tyrannical bastard

A shameless plug.... I've begun loading various airchecks on to my Youtube channel "TVandStuff". Mostly ones from Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston-Huntington, and a few Youngstown ones with more on the way. I recognize some usernames from this site who have commented and followed my account. I"m in the process of re-uploading my first clips since I found a better converter and a better VCR for my VHS content. I have other tapes in S-VHS as well as DVDs that I'll begin uploading in the coming weeks. These will include newscasts from Panama City and Mobile/Pensacola and random other airchecks from my travels as well from around 2004-2005 up to 2012. Stay tuned!

That's the simple answer. In reality, WTVH 5.1 CBS 5 is "moving" to WKOF 15.1, which is owned by Sinclair (WSTQ Licensee) instead of Granite. But otherwise, it will still be known as 'CBS 5". Since WKOF is a 3.0 station for Syracuse, WKOF 15.1 is still on WTVH's frequency as the ATSC 1.0 home. That's the biggest stretch I've seen yet under Sinclair, or pretty much any other owner to get a sidecar back in the home garage.

I wonder if this branch of the Scripps family is as screwed up as the other half of the family tied to James E. Scripps (brother of E.W. Scripps). They're the ones tied to Scripps Health, the Scripps Oceanography Institute and were the original Detroit News owners. There was a good American Greed (season 10, Family Fortune Feud) that described how granddaughter and heir Melissa Scripps burned through millions of dollars...

Nexstar is the new Sinclair. And after the POTUS exclaimed his "approval" of the deal, it seems like Nexstar would be happy to oblige even if it costs them their ABC and NBC affiliations. With CBS in the hands it's in now, its all about the bottom line and trying to shift them towards the center, maybe a little too far to the right. ABC as a broadcast network may not be a thing much longer at this rate with the higher price they're demanding and especially with the difficulties they've faced with Sinclair and Nexstar. NBC may be willing to pull the plug as well but could stick with Nexstar if it's their only option. And of course, there's always the CW, which, by default, could be a juggernaut (under Nexstar) especially if the other networks decide to take a walk.

At this point, the entire industry seems like it is too far gone. The best case scenario is to all let it burn and watch each station fail and have their license returned to the FCC. At that point, if the demand exists individual stations can be restarted under new licenses. Perhaps if things actually get to that point, individual stations could be able to be saved at the 11th hour as going concerns.

Basically, if you live in a Tegna/Nexstar market, you need to petition the FCC and let them know your objections. Drag this process out as long as possible so it can be thoroughly investigated, docketed and hopefully sent to an administrative law judge for all of the misreprepresentstions it presents and any damage it causes to an already diminished media landscape in many markets across the country. If Nexstar can't close the deal, then they have to cough up the breakup fee to Tegna which gives them another lifeline. If they can't survive after that, let the market kill them off.

After (trying) to watch WJW at 10pm, I can see why they're slipping in the ratings....maybe the whole "Cleveland's own" schtick is getting old.... Add in Nexstar's self-serving drivel coupled with the fumes that WJW has ran on for years, times have changed. Your senior talent from the "old days" is basically Wayne Dawson (still on medical leave recovering from cancer), Stefani Schaefer, David Moss (on New Day Cleveland), Jack Shea, Lou Maglio, and newer additions from the 2000s like Tracy McCool, Kenny Crumpton, Dave Nethers, Todd Meany and Scott Sabol. Then throw in a few more veterans that joined in more recent years like Ed Gallek (and his wife Peggy) and Roosevelt Leftwich. But the old regime has passed on and/or retired. Some left because TV has become what it is today. And for whatever reason, John Telich's bio is still up (he retired in 2022) along with those of Carl Monday and Tom Meyer...I cant' recall the last time either of them has been involved on TV. Plus, your old ads that seemed like comfort food have been replaced by others that are probably just as tacky and overplayed with the usual suspects (lawyers, car dealers and third-rate furniture stores and home improvement "contractors") And adding newscast after newscast over the years only stretches things thinner.... I still cringe when Nexstar makes the station fully theirs when they replace the parting gifts that Tribune gave them...their set and graphics, both of which were LONG overdue at the time...

There has to be some kind of addendum to their calcuations. Household numbers? Rentrak? Comscore? Arbitron? Phone Surveys? (Comscore still exists but Rentrak and Arbitron have been history for a long time...) I was surprised to find out Nexstar even uses Nielsen since they did not used to before they got big...

We can only hope that Brendan Carr has the change of conscience that Ajit Pai had over the Sinclair-Tribune deal. Otherwise, he would be just as complicit as Nexstar if this sham of a deal were to be greenlit.

I'd like to know where Nexstar is getting these viewership numbers. I have a hard time believing that WOIO is the #1 station in Cleveland and that WJW is ranked #3. Have things really gotten that bad in the post-Goddard era?

Give me a break. If reverse compensation was not a thing, this would not be an issue. If anything, stations should be granted the right at the local level to pre-empt programming for a compelling reason. But with mega-companies like Sinclair and Nexstar forcing their content down the pipeline, these local station managers are basically faced to tow the company line, despite what the viewers think. And in exchange, if a station chooses to pre-empt network content, viewers should always have a way of watching it otherwise, especially live events. Affiliates abuse this exclusivity when they decide what and what not to air.

