tyrannical bastard

If it gets bad enough, that gives the networks the right to void their agreement(s) and yank their affiliations because Allen would be in default of any particular agreement. While it wasn't said why WBNX lost the CW in 2018, financial default by their owners (Winston Broadcast/Ernest Angley) may have been the impetus since their agreement with them was to last through 2021. If this was to happen, it would be a great speculatron thread. Not a lot of local options in their markets given the feelings the FCC has towards networks seeking subchannel space on another station.

At least it appears to be an option. If it was mandated, a lot of affiliates wouldn't be too happy. Lots of them do 9am newscasts and/or lifestyle shows during that time. Not to mention it took an eternity for BOTH hours to be cleared nationwide. Cough cough WWL cough....

WBRC is lucky that they can trade on their heritage since they've been a dominant station throughout their existence. Others like Fox 8 in New Orleans, Fox 10 in Mobile, and especially Fox Carolina are going to be interesting to see how they re-brand without "FOX" in their name.

I wonder how much traction stations like these get from simulcasting their parent station's newscast when they're on. But glad to see that viewers will get a second option against WUPW at 10pm. Meanwhile, Sinclair is too cheap to import a newscast from South Bend and chose to air TND instead, giving up WNWO's local newscast share once and for all.

Allen Media seems to be circling the drain in a very bad way. No wonder Tegna and others passed on their investment. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/8/12/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-allen-media https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/8/12/hiring-freeze-newscasts-dumped

In Mobile/Pensacola, GMFB Overtime will be weekday mornings at 9am on WFNA CW 55.

They also dumped the "ABC" from their logo. Probably an isolated occurrence, unlike the slow purge that Gray has been doing to many of their stations. I like it better than the WDCW package for sure. I just hope Nexstar has some new looks in the wings since the current packages are starting to get stale.

Cameron Taylor will be joining WALA FOX 10 in Mobile this September as an evening anchor. He was last at KSHB in Kansas City. Here's an excerpt from his LinkedIn page

CNN as well despite any assurance that they are a genuine news channel. If the channels' day is filled with punditry and opinion of ANY kind, that ship has sailed. Sadly, the concept of a "news channel" is long gone. The only thing that even comes close are the "live" variants like NBC News Now and Fox's LiveNow.

Hearst is laying off staffers involved in their "Very Local" FAST channels.... https://deadline.com/2024/08/hearts-television-very-local-layoffs-1236034990/ I wasn't much a fan of these channels to begin with. They never tended to have news on them at the time it was airing on their stations. Maybe now they'll make them a little more geared to their news operations.

I would imagine Gray would start their own regional sports subchannel in Pelicans territory since they have a station in every market that it covers. This would include the entire state of Louisiana, Coastal and South Mississippi and Mobile.

For some reason, I thought WGTA used personnel from WMDT to do their newscasts, but I may be mistaken. I recall WHIZ using WMDT's chief meteorologists in the past doing their weather.

At one time, NewsNet was providing weather for both the Marks stations in Alpena and Marquette, and also sports for Marquette as well. Did they still have any arrangements with other broadcasters like Coastal Television to provide "local" news or have all of those arrangements expired?

The web stream and website are still up and running as of 3:42pm CT.

Speaking of new buildings, is Gray mothballing their plans to move WOIO/WUAB from Reserve Square to Independence? It would have to be them since the other stations have no intention of moving.

I wish Scott Pelley was still an option. He made CBS News good again after the Katie Couric experiment went awry. Then again, much of the stablility and prowess of CBS News at the time was tied to the Me Too movement and the bad behavior of the people running the show back then. Ever since that purge, CBS News has been a mess and Norah O'Donnell didn't help matters. We've come a long way from Uncle Walter and even Dan Rather.

Regarding CBS and WNCN. Media General offered CBS scale at the time since they were a larger group and WRAL was a one station mom and pop shop. But in the local market, WRAL gave NBC the gift of a lifetime in instant ratings success in a market where NBC has suffered eternally while CBS got a good deal with a larger broadcaster that had an also-ran station in the same market. Moral of the story is that the parent company who paid the network bill is what matters to CBS. That's what reverse compensation has done to the local station industry. NBC took a small sacrifice to gain a lot there.

Well crud. That means that things may stay status quo in Mobile/Pensacola. WKRG (and the other CBS affiliates in SEC country) may have a bad year. And NBC is likely stuck on WPMI for a few more years....if Sinclair renews.

Ironically, prior forms of this package predated GrayOne, so Gray created GrayOne after Nexstar's use of it. I'd say it would look good on WJW, but with WOIO and WUAB going GrayOne one day.... Nexstar needs some new packages for their stations. The WDCW one is awful and the others are starting to show their age...

The question is, who is more desperate... Nexstar or Paramount Global? It'll be interesting to see if this has any effect on any future sales of the non-CBS stations....

Remember when WBNX was an up and coming WB affiliate that had the Ninety and Nine Club on twice a day? Here's a clip of the intro circa 1998 featuring a much more jovial (and mockable) Rev. Angley. I was testing a new flying erase head S-VHS VCR at the time, and I figured it would be useful some day.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MeBfVdGcb4

Saw that WKRG has picked up Judith Sheindlin's latest venture Judy Justice, and they will be airing it at 3pm weekdays, pushing their hour of Big Bang Theory repeats likely over to their CW station WFNA once and for all. WPMI has been airing Judge Judy repeats at 3pm for the past several years. Are those continuing, and I wonder if WPMI is keeping them if so?

KDBC has suffered for years even before Sinclair bought them. Pappas tried to turn them into an Azteca America O&O and the viewer outcry made them re-up with CBS. Then they signed the SSA with KTSM until Sinclair purchased KFOX from Cox and then acquired KDBC. Thanks to the market, KDBC has been duopoly bait for a long time given it's location on the Mexican border where the traditional english-language stations can play second fiddle to the spanish language ones. So esssentially, KFOX is getting gutted by Sinclair and KDBC has to suffer alongside it. And this supposed ARC Mornings.... is it basically Sinclair's version of Fox & Friends?

I don't know if NBC is doing any coverage at all on their affiliates but every other network (even FOX) is on now with Joe Biden dropping out of the race. Does Nascar trump (no pun intended) any presidential news? NBC News NOW is covering it like a standard special report while MSNBC is being MSNBC.

With the recent Crowdstrike meltdown, l can only find the irony that Sinclair used Crowdstrike as the SOLUTION to their massive 2021 hack!