tyrannical bastard

I remember in November of 2003 when WSAZ updated their look. It may have been 2005, or soon after Gray bought the station from Emmis when the KARE look was launched. The NBC Collection was a direct result of the SESAC purge of 2006 when many stations dropped their Arnold packages due to the rise of licensing fees....

Here's hoping "WKYC Studios" meets it's maker and that someone good gets WOIO-WUAB.... ...that is, if the deal happens.....

All I have to say is holy conflict in many places and that Gray kills the TEGNA-itis with fire!!!

Well, now we know where Brad Johansen is ending up....at WCMH in Columbus. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/3/6/what-is-going-on-in-columbus The question is....what has happened to current anchor Mark Taylor?

Sooner or later, this bubble is going to burst. The escalating cost of sports on TV coupled with the people dropping traditional pay tv in droves is coming to a tipping point. At some point it will hit the leagues themselves when the TV coverage falls when people either can't access the programming or they don't want to pay for it.

PBS seems to be the same way, more zip-code based rather than DMA. I had access to Fox Sports South and Southeast, and now both are gone. What kind of rhyme and reason is dictating what RSN's are going away? Are the teams involved along with the Sinclair/Byron Allen arrangement?

That guy in the Talkback video....

Everybody in NEP right now.....

I've been watching the coverage and WKRN had drone footage from "Drone 24", with their logo looking like WATN's.....even though they are no longer co-owned. Looks like sister stations are starting to send in people from other markets too... WSMV had a reporter from St Louis (KMOV) and Alan Sealls has been sent up from Mobile to help WZTV with coverage.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/3/3/isnt-that-a-month-late The Tegna-fication begins Wednesday at noon. Here's hoping it's ONLY the graphics.... UPDATE....according to reporter Ally Gallo...THE MUSIC IS STAYING!!!!!

WRAL and WTVD are some of the few stations that have affiliated with all 3 major networks at one time or another. I believe the record stands with WTTV in Indianapolis, having not only affiliated with ABC, NBC and CBS, but also with UPN, WB, CW, as well as their time as an independent. (They were actually owned by WRAL's parent company from the late 80s to early 90s, before being sold to River City Broadcasting)

Aside from the affiliation swap, there have been many changes within both stations. WNCN went from being "WNCN" to CBS North Carolina and now is CBS 17. The latter was a change by Nexstar as they merged with Media General. WRAL moving to NBC probably played a role with sister station WILM ceding CBS to WWAY's DT2 since NBC was firmly aligned with longtime affiliate WECT. And WRAL has kept their ownership and dominance despite a large number of key anchor departures, most notably, the exit of longtime chief meteorologist Greg Fishel due to a "personnel matter."

We've seen the occasional station....like WOAY that abandoned their longtime channel number and PSIP mapping in favor of their digital allocation (channel 50). Well, as of their repack date, they have had to abandon channel 50, and they are once again....branded as channel 4! A definite improvement over their prior logo!

Surprised that WGNO didn't opt for "Mardi Gras with a Twist".... Meanwhile over in Mobile, the "real" home of Mardi Gras, WPMI and WALA went with 4 hours of coverage from 10 to 2, and WKRG did their annual 9 to 5 coverage.

When you multiply that saving across hundreds of WRDS, not to mention the cheap talent, inbred programming, and god willing, the coffee (or lack thereof) and ply of the TP....

I'd like to buy a vowel..... Maybe Tegna is saving money by cutting them out.... Oh wait....

