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That's better numbers than Nexstar's NewsNation for sure.... Maybe they should run a Matlock marathon? It could easily double or possibly even triple their current numbers... And if they make it available on OTT...oh wait...

I"m hoping the WBTV package is the one that WVUE eventually ends up with. It's probably the most "major market" look they have right now. Then again, it would look a lot like WGNO's package, especially with the way the lower thirds are designed. Graphic packages aside, as long as it doesn't look totally awful and makes the on-air product look like garbage, WVUE should be just fine.

Well, when you consider that it was a legendary image campaign launched by WFAA-TV almost 35 years ago, and it's been going strong almost as long on WNIR with very little change....

Tom Skilling for sure....now if Nexstar lured away James Spann to CBS42, then they could have a chance. They could have had Alan Sealls (back), but Nexstar sort of bungled his contract at WKRG, which is why he crossed the street to Sinclair and WPMI. Alan worked at WGN (and later WMAQ) before getting the WKRG chief meteorologist position which he had close to 20 years.

Weigel may be looking to use W27EA-D for either MeTV+, the soon-to-be-launched Story, or even snag some or all of WBNX's Weigel offerings. Being that WBNX is WBNX, and how they lost the CW under mysterious circumstances, could Gray and Weigel know something about them that we haven't found out about....yet? WOIO/WUAB is way overstuffed with channels, so they could likely afford to lose something like MeTV, and bump MyNetworkTV somewhere else.

Moving WGUD to the west seems like thing to do, especially to better cover Biloxi & Gulfport. To the west is two more low-powered Channel 31s, KNOV-CD in New Orleans and W31EL-D in Baton Rouge. Way up in Meridian, MS is the full-powered WGBC on 31 as well. Technically, as long as they don't have any issues with all of these stations, then all is well. So even if all of these low-powered stations are neck and neck with each other, then all is well, right? Even if they clog the airwaves with their low-powered signals?

With the severe weather that's been crisscrossing the southeast, another missed opportunity for NewsNation to prove it's worth. Case in point, as parts of New Orleans were being devastated by a violent tornado, WGNO was basically asleep at the wheel covering the weather and then going back into regular programming, while every other station in New Orleans was wall to wall with damage coverage. Meanwhile on NewsNation, the same old partisan drivel, trying to be another news channel. I turn on Sinclair's National Desk, and what are they covering....the storm!!!

Better Weigel than HC2. This leaves WNIR 100.1 "The Talk of Akron" as the Klaus family's only media asset. They turned in 1520 am several years ago, and cashed out WAOH-LD in the spectrum auction. The two low power stations used to be the "CAT" or Cleveland Akron television network. Much of their local programming went away in 2009 when they picked up RTV. Speaking of local programming, where did "Son of Ghoul" end up? I think it's on the Image Video stations out of Canton. And WNIR still uses THIS image package to this day.... Upgrades are coming to W27EA for sure. They probably still have the Video Toaster that W29AI (WAOH) launched with!

Putting the newspaper ad together with this clip of WEAR from 1980, does make their "Clearly Yours" campaign a work of Peters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpy8lJYqx64 The guy in the newspaper ad was Tom Scanlan, and the anchor in the newsbreak was Peter Neumann. Both of them were involved in the founding of WBKB in Alpena. They must have "flown south" to Pensacola soon after. Neumann served as WEAR's news director until 2006 and later finished out his career at WPTA in Fort Wayne. After Pensacola, Scanlan also owned WGTU/WGTQ and founded WBKP & WBUP in Marquette. Sadly, Tom Scanlan passed away in 2017 after a battle with cancer.

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"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.

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

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...