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  1. DirtyHarry
    Gannett and by extension, Tegna, have a lot of allies in Washington because that's where they are based. I wonder if a lot of the employees are whispering in the ears of their buddies to kill the deal. Good for them if they are.
  2. DirtyHarry
    Too many words. A brand name needs to be snappy. Maybe CBS Detroit News is all you need for promotional purposes, but when you're in the newscast maybe call it CBS Detroit Now. Make it snappy and exciting if they can. The last thing any city needs is another boring newscast. I'd go heavy on off beat news and have people who can ad lib just to make it interesting. Like yesterday's story about BMW charging people $18 a month to use their heated seats.
  3. DirtyHarry
    Is it evil to hope the FCC flushes this one down the toilet? It's looking like they are. Whatever people say about Tegna, I don't have a lot of confidence that these new people would run anything other than a cut rate slash and burn operation. Why would Tegna do that? I think they would love seeing these people crash and burn. I wonder how much management has already bolted for the exit doors. Money and hassle to replace.
  4. DirtyHarry
    Maybe I'm just old, but the crappy stations you couldn't see during the analog era always had high channel numbers. CBS 62 sounds cheap to me for that reason and that reason alone. Do what NBC did and buy an LPTV. You can probably have WHNE-LD since it's on Channel 3. Consider it a marketing expenditure. It's worth every penny to be right between Channels 2 and 4. (62 can also use Virtual 3 since they would have the same ownership.) ABC 57 in South Bend also seems like a pretty good operation. Impressive for an LPTV.
  5. DirtyHarry
    Sounds like something Nexstar would do.
  6. DirtyHarry
    Simple, catchy, it really rolls off the tongue. Whoever came up with that is a genius! I love it! /s
  7. DirtyHarry
    I always thought it was pretty stupid to have a working office inside the studio anyway. The studio is like your living room. It should always be neat and clean for when company comes over.
  8. DirtyHarry
    It looks too simple to me. Simple backdrop, wood floor and a desk. I'm usually okay with minimalism, but something's missing there.
  9. DirtyHarry
    Good for them. It costs money to change channels.
  10. DirtyHarry
    Wow! All that effort for an LPTV station?
  11. DirtyHarry
    Watching [NEWSNATION] for the first time ever tonight. Dan Abrams and Ashleigh Banfield. Banfield does a good job giving it a professional feel. It's watchable.
  12. DirtyHarry
    Since the current PBS begathon is running, it puts things in a different perspective. You left significant money on the table and you turn around and beg money from me? Weigel might have wanted it for their LPTV.
  13. DirtyHarry
    There's only so much interest in watching a stuffy, boring local newscast. Action News worked for them and they were different from the rest. I don't understand the thinking of whoever the genius was who decided that they should go back to being a boring newscast like the other three instead of carving out their own niche.
  14. DirtyHarry
    It would have value to one of the Christian broadcasters, but I think that you could get that converted fairly easily.
  15. DirtyHarry
    I'm surprised that they didn't sell the license to one of the LPTV operators in Chicagoland. You'd think that somebody would want to buy it just to force their way on to cable.
  16. DirtyHarry
    Retransmission fees are killing the golden goose. My cable bill got to be so high that I finally pulled the plug. And a big reason for it was those retransmission fees. And I didn't have a lot of extras, just the medium package. I also don't understand why cable companies don't offer a package that does not include local stations. I am perfectly capable of picking them up off the air. If they were smart, they would have technology to make it seamless, so you can flip back and forth between cable channels and regular tv, like it almost is using a Roku box.
  17. DirtyHarry
    Why don't you file an objection? I'm serious. Something about news suffering and a time of economic turbulence, synergies leading to people out of work, concentration of media and whenever else you can dream up. You're the man to do it.
  18. DirtyHarry
    I don't understand why it wouldn't be. If you have a station in the market, a second station helps you get critical mass. Even if all it shows are old movies from the Paramount library, it's something to attract viewers and advertising.
  19. DirtyHarry
    I now see why I don't watch much TV anymore. Ugh.
  20. DirtyHarry
    No way. It's barely a network and they own the programming. They can do with it whatever they want. That said, Antenna TV is still on Sinclair here and the guy that owns Circle City used to work for Nexstar didn't he?
  21. DirtyHarry
    The Hill, like Politico, the New York Times, The Washington Post and all the rest is just another Company Town news source. Everything they print is slanted in favor of the deep state, the people who run the company town. The Hill to Politico was and is a lot like the Washington Post was and is to the New York Times 20 years ago and today. It was the sane alternative. I emphasize the word "was" because ever since Bezos bought the Post, they have been nuts. All 4 have Trump Derangement Syndrome, but the with The Hill, the phenomenon is more recent. .
  22. DirtyHarry
    The point is that it's not unprecedented for two stations to use the same branding in the same market.
  23. DirtyHarry
    Why not? Here in Columbus Channel 4 called its helicopter "Chopper 4." Channel 10 called theirs "SkyCam" or something like that. I guess SkyCam didn't have a very good ring to it so they started calling it "Chopper 10."
  24. DirtyHarry
    Does it really have a lousy signal? I know it's only 10 kw or something like that, but WKRC only has 15 KW or something like that and I don't hear a lot of complaining about their signal.
  25. DirtyHarry
    Good luck on that. I'm done paying for TV and so are a lot of other people. If it ain't free, I won't miss it. AFAIC, the networks aren't losing anything with free OTT. Back in the old days, the kind of movies shown on places like Pluto, Tubi, Xumo and Peacock would have been on free TV with commercials. Today, they're on OTT with commercials. They don't get whatever TV stations were paying for the movie, but they do get all the advertising which should theoretically be more money than what they got in "rental" fees before.
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