tyrannical bastard

Well it sounds like the fight to bring the Bally channels (BACK!) to Dish is going really well at this point https://www.nexttv.com/blogs/sinclair-rsns-focus-on-the-dish-dea

I can see the contractual part being a hangup, especially if a current agreement is in place. Then again, neither factor stopped Sinclair from absorbing their former shell stations, especially when their FOX renewals were up. That was probably because of the major target on their backs from prior mis-deeds and that these arrangements were done under their watch. Nexstar inherited these other arrangements from prior owners (but realized the proceeds from cashing in the old spectrum where these stations once were.) And then there are the dual-casts created from missing affiliations (like WLOX and WDAM), and cases like WPGA where they basically walked away from the affiliation (ABC), and it ending up on WGXA. Either way, they were able to slide their way back onto cable without missing a step, and in other markets, displace the stations that once provided the missing affiliations that filled out the market.

With WYTV and WBDT, WYTV hosts WKBN on their channel and WDTN hosts WBDT. Why not just cash in the extra licenses? WBDT can go away while WYTV becomes WKBN (since they sold off their frequency in the auction) and WYTV goes away.

Had the WGN brand stuck around on cable for a little longer, could the brand recognition have been higher? I know WGN on cable isn't what it used to be, but still, keeping it around may have helped NewsNation a little with visibility....

Since Paxson was founded in West Palm Beach, is the facility they're looking to get rid of have any ties to the old Paxson ventures (or old Ion headquarters?) I know they owned WPBF before selling it to Hearst-Argyle, but that was separate and never PaxXed like WAKC was in Akron.

Longtime WMBB anchor Jerry Brown has retired after 16 years at WMBB in Panama City. Prior to that, he was a longtime anchor at WDEF in Chattanooga along with stints in Macon, Tallahassee, Wichita Falls, and Wilimington, NC. https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/anchor-jerry-brown-retires-from-wmbb/ I''ve noticed that Tom Lewis has been putting himself on the air. Prior to his stint as News Director at WMBB, he spent 13 years at WJHG as their primary anchor, and even doubled as the News Director for about 5 years (from 2005-2010). He also was a longtime morning show co-host on WPAP radio. And prior to his time at WJHG, he anchored at......WMBB. Could history repeat itself again?

Bump time. The fines have been upheld by the FCC, with one exception. Mercury Broadcasting's fine was dropped to $30,000 due to their "inability to pay". https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-18-tv-stations-refusing-negotiate-good-faith

Agreed. Too much gratuitous use of 3D. Without the cheesy transitions and that logo, it may look halfway decent. Some small markets just need to act their size and not look more out of place by ripping off a look and feel that is NOT anything close to what could pass off as something original and more authentic to the area.

It just looks so....off. Especially how the top of the "5" overlaps the circle. Is Morgantown still part of the Pittsburgh market? I'm sure that's an area the Clarksburg/Fairmont/Weston stations want to themselves.

What in the Edward Willis Scripps is this... WDTV?

I'm surprised that Sinclair dropped out of the outsourcing venture with WTXL years back right after they gave up trying to do news on WTWC. The only news that the Tallahassee Sinclair stations carry is the FOX 49 newscast inherited from New Age produced by WCTV. Other than that, WEAR over in Pensacola produces their weather cut-ins.

It's a good way to expand their footprint across states that not only have Scripps news stations, but also any stations they picked up from ION (those they own and the ones now owned by Inyo). If they are really serious about being able to expand digitally through OTT, they'll put a reporter or two in the smaller markets of a state they serve, but they may be able to achieve decent coverage through adjacent markets.

And it's another source of programming for News Nation. Anything to get rid of the former WGN America reruns that are still on the schedule.

They're probably the only RevRocket holdout, since the other stations that used it were the ones divested to Lockwood, who has since implemented standard websites.

I'll leave it at this. How much of this is purely for grabbing one's attention versus any actual intention of providing some worthwhile, groundbreaking, original reporting that's going to change the world as we know it? That's why I don't care. It's this crying fire in a crowded theater is what's wrong with things today. Just ignore all of these crackpots, and they'll go away, we hope.

From the looks of things, the channel share with WMYT is greatly in WJZY's favor, with only WMYT's main signal keeping their own PSIP. I wonder when we'll see a list of affiliates for Rewind TV? Mobile/Pensacola could be interesting, as no one carries Antenna TV itself. It had carriage on WPAN-TV (when it was mostly off the air) and may have never seen the light of day. Which companies' diginets could get the shaft from Nexstar? There's no ION station here, it's always had carriage on WKRG 5.2 and Court TV is on 5.4, WFNA has Bounce on 55.2 and Grit on 55.4. MeTV is close to the decade mark on WKRG 5.3 and there's also Tegna's True Crime on WFNA 55.3.

A very class move by the stations in Birmingham, to help out ABC 33/40 so they were able to attend the funeral of Christopher Sign: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=355015712651216&set=a.207048637447925

It's been a long while since I've seen an analog TV station on the air, but several weeks ago, I picked up some of the "franken-fm" stations that broadcast on channel 6 and can be picked up on 87.7 FM. Those are the most affected at this point, it seems. Most cases, they are essentially programmed as FM stations with a video "slide" that makes them a TV station. Back in the day, it was the added gift for a full-powered station on Channel 6 to let radio users tune in as well. Since Low-VHF is the least desirable for DTV of any kind, why not keep channel 6 for analog use? The dual-nature of the frequencies lining up for radio and TV would make it invaluable for emergency purposes.

Sad and shocking news for sure, only several years after longtime anchor Dave Baird retired.

Makes sense, especially since WTTW bought the station's assets after the spectrum was sold. This way, there's only one license. If WYCC was still a separate station, they would have to find another station to share with, correct?

....and while Sinclair is pushing their OTA "Stack", they're readying an attempt to create a streaming service for their RSNs... https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/sinclair-raising-250m-for-new-sports-streaming-service-sources/ The cost is projected to be $23/month for a viewer to watch a team in their own territory, and possibly a way to watch out-of-market teams for a little more $$$ down the road. Bring it on, it it's going to help kill the bundle and stop the runaway bills thanks to sports.

Waycross is Jacksonville, the Tallahassee/Thomasville DMA reaches all the way to Clinch County, GA. It's oriented more eastward with Tallahassee on the western part. Time zones perhaps? West of the market is Central Time.

Given the area, there's been so much churn with Gray & Raycom, at least now the dust has settled. With Gray dumping their flagship WALB to Liberty, to Raycom, displacing WFXL to Barrington....and back again to Gray displacing WSWG to Marquee. Tallahassee too, since WCTV's sale to Gray forced the sale of WALB under the old contour rule, and later Raycom's WTXL being sold to Scripps because of the GrayCom merger...

Moving the COL of WSWG to Moultrie actually assigns it to a city that's in the Albany market. Valdosta is located in the Tallahassee - Thomasville market, the station itself used to be a semi-satellite of Tallahassee's WCTV (licensed to Thomasville) until it was spun off to Marquee in the Gray-Raycom merger.

It also said that Sinclair now totally controls Comet and Charge, and that MGM looks to be out of the picture, especially with their impending sale to Amazon. Jukin Media has operated TBD for a while now. I still don't see why TBD is an over the air broadcast diginet. If anything it should be exclusively OTT. They also didn't mention anything about Stadium, so it's hard to tell where it sits in Sinclair's plans especially now with the Bally's RSN venture. If anything it should be used as a tool to lure viewers into the RSNs and make them available DTC to the non-cable customers.