Samantha

Well, this is interesting... News People!

Capitol Broadcasting Company is buying WARZ-CD Smithfield-Selma, NC, broadcasting to areas between Raleigh and Goldsboro, for use as an ATSC 3.0 mux for its Raleigh television stations. (The APA allows them to move the transmitter and file needed modification applications, so I suspect that's coming.) And it ain't cheap: they're shelling out $725,000.

Wow, that KPWR promo! The channel has more Bakersfield, and not all 17:

This smells of a round of cuts:

Can't say I've seen a weekend open from the KPNX We're Going Where You're Going era before:

Well, Hayes put together the Outlet package. That's a known quantity.

Oh myyyyy... (listen closely, the tease open is from the The Coast pack)

That can't be 1-18-79... the call sign change from KTAR-TV was midyear. Apparently this is January 11, 1980...which puts it at the start of one of Arizona's worst flood years. Things would soon be worse for Phoenix...

Glad you asked. Silent STA hit the FCC today. Its dependent translators also have silent STA requests filed. A Form 314 was filed today, but not for a sale to a new TV buyer—instead to cover the merger of GCI with Liberty Broadband. That's gotta be a related development.

The New Age Media markets have the same trademark issue spotted here but WTLH doesn't come up for renewal until early next year (Georgia license).

The petition's all sorts of interesting, even if its chances of success are probably quite low.

KRIV starts a 6 on September 14, known as "The NewsEdge Early Edition". https://tvnewscheck.com/article/more-news/253101/kriv-to-debut-the-newsedge-early-edition-at-6-p-m/

Tegna is objecting to the license renewal of a low-power TV station in Virginia because it interfered with its WVEC after the repack. On June 8, DirecTV informed Tegna that it was having trouble receiving WVEC. After inspection of its equipment and a consultation with DirecTV, it began to suspect interference from WGBS-LD on RF channel 11; the station was displaced to 12 by WVEC. It then temporarily took WVEC silent—and voilà, DirecTV got WGBS-LD in its stead! Tegna SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Akin Harrison writes:

KVHP also has a silent STA because its signal path is the same as that of KPLC. Worth noting a distinction: KSWL's tower collapse included the transmitter. KPLC/KVHP's did not. So if they can get a signal path to the transmitter at Lunita, they can get back on the air.

All you have to do is ask AFLAC, hometown insurance company and former owner: "We learned we could never become the city's news leader on a UHF station." They ended up buying and owning WTVM (AFLAC's broadcast holdings were one of the original Raycom Media components).

Weather computers seem to be the most isolated thing when it comes to presentation consistency. Some Fox stations have Neue Plak on their weather graphics; some (KSAZ) don't. KTVK/KPHO still have fonts from the early/mid-2010s KTVK graphics loaded.

Check processing, 1986-style...in a KHJ (!) report: KBMT in 1992: the WUAB syndicated graphics and OG Spirit of Texas (hey NMSA, check this out):

Of course it had to be a newscast with a special close AND a missing open... That seems to match a known lost generation of KLAS opens.

Well this is interesting...

@jerseyfla Yup, and it's a confirmed custom (though no composer known). I'd title it "Big 13, Where News Comes First". Debuted September 1982. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58047792/

KKTV anchor Don Ward died today while hiking, believed to be from a heart attack:

That makes sense, get an additional mux on the stick and upgrade it to the 15 kW they're using on the other channels.

SagamoreHill is buying an LPTV construction permit near Lake Charles, Louisiana. W24DX-D Iowa, LA, is the next town over. They'll pay $35,000 for the privilege.

WHEC in 1993, early into the Live/Local/Up to the Minute era:

Some KRBK updates from 1986 using The Image Leader, plus Christine Craft (she of age discrimination lawsuit fame), Pat Flanigan weather tease and Rich Gould sports tease (looks like Koplar transferred him to St. Louis in 1988):