scrabbleship

WCAX probably is the most dependent on foreign viewership of the three, four counting WWNY. I can't speak to KGNS carriage in Mexico but of the Gray stations that have cable carriage in Canada WCAX is the only one also carried in HD. Anglophone Quebec plus far eastern Ontario is more than twice the size of its actual DMA.

If memory serves me right, that's a young Gary Apple, now of SNY. Wyland came to WNYT right as Apple left for KMOV right after Viacom took that station over from CBS.

By the mentions of the miniseries "Peter the Great", this dates to early February 1986 (2nd-5th). That set only had some more months left as it was replaced by the fall by the set that lasted until 1995. It was later that year when things really started to pick up steam, partially aided by some bad moves on WTEN's behalf that drove viewers up three channels.

This might be an interesting situation to see unfold, especially if it lasts long enough for the assorted deals for Terrier to close. Has there ever been a case where a company in a retransmission fight has taken control of new stations during that fight? I know back in 2013 Media General and Dish had a squabble that ended a couple of days before their merger with Young closed but I think that's the closest we've gotten. Given that the main element of Northwest's worth is the retransmission deals, I wonder if it would instantly apply to the ex-Cox stations.

An end of an era in Boston television is upon us. Lynch's last night on the sports desk will be on August 15th. The question is who replaces him: Conventional wisdom would say Friday/Saturday sports anchor Bob Halloran, especially since Josh Brogadir, has been transitioning to general assignment reporting. Does 5 go with the tried and true, as they often do, or go off the board?

The Big Story on WFSB's 11:00 PM news on April 13, 1997: The Whalers final game before moving.

WOWT was a sister first, Chronicle bought them from Meredith in 1975. Chronicle didn't buy KAKE/KUPK until 1979, KLBY until 1987.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwCoSH-HdbX/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=qo5shc453q8k My God what has been wraught?

This is Albany. The bigger political bump comes while the State Senate and Assembly are in session and ads targeted towards pushing policy hit the air in the event it reaches both voters and the elected. While a lot of the New York counties in the DMA swung from Obama to Trump, it is still a solid Democratic state thanks to Downstate. If John Faso takes on Antonio Delgado for his old seat or if the Democrats find a viable person to take Elise Stefanik on, this may be a different story though Stefanik's money probably would go more to WPTZ than the Albany stations. Only one of the six Senate seats in the DMA (Markey, MA) is up and Albany stations never run MA/VT political ads. I think this is one half "we're getting killed at 10:00" and the other half setting up things for the future. If WNYT soon releases some report of an anchor swap between 5:30 and 11:00, then the other half would be "Jim Kambrich wants to get home two hours earlier".

They once had the exact same schedule with the only differences being news and ads. Then this decade stuff started to drift. The first case of it happening was when WMUR picked ET up for 2011-12 after WSBK shunted it to overnights, a year later NH rights to ET went to WBIN and Inside Edition returned, swapping slots with NH Chronicle. It only really ramped up in 2016 after WCVB began running news at 4(:30) while WMUR didn't. Once Meredith Viera got axed, Millionaire went to a double run at 3:00 and assorted stuff on a day delay (first Celebrity Page, then Page Six TV, now Daily Blast Live) began filling the 12:30 slot. I think WMUR could do fine starting a 4:00 news - it worked under Imes 20 years ago - and a 7:00 would get the commuter crowd from Boston just fine.

Page Six TV moves back to the 1:07 slot, then...an infomerical. WMUR, who aired it at 7:30, has it bad. The second run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire moves to 7:30 with Celebrity Page taking the 3:30 slot.

Page Six TV moves back to the 1:07 slot, then...an infomerical. WMUR, who aired it at 7:30, has it bad. The second run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire moves to 7:30 with Celebrity Page taking the 3:30 slot.

Effective today, WHDH's 7:00 newscast has been replaced by Inside Edition. I semi-called this. Truth be told, Boston did have one 7:00 newscast too many and I think that NBC went in on one for WBTS is a good sign at what NBC will do with the 7:00 slot once Extra leaves in Hartford, NYC, and Philly.

[cries in WPMT] The Tribune Fox affiliates not going to Tegna seem to be in the same boat, KCPQ aside. The ads KSWB ran on XETV when XETV shut down English operations seemed to have that same sort of vibe. Back to WTIC: I wonder if Tegna does a rebrand. I know their graphic announcing the sale used the old FOXCT Logo and that rebrand fell flat on their faces. Do you keep 61? Go back to FOXCT? Go to Fox 6 and see if Meredith (and Citadel and to some degree Sinclair) complain?

I hate to drag future Tegna stations into this, but I think I hear WTIC screaming "HOLD MY BEER". This is exactly the sort of thing they would do over there. Buckle up Connecticut.

I just watched the archived video of yesterday's 4:00 via NewsOn (and a pox on NewsOn for limiting screenshots with their latest redesign). Seeing this in full screen in HD quality confirms that there might be something brewing. That logo, if it is more than just a placeholder, gives me serious vibes to the Ackerley logos of the late 90s which took Upstate New York by storm and are still active at WIVT. In contrast to every 19 WOIO has had as CBS, better than every one they had this side of the later Malrite era CBS 19.

So roughly the ex-Media General (and ex-ex-LIN) stations left Wordpress...only to go back to Wordpress. Who would be left on Lakana then? Graham and the Fox O&O's? Does Nexstar spin this to Graham to cut their losses given Graham's loyalty to Lakana dating back to the earliest days of Internet Broadcasting?

Everyone, stop whining about Tegna. There is much worse that exists out there and there are people who would kill for Tegna to enter their market. I live in the Boston market and would do anything to get them to make WFXT watchable again. But no, instead of an actual broadcaster they're going to be ruined further by being dragged down by the dregs known as Northwest.

I'm going WISH special. Dating back to the latter Young days, WATE has usually been in step with WTEN and WTEN's on deck for a refresh too. I wonder what might happen with WRIC now. IIRC Media General did nothing with them during their ownership.

I wonder if Nexstar would cast aside some odd outliers to make room for Morris. If they had the cap room it would be a clean deal and they would fit in well with their existing stations.

Nothing. The other teams will be going cable-exclusive on NBC Sports Chicago come 2019-20.

The pic above has WNCN's current CBS 17 logo plus one of the staffers is wearing a jacket with said logo.

I'd love to do a L-R field guide of who's who. The problem is that some logos are recycled (the two Eyewitness News's on the left, probably WBRE/WYOU and WEHT/WTVW).

This still isn't as cheap and hokey as what KRDO was doing around the same time. Granted, that was a family owned enterprise but that open was just awful. Other stations were still straggling onto elements of the 1990-91 "The Place To Be" look. I know WCSH used ID's from that going into 1994 and of course KPLC used elements until the VDO Liberty package came into play ca. 2003.

No, it is a part of a closing cut of Making a Difference that sounds like a predecessor to In-Sink.