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Mission's stations were pulled from Dish in early January 2023, so 54 weeks have passed between the start and resolution of the dispute. Mission's dispute with DirecTV began three months before the Dish dispute.

Mission Broadcasting stations will return to Dish Network about a year after they were pulled as the companies have reached a new carriage arrangement.

Here are a couple of montages of the morning and evening opens: They employ cuts from at least three of the "Hello News" series, with Series 3 appearing to be the lone one left out. Most newscasts use the Series 1 primary open (the cut used during KWQC's first "Hello" tenure) for the intro, except for the 10:00 show, which uses the Series 2 topical instead. Bumpers, teases and topicals mainly use what may be the Series 4 cuts (I couldn't find the cut used in the topicals in the montages in the Series 4 cuts available on News Music Now, so I'm not entirely sure that it's from that track list or a previously unreleased cut).

Warner Chappell owns the Gari library.

Warner Bros./Telepictures has ordered True Crime News for 2024–25, with Fox picking up the show for its stations. The show's concept sounds a lot like the original 2015–16 format of Crime Watch Daily, which was also distributed by Telepictures/WBTD, when Matt Doran (who was replaced by Chris Hansen for its final two seasons) was the original host.

Allen Media has renewed affiliation agreements with CBS for five of its stations.

The Washington Post has an article about Smith's purchase and troubles he's already having with staff over his views about how the Sun papers (the flagship of which he admits to not have read since the early 1980s) should be run. For those who get a paywall:

Upon closer inspection, yes, that is the monochrome/print version of the logo's original 1962 design, with the minimal spacing between the "abc" text and the edge of the circle.

Sinclair has renewed its affiliation agreements for the group's 41 Fox stations.

A WHOI newscast from 1999, featuring what appears to be a knockoff of TVbD's "Balls and Walls":

Along with the logo and graphics change, the longtime "Louisiana's News Channel" slogan also appears to have been deprioritized (it appears in fine print in the open, suggesting it may still be used in some capacity, but less prominently) in favor of "Your #1 Local News Station".

The FCC has issued a $150,000 fine against WPIX owner Mission Broadcasting over the station's carriage dispute with Comcast, which filed a complaint against Mission concerning its de facto control by Nexstar and its involvement in carriage deals involving Mission shortly before the dispute was resolved in December 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeO_nJqoRg From what can be heard in the voiceover, Charlie Van Dyke's voice is even less recognizable compared to 15 years ago, almost reminiscent of how Jefferson Kaye sounded in the last set of opens he voiced for WPVI before he was replaced by CVD. Also, while they kept their custom version of "Eyewitness News", they did shorten the open cut by a few seconds to fit the length of the standardized title sequence, omitting the teletype instrumental at the very beginning and starting where the musical signature begins.

On top of this, WFXT also changed its news theme from "Stream" to "Guardian", becoming the first station to drop the former theme (former sister WHBQ is now the only one of the two stations that "Stream" was developed for that still uses the package). Technically, KLSR is the only Cox station that hasn't changed over, although its newscasts are produced by KVAL (so KLSR's broadcasts haven't switched to Sinclair's standardized graphics either).

KIRO: WPXI (this one a breaking news open):

Breezeline (the U.S. unit of Canadian pay-TV provider Cogeco) has dropped WBOC from its eastern Maryland systems. According to both Breezeline and WBOC parent Draper Holdings, the removal resulted from it being considered an out-of-market station in the communities serviced by the provider (including towns like Grasonville, Kent Island, Chestertown, Centreville, Queenstown, Rock Hall, Church Hill, St. Michaels and Chesapeake City, MD), which are considered part of the Baltimore DMA. (As such, this isn't being put in the retrans dispute thread, since this doesn't qualify.) This may suggest Paramount/CBS and Sinclair had requested Breezeline pull WBOC's main CBS channel and Fox subchannel in favor of giving WJZ and WBFF exclusivity in those areas.

