scrabbleship

Combing some historical weather data for Albany, there's a date I'm 99% sure fits this clip: October 10, 1991. The record highs and lows still match, the high and low that day match, and the other October 10ths that graphics package was in use were weekend days. This would've been just over a month after that package, Gari's "The Hour", and the NewsChannel 13 name came about. On a WNYT-related tangent. lurking on Archive.org is their own story on their 50th Anniversary (warning: downloadable link).

Those clips of Albany in 1994 are like gold given how that year was one where the market hit a turning point of sorts in it's history. WNYT and later WTEN refreshed their logos and image and later you had an arms race of news expansion to the point where stations were moving launch dates up to be first. All three stations announced their expansions to 6:00 AM within a day of each other and were set to do it on the same day until WTEN jumped the gun, for example. Not seen in the debacle of WRGB's 5:00 PM newscast, the return from commercial bumpers in which vocal effects looped Charlie Van Dyke several times. In contrast, WNYT played it safe with it's newcast being only two extra-long (13 minute!) segments.

Given the investment Sinclair has made in a WTVH-exclusive news product, I wonder how viable it would be for Granite to sell to someone that isn't a Sinclair shell. Who would even go after a third place station that's shown some potential? Heartland? Quincy? Gray? Hubbard owning its first CBS affiliate ever? As for KOFY, a saga ends. A saga which, adjusted for inflation, cost the $257 million in station value alone. I wonder where it would be today if they cashed out sooner, I remember when the cap went up to 39% it seemed initially certain that Tribune wanted then-KBWB and then-WDWB at any cost, well minus what Granite had in mind. Even the failed DS Audible deal would've been less of a disaster.

Right before WOKR got the Ackerley treatment in that company's dying months, but distinct given their being the largest market in the Ackerley CNYSG given Ackerley's inability to crack Buffalo and Albany. Quite ironic that, with a mere change of station in Rochester and an opportune deal, that Nexstar accomplished Ackerley's goal.

Yes. Chapin replaced Clausen alongside Momentum News replacing Primetime News and that open (which WJBK and WMTW also used) being hacked to bits. This was also when Rene LaSpina snaked her way into WTEN and tried to turn it into WHDH Lite, complete with "The News Station" being their tagline. The mid 2000's were a fun time for Albany news in general between all the anchors shifting stations, some old veterans hanging around, and the sheer expansion of content that continues to this day. Remember, Nexstar's Albany newsroom today produces more news per day than any other broadcast station in New York state or any station in New England outside Boston.

Clausen was dumped a couple of years before Primetime News was ditched and the L3's changed in late 2005. Momentum News didn't come until the start of 2007 when they did a music change alongside an anchor shuffle. The time when KSAZ gave someone good to the Albany market rather than bring a living debacle as when Kari Lake had her fifteen month detour to WNYT.

If memory serves me right, I can think of at least two other NBC affiliates - WGRZ and WPTZ - airing The Disney Afternoon. Both probably serving their larger audiences north of the border as much as those at home. Funny that 7:30 is one of the few times Boston doesn't have news today.

Wiki would've had six ownerships: Detroit News to Knight-Ridder to Palmer to New York Times to Local TV to Tribune. I'm racking my brain to think of anyone who has been at the same station under that many owners in which each was relatively stable and it wasn't sold in quick succession (a la one-time sister WPRI).

This makes me wonder why Univision bought WBIN then extended this agreement. Why own two stations when neither is your flagship network?

I hate Pai and Sessions but did they kill your cat and hurt your family?

Both needed new logos badly. The true is not same in Vermont where as poorly weighted as WCAX's "3" is it is a bit iconic and would be a loss.

The issue isn't how they get carried, it is the game plan to get carried in areas they don't have carriage in or on platforms they aren't carried on. I think the rebrand will help especially if they're finally getting Comcast in Montgomery and Loudoun counties on board. If they had must carry, everyone would've given in as soon as they ditched NBC. Witness how everyone carries WMDE without question.

This must've been a new development as they appear on no lineups as of yet.

Will that get them carriage in the core of the market though.

I wonder if Univision programming will end up moving from 27 to 50 and Entravision gets frozen out in the cold. I wonder how far east the WUNI tower can be moved because this could be a) a full-power home for WBTS or b) a new home for WBPX with WBTS moving to the current WBPX.

They'll be launching Tennessee without Chattanooga and New York without NYC.

And the eternal cycle at WTEN starts again. Build a ton of goodwill then knock it all down.

Darryl Kile didn't die of suicide, he died of a heart attack from drug use.

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.