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On 6/23/2021 at 9:43 PM, TheRob said:
WUTV's new 10:00 show debuts tonight (it'll be here to watch most likely). To save you all the click, here's the anchor lineup: WTVH news anchor Michael Benny, WHAM chief meteorologist Scott Hetsko, and WHAM sports director Mike Catalana. It's kinda interesting considering WHAM produces a 10:00 show for WUHF at the same time of WUTV's new show, so I wonder if Hetsko's and Catalana's segments will be pre-taped. That is a pretty good anchor lineup though.
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A legend of Dayton TV news is retiring: longtime WHIO sports director Mike Hartsock. He's calling it a career after nearly 40 years at channel 7.
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1 hour ago, scrabbleship said:
Comcast to drop out-of-market Hearst stations on 38 different regions effective 12/2/20.
Some of these make sense as much as the replacement is inferior, such as the ancestral carriage of WTAE in the Wheeling and Clarksburg/Fairmont DMA's or WCVB's carriage deep into Maine and Southeast Connecticut (which was simsubbed and syndex'd into oblivion).
Some of these are disasters waiting to happen, such as a fair chunk of the New Hampshire part of the Burlington market losing access to WMUR or Bristol County, MA losing access to WCVB.
I really hope Comcast at least partially reverses some of these drops, or else they're probably going to lose some subscribers in Bristol County and NH's Upper Valley. In Bristol County's case, even though it is part of the Providence metro area for Census purposes, the majority of the county (save for the I-195 corridor in the south) is Boston through and through. And none of the Burlington stations cover NH very much, if at all.
It is also worth noting that in significant parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, they're dropping WGAL and WBAL so that viewers will be forced to watch NBC on O&Os WCAU and WRC. You can't tell me that wasn't a factor.
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Welp... can't say I didn't see this coming...
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1 hour ago, GoldenShine9 said:
That is one other challenge. They would need to have at least a couple reporters in each community or region working from home (or perhaps a small office in Sitka and Ketchikan), although they could remotely report the stories up to the anchors in what would most likely be Juneau.
Definitely possible. It's also worth noting that Gray is by far the largest company to ever own a Juneau television station, so for the first time, there's a company that at least appears to have the resources needed to start a news operation in the market. We shall see...
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9 hours ago, TheGuru said:
I felt physical pain looking at these sites. Wowza.
I'm not familiar with anything in the realm of Alaska TV. Does the Juneau market even bother with local newscasts, or is it just simulcasts of Anchorage/Fairbanks newscasts with local news sprinkled in as necessary? I can't imagine trying to build out what amounts to a new operation in the current climate, unless it's something that the locals would 100% buy into.
Buy now, build later?
As far as I know, there are no local inserts on any of the SE Alaska stations of any kind; all of the news comes from each of the stations' corresponding network affiliates in Anchorage (KATH/KSCT from KTUU, CBS Southeast from KTVA, and KJUD from KYUR/KTBY).
There is one other significant factor that probably prevents a local news operation in SE Alaska: the region's geography. Getting between Juneau and anywhere else requires boat or plane. On top of that, there are no cities and towns in the region that are accessible from the rest of Alaska or Canada by road, except for Haines, Skagway and Hyder.
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21 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:
It's not a blockbuster, but...maybe Southeast Alaska will finally get its own local news?
I really hope so, but I think that KATH/KSCT will probably just continue with the KTUU simulcasts that they currently have, at least in the near term. But this does make a lot of sense; now Gray has an NBC monopoly in Alaska.
One thing I know that Gray will do: fix the stations' websites!
EDIT: Paperwork is up. Purchase price: $1.5 million.
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Little off-beat, but since we're talking about the ABC O&O's, I'll put this out: most of the ABC O&O's meterologists met for a summit in NYC: https://twitter.com/abc7dallas/status/1220061479715721216?s=20
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2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:
Never mind. WPLG has the new look too. Despite being owned by BH, WPLG still acts like a Graham-owned station.
WPLG has an agreement with Graham so that they are able to continue using Graham's graphics and website.
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Scripps is beginning to integrate KASW into KNXV; there is now a KASW section of abc15.com. Looks like they will change from "The CW Phoenix" to "CW61 Arizona". However:
- Nexstar's KASW website is still active,
- KASW's public files and children's programming files are not on KNXV's website yet, and
- KASW has not moved into KNXV's studio yet, although I bet that will come soon.
Also, none of Scripps' other new stations have switched to their website styles yet.
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What is Gray up to in New Hampshire?
