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53 minutes ago, nickp said:

Greg Gutfeld's late-night show is unaffected by the WGA strike and will continue to proceed as scheduled

is Gutfeld gonna make all the late night shows obsolete by taking advantage of that? lord forbid.

i thought about making this thread but didn't think it would fit the topic of TV News. still sad to see it come to this though

isn't a transmitter transmitting from a master feed? if so you can take that, pipe it into ffmpeg and bam a HLS stream.

I only know the basics though, for subtitles it's going to be way harder to get that to work.

streaming is killing TV.

1 hour ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:

How about Comcast and Disney go 50% and merge ALL streaming services they have.  That way, everyone is happy and everyone wins.  All apps can also remain separate and then if they want them all together just use the Hulu app so that you don't have to keep switching between apps. 

 

Honestly, a streaming service that could give me not only the best of ESPN but the best of NBC Sports, would be appealing. Furthermore, Hulu's shows combined with both Peacock and Disney+ would result in a series of bangers that would be worth paying a Netflix style price per month for. To say nothing of the vast library content. Plus Hulu just renewed their deal with Fox Broadcasting Company so there's that.  

 

Disney would be smart to also buy a small part of Xumo too or even do a deal with Tubi, if not buying a small part of that. Then you would really have a threat to Pluto. 

The Incredible Hulk rights and everything else Disney wants says hi.

@Weeterssince Bob Iger is back. what would you title this thread now and for the future?

1 hour ago, Myron Falwell said:

Well, ESPN won't be on the block, but Iger all but telegraphed that Disney is close to offloading their majority stake in Hulu.

man they should just sell 33% to Fox Corp. and call it a day. much easier than offloading an investment you spent millions of dollars on.

I loved @midnight, I hope to be a part of it's new incarnation as a guest.

1 hour ago, BluesNews said:

This thread really should be closed.

that or have a warning post pinned, punish those who are speculating and push the thread on topic. which is about WANF, not WUPA 

36 minutes ago, CLETVFan said:

When did Fox move from WTTE to WSYX 6.3?

around the same time Sinclair started to move some affiliations to their primary channels ahead of a theoretical crackdown on shell ownership.

9 minutes ago, bmasters1 said:

 

Who is Latter-Day Saints?

the Mormon side of Christianity

3 hours ago, iron_lion said:

I think it was the shift to softer news and the Katie's Notebook/Talk Back op-ed segments for starters.

I don't know why people liked Diane Sawyer more than Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News in it's later years shifted to serious news and I thought she did a good job but others were like... eh.

plus CBS was trying too hard to look for the next Walker Cronkite when they should of been working on delivering a fine news product.

those are my thoughts anyways.

now that is slick.

I blame the treatment of content as disposable as why TV is going down the drain.

54 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

Never expected to re-boost this thread, but Iger's back, Chapek's out, effective immediately (obviously a thread title change needed).

that is... unexpected but good news regardless.

WJZ Jerry Turner clean ID from 1987

https://youtu.be/ylUdyImZCDA

I have a feeling they did Wendy Williams' talk show dirty.

1 minute ago, TexasTVNews said:

What's going to happen if the FCC denies the deal? They're back to square one, or will Byron Allen gets another chance to acquire Tegna?

I get that not everybody likes what Tegna is doing but I doubt Standard General is going to do a good job at "bringing journalism back" or "making the stations great again", I don't have inside info but I'm on the side of "this is a bad deal" and that Bryon Allen should of gotten these stations. It would of been much more of a story than another hedge fund taking TV stations down a notch. How is WLNE doing anyways?

why did they turn down Bryon Allen, that's what I want to know.

the ABC logo should be in two colors only. black and white

56 minutes ago, Spring Rubber said:

I haven't been following the business side of streaming. What happens if the streaming bubble collapses? Where does the business model go if that happens, if both cable and streaming collapse?

it's not going to collapse at all. there's more of a chance of cable collapsing entirely than streaming. cable is redundant anyways.

I swear the mishandling of Tribune could be it's own documentary. They had no idea what to do with WGN America (when compared to TBS which was a superstation in itself) and the only saving grace they had was that they had an image and namesake stations like WPIX/KTLA/WGN and the like.

Ever since Nexstar bought Tribune, it's like Tribune's management has been poisoning the company. To me, Nexstar today feels like what would of happened had Sinclair successfully attempted to acquire Tribune, a total trainwreck that claims to care about locals but only cares about the bottom line.

I wouldn't be surprised if many Nexstar stations go right wing in the future if Nexstar's investment in a right-wing NewsNation is successful. Nexstar is essentially Sinclair but better handled in my eyes now.

It's not NewsNation related but I posted this because Nexstar's handling of NewsNation could be the future of Nexstar as a whole.

title may not be great, thread might get closed but looking at the number of people who left and the number of controversies that NewsNation is going through. I feel like it's worthy of a thread to discuss in detail the turmoil that's going on at NewsNation.

It's amazing how in a few months, NewsNation lost a majority of it's staff and is going far to the right in defiance of it's original mission (which didn't get ratings but they could of tried harder). I'd be surprised if the network didn't shut down at the end of the year, gained a sizable audience and managed to make something for itself in the cable news world.

3 hours ago, SS8609 said:

Also, ABC has nowhere near the O&O gravitas that CBS, Fox and NBC have (albeit inflated by Telemundo in the latter), so if they're going to boost the distribution of its Localish diginet and potentially others as well, making a major play for O&Os could be the smart thing to do. And if Warren Buffett wants to get involved with his money like he did when CapCities swallowed up ABC with a (giant) big gulp and flipped two of their CBS affiliates to ABC, he might even dangle WPLG as a carrot to the stick, which would make Miami a five-O&O market (including the two Spanish behemoths based in Miami).

O&O gravitas doesn't matter anymore. Nobody's buying new stations except for FOX and that's mainly to get more money out of areas where they have NFL rights.

If anything, O&O's might be sold off if they're not viable anymore but I don't see Disney selling ABC or FOX selling to Disney and I'll be surprised if they do. Also any talk of WPLG as an ABC O&O is simply pure fantasy. Just because NBC & CBS own O&O's in Miami does not mean that it's an O&O market just like Boston isn't an O&O market. Think of it from a business perspective, not from a "fantasy TV" perspective.

On 4/20/2020 at 2:28 PM, TheRyan said:

 

I agree.

Instead of doing that, we should just ban ABC selling speculation in this thread until there are actual rumors suggesting that ABC might be sold.