tyrannical bastard

WKRN, like most ABC affiliates, does broadcast in 720p/59.94fps, so they must either live in the market or have access to an Cable/Satellite/OTT feed. Most of the OTT providers can pass through the same quality feed as they are broadcast. And there are ways to get these OTT feeds out of market.... I did catch one of their spots saying to "watch us on Roku!" Which is technically impossible because, well Nexstar. (unless it's FINALLY in the cards?) The only way is if you subscribe to an OTT service that carries them, which Hulu is NOT one of them at this time due to a retransmisison spat.

It's keeping the momentum going at WKRN for sure. They had a good thing with the prior look, and this one works just as well. It's a great package that will work for virtually any Nexstar station, since it's not tied to a particular network's logos or styling. Some of the supers need work, but that's a producer thing so they don't cram too many words into the top line, and the "auto-squish" kicks in. While I like WSMV's look overall, it's maybe a little too flashy for them. If they were CBS or FOX, I'd be ok with it. The packages that WGCL and WHNS have work well for them. Unfortunately WTVF came down with the Scripps-itis. I don't know how they're doing these days, but it can't be good news for them, presentation-wise. And WZTV is your run-of-the-mill Sinclair station, J-Bar, Code Red and all.....

WKRN has officially switched, so far so good!

On paper, it's Comcast dropping the "extra" Hearst stations from mostly external markets. But I do agree that some of these moves will be controversial, especially if viewers are losing an "in-state" voice, especially in New Hampshire. And some of these moves directly benefit Comcast, when stations like WBAL and WGAL are dropped, well, the stations that remain are owned by Comcast, who has to negotiate with Xfinity. Gee, I wonder when that dispute will ever happen?

Next year, it will be a decade since Media General dropped Retro TV (RTV) in favor of MeTV in many of their markets at the time. Would it be safe to assume that this could be the next wave of Antenna TV agreements, barring any existing commitments they would have in their respective markets? Sinclair picked up a lot of Antenna TV affiliations in recent years, I wonder if they would be willing to pick up MeTV should Nexstar exercise the right to carry Antenna TV?

Finally, WBNS with purple graphics makes sense! (Not in a good way though, it's basically a "stay at home" advisory for Franklin County, home of Columbus and 10TV.)

Well crud, I was looking forward to "Alexander Shunnarah Sports South" and "Back & Knee Brace Hotline Sports Midwest!!”

An update to the WLTZ "rumors". Gray has been running WLTZ since September 1 under a shared services agreement. https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/api/manager/download/bf4c70a0-0bd9-9080-893f-6fba6bdbc7a3/1d06a0db-30a4-477b-9c1e-a1fc2b835195.pdf I wonder if the low power station acquired in LaGrange could be used as a replacement for WLTZ in the future? Looking at their website the talent has been dropping like flies over the last few months. It's only a matter of time before WTVM begins newscasts there (if they haven't already)....

I'm all for customizing a package, if it looks good and not "hacked" together. Sometimes all it takes is changing an accent color or two. Of course, most of us on here have seen so many of these packs that you can tell when part of one is part of another, or if it's "ripped off" another. The average viewer will not likely notice such things.

Here's a promo for when he was the 11pm anchor at WAKC, which was then Akron's ABC affiliate alongside WEWS in Cleveland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olhxv2bbpXY A lot of people either worked early or started their careers there. Paxson shut down the news department in 1996 and dropped ABC the following year.

WPGA lives on, even after the original owners filed for bankruptcy in 2015. The Debtors-in-possession sold the station to Marquee, and now it's a repository of subchannels, with MeTV on the primary feed. It's probably the best outcome of all, even though it's likely trounced by WMAZ, but could be nipping at the heels of WGXA and WMGT, given their efforts to begin with.

WHEN it happens, it will be must-see-TV. To see him go down in flames 24/7 on the way he pushed his way into our heads would be the single most gratifying thing ever.

