tyrannical bastard

Interesting. This was a year before Media General sold WDEF to Morris, who basically maintained the Media General style at the time, well into their transition into HD. That look at the time was originally done by VDO, and later brought in house by Media General, with some additions from other stations, mainly WFLA. Perhaps the look was done "in-house" by a former employee who left Media General?

I cringe to think what's next for some of the former Tribune stations out there that got some "last minute" changes before Nexstar took over. Hopefully for stations like WGN and WJW, these changes are years away...but others like KWGN/KDVR and WTTV/WXIN were converted pretty quickly from some of their Tribune looks/packages...

They should have gotten a new logo while they were at it. But this is typical Nexstar....

They've pretty much owned the market since the beginning. Florida State University nabbed the VHF allocation for Tallahassee (as a non-commercial station), while WCTV nabbed the next closest one in Thomasville, Georgia. It wasn't until 1976 when WECA (now WTXL) signed on, and not until 1983 when WTWC did. WALB in Albany still had city-grade coverage in the northern fringes and served Tallahassee as their default NBC affiliate until WTWC. The ratings pretty much have reflected this for years...WCTV owns the market by a large margin with WTXL as a distant second, and WTWC as a perennial non-factor. Even Sinclair opted to still have WCTV produce WTWC's .2 (FOX 49) newscasts and have absolutely nothing for WTWC/NBC.

That's probably even worse, unless they are getting crushed at 10pm by the WINK-powered newscast on WXCW. That's a FOX affiliate's calling card unless the station is a total ratings dog or mismanaged by its duopoly partner. All the while Scripps is heavily investing in sports on the broadcast properties while the newscasts are getting the shaft in smaller markets.

FTVLive is talking about a Scripps station in Florida that is no longer doing a live late newscast...could this be WTXL in Tallahassee? If that's the case, the news vacuum continues in a place where Sinclair gave up 20 years ago as well, in a state capitol controlled by a wannabe dictator governor who's only in it for his own ego and political career.

Let's try this one.... https://cordcuttersnews.com/sinclair-ceo-says-broadcasting-is-not-in-a-good-position-as-he-eyes-other-businesses/

The "talented" Mr. Chris Ripley is at it again..... Throwing his TV stations under the bus in favor of whatever way Sinclair can make some quick cash....

When GrayOne hits WHNS Fox Carolina, I wonder if they're going to tweak the package since WSPA's is pretty much the same thing (font and lower-wise). They're a legacy Meredith station, so that package may stick around a little longer (and since its the package GrayOne is based off of) Nexstar hasn't had any great packages in the wings either, the newer one on WDCW, WRIC and WMBB is more of a downgrade.

Here's a 1991 WBNX Hawaii-5-O promo. Dagmar did the voiceover at the end, and sounds like she was singing the made-up lyrics as well!

This "cult" Dagmar was in.....was it any way related to the Ernest Angley Ministry? Her first TV job was at WBNX-TV. The onetime station manager was named Ronald Midcap. I don't know if it was her ex-husband, but knowing all of the stuff there, it's likely the same family she was "arranged" to be married into. From what I remember, she did voiceovers for promos, and even served as a kids host before "Patty" took over when they picked up the Fox Kids network in the WOIO/WJW affiliation swap.

Sinclair is starting up another diginet "The Nest" https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/sinclair-to-launch-the-nest-broadcast-network/ Basically, Sinclair is trying their hand at "TrueReal" which Scripps/Katz folded earler this year. The channel will replace "Stadium" on the broadcast stations that carry it. I also came to discover, that Sinclair divested most of their stake to Silver Chalice back in May, while still supplying some programming to the network I really think Sinclair's only hope is that someone gets re-elected in 2024. And that all of his supporters will funnel in the "dark money" to keep the lights on and the messages flowing. Other than that, this company is a zombie walking trying to cash in on trends that have little to do with TV.

The silver lining for TV is when the digital bubbles start bursting. Streaming companies are sucking away more content and jacking up the price because of it. Then you have dumpster fires like Bally Sports, where sports teams are bailing out left and right, and in most cases, end up on linear TV once again. But the amount of rehashed content on TV is quite alarming. Who would have thought stalwarts like Judge Judy and Jerry Springer would survive in syndication as reruns after production of shows like these wrapped several years ago? It doesn't help when you have shows like Mathis Court on TV while the OG Judge Mathis is still filling time in repeats....

In a place like San Antonio, it's an irony for Sinclair to be marketing the station that way, with it's strong and historic ties to the Hispanic population. Because we all know downstate, stuff is going on at the border that they sure love to cover, along with someone's very important laptop.

It's like Nexstar is contracting their CW stations (and affiliates) on a station-by-station basis. Much unlike the bulk deal they were forced to make with CBS that took away WJMN. I figured the Marshall game on the CW was the reason Gray was getting a lot of requests to have WQCW put on YouTube TV. Of course to the average viewer, they aren't aware of all of the "sausage-making" processes it actually takes to get this done. Much of it is probably Nexstar posturing in the negotiating process, especially since they own WOWK in the market.

KABB Fox 29 in San Antonio, TX is now "FOX SA" with a custom package and the tagline "Puro San Antonio" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYj_fmFO9Ro I wonder if this could become a trend for other Sinclair stations, especially those that were mortally wounded this past spring?

After 4 years at NBC 15 almost 25 years in the Mobile/Pensacola market (20 at WKRG), Alan Sealls is retiring in January. https://mynbc15.com/news/local/nbc-15-chief-meteorologist-alan-sealls-to-retire-from-broadcasting# Another blow to a station that was decimated earlier this year in Sinclair's local news bloodbath.

Caught some of the WEWS 4:30am portion of Good Morning Cleveland and it was basically an edited series of packages with a little weather in between. Most likely, the future of Scripps newscasts. In another thread, someone likened this approach to news like the Al Schottlekotte approach WCPO used until the 80s. This was later copied by WIAT for their "42 Daily News" relaunch in the late 90s. Back when Al Schottlekotte did it, it was unique and driven by his personality. Now with Scripps launching this approach at their stations, it's cheap, lazy, and basically throws the concept of live news out the window. And in Cleveland, WKYC has once again seemingly come to their senses after "normalizing" their newscasts and it's WEWS once again that's gone off the deep end. Meanwhile, despite Nexstar taking hold of WJW, their dominance still remains and WOIO is now owned by a major broadcaster seeing how Gray has leaped ahead of both Scripps and Tegna.

ABC and/or FOX likely in Macon if one of them walks away from WGXA.

With them starting a statewide sports network in Georgia, this could expand to other nearby states, especially ones where they own stations in every market (or close to it). And a big focus in these states could be high school sports.

Since The Simpsons have taken their fair share of jabs at Rupert & Co..... Here's another question....

WFMJ is another station that airs Live! at 9am delaying the other 2 hours of Today to 10am-noon. On the other hand, WPMI in Mobile aired Today in pattern for years, but aired Live! at 11am until 2019. It's since moved to WEAR and airs at 9am.

We have a battle in St. Louis headed to the courtroom.... Gray is suing Tegna for using the phrase "Weather First Alert" on KSDK while KMOV has been using "First Alert Weather" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/kmov-sues-ksdk-over-branding-for-weather-alerts/article_032d25a6-5668-11ee-ad8c-1b6661b82814.html

At least back in 1984, CBS affiliates had that time slot to themselves. So many crap shows are on the air simply because the networks won't return time to their affiliates.

Johnny Carson and Tom Snyder are spinning in their graves right now. Putting Byron Allen on CBS is like giving up Saturday Morning TV to Litton.