tyrannical bastard

Meredith is at it again.... This time its WOW! and everyone's favorite Atlanta stations....CBS 46 Atlanta WGCL and the station formerly known as Superstation WTBS.... https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/wow-battling-meredith-amid-relatively-light-turn-year-retrans-fighting

Wasn't Rudy Kalis canned from his sports position only to be brought back later as a morning anchor? Hopefully the suits have a change of heart, but the damage has been done and even if they gave her a wad of cash, there is no way DK will EVER go back to WSMV.

At least Dan Miller and Bill Hall weren't here to see this mess go down. Rudy Kalis put in his 2 cents as well on his facebook page: Sadly, it's all over. Dan and Bill have passed on and then today the news that Channel 4 has allowed the contract of my dear friend and longtime colleague Demetria Kalodimos to expire. I've always believed that the viewers in our area are the most loyal people I've ever been around. I know they watched me closely, as an outsider, when I came to Nashville some 43 years ago. They don't like change. They like real people. They judge the consistency of character over time and when you're finally able to gain their trust, they give you their hearts. They did with Demetria as well and those hearts, including mine, are broken today. I love and admire DK. She was and is tough as nails as a journalist, determined to find and stand on the truth. Viewers knew that and so did we. And yet, as a friend to so many of us she had a compassionate heart of gold. I know corporations have the right to bring in national consultants and make bottom-line decisions. It's a tough business, but if loyalty and integrity aren't cherished, then we all suffer. Demetria deserved to be looked in the eye and told, "thank you for all that you have done for this station and this community." But believe me, DK is destined to continue to do great things. I can't wait. Goodnight WSMV.

It could be worse....if you were an HOURLY employee forced to sign one. Seems like some companies force their sales or creative staff to do this....

Not a surprise and a very abrupt ending to a storied career in Nashville television. It seems Meredith has a lot of skeletons in the closet regarding HR issues. Being a magazine company catering to primarily females, it seems like this type of discrimination is rampant in order to secure younger and cheaper "eye candy". As soon as her non-compete wraps up, I'm sure she'll be back on Nashville TV again.

I fully expect the creditors to flip the station should they gain control. Every owner in the Cleveland market is in "buy" mode and aside from WJW and maybe WOIO and "WUAB", this station is the perfect opportunity to expand their news product on to....and why WJW would want to buy them to keep that from happening.

Raycom could even pull the old "failed station waiver" or even walk away from WUAB's license and make WBNX their second station. Then again, they ruined WUAB to begin with. It will be interesting to see if Sinclair follows through with WJW. This could be a power play to keep Tegna or Scripps from competing directly with them.

WJW has added Sinclair-owned diginets Comet and Charge! to their .3 and .4 subchannels. Have any of the other soon-to-be Sinclair stations made this move in advance of their eventual takeover?

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/12/5/taking-it-to-the-net Here's hoping.... The former West Virginia media stations also dumped their Frankly sites in favor of Lakana. I think whoever was responsible for trying to pick out all the CrappyLocalWebsite.com domains either got laid off or their head exploded

I could see Woods using WIYC as a full powered version of their WALE-LD to broadcast their multicasts to a larger audience. WIYC has been pretty worthless ever since the MyNetwork affiliation went away.

...and KLFY is the first former Media General station to undergo a Nexstar-style makeover! At least they've kept the klfy.com default and former LIN template on their website. But I cringe when the CrappyLocalWebsite.com domains start rolling out...if ever. Since they own Lakana, it will only be a matter of time before it becomes their CMS over WordPress.

And this includes the WSEE feed for Puerto Rico.... Not exactly the best timing, but then again, given the current situation there, few may be able to watch TV in the first place. UPDATE: Lilly has allowed the Puerto Rico & VI stations to continue airing on Dish for now...

Raycom and DirecTV have reached a deal... http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107661/raycom-directv-reach-retrans-deal

It looks like Meredith has reached a deal with DirecTV (and UVerse) https://tvanswerman.com/2017/09/22/does-directv-have-a-deal-with-merediths-17-local-stations/ This is the most vague and under-the-radar retransmission squabble yet. Meredith has done a poor job keeping viewers informed from the short notice to the lack of warnings on-air and online. Meanwhile, Raycom is still kicking the can with AT&T. Now they are on good terms until the 27th at 8pm ET. http://www.ourlocalcommitment.com/woio-wuab/ I've seen crawls on both WDAM and WLOX OTA. At least they're making an effort to keep viewers informed.

...and Meredith is another company that is having issues with AT&T, and by what is being circulated out there, could do the same any second now. As a DirecTV customer who gets one of their stations (WALA), this one came out of the blue. My only notification was reading about it in the trades, the "alert" channel popping up on 10-1, and a brief popup on their website, and other Meredith-owned stations. As of this posting, WALA is still up on DirecTV and there is no mention of any dispute and/or resolution to the matter.

To start things off, AT&T has pulled the American Spirit stations from DirecTV and UVerse. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107537/directv-att-drop-american-spirit-stations

In this day and age, it seems like a way of life that programmers and their distributors can't get along. Unless you're an Xfinity Customer (who seems to never have this issue, and simply jacks up a user's rate when a company wants more $$) blackouts are more and more common. This thread is meant to be a place to notify other users of impending blackouts, their status, and if they've been resolved, or on their way to being resolved.

Technically, the stations owned by others yet run by Sinclair have the power to tell Sinclair to "take a hike" if they so please.... Will it ever come down to a licensee exercising this power?

WPMI is no longer "Local 15". They are once again "NBC 15"....with a new logo! Not too bad, considering some of the hideous logos that Sinclair has churned out in recent years...

I bet they're trying to see if they'll be beaten by WGCL 46 CBS Atlanta in the ratings

I believe Gil Jimenez did many of the standard-issue Gray sets introduced from the mid to late 2000s. Some are still in use today. Who did the mid-80 Scripps sets? I know WEWS, WCPO and WMC had them.

The uniformity between most of their stations regarding their look and content. Scripps is guilty of the same crime, but at least their "must-runs" are not a source of controversy and ridicule...

WSYX has been a Sinclair station for well over two decades, and WTTE was one of the pre-Sinclair stations signed on by their predecessor, the Commercial Radio Institute. Sinclair chose to flip WTTE to Glencairn, in one of the first "shell" deals in television at the time when they purchased River City. Even though it's been a dog in the market for most of its existence, it has always been a cash cow and source of pride to Sinclair, even rivaling WBFF. WKRC got lucky probably because they were successful to begin with and Sinclair chose not to screw up things too much. Both WCPO and WEWS are stations that Scripps signed on themselves and have NEVER changed ownership. Given the sorry state that Scripps is in (straying from it's old self as a QUALITY broadcaster), it's like Sears. Just because it was first, doesn't mean that it is the best out there.

I wonder if they actually sprang the $$$ for the real coffee ones, or went down to Costco to get the cheapo stuff...

Sinclair gets raked over the coals... AGAIN... this time by Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-20/the-sinclair-revolution-will-be-televised-it-ll-just-have-low-production-values I wonder how many stations keep their supplies locked away in their 2 lock closets.....and what would have happened if David Smith was still distributing pornos...