Nelson R.

She is still there, and her family lives in Winston-Salem I believe so hopefully she will stick around a while. The station needs some stability. She took Diana Alvear’s 6 and 10:00 spot when she left in February.

Leaving her former station was difficult for her

YouTube TV is dropping the Fox Sports regional channels AGAIN.

https://www.facebook.com/194220537255104/posts/4805304339480011/ WBTV reporter Bria Bell is leaving for a station in Dallas, her hometown. She went to visit Molly because she is still on maternity leave (Molly will be back first week in October).

Right after the Braves-Mets game ended I saw a promo on WJZY for their 10:00 news, about a “Moving Mayhem” feature they are doing on Monday and it said it was “Charlotte’s most watched 10:00 news.” Whaaaaaaaat? So it has passed WCCB AND WAXN at 10?

Yeah I didn’t like when WNCN went with CBS North Carolina when they first switched to CBS in 2016. That was a slap in the face to all the CBS affiliates all over the state, especially legacy affiliates WBTV and WFMY that have always been a primary affiliate since the late 40s, early 50s.

After losing her baby in May, Allison Latos of WSOC found out after a viewer email she had thyroid cancer, I meant to post about this earlier. https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-reporter-experiences-sickness-and-loss-also-hope-and-joy?fbclid=IwAR10Gu_tsrxAgwfm8rB2F-AnnErjswGXL_yz8oNOUM37q_ELPyxAey-SAXs#stream/0

I will have to keep my eyes out for WCNC

Especially since they decided to go the lifestyle route again at 3. QC at 3 is basically a clone of QC in the Morning.

I hope the Good Day Charlotte extension is next. May have to wait for syndication contracts to expire. What I could see is WMYT taking 25 Words or Less when America Says is cancelled in a few weeks. And I’d like to see WJZY’s new schedule be something like this: 9am Good Day Charlotte extension 10am Rachael Ray 11am Kelly Clarkson Noon Dr. Oz 1pm The Real The rest stay the same

WJZY just hired a new news director and his first move is now not starting their weekend editions of Good Day Charlotte until 6am They are adding more infomercials. No biggie at 5am on weekends. Don’t think this is really a big loss. I don’t think that many people could have been watching a weekend newscast that early on a 5th place station. That said, hopefully it means they are eventually expanding during the week.

This was actually posted by WJZY. Ooops. Quickly deleted....

Molly was interviewed by CNN this morning

Thank goodness they are all going to be OK.

Cox Media stations go dark in 10 markets on Dish Network Don’t know why this was posted in Out and About.

Congratulations!

Congratulations WBTV’s Molly Grantham and family! Her third baby arrived last night! https://www.facebook.com/194220537255104/posts/4472321692778279/

She comes to WJZY from sister station WJTV in Hattiesburg. Welcome to Charlotte Lanaya!

Was also 42 years since WSOC went from NBC to ABC, WRET (now WCNC) went from independence to NBC and WCCB went from ABC to independence, and 7 years since WJZY took the Fox affiliation and WCCB switched to the CW after FTS bought WJZY and WMYT from Capitol Broadcasting.

WJZY is no longer airing its special Tuesday night 11pm newscast which it called “Fox 46 News Nightside.” It was for coronavirus and primary election coverage. It had aired on Tuesday nights since the end of February. I guess it will return when it gets closer to the election. But they need to just go ahead and make that a permanent every weeknight thing,

That’s an odd time for Dr. Phil to air. Most NBC stations air Days of Our Lives at 1. Still got time to tinker. Maybe put Days at 1 and Phil at 2.

https://deadline.com/2020/06/sinclair-broadcast-group-headline-news-service-1202961647/#comments They eventually plan to expand it to “afternoons and then evenings.” Wow. So maybe 3-4pm and 7-8pm Eastern? Or 6-7pm? The evening slot would take away sitcom rerun time. Maybe it would just be 30 minutes each in the afternoon and evening. Sounds like overkill.

Really should only be 2 hours, and not 3. Will it be 6-9 in all time zones? The stations that air Big 3 10/9pm news productions by their duopoly partner should air morning news from those stations instead if they do not already. Looking at you WMYA. Not sure which station it will be on in Raleigh/Durham, WLFL or WRDC. Probably the former if I had to guess. WLFL could air morning news from WTVD since they air their 10:00 news but they are not the station in a duopoly with them. If it does expand to other affiliates I’d like to see WMYT pick it up, but I’m not sure if Nexstar would want it going against its own Good Day Charlotte.

New site looks great. Hope WBTV gets it.

Nexstar Remains Firmly Atop Station Groups