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tyrannical bastard

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  1. Now if Nexstar wasnt in BILLIONS of dollars in debt, they should have held out and leased the land to Bally for them to build the casino on, but as we saw with the CBS negotiations earlier this year where WJMN was stripped, Uncle Perry isn't a very good poker player...
  2. I wonder if they have their sights set on taking an affiliation away or two from Block and their total monopoly on the Lima market.
  3. Paging Nexstar....time to get into the 2020s..... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/11/8/does-your-station-have-a-streaming-channel
  4. More of a hackjob than a ripoff. Basically using another package and trying to localilze it, with bad results. WTRF used this package too. I'd post the video from YouTube, but it appears to have been taken down. Their opens looked good but they had one that was clearly "keyed over" like these.
  5. Even if NBC (and ABC) drop 10pm programming and compete with Fox stations with newscasts, there's still plenty of dayparts where Fox can counter the networks with local news. Most notably, 7-9 am when Today and Good Morning America are on. NBC ties up 9-11am with even more Today and ABC stations are locked in at 11am with The View. CBS may be the first to drop morning news if they finally give up on the 7-9am hour after decades of failure. And WWL would have the last laugh!
  6. I believe Spectrum does have both in Muskingum, I don't know if WHIZ blacks out the duplicate content on WCMH though. For all intents and purposes, WTTE itself can likely remain, because it is no longer affiliated with FOX 28, because of the end-around Sinclair pulled to put "FOX 28" on WSYX 6.3, and directly under Sinclair's control instead of longtime shell partner Cunningham, who now runs WTTE themselves as a repository of sub channels with little involvement of Sinclair. FOX is pretty quick about pulling duplicate affiliations in many other markets, especially when a local affiliate signs on for the first time. This means that viewers in Muskingum County will get the new WHIZ affiliate, while all the other surrounding counties in the Columbus DMA will still get WSYX 6.3...aka "FOX 28" WHIZ (NBC) has a lot of cable coverage in the surrounding counties, but the new FOX arrangement likely won't transfer, unless they start local news casts and/or black out the FOX content outside of Muskingum County. Muskingum County will still get WSYX 6.1 "ABC 6", which means they'll still have the same newscasts they got on Fox 28, since Sinclair uses the same news department to make news for both stations.
  7. Realistically, WTTE (and WSYX) were the only stations capable of serving Zanesville as a FOX affiliate in the absence of a local one. Given their unofficial status, they still showed up in the ratings since they were the only viable option. Now that WHIZ has the rights to FOX in Zanesville, expect "FOX 28" to go away on the pay TV side in Muskingum County and any residual viewership will be via antenna. Even east of Zanesville is still part of the Columbus DMA and Sinclair still has the rights there.
  8. But Sinclair apparently had an official status with WTTE (and later WSYX 6.3) as the "de facto" Fox affiliate for the market. YouTube TV even carried them. It's only Muskingum County, so it shouldn't be too big a hit to FOX 28's ratings...
  9. I'm all for stations doing a 9/10p newscast to compete with Fox and MNTV/CW stations with only two hours of "prime". It would come in handy as a universal alternative to whenever Fox has sports on during the time. The only problem would be for those JSA/SSA stations that are already "maxed out" on news programming under the 15 percent rule. That's a high profile timeslot to just "fill in" with something else, and cutting from elsewhere in the schedule would seriously jeopardize their output if they already do a full compliment of newscasts. Maybe this could force their hand to "move" to the parent station to be under complete ownership? We shall see... Simulcasting shouldn't be a problem for stations like WRAL/WRAZ, although losing the WTVD newscast on WLFL does make them the only game in town during that time. It could be an issue for stations like WDSM and WRLH who rely on an NBC station (WHO and WWBT, respectively) who produce the FOX newcasts for them. That could force the FOX stations to get a new news-producing partner if the NBC station does a newscast for themselves, when it used to be a newscast they were "contracted" to make for them.
  10. In the last few days, Nexstar and NewsNation have covered debates in Michigan (gubernatorial) and Georgia (senate), with all of the same. It does feel a little extreme the way that Nexstar is going about it, but then again, some of the races have enough shock value (especially with Herschel Walker flashing a badge) to let Nexstar "own it" so it could come back to haunt them, rather than providing a "clean feed" for others to use at their own will.
  11. If NBC really wants to cut an hour, do we really need FOUR hours of Today? Yes, it's news and in the morning, but i'm sure the affiliates wouldn't mind getting an hour or two back in the AM. Maybe ditch the 9am hour and make Hoda & Jenna it's own show. Megyn Kelly should have spelled the end of that timeslot.
  12. Thanks for catching that! I don't know what I was thinking. WFLA is airing it in Tampa for sure.
  13. We'll see how Sinclair behaves in Florida in a few weeks with the Florida gubernatorial debate. It's originating out of West Palm Beach at WPEC. It would have been yesterday, but it was rescheduled due to the effects of Hurricane Ian on the state. Here's a breakdown on who's airing it. Nexstar gets Tampa and Panama City. Cox gets Jacksonville and Orlando. WFOR is airing it in Miami and WBBH is airing it in Ft. Myers. All the other Sinclair markets in Florida are airing it on their stations.
  14. It wouldn't surprise me for Nexstar to have kept it to themselves and relied on NewsNation to fill in the rest of Ohio and the nation, because it's a such a great news channel with millions of viewers....right?
  15. Curious to see how the Ohio Senate debate did on NewsNation, vs. the Ohio Nexstar stations that carried it (WJW, WCMH, WDTN, WKBN/WYTV) as well as border stations WTRF in Wheeling and WOWK in Charleston/Huntington...
  16. I couldn't resist....
  17. 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?
  18. 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.
  19. 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)
  20. 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....
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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?
  25. With the 10am hour, which burnoff is more pressing...her contract or the one with the Blue Bloods syndicator?
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