DirtyHarry

92.7 is Class B1, I believe. Just like WWLG.

WLIO is 70+ miles from where the TV towers are in all adjacent markets if I remember correctly. Perhaps Fort Wayne is a tad closer. Muskingum County only has 32,000 TV homes I believe.

Extremely short-sighted since so many people are cutting cable.

No PBS in Waco?

This is at a 41 mile radius, going to about Summit Station. It's hilly terrain so who knows if this is an accurately reflects their signal and how far it gets out. Seems like a lot of opportunities to be hyperlocal within this area, something WBNS and WCMH can't do. I'd give all of these little city governments 5 -15 minutes a day on a "Local 18" subchannel for their daily announcements or whatever and loop it all day. Like the morning announcements in school.

It all depends on whether they are long-term players and what they're willing to put into it. The Wolfes had several opportunities to buy some additional radio and TV stations. They didn't want to expand, but they weren't ready to sell either.

WBNS and WSYX will still probably get more viewers because of sports coverage.

NewsNet has a decent product, decent set and decent graphics. For some reason it doesn't hold my interest. Their anchors have good voices and good presentation skills, but they're mostly hispanic. It looks like they are trying to be the El Paso nightly news just in terms of the talent they use.

My viewing these days is about 80% OTT and 20% OTA. I cut the cable last year and never looked back. I wonder how they're managing all the bandwidth though. Tonight, a lot of people in Ohio were watching Newsmax because of the town hall with JD Vance and Renacci. Seems like a real waste of bandwidth to be sending all those bits to everybody's home individually. I would imagine they have some kind of software available where they only have to send them once and they go to everybody watching Newsmax without having to send separate packets?

If I were them, I'd put some money into translators. You can pick up a decent amount of viewers in places like Athens where they might not get a good signal. Put one in extreme Southeast Perry county, which should be in their market. I think you should be able to hit Athens from there.

Zanesville is 55 or 60 miles from Columbus. It's not exactly unprecedented for two network affiliates to coexist in a 60 mile area. Pittsburgh and Steubenville are much closer as were Akron and Cleveland. Dayton and Cincinnati are about the same mileage. If anything, they should do a Lima and add the other networks on LPTV/subchannels. Edit: WHIZ is viewable at the Franklin Licking County line kind of in the Pataskala area. WHIZ is also viewable in the Mount Vernon area, at least with an outdoor antenna. If you look at Marquee's list of stations on Wikipedia, they all have short towers and crap signals, so don't expect an upgrade for WHIZ. I think one of the towers is of a decent height but none of their stations have a lot of ERP.

Could the deal between Tegna and Cox have changed? Maybe the FCC already gave them an informal thumbs down? Maybe instead of that convoluted setup they had before, Both Tegna and Cox get rid of all their dog stations to get under the cap and then merge Cox into Tegna?

Sinclair needs to go back to using "WHO 53" for WWHO. I always thought that was pretty catchy.

Same reason WBNS invested millions in a slick new newsroom and why Sears and Kmart were closing newly remodeled stores. You spiff it up to make it pretty to sell.

Depends - abc6onyourside.com is easy to remember even though if it is a little unwieldy, because they've been using that slogan off and on for 30 years for more. They used to use wsyx6.com, which also isn't bad. (The domain for the Fox station myfox28columbus.com is not as easy but you can get there with a little guessing.) Likewise, 10tv.com, local12.com, nbc4i.com, wlwt.com, wishtv.com, wthr.com and several others are very easy to remember. What they have in common is they reinforce a station slogan or nickname, legendary call letters (after 74 years, people know WLWT) or call letters that mean something. If you live in Indianapolis, you will know the WTHR call letters because THR means Channel 13, the call letters are 45 years old and the station is top rated as opposed to being the 9th ranked UHF station. Likewise, SYX means "6" and that's easy enough. Adding "my" to the beginning also isn't bad and neither is "your." The domain for one of the LPTVs here is yourtv22.com, which isn't bad. They also have their domain name up on each of their sub channels when they flash their station ID at the top of each hour.

