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IIRC, Tyler Bacome worked in Columbus before Indianapolis....sort of a lateral move market-wise. Also, Bob Hetherington was WUAB's original 10pm anchor before coming to WSYX in the 90s. Scott Light is in a better place...or so we can hope coming from Atlanta. Sort of a reverse Ben Swann situation since he went from Cincinnati to that dreaded CBS station in Atlanta to well....you know the rest of the story. Another out-of-market move was Rodney Dunigan. He's way better off at WSYX than he was at WPTY/WATN. (and they're getting sold to Tegna as well!) WKYC was in the ratings toilet back then as an O&O and a farm team for network talent. Even Al Roker left there to move to New York and eventually NBC itself. Doug & Mona were far overshadowed by the anchors at WEWS and WJW back then. I believe Judd Hambrick had his first stint as an anchor there after leaving WJW and Doug/Mona moving to Columbus. Needless to say, their arrival and the rise of NBC at the time pushed them to the top of the ratings for a while.

It was a short ownership because of their Enquirer ownership and was under a temporary waiver. It would have been OK under the old Gannett but definitely not under the current TEGNA. They're in a good place now. And WZZM was the other swapped station in the deal that sent KOCO as well to Hearst-Argyle.

I can believe reaching the outskirts of Dayton (especially Springfield). The Columbus market totally surrounds the Zanesville area (Muskingum County) and extends all the way to Morgan, Noble and Guernsey Counties. WTAP has only had WIYE-LD on the air for a few years, so WSYX and WBNS are still available in Parkersburg along with the other Charleston-Huntington stations. As for Cleveland area, that's probably stretching it a bit much. It reaches the fringes like Mansfield and New Philadelphia (especially South Tuscarawas County). WOIO getting CBS probably had a lot to do with this since it had less reach than WJW. Before Lima got their own stations aside from WLIO, I believe WBNS made it all the way up there as well.

Gannett could have had WLWT after the Multimedia purchase, but the newspaper rule put the kibosh on that. Wasn't it some kind of swap with WGRZ and KOCO and Hearst-Argyle? And thanks to the overlapping signal rule at the time, that forced Hearst-Argyle to dump WDTN in Dayton for WLWT. If Hearst ever goes to Tegna, that's how they get Cincinnati back. The other markets are too tiny and in the hands of parties that won't sell any time soon (especially WFMJ, Lima and WHIZ).

Another MAJOR departure at WKRG..... (And this is about a week or two after the departure of main anchor Mel Showers) Update.... he's walking away...

Makes me wonder how the divestment of WISH/WNDY is going to hold up, or will they end up cashing out as well to a bigger owner like Terrier. WRTV could find themselves getting out of the basement if Tegna sends WTHR back down there. It took a while, but they climbed up with Dispatch's help and the botched relaunch at WRTV sent them down. WTTV still needs some work, but WXIN could now be a top contender since they are the force that is keeping WTTV running and haven't tweaked their product too much. Who would have ever thought I'd prefer a Nexstar station over a Gannett/Tegna one.....

Three years ago, I may have been ok with this. But what they have done with their stations since then, you may as well hand off the #1 position to WSYX....maybe WCMH. They've trashed so many of the former Belo their own stations when they were part of Gannett...its still to be seen if they screw up their newer acquisitions. So what's left for the Wolfe family....their foundation? The Banks, Newspapers and Shoes are long gone.

Mind blown. How could the FCC have thought that way back in the day, especially since denying people the access to life-saving information slaps in the face of a station operating in the public interest! Then again, this was the days before doppler radar, computer satellite imagery, and even qualified meteorologists at the local level in many places. I remember the days when all you would see on the screen would be the "W" graphic...then came the weather icon graphics with "WATCH" and "WARNING", and later, the county maps with the appropriate watches or warnings in different colors. And eventually, the "polygons" began to focus on affected areas within and encompassing counties. Plus, even in the era before VCRs, DVRs and on-demand television, if a show was pre-empted, you were truly SOL.

