Nelson R.

15 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I would imagine a subchannel.  They would be foolish to send Fox packing to Scripps and WGNT, or worse, Sinclair and WTVZ.

Fox and Scripps seem like an odd fit anyway. Would Scripps even want Fox?

3 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

Not surprised that Sherri will be back I thought it be renewed. I think as along as Fox O&O keep Sherri in their lineups it will be on for years like Wendy Williams was in my opinion. 

Cox isn’t mentioned, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that WSOC/WAXN won’t reup.

4 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

Goes into effect April 1st. They're running commercials for it in Albany, not posting about it online though.

April Fools?

1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

WSB 2 Atlanta delays ABC World News Tonight until 7 pm, opting to air their 6 pm local news as a 1-hour bock. This puts them head to head with WAGA Fox 5 who does the same. (Both don't list 6:30 as a separate newscast). 

KDKA Pittsburgh does that with the CBS Evening News. 

31 minutes ago, The Frog said:

The CW is nearing a deal with the remnants of the Pac-12.

2 Pac After Dark

I’d like to see Good Morning Football on WJZY at 10am, sandwiched between the morning and midday news, with the game show block moved to the afternoon so it doesn’t have to compete with LMAD and TPIR anymore. I mean they are the official station of the Panthers so it makes sense.

I guess the way people are talking this appears headed to the beta stations though so make that WMYT. Would still make sense.

On 3/5/2024 at 4:11 PM, Nelson R. said:

 Molly Grantham leaving WBTV and TV (will remain in Charlotte). 

On 3/7/2024 at 12:10 PM, tylerSC said:

Sorry to see Molly Grantham abruptly depart WBTV, as she was apparently forced out the door after she declined to renew her contract which expires at the end of the month. Rather than allowing her honorably finish 20 years of service, she was abruptly kicked to the curb wih no appropriate farewell or final broadcast. I would speculate Gray TV offered her an unsatisfactory contract, but whatever the case it is a shame to see her treated so disrespectfully. I hope to see her join WSOC or some other station if she so chooses and a contract is offered. WBTV continues to lose longtime legacy talent, incuding Paul Cameron, Maureen O'Boyle, Eric Thomas, Steve Ohnesorge, David Whisnant, and Steve Crump. Losing heritage credentials and class act reputation. More inclined to watch WSOC.

WBTV statement on Molly Grantham https://www.wbtv.com/2024/03/08/wbtv-statement-molly-grantham/
 

I hated how it went down. It appeared they might have had some sort of going away party for her off camera according to some pictures I saw last night on Facebook but she certainly deserved an on camera sendoff.

Splitting off this thread was long overdue 

13 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

Should it happen, It would be best for that program to be kept to 30 minutes given the budgetary constraints of the medium. 

If that’s the case either The Talk is cut to a half hour, Y&R is cut to a half hour, or Y&R and B&B each move a half hour later and 12:30 returned to affiliates and the Talk cancelled.

19 minutes ago, Drew said:

I wonder what game show or soap it will replace? 

Or it could replace The Talk.

Maybe CBS returns 12:30 to affiliates and moves Y&R to 1 and B&B to 2 and puts the new soap at 2:30 (if it’s 30 minutes). If it’s an hour it would likely just go right in at 2 ET. 

 Molly Grantham leaving WBTV and TV (will remain in Charlotte). 

54 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

Moved to P+ is not the same as cancelled outright but yeah. 

 

I thought the same. Maybe Y&R moves to 1 and CBS turns 12:30-1 over to affiliates or starts a “CBS Daytime News”.

Maybe CBS does similar to NBC News Daily and schedules it at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30 ET for each continental time zone. That would allow for CT to keep their noon news without the new CBS Daytime News being delayed and Y&R could stay at 11am CT.

12 hours ago, bgiesing said:

TBF, just cause it's "renewed though 2028" doesn't mean it will be "on CBS through 2028", they could very easily have a clause just like with Days to move to streaming at a later date

Moved to P+ is not the same as cancelled outright but yeah. 

12 hours ago, bgiesing said:

So like maybe B&B is only renewed for one more year while the more popular Y&R stays on for 4. 

I thought the same. Maybe Y&R moves to 1 and CBS turns 12:30-1 over to affiliates or starts a “CBS Daytime News”.

