tyrannical bastard

Only longstanding standards and practices adopted by the cable networks and their parent companies. Since these channels are merely jukeboxes to air programming stuffed and covered with ads and promotional snipes/bugs, what's the use anymore? They still exist because ESPN/Sports networks and live news channels are the ONLY reason cable and pay TV remains a thing. Once ESPN goes rogue, it may take pay tv with it, but it's high cost may put it in the same bind that Diamond Sports got into.

It seems Pacific Time takes a little more liberty with things because of the delay, yet keeps primetime mostly on Eastern's schedule (aside from some "early prime" experiments over the years) So basically Eastern Time is the only time zone that regularly airs network newscasts at 6:30 local time in most markets?

I'm assuming they will be airing the eastern feed "live" and airing the pacific feed at it's normal time (6:30?)

I wonder if this was the same agreement from the last time Nexstar pulled their stations from DirecTV. If that's the case, then it's going to get ugly EVERY time the agreement is up.

Their rollout of CW & MyNetworkTV stations makes no sense. WPIX's carriage was grandfathered under Scripps, and exists to this day under Mission...well before they started putting "most" of their CW stations. Why pass on a network they own on a station they operate? And there are STILL CW stations they own that are not carried....unless their rollout has been slow and plagued with technical delays... Aside from the ones slated to pick up the CW, the only MyNetwork station I've seen picked up (again) is WMYT. This was a station they dumped when they picked up WJZY & WMYT from Fox.

Despite the news I've seen about Nexstar adding their "other" stations, it's not as universal as it claims to be. Hopefully they're working some of the bugs out with some stations, but since this is a station that should have been added the last go-around, makes it all the more confusing. Edit: as of this addition, there's still no WJMN, WDVM, and KOZL, and probably others not up "yet".

It begins. Tomorrow is the official date but several stations including WGN, KRON and WMYT are live as of now. Waiting on the subchannel CWs (WJTV/WHLT, WNCT) as well as the official return of WJMN since CBS stripped them of their affiliation last year.

Just throwing this out there, and it's a topic that's good for the speculatron..... If Perry Sook & Sean Compton bring aboard Jeff Zucker to make something of NewsNation.... How much worse could it get? Perhaps all of Jeff Zucker's cronies...er ass kissers will join him from CNN and finally wipe all of that baggage from there. Now as for CNN itself, would some of the broadcast companies be willing to chip in and buy it as a joint venture? After all, where else would they get their Jeanie Moos and TALAT packages from?

Zucker wants to buy CNN back. https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/cnn-may-be-put-up-for-sale-jeff-zucker-wants-to-buy-sources/ And my reaction....

I've seen a lot of ads where Byron Allen's court show promos are being aired on rival stations without any local tag or even a "check local listings" mention at the end. I'm told these are actual "time buys" where Allen buys the time regardless of whether the station airs the show or not...

Dr. Phil's a goner in a month or two, so dare I say it....3 News at 3?

Pat Robertson, the founder of CBN has passed away at age 93. https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e Take this as you will, just so everyone sees this as they see fit, may he RIH.

Now here's an interesting business venture. Apparently, Lilly (or an affiliated venture) has a fitness center in Erie using the "Erie Fitness Now" name, using the exact same logo as their "Erie News NOW" logo. Their website even has a link to "Erie News Now" They even do fitness segments on WICU and WSEE. If it's an affiliated venture, (or even sponsored), shouldn't that be disclosed, even though it's painfully obvious?

CNN is so screwed up right now (along with WarnerDiscovery) it would almost make sense for Nexstar to just give up on NewsNation and take CNN, and maybe a few more networks off of WarnerDiscovery's hands. The implosion of cable TV is imminent, and Nexstar could get these networks on the cheap. Then again, Perry being Perry, he'll make the same mistake Sinclair did with the former Fox RSNs and overvalue them to the point companies drop them and we have another Bally's situation...

From WIS's release, it's the first time Local News Live is being offered on a station's main channel (at least from what I've seen). I expect it to be something that is part of Gray's schedule, and could easily be the "filler" of an otherwise local news-intensive schedule aside from network programming, and/or lifestyle programs.

