasons to loathe Jeff Zucker and what he's done to two networks, as well as our society and daily lives, Rolling Stone pretty much confirms it all, and then some... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeff-zucker-cnn-resign-affair-cuomo-trump-1319698/ It's just my opinion, but this man should never be entrusted with anything, or anyone, ever again.

I figured it was an independent creation. So if it was a Tristan Bresnan product, then he can do whatever he wants with it. In this case, NCN Nebraska gets it. Much like the subsuming of the old Sinclair News Music package that Stephen Arnold created. They didn't renew it due to the SESAC crisis, it gets absorbed into U-Phonix for all of their clients to use. There's a dearth of great graphics packages out there just sitting around waiting to be used because all the companies have their own looks these days.

Was this a work of Linear Drift? Now that the package is no longer being used by all the former Media General stations that used it, the artist probably made it up for grabs for syndication.

I"m thinking the two versions of the pre-1998 graphics were done in house and changed because of technological upgrades. It may have been about the time the station adopted non-linear editing (Avid) and obtainted the ability to do more advanced 3D computer animations in-house. The 1995 original package seemed more analog in nature while the 1997 version was more computer-oriented.