The second transmitter is probably irrelevant, especially since WICD is pretty much a total satellite of WICS now with no original content other than ids and maybe some ads. The "Code Red" is just worthless fear-mongering, that worsens the relationship between the viewer and the meteorologists. It puts an undue burden on the meteorologists to hype up a weather event that may not live up to its potential harm, and can make the viewer less-trusting of them when it fizzles out or isn't the "eye candy" that it was hyped up to be. And in the era of pissed-off viewers venting on stations for cutting into their programming, it only makes it worse when they have to. I'm just waiting for Boris to chime in on this, bonus points if he brings up the "terrorism alerts" that were used during the 9/11 era.... Here's the bottom line (see what I did there?) JUST LET THE METEOROLOGISTS DO THEIR JOB!!! They know the weather (at least the good ones do), and work in the best interest of their viewers to provide usable forecasts and potentially life-saving information. While it's not technically required, most stations that can put out a forecast will be on-air covering a life-threatening weather event for the affected viewers, or at the very least, have the warning up on the screen through maps, graphics, or at the very least, and EAS alert.

I don't think he's been fired just yet, but the response to his "suspension" has been growing... https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190608/local-businesses-pull-ads-from-tv-20-in-support-of-joe-crain Meanwhile, DirecTV and the Sinclair side-cars are doing a fine job in their retransmission negotiations. It's been over a week now and no progress whatsoever. If I had to point the finger, it would be of the license-holders. Absentee broadcasters acting as stooges for their "parent company" who dropped the ball when it came time to re-up the contract. How often does a retransmission fight come across with ZERO warning to the viewer? And Sinclair can't do a thing about it because they have to leave it up to their pigeons...i mean "owners" of the stations they're operating. And AT&T is doing a bang-up job too. They finally got the trouble slides up for the affected channels after being in black (and still have a warning channel for a retrans fight that never happened almost TWO YEARS AGO!)

I know this was already brought up in the WUSA thread, but Tegna has re-upped with CBS for all of their stations....including WWL. Considering the damage has already been done, this could cement WVUE's dominance in the market, especially in the AM.

That's what Ernest (or Rex) said.....

Who wants to buy a TV station? (and buffet restaurant) Come to the Summit County Courthouse at 10am Friday....bidding starts at $2.89 million! https://www.ohio.com/news/20190604/ernest-angleys-cathedral-buffet-tv-studios-property-scheduled-for-friday-sheriffs-sale (I'm sure WBNX itself is unaffected, for now....that is unless the new owners evict them as this could be just for the building and not the license and "non-license assets") I'm thinking the default back in 2017 was the reason that the CW went packing and affiliated with WUAB. It seems like an act of default can invalidate something like an affilaition agreement.

Good ole DirecTV.....while the quoted dispute was resolved LONG ago, the "alert" channel is STILL there for WALA, yet no such channels exist for WPMI and WJTC. WPMI in black while WJTC has the "owner has removed this channel" slide up. Thank goodness I have an antenna, and the ability to watch WXXV out of Gulfport (and sometimes WDAM out of Hattiesburg...)

I wonder if this was just a classy way of CBS announcing layoffs (or buyouts), or if it was mandated as some form of union concession (if these employees were part of one).

Add WEYI to the list of DirecTV stations tied to Sinclair (they are HSH) The only other station of note is WWMB in Myrtle Beach, and there's no word on their status. The rest are Sinclair cast-offs that are completely owned & operated by HSH. While we're at it, should we expect a Cunningham blackout as well?

Mark Hyman is back..... I could see "The Point.....AFTER!"

Some of Sinclair's stations (owned by Deerfield Media) are being blacked out by AT&T (both UVerse & DirecTV) https://mynbc15.com/news/local/att-and-directv-have-removed-wpmi-and-wjtc-utv-44-from-their-systems Also, WHAM is off due to "reasons beyond 13WHAM's control". No word on other stations including WSTR, WUTB, KAME, KBTV. or the other Deerfield-owned stations run by Sinclair. All of the directly-owned Sinclair stations are not affected. UPDATE: It looks like the other Deerfield stations are affected, from reviewing Facebook posts from viewers (WSTR, KMYS) and stations (KBTV). No warning whatsoever on this one....It's not even June 1st yet!

