TVIntheDesert
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They made the "Take Five" "newscast" from KUSK in Prescott, AZ in the '90s look professional.
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9 hours ago, HoosierNewsie said:
In case you haven’t seen Studio 31’s post, KMSG (fixed) in Fresno launched an 8pm newscast.
The music used includes Eyewitness News (for weather) News One Versions 1&2 (for main theme) Impact for a segment and This is Home for Sports…
What’s interesting about this is you can clearly hear the ‘chirp’ in the NewsOne theme from News Music Now’s website…
There is no recorded evidence of this, but an LPTV in Phoenix tried to do its own local news in 1993, with News Director/anchor Jack Rebney (better known now for the viral video outtakes from a Winnebago dealers tape he did a few years prior). This was bad, but the "KDMA (K25DM) News" was probably worse.
The previous Channel 53 in Fresno wasn't known for its high production values either:
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On 1/29/2022 at 11:42 AM, bmasters1 said:
And here's more on the captioning on The Cosby Show (1986 article from The New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/06/arts/cosby-captioning-sparks-dispute.html
Just what I figured. WGBH's Caption Center did the Cosby captions (and used that "CC in the TV screen" logo). They were one of the "big two" closed captioning producers in 1986. Others like VITAC would come later and take away business from NCI and WGBH/TCC.
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I've looked at the TV schedules for KTVK and KPHO for the next couple weeks, and it appears that they are slowly adding home-grown Gray programming ("Investigate TV" and "The Song") to the weekend lineups. No sign of the "Power Nation" automotive block yet. The Meredith mistakes of the past couple years ("People" and the like) have still yet to be downgraded or removed from the schedule.
"Full Court Press" is still airing on TEGNA's KPNX overnights on Sunday morning, due to a previous syndication contract.
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On 10/24/2021 at 9:35 PM, Megatron81 said:
Dish is the worse when it comes to channels going dark always seem to be in a dispute with someone. A few days ago Sinclair extended with Dish for one more week I think it is on Thur that it could end.
But they do have a point. TV stations are losing viewers fast, but want to be compensated even more every year. The NAB is ruthlessly telling their member stations to pursue that retransmission dough, even while extolling free TV options like ATSC 3.0. There's got to be a point where MSO's say "enough is enough, we're losing money."
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33 minutes ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:
If the Acme thing was the case, then why didn't UPN just go to 33 as part of the deal which saw Acme and Paramount airing each other's networks in groups where one network was missing a station? One would think it would have been a no-brainer.
When KASY rejoined UPN after that short break, Paramount had also agreed to have the WB remain on WWHO and WLWC and add it to WTVX. Acme did the same for UPN in Champaign and Knoxville, in addition to keeping it in off hours on KPLRm
Interesting point. Maybe UPN already had the contract with Channel 25 (KCNG-LP, later KTUD-LP, now completely defunct), and didn't want any breach of contract suit filed by them if they were to affiliate with KFBT. I suspect UPN would have wanted to be on KFBT instead of the low-power, which had a hard time getting on cable at first.
Vegas was a strange market for Sinclair pre-KSNV. The stronger (at the time) Channel 21 decided to go with MyNetworkTV instead of The CW when all that went down 15 years ago.
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22 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
That makes sense since many of Sinclair's stations dumped UPN for WB around the same time, and WRDC even dumped the network for a few months until both sides made up? Vegas sent UPN packing and that's why 33 became an independent IIRC...
And since WRAZ was tied to WRAL, it was a dream duopoly in the making.
I believe CBC even gave WRAZ a lot of independence from WRAZ unlike most duopolies with a separate facilty in Durham along with separate staffing. IIRC, that has changed in recent years and more functions have moved over to WRAL's facility.
The Vegas case was strange. Channel 21(KUPN -> KVWB), which was wholly owned by Sinclair, went from UPN to WB. Channel 33 KFBT, had just been sold to a company affiliated with ACME Communications (headed by then-WB president Jamie Kellner) and LMA'd to Sinclair. I think the ownership issue was the reason why they didn't pick up UPN, which ended up on low-power Channel 25.
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7 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:
I checked, it is on there.
Is it CBSN National or CBSN DFW?
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On 3/24/2021 at 5:47 PM, newsman123 said:
WNCN is a dump of a station. Nobody stays very long save a few longtime settled folks.
Their schedule looks better today than they did under their later Media General days, when they were showing third-rate syndicated programming during network off-hours.
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On 10/1/2019 at 8:34 PM, bixpchiphead said:
WTVF NewsChannel5 would like a word...
I know the Phoenix market is hyper-competitive, but isn't KNXV close to the top in some time slots?
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On 9/26/2019 at 12:46 PM, MadMan400096 said:
And here come the P.O.'d big market NFL fans. Dish had better hope they can get a deal with Fox soon.
This shows a lot of people are stupid. They want the networks/stations yet gripe when they have a huge rate increase at the beginning of the year. Shouldn't they be able to put two and two together?
It's not that infrastructure/maintenance costs increased that much. It's mainly programming costs.
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3 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:
If I was AT&T I would put up a slide that details how much everybody pays for Disney channels today, how much they want and how much their bill will be going up if Disney gets what they want. I would imagine the fee is pretty substantial with ESPN involved. And if you live in a market with an O&O, I bet you it's costing you over 10 bucks.
