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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.
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1 hour ago, Breaking News said:
I'm a big fan of KNXV which IMO it's the gold standard in Phoenix, and sad part is if Scripps didn't kill Wheel/Jeopardy! Which I thought was good for them to have on the program schedule before sending it back to KTVK. I've watched KSAZ & KTVK morning program. Just watching online both definitely do a good job. I like KTVK alot better under Belo, and they did a great job navigating from their ABC days as an independent station. KPNX which is good, but just rode NBC's coattails. From YouTube and reading articles KSAZ was a great CBS affiliate, but does a great job as FOX, but like many former CBS affiliates that are FOX i.e. WAGA/Atlanta, WJBK/Detroit eh they don't nothing for me. KPHO for me they just seem to be the bottom feeder in the market. As a CBS affiliate they were times they did a good job in their early years as Arizona 5 CBS & when Diana Sullivan, Katherine Anya years, but other than that. From the Youtube Clips they were better during their days as an independent station not affiliated with a network which was 25 yrs ago.
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.
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2 hours ago, Breaking News said:
KTVK all the way! Under Belo superb! Under Meredith eh. KTVK hands down.
KSAZ their morning news, but other than that hmmm. My problem is Kari Lake she definitely takes the cake. Hurts the brand. I guess KPNX, KNXV & KSAZ their look is so their corporate owner.
KSAZ may have the most viewers, but KNXV has become the gold standard for news in Phoenix, despite it being a Scripps station. KSAZ's intent of mixing opinion with hard news kind of bogs them down.
10 hours ago, Breaking News said:Ever since KPHO & KTVK became one together. KTVK news has taken a dive. KTVK by themselves was still the gold standard. KPHO was good as an Indy outlet, but suck as CBS.
KNXV hands down best station in the market.
KPHO was never a good news station when they were independent more than 25 years ago. I'm hoping you meant "independent" in the sense when they weren't joined to the knees with KTVK.
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1 hour ago, ihEARDtHAT said:
Jimmy Q out at 12News. A post on Facebook by Paul Gerke (Anchor KPNX NBC-Phoenix)
"Unfortunately, Jimmy is no longer an employee at 12 News. I know that disappoints a lot of you, and I'm sorry, but that's all I can say."No surprise here. KPNX has been a dumpster fire since Gannett became TEGNA, and they make KPHO/KTVK look like a newsroom of stability.
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WDRB/Louisville GM Bill Lamb, known for his conservative leaning editorials during the evening news, has left the station and said he was moving to a "top-10 market." Is it a Sinclair station he's going to, perhaps?
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On 5/9/2019 at 12:49 AM, DENDude said:
KMGH has made some sub-channel moves on April 13th. KZCO-LD Aztecia America Colorado was taken off of 7.2 & replaced by Escape TV. On May 7th, 7.4 now has a blue screen saying programing is coming soon, i would assume this will be the new location for KZCO-LD? KZCO-LD & KZCS-LD are both listed in FCC docs as being licensed as of May 7th. Can anyone confirm or deny this? KTFD-DT meanwhile dropped it's .4 sub channel 5/7/19.
Scripps basically had no choice but to inherit those Azteca affiliations on the McGraw-Hill stations. Entravision took Azteca away from them in San Diego, maybe they're planning on doing the same in Denver?
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31 minutes ago, Eat News said:
I'm dying to know what the operating expenses are and what the payroll is.
Seriously...
You can pretty much assemble the whole operation with computers and broadcast electronics available from Fry's and the Markertek catalog. You really don't need a whole lot of special stuff anymore to become a 24/7 live broadcaster.
They ( The Jr. NewsRangers) only need to subscribe to APTV and Reuters TV for video feeds and all the rest is just pushing data from one platform to another.
Nobody cares anymore about video quality...so compress all you want...and watch the pixies fly!
I will watch it, if it comes to Surfridge...we get all kinds of fun OTA stuff here including one channel that has a gajillion Vietnamese sub-channels...and another of just re-runs of "CHIPS".
News "start-ups" a a blast to watch...I hope those kids are having fun.
