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KSNV sports anchor Randy Howe was arrested in North Las Vegas Tuesday on charges of indecent exposure and "open gross" lewdness. Howe was booked at the Las Vegas Detention Center, and was subsequently released on bail. KSNV representatives have so far declined comment on the matter.

There have been rare instances of premium channels being blacked out due to retransmission disputes, the only one I can think of was the removal of Showtime (as well as The Movie Channel and Flix) from Time Warner Cable systems during its 2013 dispute with CBS Corporation. That being said, it isn't really a financially smart idea to use a premium service as hardball in a carriage disagreement. Remember, they rely on viewers paying an additional fee to receive the services, and out of approximately 90 million MVPD subscribers nationwide, not many subscribe to multiple premium services and no premium service has a reach comparative to the major basic cable networks. Since they don't rely on advertising, the hit to a premium service's revenue from a retrans dispute would sting more for a premium service that has anywhere between nine million and 30 million subscribers than a basic cable channel that reaches 80 to 90 million subscribers would.

I counted seven. It would have been fine if they just listed its service area as "Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Hampton/Newport News" or "Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Hampton". Any more than four cities in a station ID is reaching into overkill territory. Four is OK, depending on whether the market consists of that many significant population centers.

Add KLAX to the list of stations that knocked off the Hearst camera graphics. The open from a newscast from March 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=YRMZAJeZC1g;t=92

KLAS is now facing some pressure to air a story concerning an accusation against Nevada gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. According to sources with the independent news site Pace Vegas, KLAS reporter Vanessa Murphy was told by station management to sit on the story in which a former classmate of Laxalt's at Tulane University claimed she was raped by Laxalt in 1996 while a student at the university. Podcast host David Pakman disclosed in a segment on his show that he had talked to the accuser about the accusations in question. Considering the controversy concerning how Congressmen and Trump treated the accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey-Ford, KLAS's editorial decision to withhold the story is problematic.

On Tuesday (October 16), Sinclair announced it had signed a deal with Jukin Media to assume operational responsibilities for the TBD network, effective immediately. Under the deal, Jukin content will be expanded on TBD's schedule (the network currently airs three half-hour programs from the company, This Week in Fails [from its FailArmy unit], While You Were [from its JukinVideo unit] and Best of the Week [which features short-form content from Jukin's various properties]). It's not clear, though, whether such an expansion will encompass a replacement block of short-form videos to fill the time periods previously programmed by The QYOU until QYOU Media and Sinclair terminated their content agreement on September 13 (the aforementioned Jukin-produced shows replaced the QYOU blocks featured on TBD's late night/early morning lineup; movies already in the network's inventory filled daytime and early evening slots formerly occupied by the QYOU-branded blocks).

Griffin Communications has finally brought subchannels back to KSBI, apparently through a deal with Katz/Scripps. Today (October 1), the station added digital subchannels affiliated with Bounce TV (on 52.2), Laff (on 52.3), Grit (on 52.4) and Escape (on 52.5). As of this posting, Escape continues to be carried on KAUT-DT3 in the interim (similar to how KOCO-DT2 and KSBI-DT2 both carried This TV programming in 2012 during the former's transition to a MeTV affiliation); Bounce, Grit and Laff had respectively been carried the seventh, eighth and ninth subchannels of low-power station KTOU-LD, although I cannot verify whether KLHO is still carrying them because I cannot receive its signal.

KWTV and KOTV have apparently debuted new responsive design websites. KWTV: http://www.news9.com/ KOTV: http://www.newson6.com/

From JPMcFly1985Two's channel, a 1990s KCRA open from its Early Edition 5:00 p.m. newscast:

I remember that clip from the 2004 NBC special The Most Outrageous Live TV Moments. I think in another edition of that special there was another WJW blooper featuring earpiece audio of Vince Cellini being overheard telling Dan Coughlin as he's set to do a live shot, "Danny, get your finger out of your ass and start talking" (although, "ass" was bleeped out).

That's what I thought when I saw the image of the new studio building facade Georgie56 posted. [ATTACH=full]6488[/ATTACH]

I think one of the TVNT users with a YouTube channel and a capture card should try to record and upload the 43@50 half-hour special on their channel. It would seem like a good watch.

Question: Is KCWH-LD a CW Plus outlet or merely a direct KSNB repeater? The KNHL article on Wikipedia states that KCWH carries CW programming, but RabbitEars shows that the station carries KSNB's entire channel slate (NBC programming on DT1, MeTV/MyNetworkTV on DT2 and Ion Television on DT3).

From the same channel, the first few minutes of KTXL's 10:00 p.m. newscast from March 1995 (complete with news open, which for some reason, still shows them using separate logos with both the pre-1993 and the 1994-97 Fox logo as well as the station's iteration of the 1990-92 "It's on Fox" campaign):

Unfortunately, I've misspelled Cincinnati in the manner shown in the L3 several times before.

