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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.

Computer animation pioneer, Chuck Csuri, who started Cranston/Csuri productions in the 1980s, has passed away at the age of 99. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/former-ohio-state-football-team-captain-father-of-computer-art-charles-csuri-dies-at-99-world-war-ii-bronze-star-battle-of-the-bulge-3-3-2022 Some of his firm's notable works included animations for ABC and CBS Sports. They also did some work for WBNS as well being based in Columbus and having ties to Ohio State. The programs they started evolved into a computer graphics research lab that is still around today.

It feels like the lighting in the studio washes everything out. You can tell on the monitor bank when they try to show a dark image and pick up the reflection of the lights. CBS was trying to unload WUPL to Belo with WWL, after being rebuffed by them to acquire WWL as well. Katrina pushed that sale aside for about a year or two. Emmis was in the midst of selling all of their stations and Katrina pushed off the sale long after the other Emmis stations had been sold.

Sadly, that's probably why Nexstar is pursuing them in the first place. And if they succeed and go through with it, expect a lot of the remaining "affiliates" to drop the network as soon as they can.

As much as Nexstar is hoping for their "Peter Arnett" moment with NewsNation, they're still going about this wrong. (For anyone who doesn't know, he was the star of CNN's Gulf War coverage that pretty much put them on the map as a legitimate news source all those years ago!) Instead of trying to ram it down the station's throats as an alternative to regular programming, it needs to be an addition. Put it on a sub-channel. Get it out there on OTT. But don't pre-empt your own programming for what could be redundant coverage (once the networks kick in)...Thankfully, few stations are going this route and wisely are sticking to their regular programming. And ironically, NewsNation is in usual morning mode right now, being their former WGN America self at the moment (with In The Heat Of The Night)

It's been a while since I've chimed in on this thread....but going back to the ratings post that was posted back in November.... Newsmax getting 5 times the ratings of NewsNation should be setting off the alarm bells. Nexstar could try to fix this, if they ramped up distribution of NewsNation on OTT platforms, as digital subchannels, or even simulcasting some programs on their MyNetwork and independent channels. But they seemed maligned to try and cook what's left of the goose that was WGN America, as people are leaving pay TV in droves, and the network that has 5 times the viewership on NewsNation could be in jeopardy itself if pay tv providers decide to pull the plug for them. Nexstar really needs to seize this opportunity, because if they don't, the ratings will continue to suck and they will soon have to admit defeat. It's well past time for Nexstar to get into the 21st century and take the streaming off their web sites and get more into the OTT realm!!!!

It appears to be working now. I dialed up Indy on my browser and WTHR shows up with the other Indy YTTV locals. I have the "location guard" plugin on my Chrome. I just set it to "fixed location", and move the pointer to where I want to test it.

For a 1990's package. Balls and Walls is pretty quintessential. Even when stations like WSAZ used it well past it's prime....all the way to late 2003.

I remember seeing it for the first time on old Andy Griffith repeats that ran on WOAC-TV 67 in Canton/Akron before they got sold and turned into an INTV/Shop At Home station and now TCT owned WRLM.... By then I was old enough to not be scared by stuff like this, but years before the "Sit UBU sit" somehow had an effect on me And the old ITC logo that ran after the Muppet Show kind of creeped me out too!

Looks like WPCH (Peachtree TV) will be ramping up its local programming offerings to create more Atlanta centric programming. https://www.ajc.com/life/radiotvtalk-blog/briefs-gray-hires-peachtree-tv-station-manager-capital-b-news-launches-charles-barkley-ponders-leaving-inside-the-nba/VOWKRU6BM5CQRBWFKOOEVTYICM/ Time Warner did this originally after the TBS split, but it was short-lived especially after the operations were turned over to Meredith, replacing the original content with syndicated programs.

Cleveland Scene has a downright scathing review of the Bally sports app.... https://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2022/02/16/we-are-all-so-goddamn-sick-of-the-bally-sports-app?utm_source=feature&utm_medium=home&utm_campaign=hpfeatures&utm_content=HomeFeaturedStoriesCustomMobile If this is what they've pinned their hopes for the majority of their viewers (cord cutters and the DTC customers), then they may as well be doomed.

Well, it's finally happening at WFMJ. No, they're not being sold, they're FINALLY adding a 5pm newscast. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/2/16/adding-more-news-in-ohio

And now, let us bask in the former glory of Viacom logos. My personal favorite was the "wikiwiki" version of the 90s, where VYE-a-com was spoken. Was the company known as "VEE-a-com" before? Some of the 80s variants seem to think so.

Sinclair really used a lot of these sets picked up from other owners well past their prime. Even with their legacy stations like WBFF. WCHS was another, (lasting from the 90s until 2012) and so was WEAR in Pensacola, lasting pretty much from the debut of their building in 1994 to 2008.

The DTV era pretty much gave markets the ability to fill themselves out with subchannels. Since ABC was not represented (fully) in Clarksburg/Fairmont and both ABC/FOX in Steubenville/Wheeling, WTAE was piped in both markets and WPGH provided Steubenville & Wheeling with a FOX station on cable. In the analog era, KDKA was easily receivable in Steubenville, so this likely stole viewers from WTRF when they went CBS. That, and the absolute mismanagement of WTRF under Adams and Brissette before Benedek picked them up. And this was one of the few stations that Gray did not get from Benedek, so it was ripe for the picking for Bray Cary and his West Virginia Media Holdings...

Traditionally, WBOY has led the market, and was the only former WVMH station with a market-leading presence. That may have changed now that Gray owns WDTV and the WVMH look has indeed gotten stale over the years. Up in Steubenville/Wheeling, WTRF mortally wounded themselves years back even before Benedek owned them. WTOV has ruled the market since. Not helping matters was the affiliation swap in the '80s when NBC began rising from the basement to a dominant #1 in the late 80s while CBS continued sliding.

I"m thinking it may have been the WUAB Sports Extra portion of the set.

It would be a smart addition to their netlet (especially MNTV) stations, especially if they're in markets they do not have a local morning newscast from 7-9 or already have a station doing local news at the same time....cough cough...WMYT....cough cough.