scrabbleship

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.

I think this pretty much kills any sort of move of CW to WSBK. I think that at this point they'd rather roll their dice with WHDH than move.

Or what KXVO did about 10 years ago.

Yes. Which makes this deal a disaster in the making. If you think of sheer news departments owned, post-merger Nexstar would have nearly 100. Sinclair doesn't even have 60 news departments currently running. Given the headaches Sinclair has had with their rapid growth and that some stations still don't have upgrades, how Nexstar will navigate a far larger mass will be problematic.

WNYT's Jessica Layton is headed to WCBS at the start of next month. Considering her husband (Andrew Catalon of CBS Sports, himself a WNYT alum), this is a win-win for both. This is the second time a WNYT staffer has headed to a CBS O&O this month: Anna Meiler left to freelance at WBZ three weeks ago.

WUHF was never owned by Nexstar.

The newscast should have been 30 minutes from the start. In a market which already has 3 stations on for a full hour at 10 (plus WBIN), a half hour newscast has its advantages. Also, being on a subchannel has its disadvantages especially in terms of being less visible and lack of carriage on satellite.

This move is also in response to NBC announcing that the Access Hollywood/Extra pair will move to "their station" effective the start of next year. Whatever show gets the shaft will probably get some fringe slot on WLVI for the time being.