The noon newscast actually continued through the station's first ten years under Hearst. KOCO dropped it in January 2008, when it expanded its 5:00 p.m. newscast to Saturdays and its weekend morning newscasts to Sundays.

In this situation, it's not exactly clear if CNN is solely at fault for this. The Intercept article notes that their source wasn't the most reliable in the first place. In essence, CNN should have used a better source than Lanny Davis, if he has such a history of lying in public statements ...and now what credibility it had has been jeopardized, because they trusted Davis when they should have verified instead of just trusting.

That cancellation has a consequential effect on KWKT. The NMSA notes that KWKT was carrying a simulcast of the KNVA newscast under the title Fox 44 Capital News, so the Waco-Temple-Killeen market is now without a weekday 7:00 a.m. newscast because of KXAN's decision to cancel KXAN News Today on The CW Austin. Very clearly, KWKT should have launched an in-house morning newscast when its news department launched in July of last year. The timeslot appears to now be filled by syndicated E/I programs (during the 7:00 a.m. half-hour) and infomercials (from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.).

A triple play of Oklahoma City newscasts from Walker Brown's YT channel: First, a May 20, 1998, broadcast of KOKH's 9:00 p.m. newscast (then titled The Nine O'Clock News), nearly ten months after the newscast had expanded to an hour (on August 4, 1997): Second, the first ten minutes of the May 16, 1999, edition of KWTV's News 9 at 10:00: ...and finally, the first 17 minutes of KFOR's Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4 at 10:00 from October 3, 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=0YBybDemzbU;t=607

KOKI's version of the TVbD package you mentioned has also stood the test of time, I might add. Same with WSBT's and with KARE's similar iteration by that same company.

Two more from Jacky9br: First, a 6:00 p.m. edition of KTAL's Newscenter 6 from May 19, 1997 (featuring the production music theme that still needs identifying for title and composer): Second, a weekend 10:00 p.m. edition of KALB's Newscentral 5 from May 7, 1995: P.S.: I may have seen aspects of this when I traveled to Shreveport annually as a kid for medical treatments at the city's Shriners Hospital campus for my club foot, but even for the size of its market at the time, KTAL's news presentation seemed far below par. This is especially considering that KSLA and, particularly, KTBS (the latter of which was under locally based ownership as KTAL was at the time) had far better graphics packages in the late '90s. Clearly, WEHCO's sale of KTAL to Nexstar did them some good.

You could also suggest that Nexstar could transfer news production for WDCW to WDVM, whether it be shifting the latter's news department over to the former (possibly under a joint branding scheme such as which exists between WTVW/WEHT or WBRE/WYOU) or simulcasting some of WDVM's newscasts on WDCW. There are cases here where Nexstar could easily decide to flip stations, and ones where they would mull over which conflicts to sell. Take Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Rogers for example, KFSM presumptively tops KNWA in the ratings, so they might consider taking KFSM/KXNW over keeping KNWA/KFTA based mainly on that reasoning. Though, the Tribune outlets in most of these markets outrank the Nexstar stations in terms of local news and/or total day viewership in most cases, which might blow the first part of my theory. I think Hartford and the Hampton Roads area are cases where the inverse is true, in which the Tribune outlet is outranked by the Nexstar station. Of the non-conflict outlets, WPHL is a crapshoot. It is not clear how much revenue share from political advertising they conceivably could get, given that WPHL presumably has a relatively marginal audience share compared to the Big Four and Spanish language O&Os in the market and even WPSG. It seems to me like duopoly bait for Fox, and Nexstar could easily leave it on the table for Fox to pick off just to stay under the national cap. The political ad revenue could be worth it for Nexstar to acquire it, maybe. The most interesting point is that, depending on how many stations Nexstar gets if it reaches a deal, the group could conceivably have (near-)ubiquitous or merely widespread coverage in several states where it has a few stations already (namely California, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and especially Texas). Though that really depends on which stations Fox were to pick off in between three and five of those states.

... and because WGCL pulled the rug out from under them, Viacom stepped in and turned it into a UPN O&O. Viacom was starting its process of selling its Big Four affiliates at the time, and chose to sell KSLA to Ellis Communications in order to free up cap space. (Something I only learned last week from a 1994 B&C article posted on American Radio History that was among several I was using as sources for an expansion of a Wikipedia article about KSLA as well as articles about other Shreveport-area stations on that site.)

As I figured would happen once the Sinclair purchase went bust, The New York Post is reporting that Nexstar is looking at attempting to acquire Tribune Media. It would be an interesting case of vengance, considering that Sinclair bid fairly higher than what Nexstar was willing to pay when Tribune was seeking bids in an auction-like manner in May of last year.

Would it be KMOV or KSDK? BTW, if you're going for St. Louis, I never was able to do a compilation of KPLR because I couldn't find enough clips to create an adequate one when I made or uploaded them. Maybe you'll have better luck with that station than I did.