scrabbleship

Have WDPX channel share with someone in town and cash out WBPX. Double the money grab.

If this rumor was WBPX/WPXG/the carcass of WDPX to NBC, it would be totally viable. Which makes me wonder, WDPX is the only full-power station in the Cape & Islands. Who could they channel share with that reaches their coverage area?

They have nothing in Minnesota but the state is surrounded otherwise especially to Mankato's west with KVLY and KSFY. This could be a good foothold especially if a Hubbard suitor doesn't want KAAL and WDIO/WIRT. The Watertown and Burlington markets border each other so it isn't as bad as it seems but otherwise...no. I think if anyone gets divested in Scranton, it's WOLF. Whether Gray would take that if offered would be a massive question mark. There are bigger coverage gaps out there in the Northeast: Hubbard from Rochester to Minneapolis, Meredith from Hartford to Saginaw, Tegna from Portland to Buffalo/DC, Quincy from Binghamton to Fort Wayne. Gray wouldn't be alone there. In the Speculatron, I posted the following stations remain independent (may be a few others): KOBI: Notice how Gray and Heartland don't overlap. I think there is a reason for this so that when the time comes, Gray can take Heartland in as a clean deal. Then again, the Medford and Reno markets do technically border each other and Gray is in Reno. KIEM: This has Heartland written all over it, especially with their presence in Medford and Redding.

Both are a good fit for either at this point and given Prather's past connections to Gray I wouldn't be shocked to see some swapping between the two going on eventually based on Gray presence. Prior to today, I actually had Heartland as #2 on my potential WCAX suitors list given how their coverage area and WKTV's touch in the Adirondacks (but not as much as in the analog era).

WWNY and KEYC would be perfect for them thinking about it.

KREM? KTVB? WBIR? WCSH? WFMY? WGRZ? The Jacksonville duo? This doesn't include the one truly bulletproof TEGNA station: WMAZ. They could do their worst and still dominate that market because the competition is so clueless.

IIRC WNYT commissioned that package.

Buried under the news of ASN going kaput, but somewhat related to it, is this gem. WRLH somehow did some technical reformatting and now is no longer able to get WJLA-produced DC United games for it's .2.. This when fellow affiliates/sister stations WUTB(.3.), WTVZ(.2) and WSET(.2) did not have a similar issue. What may have happened on a technical end? For a technically minded company wouldn't Sinclair have made sure to prevent this?

At least one Pence is leaving a dumpster fire. I find her timing (International Women's Day) vis a vis her uncle's unchecked misogyny to be quite coincidental. Back on topic, given WTTV's rating woes I wonder if their time with CBS will be akin to what happened in Seattle 20 years ago. I know there's a few years left but I think Nexstar would kill to get CBS back on WISH if they could.

I wonder how WTWC has gotten away with no news for so long if there is a minimum requirement. I assume as with Fox there is a monetary penalty to pay to the network if there is no news. Also, every TV listing service I've checked still has WNWO on from 5:30-7.

You know, its a bit short-sighted they couldn't cash in one of their Little Rock signals in for cash. It's not like they need four of them when you could probably move KARZ or KASN's programming to 16.2 just fine. Newport would've done fine by itself having sold Little Rock to Sinclair and Mobile to Nexstar. The outcomes of both now after the Sinclair/Allbritton and Nexstar/MG deals would've been...interesting.

Still wouldn't be anywhere near the carnage when Young took over and fired half the on-air staff.

Rene LaSpina is a reverse Queen Midas. Semi-back on topic but the wrath she unleashed trying to make WTEN into WHDH Lite hurt them for years until roughly the Young/MG merger.

At least Gray would have the will to upgrade WMTW to HD. At that point they might as well toss WPTZ in too. A wild way in would be WPXT. The local owners who bought them from New Age have wanted out for a while but they don't want to lose the grandfathered LMA with WPME and hitching up with Hearst or Tegna would be a massive headache

Rumors become reality: Sharman Sacchetti joins WHDH

IIRC WFXR is technically "WFXR Local".

They have out-Sinclair'ed Sinclair. And yet neither gets the vitriol that Clear Channel gets or got back in the day.

Has it passed anyone's mind that with the MG and WVMH deals closed or about to close that Perry Sook, the Cap Cities fanboy, has practically recreated Cap Cities minus Philly and Houston? The first Cap Cities TV station was WCDA, forerunner to today's WTEN. The second was the incumbent CBS station for the Triangle (WTVD for Cap Cities, WNCN for Nexstar) The third Cap Cities TV station was channel 12 in Providence (WPRO then/WPRI now) The fourth was a VHF in Buffalo (WKBW for Cap Cities, WIVB for Nexstar) The fifth was a VHF serving most of West Virginia (WSAZ for Cap Cities, WOWK for Nexstar) Later additions included WTNH and a station in Frenso (KFSN for Cap Cities, KSEE/KGPE for Nexstar) Finally, a UHF in Tampa to close it out (WFTS for Cap Cities, WTTA for Nexstar)

NH already had Nexstar coverage: Grafton and Sullivan counties are in the Burlington DMA and get WFFF/WVNY as do odd parts of Coös and Cheshire counties. More solid of a claim than WBRE/WYOU in New Jersey or WHTM in Delaware.

To paraphrase his time as a game show host, K-O ovbiously doesn't want to G-O.

I noticed on NBC Boston's channel list the Spectrum listing went from "Negotiations Underway" to "TBD". I think they're hunkering down for a battle since it is the last system of note to not come to a deal and when small systems on the fringe are falling like dominoes it says a lot.

I'd possibly put WCVB above NBC Boston for assorted reasons, those possibly including that her husband is a sports producer there and the two actually met working together years ago. She would be a great get for either station.

Sunbeam Television EVP/GM Chris Wayland is leaving for a similar position with Tribune. Wayland had been with Sunbeam for quite some time, previously as GM at WHDH.

Some more Albany stuff from the 1990s, this time in much better quality: WTEN 11:00 PM open, 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zqby-jepbUk;list=PLAMxOcgO3l2NtcG9IXsrEBCnh7X-rkDFv WRGB 11:00 PM open, 1/12/1994 A set of 1998 WRGB opens after they changed to InSink. And as a semi-relevant bonus, the musical element to the "See, Hear" program mentioned in the earlier file. Relevant because somehow L3's and the closing graphic WNYT used at the time do appear.

The former head of the New York chapter of NOW posted a long video of several interviews she did on Albany TV in 1997. The quality varies but some gems are in there. 0:00-1:10 has an interesting use of Prime News (on the Sunday interview/live music{!!} program "See, Hear") and a WNYT promo. Sadly the video and audio are choppy. 16:50-20:20 has a WRGB report on a contingent to a Promise Keepers rally in DD, and a good example of their final image using Making a Difference. 22:25-24:10 has a very odd WRGB transition, a clipped WNYT intro, a good example of WNYT's 1994-97 image, and their backdrop when it looked cool. 24:10-31:53 is from several months later with WRGB and WNYT (post-switch to NBC Stations) coverage on the Marv Albert trial.