Agreed on WMGT. And to think that the WGXA situation was all because WPGA dropped ABC over "moral" issues, and that was a trainwreck of its own. I'm sure that Macon doing newscasts for Albany's WFXL stretches them even thinner. It's the darkside of Sinclair few talk about, especially in this part of the country where they literally stretch themselves thin just to put enough on the air for them to offer the illusion of doing newscasts. WBIR, although it's full on Tegna, still has a lot of the "folksy-ness" features that make it unique. And their WTNZ newscasts do not use the C-Clarity theme, but use Arnold's Canvas instead. I wonder if Lockwood has a hand in this?

Trump losing the election is what finally shut him up. The mainstream media is done with him and his followers will follow him to the fringes of the far-right. Even Fox News sort of came to their senses by calling Arizona well before the rest of the media world. As for CNN, it's going to be interesting. Jeff Zucker threw down the gauntlet with endless coverage over a single subject starting with the missing plane, and we all know what came up next. Well, at least we have the COVID mess for likely the next 6 months to keep CNN on their toes. So sad it's come to this.

If only WBNS and the other newly-minted Tegna stations had stood their ground. WBNS is literally a turtle on it's back these days, a shell of what it was when it was Dispatch owned. So much talent and experience has walked out the door in the past year. At least there's hope for the uber-dominant stations like WBIR, WMAZ and of course Newswatch 16. How WBNS ever got to that point is mystifying, although Dispatch likely played a hand over time as WSYX was slowly catching up to them.

Well, WNEP went there in a Talkback 16 segment. A viewer didn't like the NXT tease.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdj1DpAQ-CU

Bob Grip is anchoring the weekend 9pm newscast on WALA Fox 10. He retired back in January 2019 after a 30+ year tenure as primary anchor. I wonder if this is a temporary fill-in position, or if he's looking to come out of retirement? Soon after Mel Showers retired from WKRG last year, he filled in a few more times over the summer and hasn't been seen since. EDIT:. It's a temporary gig, and he may be on election night too.

Already been switched due to the Hurricane, and I heard Guardian (it's not that it's a bad package, but it's used sooooooooo often, almost as much as Aerial)

Only the Mission stations. Not the Nexstar ones.

Looks like Dish is on a "mission" to dump the Nexstar sidecars of the same name. Haven't we been down this road before? https://keepmystation.com/kolr

Well, they could always play it up to try and obscure the fact that it's blatant vertical integration, like "...to enhance our opportunities with our content partners, we may experience a temporary disruption to our owned and operated channels..."

Well, since it is 2020, could Comcast/Xfinity have a retransmission consent issue with (gasp) itself?!?!?!??!?!? https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-could-lose-local-nbc-channels-more-in-carriage-disputes-with-itself-and-others/?fbclid=IwAR074B03v6DGumw6RHc98mHNYmUQQgfbjJ7Hqxe5_BWpCKAdpie-jBeeD0Y Looking at the list, Weigel and others are up in October and Hearst, Cox, Capitol/WRAL, Hubbard and NBC/Comcast are up in December.

Update on Hulu/Nexstar...the ABC affiliates have been pulled. Here's a notification from WMBB: https://keepmystation.com/wmbb

As if screwing up their chances to own the former Tribune stations wasn't enough. Nexstar got them fair and square and is now reaches twice as many people. Any other deal in the pipeline is going to be a lot more messy should they want to grow their station portfolio...that is, if they can even afford it now.

Mobile/Pensacola is live. Sinclair and Nexstar have lit up 3.0 service on WJTC and WFNA. WJTC's 3.0 channel has WPMI, WJTC and WEAR. WFNA's 3.0 channel has WKRG, WFNA and WFGX. On the 1.0 repack, WJTC's subchannels are now on WEAR. WFNA's subchannels are on WFGX. WPMI has WJTC's main feed and WKRG has WFNA's main feed. No action by Meredith, since they're on VHF and may feel the same about not launching with their current alottment on 9. Here's hoping they go UHF regardless like Tegna is doing in other markets. It was on WJTC's tower where the tower crew was stranded on Monday where one was killed and another injured from debris. I think the work was related to general tower maintenance and not the transition itself. WPMI reported that the workers were replacing a guy wire. The condition of the tower may have been affected by Hurricane Sally which caused a lot of damage in the area about a month ago, and pushed back the launch to this week.