tyrannical bastard

Well at least now there are no more affiliations hanging in the balance should WBNX ever go under.....if it does, it would be a great fixer-upper for Scripps, Tegna or whoever ends up with WJW....

Am I reading this right? WOIO is adding a 7:30pm show? Well Jeopardy! is about to get the shaft. Scripps should have NEVER cheaped out on these shows.....

Before a certain point, they probably have to push that day's episode to the next day. WEAR has done this with Extra! for years, airing it at 11:30AM....the morning after it should air...while cross-market counterpart WJTC airs it weeknights at 6.

Usually it's the competing stations that decide to put on 7pm newscast to try and counter Wheel or Jeopardy. At least Eastern & Pacific have the full hour before prime time to program locally, while Central/Mountain has the 6pm news to work around, unless they are a station that doesn't have one or is better off not running news then....

Unless Wheel and Jeopardy! air on separate stations in the Central/Mountain time zone, it seems that Jeopardy! gets the shaft since they only really have 6:30 as access time which usually goes to WOF, unless both shows air on a FOX station (like WALA), or Jeopardy! is on the other station in a duopoly or .2 (like WLOX...where ABC has news at 6 and WOF at 6:30....and CBS on the .2 has Jeopardy! at 6 and news at 6:30) 4:30 seemed to be the optimal time paired with something like Inside Edition, but with more and more stations adding more news....

A great honor indeed for the recently retired Baird, and the soon-to-be retired Bob Grip, who will be stepping down sometime next year at WALA. I believe Byron Day is going to be his replacement, as he has assumed anchoring the 5 and 10pm shows so far...

WKBN slipped when they cashed out to outside interests, and absorbing WYTV probably hasn't helped matters too much. Probably the most fatal error was when they let Bob Black go, and he helmed WFMJ's newscasts for the next 15 or so years....

You have to wonder how Vindicator/WFMJ is staying in it these days....GateHouse has been buying up anything that moves in Ohio (including the Columbus Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal, and the former Dix properties centered around Northeast Ohio). It's probably the perfect combination of well-capitalized ownership in a declining city that few companies would be interested in purchasing.

Maybe WKYC will get the hint too. IIRC, their lack of a 5pm show makes them the largest major network affiliate not to have one. I'm sure they could stand on their own now given the shifts of the marketplace. WKYC has been a contender for at least the last 15 years.

Even by WKYC bringing Leon Bibb back, the TEGNA-zation kind of weirds me out, seeing as how WKYC has, for the most part, been unscathed by corporate mandates. It actually makes WEWS just a tad more watchable, even though that station is a shadow of its former self. I can't wait to see what Gray does to 19.... they'll probably just make it even more mediocre than it is now....

Has Dick Goddard ever appeared on TV since his retirement? I know he committed the rest of his career to the "four foots" (animal welfare) that has been his passion for decades...but it's a good thing he hang it up before all of the ownership drama over Tribune and Sinclair heated up..(and about to go back to the drawing board any day now....) I still think Robin Swoboda still has one more TV stint in her....and WOIO is the only place she hasn't worked at yet. John Loufman is the only Cleveland TV personality I know of that has the distinction of working at ALL 4 stations in some form over time. He may have been a "floater" who had short-term gigs to fill in-between people and when others were on vacation. Cleveland had a bunch of them it seems in the 1990s...was it a union thing?

Springfield is FAR short of the 8 voices that can allow a duopoly to take place. There's KYTV (which absorbed KSPR), KOLR/KOZL, KWBM, KRBK and KOZK. Only 5 voices. Methinks the loophole is that the COL of KRBK is in Osage Beach...which has a tiny portion in the Jefferson City/Columbia market....where Nexstar has no stations.

Not good especially after KYTV basically shut down any remaining semblance of KSPR's news department... It may have been a scrappy operation, but it was needed in Springfield. Nexstar is making a bold move in this time of heightened scrutiny over cross-ownership. Even worse, to sail this deal through, one of the signals may have to be terminated (KOZL or KRBK)...unless KRBK's distributed frequency network doesn't count as a full-powered station.

Well durn....I was looking forward to the resurrection of TBD.... Oh wait... What about those grand plans for a national news channel?

WOIO/WUAB too. Most of Northeast Ohio and the Charlotte area (on the NC side) are MAJOR TWC clusters that Charter purchased. [MEDIA=twitter]1019360631827369986[/MEDIA]

If WBNX fails, it would be one of the most visible TV station failures of our time. Usually there's a buyer waiting in the wings.. in case that happens, they usually light up some form of (worthless) programming. There's no record of foreclosure or a sherriff sale, but recent events paint a picture that the station (and ministry) defaulted on a loan took out 5 years ago.

It will be interesting to see if Nexstar is hostily acquired much like Media General was hostily acquired by Nexstar.... Given Nexstar's debt load, this could be a bigger disaster in the making....

Done and done. I've moved my two cents there.

Methinks WBNX is dunzo. The latest revelation that the buildings WBNX and the ministry have been foreclosed on means the end is near and CBS cut a deal with WUAB post haste. (Moved my thoughts to the speculatron)

More stations have launched the new platform including WTTE and WBFF.

Someone fired shots at the WKRG Studios in Mobile late Tuesday or early Wednesday... https://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/police-investigate-shots-fired-at-wkrg-building/1284019394

If Saturday morning TV was released from the grip of E/I requirements, most would probably dump the kids stuff anyways and air either news or infomercials. MAYBE a station or 2 (like PBS or the KidsClick stuff on MNTV) would have it.... Then again...if the whole commercial limits thing was relaxed, you'd have shows like these.... And if Hanna-Barbera was never sold to Turner by Taft, chances are it could have ended up under Sinclair....

WorldNow/Frankly just needs to go away ...like 5 years ago. They've become the new Internet Broadcasting System (minus the channelX0000.com sites. The thing that annoys me to the highest heaven is how distant stories are badged LOCALLY by Google searches... For example, if a Trader Joe's opens in Nashville and I'm googling it in Pensacola, then I'll get a search result from FOX10TV.com with the WSMV.com story seamlessly integrated into the WALA site. If it was a generic story, my hopes would be up thiking Trader Joe's was opening locally (when it happened in Nashville all along...)

Theoretically, yes. Adding Meredith would have a group in the low 30s of percentage. The only forseeable conflict would be Flint/Saginaw.

This is for the main AM show 5 days a week! It gets even dicier on the noon show where it could be either Darwin or Kelly solo anchoring, with either Jake or Kelly as the meteorologist....and some days Kelly Foster does both by herself!