Hopefully WJW can remain the dominant station it has become, and it seems that Nexstar is the best suited to maintain it, and possibly improve on it. The next best hope is WEWS, as much as Scripps has self-destructed their stations, it's still more tolerable than what Tegna has done. With WOIO, Gray needs to invest, invest, invest in that place (the talent drain of poached talent hadn't helped), and just cover the news without any gimmickry, mmkay? Then they can have a chance. With WKYC, you can only hope Tegna doesn't have any more stupid ideas up their sleeve. But the past year has shown they are not immune. While WOIO has been a landing pad for local poached talent, WKYC has landed bigger castoffs like Russ Mitchell and now Jay Crawford. It's too bad it's taken them this long to do a 5pm show, but Ianding Dr. Phil when they did really put them on the map at the time. Now all we can hope for is that Tegna doesn't WXIA or WTSP the place, or you'll have WOIO putting them solidly in 4th place...

They recently got a new General Manager, Charles Henrich who at one time was the VP of operations for Newport Television. One of the executives who worked with him at Newport is Gary Brown, who was hired as Meredith's SVP of content. With word on the street that Meredith is for sale I'm sure it's another feeling of instability for what's normally a more stable station.

WJET (and likely countless others in the Nexstar Nation) have an "exclusive" look at the terror camp in East Alabama.... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/23/no-you-did-not (Yep...the same story broken by WPMI, covered by WRBL and "copied" by WKRG)

WKRG has caught some flack for "copying" a story done by WPMI several weeks before.... Here is the WKRG story (it looks like it has since been edited to remove the "exclusive" claims....) https://www.wkrg.com/news/exclusive-news-3-takes-you-inside-a-possible-terror-training-camp-in-east-alabama/2004827895 WKRG got the story from sister station WRBL, which was closer to where the suspected terror camp was.... (read the WKRG story and it was largely "borrowed" from WRBL...even down to the News 3 mentions) https://www.wrbl.com/news/local-news/exclusive-news-3-takes-you-inside-a-possible-terror-training-camp-in-east-alabama/2004438883 They may have gotten wind of the story from an AL.com article, that gave credit to the WPMI series.... https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/it-was-in-our-backyard-alabama-terrorist-camp-report-shocks-macon-county.html In conclusion... WPMI did the story a few weeks ago, AL.com did a story about it making claim to the WPMI piece...(even though Macon County is not served by one of their print properties despite having a "Montgomery" version of their site.) WRBL did an "exclusive" look into the facility (keeping in mind this happened CLOSER to them, even though Macon County is just outside their viewing area, nonetheless, it is part of East Alabama.) ...and WKRG, being a sister station to WRBL (and since Nexstar stations share and share alike.....) gets the story and someone there carelessly teases the story like it was above. Needless to say some people at WPMI are pissed, but given this background, they may have overreacted a tad. WKRG should have been a little more forthcoming about WRBL's reporting rather than "cutting and pasting" the story. It's almost like the Glenn Austin scandal a few years back when he was fired for alleged plagiarism of an article, as a result of sharing a news article for review, and the webmaster posting it to the site under his byline. He later settled with the station and they retracted the plagiarism allegations. And in another twist of irony, the WKRG anchor Peter Albrecht, was one of the 3 canned from WPMI in the Purge of 2007, which also saw Kim McCrae and Drexel Gilbert (who is ALSO once again at WKRG) getting the axe.

Forgot about TWC I was thinking of all of the ones that end in .TV that air his shows non-stop. No wonder they're buried after the religious channels on DirecTV!

Even better, he'll put all of "his" channels he sued to get on DirecTV and Xfinity as subchannels on these stations!

Fun fact of the day..... Ernest Angley's middle name is Winston. Whoopsie.... Forgive me Lord for I have sinned....