They are buying WYCU-LD in Charlestown, NH (currently owned by Greg Uhrin) for $75,000.
https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/240353/station-trading-roundup-6-deals-2175000/
My only guess is that they'll use WYCU as a translator for WCAX, but Charlestown is at the very southeastern tip of the market. It could also be an attempt to get WCAX coverage in southeast Vermont without irking WBZ. Stay tuned...
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TV3 New Zealand is in serious trouble. Its parent, MediaWorks, is selling its TV business, but there's a big possibility that it will not find a buyer, possibly causing TV3 to shut down.
https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/240199/tv-business-struggling-in-new-zealand/
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8 minutes ago, Mrtraveler01 said:
Oh darn, guess I can't watch the news on KDNL then.
Seriously though, this will impact markets a lot harder than St. Louis. Columbus comes to mind with Ohio State being on Sinclair stations there.
Cincinnati is probably the biggest problem; DirecTV customers won't be able to watch most Bengals games.
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50 minutes ago, DirtyHarry said:
Not that I know him, but he once smiled and said hi to me on campus as we were about to bump into each other for no reason. So my impression of Jeff is that he's a nice guy! I don't know if I like him as evening anchor, though. I'm all about the voice and he doesn't have a deep, entertaining voice.
LOL
Jack Nicklaus, Archie Griffin, Dave Thomas, Fred/Charles/Bob/Simon Lazarus (Macy's), Les Wexner, John Wolfe, Woody Hayes
Add John H. McConnell there (the man who brought the Blue Jackets to Columbus)
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Stations owned by 7 companies have gone dark on DirecTV over retrans. What do these owners have in common? They're all Sinclair shell companies.
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WFTS will be adding 7 hours of new newscasts beginning on the 3rd of June. The catch? Much of it will be streaming only. Say hello to ABC Action News Streaming Now.
https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/234783/wfts-tampa-announces-local-news-expansion/
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Sad news coming from Guam. Rex Sorensen, the owner of KTGM and KEQI (the ABC and Fox affiliates on Guam, respectively) and several radio stations there, passed away on Sunday. He was 73.
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26 minutes ago, JacobC said:
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Amanda needs to return to Boston until WHDH can rejoin NBC
Forget it. NBC will never return to WHDH.
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4 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:
KVII director Malcolm Montgomery passed away suddenly early Tuesday morning at the age of 27, while he making preparations for that morning's edition of ABC 7 News Daybreak. Steve Kersh, the station's chief meteorologist, disclosed on his Facebook FastCast feature on KVII's Facebook page that the station canceled that day's edition of its morning and 11:00 a.m. newscasts as a result of Montgomery’s death. We at TVNT send condolences to Malcolm's family and the KVII staff.
My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at KVII and the Montgomery family. I would also like to make very clear that now is not the time to make any comments about Sinclair regarding this situation. This could have happened anywhere.
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13 hours ago, KentBrockman said:
Could there be new Scripps websites soon? Not sure if this was mentioned elsewhere but:
Kinda looks TEGNA-ish.
Interesting that KGUN has a new Scripps website when it still doesn't have the Scripps on-air graphics AFAIK.
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There has been an active shooter at a hospital in Medina, Ohio, and this is what was going on the four news stations in Cleveland around 2:30pm and 3pm.
WKYC - local news coverage
WJW - local news coverage
WOIO - local news coverage
WEWS - General Hospital and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire!!!!!
News 5 didn't bother to go into breaking news coverage, except for a ticker at the bottom on-air, and of course its website and social media. To me, that's like saying not to bother watching the station anymore. That is a prime example of dropping the ball big time.
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Interesting timing: just after the Gray-Raycom deal was announced, KGMB/KHNL sports anchor Taryn Hatcher announced that she is leaving the station. No word on why she is leaving, but to me it is not connected to the deal.
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WPTZ is moving its Vermont bureau from Colchester to a larger facility in South Burlington and will also open a new bureau in Lebanon, New Hampshire, which may replace WNNE's former studio in White River Junction that currently only houses an ad sales office. Their main studio will remain in Plattsburgh.
Don't be surprised if the people at WPTZ start putting on more weight after the move: the same building they're moving into also houses the executive offices of Ben & Jerry's.
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I'm a few days late to this but I'm not surprised at all; WBUP/WBKP fits relatively well with MMM's Wisconsin duo of WISC and WKBT. Can't wait to see MMM give these stations the overhauls they BADLY need.
Also I don't want to speculate too much here but I wonder if MMM goes after the Rockfleet stations next; WJFW kinda fills in a hole in north-central Wisconsin created by WISC to the south, WKBT to the west and now WBUP/WBKP to the north.