Faux News hasn't had a good pulse on its viewership since they ran off Roger Ailes. They think the average Faux News viewer worships the ideas of Bill Krystal, the late Charles Krauthammer and the rest of the neocon/globalist contingent, but that has never been the case. Faux's viewership has more sympathies with Rush Limbaugh and Trump than any of the Washington military industrial complex. By putting their thumb on the scale to try and swing the election, they urinated off a big chunk of their viewers. I haven't watched them since the election and I don't intend to. I need Washington propaganda from the right even less than I need it from the left.

But you still have to pay the bills. I'm just throwing numbers out, but let's say that internet bandwidth costs you four times as much as every cost you have to incur to get out your product out OTA. Unless the revenue is also there by being able to sell to advertisers a way to focus their advertising message more efficiently, it sounds like a shaky proposition. Maybe the revenue will be there in the future, but is it there now? And do they want to cannibalize their less costly form of delivery for something that costs them more? I've become hooked on these free video streaming services, particularly Pluto and Tubi. (That's also why I'm also down on broadcast TV.) For now, the ads are very reasonable. But because of what we've discussed, I wonder if these services are making any kind of a profit or will in the future We'll see how things shake out.

I never appreciated the NewsOn app until I tried watching on a real tv. It's pretty cool. Dumping a 70 (?) year old brand name like KX for Nexstars stupid web names is like when Macy's dumped 150 year old names like Lazarus because they thought everybody was so impressed with New York City and was dying to have a New York City department store in their town I asked some radio guys whether all the infrastructure that goes into broadcasting makes sense today cost-wise given that you can access everything on the web. You've got 2000 ft towers, tower crews and an entire plant you have to maintain just to get out a signal for people to listen to mp3s. (In radio, that is.) I was told that bandwidth is far more expensive than all the overhead you have to incur to get a broadcast signal out. Since video is far more bandwidth intensive than audio, I'm wondering what the numbers are.

"Lougee mistook Hoffman for a valet, deeply offending Hoffman." So what? Everyone's not a mystic. Maybe he wasn't dressed like an executive or didn't comport himself in a way that was executive like. Maybe he doesn't speak in a way that would convey that to someone. Or when we're dealing with the cashier at Walmart do we have to now assume that we are dealing with the CEO just so that we don't offend anybody?

Why, when you just did it?

Arguably, your peak years are in your 40s. It's all downhill after that. There are exceptions, but Shep isn't one of them.

I was curious about this whole digital phenomenon. It seems to me this whole infrastructure of building 1000 ft towers and lifting 20,000 lb antennas into place is very expensive and I wonder if the cost is sustainable given that I can broadcast with my smartphone if I wanted to. I asked some guys in radio about it and they still said it's cheaper to do it the conventional way than it is to go through the web using bandwidth. If this is true, I wonder how long all of these free video services are going to last given that video is more intensive than audio, bandwidth-wise.

I like Shep when he was in his prime on Fox during the 7:00 show. But now, Shepherd Smith is old and haggard looking. He's got that rode hard look these days. And then there is his severe case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that probably turned off most of his fans. It's too bad, because he was very good at one point.

I'm probably a little late to the party compared to you guys, but I just cut the cable and got myself a Roku box. I was like the proverbial frog in boiling water. What finally prompted me to cut the cord was a $175 bill that included $22 for the local channels (medium package, not many extras and no DVR). The amount of free advertiser supported content out there you can access through the Roku box is simply amazing. Between Pluto, the Roku Channel, Peacock, and all the rest, there is a ton of content out there. My point being, the Wolfe family was correct in selling out to Tegna. I don't see how a small time operation can compete in this world. With crappy programming and people like me cutting the cord I don't see much of a future for local TV either.

I was watching the WLOS news and was surprised that they are still using the old set WBFF and WSYX were using. I thought that station was important to Sinclair. I would have thought that they would have gotten a makeover by now.