tyrannical bastard

For all intents and purposes, "Channel 46" was three stations. Whatever it was before Meredith owned them...(Indy turned CBS affiliate spun off to Meredith) Meredith's ownership... (CBS46AtlantaClearNewsWGCLetc...) And Gray's ownership... (WANF Atlanta News First)

The former home of WHAE/WANX/WGNX/WGCL was destroyed by fire. It was a church after Channel 46 moved to their current building. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/01/04/site-former-cbs-46-station-catches-fire-dekalb/

Gray has been doing this for years (especially with SpotVoice/VoiceJock). I don't even think they're market exclusive anymore as our station used them for decades and then the Nexstar station started using them as well. It used to be that SpotVoice/VoiceJock was a great tool for creative departments to pump out local ads and other promos. Then some stations started moving their station imagery to them. And then there are limitations on how the voices can be used in the package arrangement. In-market only, no longform content, no non-TV use, etc. Anything else has to be arranged through the VO artist themself. Then when we had Max McGill as a station voice, he signed a deal with SpotVoice. Our competition used him freely in commercials. I tried to use him through the service (for a station promo), but was denied since he was contracted separately as our station VO. I know the voices from a mile away, I'd just need to put the names with the voices. Glenn Hansen is one that's used a lot for station image.

WJW is carrying this starting at 11pm. I have to say, compared to the typical New Year's Eve drivel the other networks put out, this one is so far the "least awful". I'm sure all of Nexstar stations that are carrying this are milking it for all it's worth, putting a sponsor's logo wherever possible.

I have a combo VHS/DVD recorder that has an HDMI output to an OSEE video switcher with an SD card recorder. For my SVHS tapes, I have a separate S VHS VCR that plugs into the S-video input. There's also a firewire input that I can input my mini DV tapes from my camcorder. I also have a separate Magnavox DVD / HDD recorder that has certain content on it, it also has an HDMI output that I can output to the switcher/encoder. The DVDs are mostly able to be encoded through HandBrake (in SD), but for anyone that have to be played back manually I run them through the same VHS/DVD combo or whichever DVD player I can get them to work on. The only drawback is any of my 4x3 content is stretched to 16x9, so I have to go into Adobe Premiere to correct the aspect ratio back to 4x3. Any of my HD content that was recorded in SD is already in 16x9 so I don't have to correct the aspect ratio when I edit it down.

It's likely bad news not only for WBBJ, but also for the entire Jackson market. I wouldn't be surprised if the station is decimated in favor of being run out of either Memphis and/or Nashville. As for the rest of Bahakel, if ownership rules can be loosened, and if Bahakel is willing to sell, WCCB, WOLO and WFXB are easy targets for Gray. The stations in Montgomery are VERY unlikely to sell because once Gray gets WCOV from Allen Media, that only leaves Bahakel as the other owner in the market, and there's no way a total monopoly would fly unless Bahakel sells them to another owner.

My uploads have entered this period on my Youtube channel (@TVAndStuffYT) Several one-offs from a cross-country trip in 2008 that had stops in Columbus, Ohio; Charlotte, NC; and Charleston. WV. Also, some stations were beginning to go HD so I have the first newscasts from WEAR, WPMI and WKRG from those dates. These were on DVD and mini-DV (which is a little riskier 20 years later. One tape was already eaten, but it's something that should be on YouTube otherwise (Ted Henry's last show from WEWS). To record on the road, I had my GL2 camcorder and one of those LG converter boxes with a directional UHF antenna. I forget how I was able to get analog cable into it, but I had to pivot to it in Charleston when I encountered major reception issues with WVAH. I have another batch of newscasts from 2014 from Mobile/Pensacola...those are on a DVR but still recorded in SD. Stay tuned!

If there's any consolation, hopefully he's living it up with Marvin Zindler right now... RIP to a legend.

Arkansas becomes the first statewide network to *officially* announce the drop of PBS from their network of channels. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/arkansas-public-television-drops-pbs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E8.DUUJ.vECMF_78IR7v&smid=url-share

Could it be that Bari Weiss thought she landed Greg Gutfeld from Fox News?

Given the irrelevance that WLNE has had for most of it's existence, it makes total sense to blow up "ABC 6" as we know it and start anew on it's new home on WJAR. Sinclair has some work to do on it's own website since many of these consolidations are not reflected. And in Mobile, NBC 15's Facebook page is still called "WPMI NBC 15 News".

With CBS being a total dumpster fire now (their O&O's have had problems for decades), sadly this could be a future reality. Ever since the O&O's became "localized", they've been a shell of their former selves. In most of the markets where they overlap, Fox is the dominant station operator. And for those of us old enough to remember, this wouldn't be the first time the two companies shacked up...

Hopefully with a station like WEWS, they will stay put. Hopefully they don't cash out 3001 Euclid Avenue to a developer. Aside from the long-vacant building next to it being converted to apartments, there is little reason for WEWS to move and cash out, especially with all of the history that has taken place there. I know they have an Ohio Historical marker for Dorothy Fuldheim. I believe they have another for "Upbeat" which was an early syndicated music show that originated from WEWS and was hosted by Don Webster.

