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Combination of WCJB-TV being a 500 lb elephant in the market, and Gainesville being between Orlando and Jacksonville... and WJXT out of Jacksonville providing decent coverage.

Remember, Sinclair has been wanting to do something similar to TND for decades, starting with the NewsCentral concept.

WXLV in Greensboro. Yes, NC is a hot political market, but like with WNWO, most of the newscast is produced by an outside station (KABB), and only do a 6:00/11:00, with the Morning slot taking up by TND. Plus, having to compete with WXII (WFMY and WGHP to a certain extent also) in market, and WSOC/WTVD in the outer bands of the market mean that the station likely isn't drawing much viewership. Plus, for some reason, Sinclair has their Sister station WMYV air TND in the 11:00 slot, directly competing against WXLV.

True, but nobody's buying. We are in the beginnings of a recession in a economy where banks are risk adverse, and in this media landscape, taking on Cable/OTA station is one of the most risky ventures for a financial institution. Private equity isn't interested because unlike in 2008, interest rates are high for the banks who are willing to lend.

That is why in the MG era, WNCN's newscasts were 6:00, 7:00 (instead of 5:00) and 11, and with neither WRAL or WTVD doing a 7 at that time, it gave them a way to catch viewers who otherwise watch one of WRAL or WTVD.

If moving Shep to MSNBC is to happen, I wouldn't expect it until mid-January, instead of the beginning of the year. The reason? The Olympics. Instead of starting CNBC's coverage at 8, I can see them starting it at 7, pre-empting "The News"... coincidently to the vacated 11:00 MSNBC slot for two weeks (The News with Shep already has a midnight repeat on CNBC).... and just never move him back to the 7:00 CNBC slot. Honestly, IMO, Shep's CNBC slot always seemed to be a stopgap until either a slot opened up either on NBC or on one of the few hard news slots on MSNBC

Especially, with the fact that more and more people are dropping cable/satellite on a daily basis. This is why CBS, and ABC launched 24/7 OTT streams instead of a 24/7 news channel. I know that Nexstar had "Dead Space" with WGN America, but they should have launched NewsNation as an OTT product in this day an age, and sell WGN America to recoup some of their losses but at the same time Nexstar is behind the times when it comes to digital. It wouldn't shock me if the endgame for NewsNation is to become Nexstar's version of NewsCentral.

I thought that keeping WEAR/WPMI separate was a condition of the FCC approving the sale of WPMI from Newport, outside of emergency situations? Especially since IIRC, Sinclair used the argument of one station targeting Mobile, and one Targeting Pensacola as grounds to convince the FCC to let Deerfield acquire the license of WPMI.

They were talking about the Ion Stations, although some of the stations, at least in the early 2000's had ability to cut the feed (The Central Florida Stations carried MLB Games, and WEPX/WPXU were dual Ion/MyNetwork TV stations for a few years). If the stations are that centralized, it would take a while to decentralize them, which may be why Scripps decided to place them under the Katz division, since they already have turn-key networks available.

I wonder if it's an effect of the sell of the duopoly to Nexstar? Looking up zip codes in Nexstar Markets, and it seems their agreement with YouTube TV only include their Big 4 affiliates, and not their CW/MyTV affiliates, regardless of duopoly status.

And IIRC, that is what is currently done with WTTV and WXIN

The only way that the GMA 3rd Hour will work is if they trade the 9:00 hour for the 1:00 Hour, regardless of who hosts it. Not going to happen because of Live with Kelly and whoever is co-hosting now occupies that slot* * I know that it's an Syndicated show, but it's syndicated by ABC, and airs on ABC O&O's

Yep. Although on the app perspective... They already separated them out. Fox Sports Go is for the RSN's, while the Fox Sports App is for the properties retained by Fox

It depended. Most of the time, FS1/Fox produced the telecasts. However, if Fox had more than 3 games to produce, and if one of the two teams on the FS1 game was on an FSN station, then they simulcasted the FSN feed over FS1. Not to be confused with Fox hiring a local broadcast team to call a game to be produced by Fox.

The other parts of the package? Imagine if Sky Sports was in America, and imported their graphics. Not that I'm complaining.

It appears that WXLV is in the beginning stages of relaunching their in-house news department. Looking at the Sinclair Jobs page, they have openings for nearly every position.

Most stations in that case block the online stream for all viewers with a slide saying something like "due to rights restrictions, we are unable to stream the sports segment.

Not to mention Disney/Hearst have a partnership with A&E Networks and ESPN, which would be rocky if ABC pulls the same stunt in Boston.

Great, that's all we need, Sinclair in New York City,Los Angeles, and Chicago. Also, I'm too lazy to look the other potential markets they may have to sell, but even with the cap raised, they would have to at least divest stations in St. Louis* and Greensboro. * Although Meredith also would have to divest a station in the market

And Fox wonders why people don't take them seriously when they claim to be "Fair and Balanced"...

It's both. Tribune (smartly IMHO) arranged it where KCPQ's expires at the same time that the Former O&O stations acquired from Local TV ends.

Lack of (viable) English Language options for the market, and that WSVN is one of Fox's strongest stations. Where else would Fox go in the market? WPLG is happy with ABC, with the remaining English stations being O&O's (lumping WSFL in b/c of Tribune's ownership of The WB+ their now-expired agreement with The CW). None of the Spanish operators would sell in Miami, since it is a market where Spanish TV outrates, or is on par with their English Counterparts.

WTVD is in damage control mode... though no fault of themselves, or of their employees. The suspect in the case that is being described as George Zimmerman 2.0 is the son-in- law of Greg Barnes, their Fayetteville Bureau chief.

Sinclair slapped with a $ 9.5 Million fine for illegally negotiating retransmission consent for stations they didn't "own or control'. I'm not a Sinclair hater, but that makes 2 fines for illegal operations/negotiations, how many more of these will they rack up before they become RKO and are forced out of the television business.

Another thing to remember is Strahan's workload. During the NFL season, he also works for Fox, making it where he had 3 gigs and he could have wanted to drop one of his gigs, considering Fox's NFL program is based in Los Angeles, while Live and GMA are based in New York. To ease his travel ,he can appear out of Los Angeles on Mondays for GMA during NFL season, while for Live to work, both hosts need to be in studio together.