DirtyHarry

She isn't hot enough for Fox.

Figures they'd hire someone white.

Since you can use the virtual channel number of any overlapping signal you own, I don't know why you wouldn't call 30.1, even if you are broadcasting it from the Virtual 3 signal. At least give the impression that the town is getting a new TV station.

I don't know if this belongs here, but it's kind of amusing. Lorene Wagner (former WSYX, WBNS) and her son Will. https://www.facebook.com/TheHetheringtonTeam/videos/3677872432238408/

Don't forget WSYX. They do a very good job in my opinion.

Not fair. If you can't sell ads, you can't keep the place running. They can't sell classifieds because of Craig's List, department and appliance stores no longer can advertise in papers, car dealers use mostly digital platforms these days. Most of their profitable clients are gone. Without advertising money, you can't have as much staff. What they are trying to do makes sense in the current environment.

Yup. I had to transfer to T-Mobile prepaid before I was able to get it to Google Voice. I bought the Obi202, which works seamlessly with Google Voice, and now basically have a free landline.

They really should update their lettering. Looks like a stretched Univers font and it looks dated. And while they're at it, Action News is so 1970's.

A successful Channel like Me-TV is having this much trouble staying on stations? You would think these broadcasters would be tripping all over themselves to keep it. But Weigel is a small player and I guess the small players are getting squeezed out no matter how successful they are. this is further evidence that Dispatch made the right decision to get out of the business. No room for small players anymore.

I was in the next county yesterday. On the convenience store news rack was the local Gannett paper for Licking County, which was just a few pages. on the second shelf was The Columbus Dispatch, a Gatehouse property. I wondered to myself if it would make sense to have the Newark Advocate as a wraparound or whatever they call it for The Columbus Dispatch. Let The Advocate do its thing, however little it is these days, include The Dispatch along with it just so the paper doesn't look so pathetic and there is something to sell to subscribers.

TV programming is too tortured for my taste. I like the old way of doing things like the original Hawaii Five-O. Hawaii Five-O's format can be summed up as follows: 1. Cute introduction where this week's guest star bad guy character actor appears. 2. Bad guy commits crime. 3. Mcgarrett chases bad guy. 4. Standoff situation with the bad guy. 5. Mcgarrett prevails and they arrest him or he ends up dead. That's all I need from a TV program. I don't need some over-wrought acting where I have to bother with McGarrett's divorce, his dating life or his kid getting gender reassignment surgery.

I specifically said everything except the signal. Of course digital signals are great. But the underlying content was much better when it was done the old-fashioned way. Film looks better than digital cameras. Editing the old-fashioned way gave you a more interesting picture on screen. Now with computer editing, everything is predictable and looks the same. Same deal with graphics. Some graphics are okay, but most of them look like the office secretary photoshopped them. In Arial. The A-Team and The Rockford Files had some pretty good car accident/chase scenes back in the day. I know you misworded that, but it is correctly misworded. Fake, but accurate, as Dan Rather would say. The threat is that they keep the station on and gouge you at the bottom of your bill!!! Cable TV is simply not worth the cost. They are killing the Golden goose. The higher these fees go, the more people cut the cord. $0.10 here, $0.10 there adds up to be real money.

P.S. technology has also aided in the decline of the TV viewing experience. Analoggives you a much better experience, and I'm not talking about analog TV signals. I'm talking about using actual film, cutting it by hand, actual stuntman instead of CGI, etc.

TV was far more watchable when we had three main networks. Cable has diluted talent to the point where practically everything everywhere sucks.

Meh. She didn't have a good presence on air. Fort Wayne material.

OSU / Nebraska affects their checkbook in Columbus, Dayton and Charleston and all over the state of Nebraska. Then we have all the SEC cities like Birmingham ...

I'm by no means a hater of corporations but when it comes to creative content, they ruin everything they touch. And not just in the media. Shopping these days is about as fun as going to the dentist because all your choices have dwindled to just a handful as the big corporations gobbled up market share. (Retail does have a creative side to it.)

LOL - I finally got my parents to get a cell. They have a $3-ish a month pay-as-you go plan from T-Mobile (30 minutes a month plus 10 cents a minute after that). I buy that for them, too. (They're not poor, just technologically incapable of loading the phone up with more time every couple months when you have to add money to the account.) If you have wireline cable, get an Obi202. It can work in conjunction with a Google Phone Number and it usually allows you to fax. Not perfect, but it usually works. Best part about it is that it is effectively free except for the cost of the box. (No monthly fee.) My home landlines are with Obi. Maybe it works with wireless internet, I haven't tried. Also, there is faxzero.com (free but limited to 2 pages) and faxaway,com, which I have been using for years. $1 a month gets you a Seattle-based fax number with a 206 area code and unlimited incoming faxes that come in through email. For outgoing faxes, there is a nominal fee. You compose/scan something in Word or PDF, email it to them and they fax it for you automatically. Also, I didn't realize this until a few months ago, but my T-Mobile voicemail accepts incoming faxes too, but then you have to forward to a regular fax machine.

Time for a new formula, in my opinion. I think the tabloid approach has gotten a little stale.

True. The power company installed a new electric meter which I have the ability to monitor through an app. I have a 10-year old 58 inch Samsung Plasma TV. The knock-on plasmas was that they were supposed to be energy hogs, right? Wrong. That huge TV uses only about 100 Watts according to the app. But when I have the cable box on, power usage spikes to 500 watts. I couldn't believe it and then I googled it and sure enough these boxes can use up to 500 watts. And I don't even have a DVR. I canceled the DVR because I found that I watch a lot less TV when I don't have the ability to record. This is just a plain jane HD cable box and it uses 500w. That's probably about as much as my electric oven uses. Un-freakin'-believable.

I rarely watch anyting on TV. It's usually just on as background noise. I like some of the LPTVs around here because there are a handful of channels that show old movies.

My parents are too old and stupid to handle streaming. Even email's a challenge for them sometimes. I buried a wire, technically illegal, but I told the cable company what I was doing. They don't care - they just wanted a sale. My dad is 85 and he watches a lot of football and futball. My mom is 81 and likes the old movies on TCM and all the woman channels. They both watch the news channels and the local stations.

I shouldn't have to pay for anything that isn't ad free. Besides, they're killing the golden goose. The only reason I still have cable is because my parents live next door. I buy it for them. Otherwise, I mostly watch over the air TV. I pay $120 ish a month for what they call the medium package and internet. Internet only is about $40 for 100 megabit or maybe it's up to 300 megabit now. That $80 a month extra is a charitable contribution to keep my parents from fighting with each other out of boredom. Is the crap you see on cable worth $80 a month or $960 a year? Nope.

Like I said, cable companies should do what the satellite companies used to do and hook you up in a manner so that you just pick up channels off the air, but they get tuned through the cable box. Then these silly disputes will stop and so will the <strike>stream of revenue</strike> extortion money paid to broadcasters.

The switch to MeTV was pretty seamless on WBNS. At midnight, right in the middle of the intro to "Star Trek: Enterprise," the music stops and Perry Mason appears, already in progress. The PSIP still says "Heroes" on 10.2 but earlier today I noticed that it only said "4.2" on WCMH. Decades is still on 10.3. I didn't check to see if there is now a 10.4. I hope so.