4 minutes ago, MD TV said:

Posting here because of the talk about what CBS should do. The Young and the Restless has been renewed through 2028:

 

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/the-young-and-the-restless-renewed-cbs-1235924102/

Bad news for those calling for Y&R to get cancelled.

9 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Not to dive into speculation, but could ABC return the remaining portion of the  11/10pm hour to their affiliates and have Nightline on at 12a/11p?

 

Certain ABC affiliates may want their old hour-long newscasts back....cough cough WEAR...WISN...  Not to mention those stations that added another half-hour syndie after the 10pm news and did so for years....

Doing so would give ABC stations an advantage over CBS or NBC.

I think Nightline could expand to an hour if Kimmel was not replaced.

12 hours ago, Matt S. said:

things are sliding back a full 10+ years in orlando. 

 

 

starting monday 2/12 on WKMG: 

- entertainment tonight (which has ceased to be tonight at this point, unless they plan on telling the future or what they think will be that night’s entertainment) and inside edition are gonna be on at 9/9:30am 

 

- Drew Barrymore is on at 3pm (again. it was already at 3pm in September) -  but now it’s the full hour 

 

- 4pm is a full hour of news again 

 

- after 13 years, news 6 at 7pm is over. the series finale is tonight at 7pm. apparently they are relaunching 6:30pm news albeit online. ET and Inside Edition will be at 7/7:30pm - the first time the CBS O&O schedule format has ever been used here. The 1:37am inside edition repeat is gone for good. 
 

 

WESH indirectly changed the entire flow of things here in orlando.

Just read about that on Discord and came to see if you had posted. WKMG has made a lot of changes this season. 

11 minutes ago, CoopInTheHouse said:

Update here: I was randomly fooling around on Wikipedia and found some amusing information.

 

KAZT-TV in Phoenix took The CW as of last week (February 1st). The reasoning? Nexstar entered into a time brokerage agreement with KAZT’s owner, Londen Media Group, to program the station.

Old news….but apparently it had not been posted in this thread. 

8 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

IMS does this "so-call" boost attendance. They want seats to be filled at IMS for the big race.

 

This "put the race on TV, no one will come to the stands" mantra is so backwards-thinking.  Why you want to hinder the local viewers from watching the race live on TV? NFL use to do this (if there's no sell-out 72 hrs before the game).

 

Yeah they are stuck in the 50s.

5 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

And then WTHR shows the race during primetime while the rest of the country gets the primetime lineup?

 

Precisely 

13 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Obviously, The CW wouldn't have the marquee race on Memorial Day weekend, but carrying the other races leading up to it and any other series would be a benefit for WISH.

 

So even after the 500 itself moved to NBC, they still tape delay it in Indianapolis?

Why wouldn’t the CW have it on Memorial Day weekend? EDIT:  Oh I see. They wouldn’t televise Indy.
 

And yes. NBC feeds WTHR that night’s primetime lineup while the race is being broadcast to the rest of the country (noon-4pm Eastern). ABC did the same for WRTV I believe.

13 hours ago, tjt24 said:

Wouldn't shock me if it ends up airing at that time on WPXI. You are right that Judy did well in the timeslot before the evening news. But regardless of what time it airs, there will be schedule changes at PXI come September. 

If WSOC/WAXN get it it will probably air at 4 on WSOC and the 4:00 Feud could move to WAXN. If WJZY/WMYT get it, it might have to go to 2pm on WJZY or 4pm on WMYT if there’s a head to head rule because WCNC has Judge Judy at 3. 

8 minutes ago, Glimmer said:

There was a tidbit in one of the articles when this was going into the market that CMV was telling stations with the current Judge Judy package NOT to pick up Judy Justice; kinda wonder if that’s the reason why a lot of the current Judge Judy station groups passed on this 

Interesting. Well, WCNC doesn’t have room for it anyway unless Tegna ditched Daily Blast Live.

2 hours ago, east-tx-tv said:

Recently (this week I think?) I saw a brief part of After Midnight on KTVT, then Comics Unleashed was on afterward.  IDK if that was a KTVT deal, or if that was a network thing.

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

It’s on KTVT’s end, they have the show on their late night schedule. I was tricked, too; I thought CBS had kept it around.

Comics Unleashed has been syndicated on some of the O&O’s for a while. But that wouldn’t have been a bad idea to only have After Midnight run for 30 minutes like the original and then kept a run of Comics Unleashed at 1:07.

Just now saw this. Much needed upgrade.

Drew Barrymore renewed for Season 5