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Milo Yiannopoulos.

Wasn't this the same kid who had the MAGA hat?

WCAX had a translator in Brattleboro during the analog era and neither WNEV/WHDH or WBZ ever objected to that. Also, WCAX is on every cable system that covers the Windham County plus is on DBS there. This falls into that category if anything. If this deal also included WYCX, WYCU's translator in Manchester, VT, and WYCI, the full power H&I/My station in Saranac Lake, I would think something would be very up but just this doesn't seem all that off.

If memory serves me right, WHP was showing preachers at noon going way back into the 90s when they were owned by locally-based Dame Media. Which I always saw as odd since noon was the one timeslot where they might have had a fighting chance against WGAL with the lead-in of TPiR.

I can get WNEP given its market dominance and how the market is screwy as it is. But where is the outrage over WPMT, a Fox affiliate which at best is #3 in a market that is dominated by someone else? I'd get outrage if this was WGAL, but WPMT!? I would think that KFSM would have more outrage going for it than WPMT. I think the problem there is that the rot left by Newport (and Clear Channel before them) was so bad that given how Nexstar is as a company that they did all that they could do. Thinking of the other stations Nexstar got from Newport, most of them were messes save for WSYR, WETM, and KGET and some needed drastic action to survive let alone thrive.

This video is Exhibit A, narrowly beating out the lack of news on WSYT, on why I was so vehemently against the abomination of Terrier Media of ever being. Even with Cox's management poised to take over Northwest's stations, The Delta Stations included, there is going to be a TON of work to be done at the ex-Northwest stations.

The ex-Tribune stations, debatable. WNEP, sure. KFSM and WQAD, debatable. WPMT and WTIC were already down that path. The ex-Nexstar stations have nothing to lose and in a way got upgraded. A #3 station in a 2 station market, a #4 station in a 3 station market, and a #4 station in a market that barely supports 4 news departments, nothing setting the world on fire.

Doesn't KYUR and KTBY do minimal news at best? If Nexstar wasn't maxed out, Coastal would be one of those companies that would be drastically improved by them a la Rockfleet or Morris.

I kinda wonder if a certain deal will be closing in the near future and this was one of the loose ends that had to be tied up. I kinda wonder if a certain deal will be closing in the near future and this was one of the loose ends that had to be tied up.

Pour one out for the end of the Ed Hopkins era at WNYT. As of today, they switched from Keynote to the NBC version of 360's 360 and took to Instagram for the occasion: Skimming through NewsOn, which WNYT has issues with as opens are clipped, Steve Stone is now on the talent opens.

This slipped through the cracks, but WFXT's Blair Miller is headed to Cox's Washington, DC bureau. His last day was this past Friday (September 6th).

Something seems very screwy on either my end or their end. I'll show a screencap because if you not the timings alongside that of WTIC something is very broken. As it is, they're shuffling a whole bunch of stuff around. That Dr. Phil replay had been at 7:00 PM, Family Feud is moving into the 7:00 hour, Tamron Hall is going to 4:00 PM, TMZ is moving from late night to 5:00 PM paired alongside ExtraExtra.

Zap2It is saying similar. I'm getting the feeling that this is a move to try do drum Dr. Oz out since their ratings are so going to tank in that 3:00 hour. Find some patsy, namely WCCT or WCTX, to take that deal on and all gets solved in time to accomodate People TV next year. On the tangent of WCTX, Zap2It has them down for joining the 9:00 PM news brigade as of 9/9 with the second MyNet half hour's fate being unknown. This would make them the second market in the Northeast with such a split arrangement, WNYA in the Albany market doing it first as of this past April.

Source on this? This seems a bit odd given how Better Connecticut regularly does well at 3:00 against Dr. Phil on WTNH and Ellen on WVIT and how Dr. Oz has seemingly been in decline.

WFSB is launching a 4:30 PM newscast on September 9th. This just broke yesterday so no idea what they are slotting at 4:00 PM, this year at least.

Before Cablevision/Optimum/Altice had all of the systems on Long Island on board, News 12 was offered to any systems that Cablevision didn't own. I know the then-TCI headend in Brookhaven carried News 12 for years until Cablevision took over that system in the late 90s. I think the distinction is more competition. The NECN example is a bit different as even now Comcast still misses fair chunks of New England - most of Fairfield County, some other splotches of Connecticut, the Worcester area, the Berkshires, northern New Hampshire, most of Maine, and all of Rhode Island. The last one has never been rectified as Cox still refuses to add NECN for unknown reasons. In that case, the competition (FiOS, Hulu, YTTV, PSVue) has the leg up on the legacies.

WTNH picks up that feed as well.

Good to see him make the big time. I remember when he was tapped by WTEN to restart their sports department at the start of this decade. Good to see him make the big time. I remember when he was tapped by WTEN to restart their sports department at the start of this decade.

WTEN, 6:00 PM, 2/8/1997. Still using the 1994 theme and opens but different L3's. IIRC, Primetime News came later that year. A demo reel of WNYT's 1997 graphics package. A clip of WRGB's "DiNicola's World" from 4/28/1997 involving a then-unknown Rachael Ray

I think it would if it made him look good. Namely if the idea of the NHL returning to Quebec City (a boondoggle that shouldn't happen) resurfaces.

To be fair WAGM didn't have any weekend news as of late so it isn't as bad as it might come off as.

Probably. The Rhode Show isn't as paid as one would think it is, I know people who have paid their way on and people whose organization was approached by the producers. This thing will probably be a lot more paid than that, especially at the outset. One DMA over, Hartford has two (WTNH's CT Style, WVIT's CT Live) plus the, IIRC, not-paid Better Connecticut on WFSB. Providence can easily do two but what that market really could use is someone doing news at 4:00.

Once either KSFY and/or KOTA/KEVN and the Wyoming News Now stations are added to NewsOn, they'll be at 48 states. New Jersey (no native opportunities) and Delaware (WRDE) the lone ones without. Also, after nearly four years, welcome to NewsOn KWQC!

Graham screams Terrier. It's their only path into Texas and sorting out Jacksonville would be easier than having to sort out San Antonio and Roanoke. Orlando is the easy: Scripps or Gray.

Calling this: TEGNA will be the one to go for Hearst.