Fun fact: Some of the people who rose through the ranks of Sinclair to corporate-level jobs cut their teeth at WBFF in Baltimore. So while they worked on shows like Captain Chesapeake back in the day, they now hold some corporate-level job over the hundreds of stations they run! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUGMVYIHvA Del Parks is now the President of Technology for Sinclair. Dwight Weems is now the Director of Creative Services for Sinclair.

And now, it's come to this. Diamond has been ordered to cough up the rest of the money it owes to the affected baseball teams, or they must forfeit the rights to carry them. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37776665/diamond-sports-group-ordered-fully-pay-twins-guardians-diamondbacks-rangers%3fplatform=amp So basically Diamond Sports is getting no relief whatsoever from the bankruptcy they filed? Ouch!

Ironically, Akron's basketball team is probably the best sport they have. As for the rest, it proves your point exactly. The school actually cut their baseball team a few years back, and they've actually debated about dropping out of the Mid-American conference to go FCS. They're one of those schools that falls short of ticket sales, so they have to buy up all of the unsold tickets just to maintain attendance standards to be an D1 FBS school. And to actually watch Akron, it's usually buried on ESPN+ (along with the rest of the MAC) while Stadium truly airs more of the FCS teams and conferences we've likely never heard of!

Another wrinkle.... According to Nexstar's 2022 annual report, their CBS affiliations are only under agreement through June of next year. Sinclair's NBC affiliations are only good until the end of 2024. With CBS losing the SEC after this fall, CBS is going to be far less valuable to WKRG than it's been in the past. Even with the NFL, its the AFC while the New Orleans Saints are primarily on FOX and WALA. WEAR is locked into ABC until 2026 and will be the new "home" of the SEC (along with ESPN) beginning in 2024. After seeing what happened to NBC after WRAL picked them up (worst to first), Nexstar and WKRG may jump at the chance of landing NBC. The bigger get may be getting Sunday Night Football and the Today Show, along with the NBC Nightly News. As for CBS, if they're fine with landing on WPMI.....they would get more programming time in the morning, TPIR, Y&R, B&B, and they would get way more NFL games than they do now, plus better sports on the weekends (minus the SEC)...and they would be fools not to bring back a noon show, which is usually a CBS station's meal ticket to win a time slot (thanks to TPIR/Y&R). Of course, Gray could still pull for CBS or NBC as well (as a .2), especially if landing CBS was tied to a bigger deal that kept WANF as a CBS affiliate.

WALA already has a 10:00 p.m. newscast five nights a week, but they don't have a 6pm. If they landed NBC, they could add a noon and a 6:00 p.m., and simulcast the rest from Fox 10 outside of network programming.

They compete side-by-side in a lot of markets where Sinclair made cuts (Mobile, Gainesville, Toledo, Columbia, Macon...now that they have WPGA) and some staffers may have simply crossed the street if they had an opening. I know that one of the departed meteorologists from Mobile got a chief job at WGXA in Macon.

Strange that not even the CW O&O's (the Nexstar stations) opted to keep things going on their stations. And Nexstar being Nexstar, that the CW STILL has an app? (a holdover from their prior owners...for sure!) I guess those LOCAL ad dollars made all the difference...

That's right....Scripps had the Katz networks before they bought ION. Some of the stuff just blurs together anymore.

The irony in that is TruTV in itself. They didn't want to be "Court TV" anymore. Enter ION, and they bring it back! So now, you have a TruTV clone...

Newton Minow, the former FCC chairman who once coined television as a "vast wasteland" has died. https://tvnewscheck.com/regulation/article/newton-minow-former-fcc-chief-who-dubbed-tv-a-vast-wasteland-dies/ During his time, he championed the passage of the All-channel receivers act, mandating that all televisions had the ability to receive the UHF band, as well as helping lay the groundwork for NET and later, PBS. The "S.S. Minnow" on Gilligan's Island was coined after him, in jest to his "vast wasteland" remarks. A minnow being a small fish, helped to make the name stick.