And it was Bob Dyer at the Akron Beacon Journal that brought the scandal out into the open, and that's when the other media outlets began covering the story. This was back when the Beacon was its own paper, and before it was sucked into the Gatehouse-Gannett behemoth. Ernest Angley and his church have always been local fodder, even though the most visible sign isn't even owned by him...the unfinished tower that Rex Humbard wanted to build.....locals refer to it as Rex's Erection . Had it not been for the New World deal, would WBNX have ever been a factor in the ratings? WUAB needed to dump a network and WBNX was in the right place to take it. Otherwise, Silver King could have snatched it up for WQHS, or even WAKC could have been made into a factor instead of it being PAXxed... Getting the Fox Kids programming, the WB, and overall doing a better job than WUAB of running a station than Raycom put WBNX on the map. It still benefits from every other station in town dumping shows for their own inbred efforts, but the operation begins to crumble.... someone's going to need to step in. And given all of the negative press the other outlets have levied on them, would WBNX refuse to sell out to them or vice versa? It may take an FCC do-over to see the station live on under someone else's control.

About time! I wonder how much longer until WSAZ gets a new Gray graphics package. They got a new set last year. And now that I think of it, The NBC Collection lasted nearly JUST AS LONG as Signature on WSAZ! Signature was from 1993 to 2006 and NBC Collection was from 2006 to earlier this month. It just seemed dated since the Balls & Walls lasted a good decade on WSAZ before they refreshed the look in 2003.

I'm surprised there are stragglers like WSAZ that haven't switched BACK to Stephen Arnold. The way they used Signature before the great SESAC disaster of 2006 may have qualified it for the KOTA/WIVT award for longevity....

The next chapter in the Ernest Angley saga is due to unfold in a Common Pleas Court-run mediation session. https://www.beaconjournal.com/news/20200213/grace-cathedral-former-minister-face-off-over-sordid-accusations?fbclid=IwAR37R35Gvm_GSy02J15ZyH8uQ5YKUpl-CUAbfc0hkUq67dteIlLXORzs580 Disturbing and sickening details aside, the accuser wanted to oust Angley or be compensated for his damages. And of course, the cult...i mean Church is standing behind Rev. Angley and his flock. He is now almost 98, and will not take part in any depositions due to "age-related maladies". In fact, the church has been run by a board of church-members since last year due to Rev. Angley's deteriorating health. Now let us pray that this situation comes to an end and someone other than a ministry or infomercial purveyor ends up with WBNX.......

WVUE is in a VERY good place right now. They are essentially the #1 station for the first time ever after Tegna had trashed WWL and WVUE can do the things that WWL can no longer do on WWL. WDSU is a solid runner up, and well, sooner or later Nexstar will figure out what to do with WGNO.... Hopefully when change comes to WVUE, it will be a good one graphically, and the effect will be minimal in their on-air product. Over in Biloxi, even though the WLOX packages is a major downgrade from what they had before, they still dominate that market and make WXXV look like the 5th place station in a 2 station market.

Jeez....at least the other two networks are in 1080i that carry the Super Bowl, so there's less "conversion" involved....the interlacing is not as bad as the outright scaling of the picture down to 720 while keeping the same frame rate. I had two sources to watch the game live on....WALA in Mobile and WXXV in Biloxi/Gulfport. WALA has 3 other subchannels in SD, and WXXV has two others in 720p. I used to complain that WXXV had an AWFUL picture quality trying to broadcast two 720p streams and a 480i (FOX & NBC and CW). They've since made CW HD and the encoding has made all three streams much better. I just hope we're not getting into a world where Broadcast TV loses the Super Bowl. It's so prevalent in our daily lives, it's like our tax dollars are paying for it!

There's also two identical WJBF mic flags, and two ones for KSNT's Fox affiliate (FOX 43) next to each other with one in white plastic, and the other with black plastic. Unless I'm missing some other FOX 43 somewhere (it's not WVBT and definitely not WPMT).... And since "The Big Game" has begun, doe's anyone else's over-the-air picture look like garbage? I'm watching on WALA and WXXV, and both pictures look very compressed. I'm thinking it's a network thing, having to downconvert from 4K for all of the people streaming on their firesticks....

WJW and WGHP are nearly identical logos. I'm sure the average viewer couldn't tell the difference. Even the variances both stations use make them virtually identical.