And another that has been stuck in my head the last 20 years.... Who did the community calendar song? I"m thinking it could be early FirstCom.... https://youtu.be/pvN_fL2fz0I?si=TgABd-eLQHmuHnnb&t=274

One of my uploads to my YouTube page begs the question.... What music library is this theme from? This was from 2005 but looks like it was done at least 10-15 years before that. https://youtu.be/Ol0zYN7-OLg?si=wIc1-f1n1OETJ6o_&t=3464

Whoever ends up with Warner Brothers hopefully does a better job managing their content then Warner Brothers ever did. Too many "tax write-offs" and funny business of pulling their own content from their streaming services. And historically, Warner Brothers has been the stingiest in terms of releasing their archived content.

Makes me wonder if in Charleston, SC....Sinclair takes things up a notch by consolidating "Fox 24" on to WCIV... WCIV being the former WMMP that still has MyNetworkTV on 36.1....since the old WCIV was gifted to Armstrong Williams to pacify the FCC at the time. the result being "ABC 4" on 36.2....

When NBC 15 moved from WPMI to WEAR 3.2, YouTubeTV still had the wrong listings tied to WPMI 15.1 for a day or two. The local Xfinity system still has WPMI (Roar) on the old channel slot (11) while "NBC 15" is off in digital siberia in the slot that WEAR 3.2 has always had.

And for my subscribers on YouTube (TVandStuff), I revised all the prior uploads so now they're better quality. I bought a crappy S-video to HDMI converter on YouTube that made the video levels out of whack, so I devised a better solution. For the Charleston-Huntington uploads.. I don't know if it was the stations themselves or Time Warner Cable in Athens Ohio that made them look so awful. Those stations were fed via antenna to the head end. Columbus stations were fed via fiber to Time Warner's hub at the time after Spring of 2001 (You can see the quality in the WCMH and WSYX uploads from 2000). At the time, I had access to WOUB, all the major affiliates from Charleston-Huntington, and 4, 6 and10 from Columbus since Athens was part of the Charleston-Huntington Market at the time. Nowadays, Spectrum carries WSAZ, WCHS and WQCW, and all of the Columbus stations (including WTTE along with "Fox 28") aside from WOSU and WWHO since Athens is now part of the Columbus DMA.

They truly were. Their prior logo and look (the one with the 3D "10") was very underwhelming. And I think that was even a job done by local firm Cranston-Csuri, best known for their work with CBS Sports during the '80s and '90s. Their next package was a Giant Octopus job that started out blue and white and then evolved to blue and gold.... Who would have ever thought such a thing would have happened in the land of the Buckeyes?

Here's a who's who of Ohio University student journalists who went on bigger and better things....from WOUB TV's Newswatch. One did not have to be a Journalism or Telecommunications major to participate, but the staff was largely all student volunteers running a newsroom for TV and radio. John Klemack - went on to WOWK Huntington, KSTU Salt Lake, and now at KNBC in Los Angeles. Frank Marzullo - worked weekends at WTAP Parkersburg at the time as well, then went to WFMJ in Youngstown and later WXIX in Cincinnati. Larry Seward - later worked at KHOU in Houston and is at WFOR in Miami. Kathleen Cochrane - Worked at WTAP, News14 Carolina (now Spectrum News), and WJW in Cleveland where she was infamously attacked by a cat during a live shot. She later married Dean DiPiero, the former mayor of Parma, Ohio and later a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives. Sadly, she passed away in 2018 after complications from a bout with influenza. Yours truly was one of the camera operators, in fact, this was my very first time operating one of those huge Ikegami studio cameras. It didn't go so well...Take a look at the end of sports and see my botched "cookie cutter" shot. I can still remember the director yelling "CAMERA 3....WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?! Thankfully the credits were wrong at the end

This is a weekend broadcast from WSYX ABC 6 in Columbus. It was Mike Bettes' last show there as their weekend meteorologist. He would go on to be the chief meteorologist at sister station WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina, and then on to TWC... https://youtu.be/YmmhTYpUFGk

This is a WJW rebroadcast on WBNX from September 13, 1996. At the time, WBNX agreed to rebroadcast WJW's 10:00 p.m. primetime newscast at 11:00 p.m. Be sure to check out all the promos for all the shows that WBNX aired at the time. One of their "gets" was an upcoming judge show that would air its first season on WBNX and go on until 2021 with original episodes. (WOIO picked it up the following year and then it's been on WJW since 2000) Now that WBNX is a sister station of WJW, They restored the 11:00 newscast on 55 that's been absent since WJW became a FOX station.

Versant has added a MS NOW app for the devices (Roku, AndroidTV, etc...) that can be authenticated with a TV service subscription.

The Panama City ones will be from around 2005-2007 and include WTVY in Dothan, since it was the default CBS affiliate at the time.