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  1. DirtyHarry
    Their construction permit is perfectly adequate for covering Sioux Falls and maybe 50 miles out unless it's some weird directional pattern they have to use. What they don't have is a 2000 ft tall super tower, so they can't get way-way out like the other stations. But how important is that anyway? You can probably get a lot accomplished using translators. And who knows? Maybe Forum will put up the money for a new tower or lease space on one. Or maybe buy one of the existing towers.
  2. DirtyHarry
    Makes sense to me that something might be up. A lot of people laughed when Weigel started dipping their feet into owning network affiliates. If you can build a decent station on an LPTV signal in South Bend, it's doable here with a full power station.
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    They know what they're doing, I would think. They can leverage a lot of what they do in Fargo for their new station. Maybe ABC is sick of duopolies so maybe Forum gets the ABC affiliation in Sioux Falls. Like WTHR being owned by the Wolfes was almost like having local ownership, maybe the same thing here. Locally-owned ABC instead of a chain station with cheap, diverse, wet-behind-the-ears talent. I think Sioux Falls is a great city, by the way. $1.4 million is petty cash for them.
  4. DirtyHarry
    TBD? Who watches that channel? All I see on there are stupid YouTube videos. Don't kid yourself. 75% of the interest and hype about sports has ALWAYS been about gambling. They're just making things formal now.
  5. DirtyHarry
    They're like radars. Nice toy to have for marketing purposes, but not a necessity.
  6. DirtyHarry
    So somebody slid some cash under the table ...
  7. DirtyHarry
    I think the FCC has rules about this. What happens in Lima and Parkersburg?
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    I wonder why the old regime didn't do this. It seems like it would have brought more money in their pockets. It might eat into their viewership for Licking County. Only 55 miles separates Columbus and Zanesville, and Newark is right in the middle. NBC/Fox is the right choice, though, because of Big Ten football. Probably not enough bandwidth for CBS, which has the last piece of the new contract. Fire up an LPTV and get CBS and ABC in there as well, just like Lima and Parkersburg. Licking has both WHIZ and WCMH. I think Muskingum does as well. Given WTTE's long-time incumbency, I bet they stay on cable as well, though Time-Warner won't be too happy about that.
  9. DirtyHarry
    It's easy to root against the bankster here. Standard General will probably just be another low class operation like most of the others. Say what you want about Tegna, but they aren't Nexstar or some of the other notorious names out there.
  10. DirtyHarry
    Day 183 of the 180-day shot clock. I have no love for banksters, especially those who have to bend and twist the law with Olympic-level gymnastics to get what they want. Tegna is based in the imperial capital of the Global American Empire. I'm sure they Tegna people know people in positions of power and those Tegna people have complained loudly about the banksters trying to hoover up everything with their legal contortions.
  11. DirtyHarry
    Why? Were they pushing the envelope, engineering-wise?
  12. DirtyHarry
    They had another one of these segments on the 11:00 p.m. newscast, 8/4/22, beginning after the 23 minute mark. The first guy complains about the theme music, the next woman thinks that people from out of state should be banned from buying lottery tickets and they keep joking about the theme music right into the commercial. Hilarious. .
  13. DirtyHarry
    Yup. People love having some kind of local connection. Lazarus here used to have 10 or 12 stores in the area. Once they took the Lazarus names off the buildings and put Macy's on them, they've dwindled to three stores, soon to be two.
  14. DirtyHarry
    Dumb location. You need to be closer to downtown, that's where everything happens that ends up being on the news. News out in the suburbs is pretty boring. That said, they could put a studio in the vicinity of the old Randall Park Mall. That might be entertaining.
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    I wonder how the economics work. It's got to be pretty expensive to put up a 2,000 ft Tower in some of these places, which you need out there because you need to cover a lot of sparsely populated territory.
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    I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, times have changed. Just like towns don't really need 10 newspapers anymore, do you really need three or four TV stations covering the same news with the same kind of boring newscasts? It's not like they do any investigative reporting or that there is anything interesting enough to cover on the municipal level. At the same time, having your own talent gives a station personality. Otherwise, it's just a jukebox of stuff being played from a server. If it was my checkbook and I were spending the money, I would have consolidate everything in the background, but have separate anchor teams, studios and sets just to give it the facade of being a different newscast.
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    I It is typical because of the transition to ATSC 3.0. They are teaming up and sharing bandwidth. Here in Columbus, Sinclair operates three channels and most of them have been squeezed into two, but 53.3 is given a home on the Nexstar WCMH signal. All the Nexstar and Sinclair ATSC 3.0 signals are broadcasting from the former WWHO-TV signal on Channel 23. 1) Channel 28/Virtual 6 (WSYX) - ABC, Fox 28, This TV and another Diginet; 2) Channel 27/Virtual 28.1, 28.2 (WTTE) - TBD and Antenna TV; 3) Channel 27/Virtual 53.1, 53.2 (WWHO) - CW and Charge; 4) Channel 14/Virtual 4 (WCMH -Nexstar) - NBC plus a few other Diginets; 5) Channel 14/Virtual 53.3 (WWHO) - Comet; 6) Channel 23 - ATSC 3.0 signals from WSYX, WTTE, WCMH AND WWHO
  18. DirtyHarry
    Two comments: 1) It seems like they are going about this backwards. I think you should start with local and then cut over to CBS NewsCentral. 2) What a jarring difference in picture quality between the national feed and what they have in Seattle. Is CBS really that cheap? Can't they send over a used camera from one of their other stations?
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    No offense to anybody, but I only made it about 2 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore. The guy with the high pitched voice was annoying and Elliot Rodriguez put me to sleep. Nobody's going to dial up a station in the nose bleed section of UHF to watch another boring newscast. Entertain me. Also, how is it this any different than Sinclair's NewsCentral? And why aren't your heads all exploding like they were when Sinclair tried to do it?
  20. DirtyHarry
    I would hope that Cox would be the survivor, not Standard.
  21. DirtyHarry
    I'm personally not a fan of too much consolidation in the media if for no other reason than it's boring to have the same narrative repeated everywhere. What made this industry fun before was the fact that it wasn't as cookie cutter as it is today. The powers that be like it, though.
  22. DirtyHarry
    I wonder how much that cost Soo Kim. Cox would have a nice footprint around here with the Gannett stations. WKYC, WPXI, WBNS, WHIO, WTOL, WTHR, WHAS and beyond fit like a glove.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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