Hey, there's a local LPDTV here in the Phoenix market in which one subchannel is an obscure mix of music videos (legally sourced, I don't know) and another is all car classifieds, all the time -- in Spanish (with weird stock video footage in between cars). They are trying to lease out one or two of their channels, but no takers yet.
9 minutes ago, DENDude said:Did anyone see this on their website? http://yournewsnet.com/newsnet-breaks-ground-on-building-expansion/
They must be making $ if they can build more space. I think they might be doing better than we all think they are.
Or they may just have a wealthy funding source, willing to take two or three years of losses.
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On 4/28/2019 at 10:35 PM, H4UL4U said:
A post on the broadcasting subreddit says that KUSA's master control is soon going to be hubbed from TEGNA's centralcasting hub in Jacksonville. I did not realize KUSA still had in-house master? Wonder how that will work with all their translators.
All this time, I thought KPNX was hubbed out of KUSA since the move out of 1101 N. Central.
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On 8/7/2018 at 2:13 PM, Ramona said:
This game telecast from 1986 is notable for two reasons:
-it is the final game Wichita State played in football (the program was disbanded within a month)
-it was also the final regular season game in ASU's Rose Bowl season
Wichita State football at the time was telecast by KBS (KWCH).
As a bonus...
-There's a promo at 1:37:00...
-and at 2:55:35 is a promo leading into the KWCH sign-off. This must have been a repeat.
I'm sure then-KWCH GM Ron Bergamo, a University of Arizona graduate, wasn't happy with the result of this game. Ironically, he would end up in Phoenix two years later running KTSP.
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Here's a couple 1992 promos from then-newsless Fox affiliate KNXV-15 (whose call letter-based image campaign that season was produced by TVbD, IIRC):
And some rare pre-Scripps KNXV (I've started at a promo for "The Greatest American Hero," which ended with graphics featuring their slogan at the time "Where The Stars Shine"). Then co-owned WCGV-24 in Milwaukee used the same slogan and similar graphics.
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On 4/28/2019 at 8:15 PM, hmaxhanson said:
Bumping this after nearly 3 months to tell you that NewsNet still exists, and, they're getting a New York affiliate! Starting May 1, they'll be on WNWT-LD 51, a channel that I assume isn't carried on ANY area cable system.
PS, I still haven't watched NewsNet yet, but let me tell you, if they want to last more than 1 year, they'll need cable penetration and carriage on subchannels of at least 5 Big 4 stations. Heck, I think Buzzr wouldn't have survived had they not gotten prime carriage on the Fox O&Os.
According to RabbitEars, NewsNet has landed a big-four station: Marquee-owned WSWG in Albany, GA (soon).
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On 4/24/2019 at 12:26 PM, CircleSeven said:
Follow-Up.
From this latest paperwork, it looks like the station will be in the hands of the creditors.
I'm hoping an owner like Marquee Broadcasting would come up and buy this station.
WPGA looks like HC2 bait to me. How would Marquee make the station profitable without a major network affiliation?
This was the Registers' mistake for dropping ABC over morality issues. TV is business. If you don't like what's being broadcast, sell the station.
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Here's a block of commercials and promos from KUTP (IND) 45 in Phoenix from 1986. The promo design and TOH ID are the original from their 1985 sign-on. They would become a #3 (yet respectable after picking up the "red hot"--at the time--Phoenix Suns in 1988) indie (I'm counting KNXV during their first few years with FOX as still independent).
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On 2/28/2019 at 7:47 AM, mrschimpf said:
Looks like Gray is ramping up a competitor to the Sunday morning shows (and Full Measure). They've hired Greta van Susteren as a national political analyst with two shows in development, along with being in the Gray DC bureau's live/tape hits to their stations.
While Full Measure had limited syndication outside of the Sinclair group (the only station outside the group I recall airing the program was KAZT in Phoenix to pair with a locally-produced show hosted by a local right-wing radio host, but they no longer air it), van Susteren's new show (now named Full Court Press) is being shopped around by an outside distributor. Two non-Gray markets (Chicago and Milwaukee...Weigel?) have signed on so far. Hearst has had better luck distributing Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien outside their owned station footprint, even though that program slightly leans left.
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