They've already posted their reason on http://tvpromise.att.com
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KPNX is getting back in the midday news business...sort of. They’re introducing a 12-minute program at noon which appears it will be nothing but light stuff for stay-at-home moms. The sales department-produced “Arizona Midday” will air from 12:15 to 1pm.
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On 8/24/2019 at 2:57 PM, mrschimpf said:
As I speak, Fox Sports Wisconsin is still running NHRA repeats...you have to assume there's still some kind of agreement to provide secondary programming so that non-gametime programming doesn't become a looping hell of the World Poker Tour and 18 Holes with Jimmy Hanlin non-stop...or paid programming (which would definitely imperil carriage agreements). It also sets up immediate consequences for the Bundesliga, whose low-tier matches were on the regional RSN's...those have to move to the app from hereon out.
Since Entertainment Studios is a content partner, you'll probably see episodes of The American Athlete and Cars.TV repeated ad nauseum instead of World Poker Tour and Destination Polaris.
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A number of promos for KNXV from 1984, pre-Scripps. One year in to being a full time independent (notice the video glitches when they switch from commercial to commercial/program, possibly using 3/4" U-Matic players).
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Just like Gray, TEGNA is going to handle national sales for their stations on their own, shunning a Cox division (which may also lose the Tribune-to-be-Nexstar stations in the near future too).
https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/237403/bad-news-for-cox-reps-tegna-goes-in-house/
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Now that Kidvid has been "overhauled," maybe the FCC can get to retransmission reform.
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1 hour ago, SFTV said:
KOFY just ended their 9pm LIVE produced newscast from KGO with a short farewell. They announced that they will continue to air their rebroadcasts of ABC 7 News at 7pm and 11:30pm
Looks like KRON will now dominate the 9pm slot.
It was bound to happen when they lost their full-power signal and was sold to Stryker (CNZ). I have a feeling they'll go back to their '70s low-budget roots (the "C" in "CNZ" is for Terry Crosby, the son of former owner Leon Crosby).
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30 minutes ago, WWUpdate said:
From Phoenix, a treasure trove of KTVK promos from the '80s, '90s, and '00s, including many never seen before online:
All the creative work of Richard Holland. Mainly 1986-87 to 1996-97.
I liked the short at the end featuring Del and Jewell Lewis, Bill Miller, and the rest of MAC America's management, explaining their growth potential (which didn't come to be after the sold KTVK in 1999).
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1 hour ago, hmaxhanson said:
Don't forget that KRLR 21 started out as an all music videos channel (known as Vusic 21) before beocming a traditional indie a year after sign-on.
KRLR was the established #2 independent by 1989, but still far behind KVVU in the ratings (which I would have still considered an independent at the time). Las Vegas was a smaller market than Tucson in 1989 (which had three independents but lost one that year), surely LV couldn't support four of them. If I recall correctly, The Count's father, who was a gospel singer, founded KFBT (and also helped start WFBT-29 in Minneapolis as a religious/family-themed independent eight years earlier, eventually selling the station and it became KITN then WFTC). I believe KFBT focused on religious programming its first few years too. KBLR's story reminds me of KPOL (now KHRR) in Tucson - KPOL went dark for a couple of years before becoming a Telemundo station, and I think KBLR did the same too.
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1 hour ago, hmaxhanson said:
An airing of the Jimmy Stewart movie Made For Each Other from November 1989, what makes this rare is that it was taped off KBLR 39, back when it was a movie oriented English independent, and includes commercials and station ID:
Interesting. KBLR was the third independent. KFBT had signed on a few months before, but I think they were a mostly religious station at the time. KBLR was sold and became Telemundo while KFBT ended up becoming the WB affiliate for a couple years.
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4 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:
Kari Lake is a pathetic example of journalism. I refuse to watch Fox 10 here in Phoenix until she's GONE. I've had the unpleasant task of helping her at a local health food store. She was rude, pushy, and thought she owned the place. The temptation to smack her was oh so great.
Yet she's gained a lot of new fans among the MAGA crowd (just look at the comments on the YouTube video).
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47 minutes ago, AJClementeFan69 said:
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/fox10s-kari-lake-calls-new-times-20-year-old-dopes-11327644
KSAZ's Kari Lake is at it again...dropping F-bombs on FB live directed toward her management and a Phoenix paper.
Yet she won't get fired, given who her employer is and also that it's Phoenix. She's untouchable at KSAZ because her actions aren't enough to hurt her or the station's brand.
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3 hours ago, TVIntheDesert said:
KPHO had an understaffed news organization during their pre-CBS independent years. Their studio was modular, meaning it was taken apart when the daily kids show "Wallace & Ladmo" used the room in the afternoon to tape their show between the 11:30am and 9:30pm news shows. Sports scores were almost always reversed on their Chyron. I don't think they had a live truck back then either. KNXV was about to come in with a 9pm show as a Fox station so they got a little more serious about their product in '93.
Also, KPHO was using magnetic boards for weather long after the other stations had electronic "green screen" maps.
MY 53 (KMSG, Fresno) using unlicensed music?
in News Music & Voiceovers
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"Gary" is station owner Gary Cocola, who is the "king of Central Valley LPTVs." He leases most of those channels out to third parties.