Alabama Public Television votes to remain with PBS... https://www.wsfa.com/2025/11/18/alabama-public-television-votes-keep-contract-with-pbs/ I wonder whatever became of MPB next door in Mississippi leaving NPR and PBS next year as well...any word on that?

There's going to be a reckoning when affiliation deals are up. The question is, who pulls out of broadcast TV first? My money's on ABC since they water down their network content considerably and have a really bad taste in their mouth from Nexstar and Sinclair .dictating what should air on their stations (boycotting JKL) As bad as the CW seems to be under Nexstar, it may be best thing going for them when the big networks start pulling away.... And if Scripps holds on long enough and starts losing networks as well, this programming from Ion and Katz may be a blessing in disguise.

At one time Scripps was the largest. 30 years ago, their deal with ABC in the throes of the New World-Fox deal set off other sub-deals like Westinghouse and CBS (after WJZ getting spurned by ABC in favor of WMAR) and even the market swaps caused by that deal alone. It's tragic to see what has become of the company that Edward Willis Scripps founded almost 150 years ago. What was once a beacon of journalism has morphed into a bungled series of assets on life support after over-extending themselves over and over, while doubling down in the worst ways possible.

I wonder if the 10 percent rule still applies. Once a stake reaches that, IIRC, it's considered ownership under current FCC rules. Sinclair is just buying enough to stay under the radar ..for now...

Let's just hope it's Sinclair acting like they're a powerful company (again) and all talk and not enough action to pull this deal off. Yes, both companies have seen better days, but Sinclair getting Scripps could easily kill both companies. Scripps can barely manage all of what they have including all of the glut from the Ion deal. And proven in their disastrous management of the former Fox/Bally RSNs, they should not even be entrusted to run a lemonade stand. But in this FAFO world that's once again open for business, pretty sure our lord and savior will greenstamp this deal before the "files" can be released. TegStar too...

It may actually be a benefit to move "ABC 6" to WJAR. For cord-cutters, this puts them a click away from WJAR "NBC 10". In Mobile's case, WEAR 3.1 (ABC 3), WEAR 3.2 (NBC 15) and WKRG 5.1 (CBS) are next to each other on the dial. To get to Fox 10 on 10.1, one must wade through all of WKRG's other subchannels. It's still an end-around in the Providence case, but a station as cursed as WLNE may actually benefit from this despite losing a voice in the market.

No sign of the USA Network app on Roku... It's probably one of those apps they once offered but It's still supported for existing viewers.

Still no OTT app even now that MSNBC is officlally MS NOW. You would have thought this would have been ready to launch by today. It didn't help matters that NBC dropped all of the spinoff channels from their own app several days ago.

And WLNE is still going to be owned by Standard Media... correct? While "totally separate" from Sinclair in terms of their other semi-relater sidecars, it seems like these deals don't smell quite right. In the eyes of the FCC, everything else is a non-licensed asset and can move to WJAR and Sinclair. And given "ABC 6" and their place in the market, their presence is so minimal it doesn't raise any alarms about market share either.

WPMI itself still uses 15.1 as it is now the "Roar" feed on that channel. They essentially traded places with WEAR 3.2. This was just another legal maneuver to get "NBC 15" totally under Sinclair's control and away from Deerfield Media. And unlike most digital stations, WPMI actually broadcasts on Channel 15, so no PSIP is needed at all. The only remapping is WJTC 44.1's 1.0 feed since WJTC is a 3.0 station.

In this case, it's likely the first time that a separate operating unit (WPMI/WJTC in Mobile) has had to shack up on a co-owned rival's frequency (WEAR). Most of the other cases have been the same operating unit for years(WSYX/WTTE, WCHS/WVAH, KBTV/KFDM etc...), they just did the switch from the "shell" station to the parent as a subchannel. Probably the closest things have been the Fox move-ins like with "Fox Chattanooga" being the old FOX 61 that used to live on WDSI, and the "Fox Michiana" that relocated from WSJV "Fox 28" to WSBT 22.2. The others have kept their long-term branding in place on their new OTA home.

Several weeks after "NBC 15" moved from WPMI to WEAR 3.2, viewers are confused as hell... I wonder why? From the looks of things Sinclair has royally bungled this switch especially if the only way to watch NBC15 is in digital siberia on the main Xfinity service in Mobile (which was WEAR 3.2 while WPMI has always been on channel 11)

Here we are into the second week, and while both parties seem to be in agreement over ESPN, the sticking point is.....ABC. https://awfulannouncing.com/disney/youtube-tv-dispute-over-abc-not-espn.html Unless they're factoring in the sporting events Disney is porting over to them after squandering ABC for over 15 years, ABC seems to be an overvalued asset in it's current state. To be honest, I don't see ABC remaining a broadcast network much longer, and if they do, it's going to be a greatly diminished one with watered-down content for broadcast viewers with the bulk of content being available exclusively to Disney subscribers. WPLG dumping them was the first blow. Next year, negotiations could get ugly as they try and renew with the big groups like Sinclair and Nexstar, especially after the standoff they had earlier over pulling Jimmy Kimmel.