WPIX reporter Mary Murphy has announced her retirement from broadcasting after a 40-year career. Murphy began her career at WPIX in 1983, spending four years there. After a seven-year stint at WCBS, she returned to PIX11 in 1993, where she has remained since (spending 14 years of that tenure as weekend co-anchor, before moving back to an assignment reporting role in 2009).

Sinclair has announced agreements with CBS News and Stations to offer its four diginets on several of the Paramount-owned unit's CBS O&O and independent stations: Comet: New York — WCBS 2.5 San Francisco — KPIX 5.5 Charge!: Los Angeles — KCAL 9.3 Chicago — WBBM 2.5 Philadelphia — KYW 3.5 TBD: Miami — WBFS 33.6 Philadelphia — WPSG 57.2 San Francisco — KPYX 44.2 The Nest: Los Angeles — KCAL 9.2 San Francisco — KPYX 44.4

TVNewsCheck's Harry Jessel has his own opinion on the updated rules.

Actually, the bulk of the station's syndicated programming seems to be concentrated on weekends. Looking at TVPassport, the vast majority of the weekend schedule will be filled by barter shows: * Six of Allen Media's current first-run and off-network weekend shows: SOS: How to Survive, Cars.TV, Kickin' It, The World's Funniest Weather (and two Weather Channel shows I wasn't aware AMG had sold into OTA syndication) Top 10 and Deadline to Disaster; * Heartland (the long-running and still-running CBC family drama); * Forensic Factor; * Raceweek; * Just for Laughs Gags * Country Fix (apparently a music video program); * and Positively America with Ernie Anastos (a show from Alex Paen's Telco featuring interviews and "uplifting" stories) In addition, E/I shows Awesome Adventures and Wild About Animals will fill additional E/I commitments outside of the One Magnificent Morning block on Saturdays.

In the midst of the other diginet changes (between The365 and Outlaw's debuts, Dabl flipping from lifestyle to Black sitcoms, Circle going streaming-only and Twist shutting down), Allen Media's two multicast networks have also changed their schedules, with both This TV and TheGrio having apparently severed their licensing agreements to air various theatrical and independent films. For This TV, this has resulted in that network reaching the "total abandonment" phase of its network decay (to borrow from TVTropes), as movies have been a staple of the network since Weigel and MGM launched it in 2008. Under Allen, most of its film rights leaned toward indies, although it did air some older theatrical films (the balance leaned in the other direction under Weigel and Tribune ownership). AMG had already dropped older MGM series (which usually occupied overnight and early morning slots, again dating to This' launch) from the network's lineup in 2022, in favor of airing its in-house syndicated shows. To fill the former movie slots, This TV has added several Weather Channel originals (Top Ten, Weather Gone Viral, Highway Through Hell and Storm of Suspicion) and The World's Funniest Weather, and added extra airings of ES.TV and RecipeTV (the latter two shows as well as AMG's court shows are the only holdovers from the old movie-centered general entertainment format), while TheGrio has added sports in prime time and extra airings of AMG's court shows, Funny You Should Ask, Comics Unleashed and morning repeats of TheGrio News.

This was mentioned, but in a different thread. Thing is, KFFV would have to keep the KVOS simulcast, considering that its Grade B signal contour (as the FCC contour map indicates) basically stops at the northern end of downtown Seattle. Given that KFFV's transmitter is based in Seattle proper and therefore provides city-grade signal coverage throughout the Seattle metropolitan area, it would have made more sense for Weigel to put Univision on KFFV's main channel and move MeTV to a different sub (presumably DT2). Oklahoma City has a similar odd setup where its Univision affiliate, KUOK, has its full-power transmitter based near Woodward (~140 miles away, with a signal that doesn't even extend into central Oklahoma), forcing it to rely on a subchannel simulcast on its Telemundo-affiliated sister KTUZ-TV and a low-power translator (all are owned by Tyler Media Group) to provide city-grade coverage within the Oklahoma City area.

Doubtful that happens, but it opens up channel space for The365 and Outlaw to fill in non-Gray markets when they launch New Year's Day.

Here's WNDU in action: