tyrannical bastard

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...

The set looks like the one Sinclair uses for their Terrorism Alert Desk.

WCJB's logo is a carbon copy of WRDW/WAGT, but it's a nice improvement.

It would be very ironic if WHAG...er...WDVM uses "must carry" to get themselves carried on cable, since Nexstar invented the game of shaking down cable providers for retransmission money. Since they're a non-factor in most of the DMA now, they have no value...yet. Even more ironic if Tegna is a takeover target for Nexstar, as FTVLive had rumored before. The former WDVM (WUSA) would gain a sister station with their former calls.

Add New York Magazine to the list of misinformed sources... It's shoddy reporting like this that ENCOURAGES Sinclair that they are being unfairly targeted. In this case, they are. Any ammunition they can state as fact only makes their spreading of other falsehoods that much worse.

Speaking of News Blues, today is the Surly Editor Mike James' final newsletter before passing the reins to Rick Iller.

And as for the "big names", maybe if they hired competent journalists instead of washed up buzzworthy divas like Swann and Reed they would at least be respected instead of being ridiculed into oblivion...

I wonder what the deal with Bob Prather leaving Gray was all about. Was there bad blood with him and the board? If so, he may be resistant to ever consider being swallowed up by his former company.

I would expect that Antenna TV and thisTV would be part of a Tribune sale to Sinclair....especially given the many stations that carry either network and Sinclair having other joint ventures with MGM to begin with...

Add another company that's leaving the business and cashing out to Gray....Mt. Mansfield Television's WCAX... http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/index/article/id/103820