tyrannical bastard

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!

Then...you have stations like WPMI that make you keep score with their morning anchor team, since they have Kelly Foster doing double duty as a meteorologist and co-anchor to Darwin Singleton two days a week, and as a co-anchor joined by Jake Dunne the other 3 (who works on the weekends and fills in for the often-missing chief Chris Dunn). Translation...they were too cheap to hire a replacement for Kelly Jones when she left and gave Kelly Foster some anchor time....

While looking for the infamous Marvin Zindler quote, I came across this "tribute" from competitor KPRC, nearly a decade after his passing....

At least with WDLI, this means that they're going away for good. Ion is getting the license and the ability to take back WVPX to themselves, essentially.....unless they want to air even MORE Ion subchannels on zombie station WDLI!?!?!?!? Had the auction not happened, I bet WDLI and other TBN's would have sold out, eventually. The only beneficiary of the proceeds is the bankrupt owners of TBN probably throwing the money at their debtors.....

I guess all of the other Morris stations have "virtual" ice machines!

WSYX has a new website. It's a much simpler, more mobile-friendly layout than the current template. It appears WSYX is the only station with it as of now....not even WTTE has it yet.

Actually, since WKRG revamped their newscasts about a month ago, the WFNA 9pm show is now just another WKRG newscast and doesn't focus on Pensacola like they used to....as a whole, WKRG has stepped up their coverage of the Florida counties to Destin and has come to rely heavily on their sister stations to cover the fringes of each other's markets...

With FOUR 9pm newscasts in the Mobile-Pensacola market, you figure how long that would last..... Well, the first shoe to drop is the WPMI-produced 9pm show on their sister station, WJTC UTV 44. The final show airs tonight, and beginning on Monday, will move to a half-hour show at 7pm.

Impressive enough is someone there who survived through Stan Sanders' tenure as news director. Media General finally pulled the plug on him in 2009 amidst their cutbacks...

In Nexstar's defense....the only issue is that Scott took their video from WMBB's website, and posted it to his FTVLive YouTube channel. Had he simply hyperlinked the original video, it would be a non-issue. But Tom Lewis has blown this way out of proportion. Scott has had his run-ins with people over the years about things on his site, but this has to be the worst I've ever seen. He really hit a raw nerve with him. And based on people who used to work for him, it's not a surprise... At one time (when he was at WJHG)...he not only was the main anchor (for 6 & 10) and news director, but also the co-host of the top-rated radio morning show in Panama City! If that doesn't inflate who you are...

The plot thickens over at the World's Most Beautiful Beaches between Scott Jones and Tom (Tyrannical Bastard) Lewis....

You may have heard about the standoff/shootoff in Panama City yesterday where a reporter and her interviewee were thisclose to being hit by flying bullets... Scott Jones posted the video from WMBB on FTVlive this morning. Soon after, Scott gets a "nastygram" and hostile phone call from news director Tom Lewis that this was a violation of Nexstar "copywrite" and hostility and profanity ensued... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/5/23/nexstar-news-director-threatens-ftvlive On a personal note, some of you may be wondering how I came up with my username here...

Ok...I'll chime in with some that I can recall... Bill and Patti Burns...father and daughter that anchored together at KDKA (referred to as the Patty & Daddy show but was a hit with viewers) Fred and Wally Griffith....Fred was the longtime host of WEWS' Morning Exchange and Wally was a reporter at WOIO in their early years as a CBS affiliate. He even appeared (with WOIO's blessing) on TMX for an anniversary special and his gift....a CBS 19 coffee mug! And there's the Gumbels, we all know Greg and Bryant...and then there was Elton, who anchored sports at WCTV in Tallahassee. I believe he was a nephew to the elder Gumbels? And then there was Jerry Peterson, longtime weatherman at WSOC in Charlotte. His son? Greg Peterson....now the primary anchor at WPMI in Mobile.

In what may be a first for the OTT bundles, Sinclair had pulled ALL of their stations from PlayStation Vue... https://tvanswerman.com/2018/05/02/playstation-vue-pulls-sinclair-owned-local-channels/ Unlike the traditional dispute, no one is saying anything....this primarily affects markets where Sinclair has Fox and CBS stations.

If Scripps is syndicating their package, It's another sign that the vultures are circulating them (with all of the layoffs and proxy fights)...

Once Sinclair-Tribune goes through (if it does...), then it's Nexstar's move to swallow up some smaller fish to catch up. It's about time the investors made them shape themselves up. Even though Tegna has passed them in terms of wackiness, It was Scripps who first self-inflicted their model of stupidity to their stations (by eschewing proven shows for cheap, inbred fare) Of course if Gamco gets their way, sooner or later Scripps will first swallow someone else (like Meredith) only to get sucked away by Nexstar. I have a feeling we're seeing Media General 2.0 again....

The WOWK one goes all the way back to the late 90s with their Hearst-esque look. (before that it was the "13"elieves logo) WVMH simply changed the color of the current "13" and cookie-cuttered it for their other acquisitions....