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    In fairness, there have been a lot of questionable WHDH firings over the years (most notably Boston TV legend Randy Price) so this is very much in the Ed Ansin mold. Both Amaka Ubaka and Polikseni Manxhari have posted words of praise for Alaina, so it's clear that there is blowback inside 7 Bulfinch Place. Independently owned TV stations are often easier to support in theory than in actual practice.

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    Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion

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    11 hours ago, AaronQ said:

    So on October 1st, YouTube TV will drop the FOX RSNs. 

    The virtual MVPD business is dying. Sony pulled the plug on Playstation Vue. The remaining services are in a war of attrition, hiking rates and slashing content even as subscribers flee. Not offering the very content that subscribers have demonstrated a willingness to pay for is suicidal.

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    The Hearst Thread

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    WPXT has launched WMTW News 8 @ 6pm on Maine's CW for conflicts with college football; previously these newscasts aired in the 7PM time period. In housekeeping notes, WPXT also moved Total Maine with Steve Minich from 7PM on Saturdays, the time slot occupied for many years by crosstown rival WCSH's Bill Green's Maine (no longer in production due to Green's retirement) to 10:30PM on Saturdays (following WMTW News 8 at 10pm on Maine's CW.) The news theme is a variant of the corporate "Strive" package from In the Groove Music not previously heard in this market. The premiere was, shall we say, sloppy in its execution. Here's the first minute or so:

    ATSC 3.0 deployment thread

    in Engineering Dept.

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    5 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

    Just hoping someone here in Miami tests out ATSC 3.0 soon

     

    God knows where I'll get that tuner tho to watch 😂🤣

    Indeed that seems to be the big issue with ATSC 3.0 - getting a tuner that will be economically viable out to the mass market.

    Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion

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    On 6/30/2020 at 8:04 PM, TexasTVNews said:

    As much as hate Sinclair Media, the media group has renewed their CBS affiliates.

    https://deadline.com/2020/06/viacomcbs-sinclair-set-renewals-for-eight-cbs-affiliates-1202973640/

    And their CBS affiliate in Portland, ME (home market for Dielectric as well as David Smith's seasonal residence) just won a New England Emmy for best Medium Market evening newscast.

    Out & About

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    WFXT has cut down their hour-long 6PM weekend newscasts to a half-hour; the second half hour has been turned over to their "In Depth" series of prerecorded news specials. A similar cutback has hit the Sunday 10PM newscast.

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    In advance of News Center Maine's launch of their 4PM newscast on Monday, WGME has changed how it starts its 5PM newscast. Instead of a tease before the last segment of Judge Judy, the tease has become the intro for the newscast itself. (Edit: It was a one-day fluke)

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    39 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

    NBC 10 Boston (WBTS) main anchor Phil Lipof is signing off. Lipof has been in beantown since 2013. He helped launched the newscast at the NBC O&O station, where he's anchored since. It's unclear what's next for Lipof.

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/27/business/anchor-phil-lipof-departs-nbc-10-boston/

    Lipof is strongly hinting at a return to New York. Side note: regarding his stint at WBTS, he said "I did everything I could." Hmm...

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    I wonder what the degree of disclosure was for the local stations. Some hefty fines could be forthcoming.

    Todd Walker "reporting..."

     

    Out & About

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    3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

    I think this COVID mess is far from over, and the way it's been handled by the government at ALL levels, (and the general population) a second wave is a certainty. 

    That would mean more cases, deaths, and all of the economic calamity from the government trying to control it.

     

    Financially, if the lockdowns happen again, many companies are going to be in deep trouble, and we could see more cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and maybe a bankruptcy or two in the media sector.

     

    Companies like Meredith are going to have to decide if they have to sell off their PROFITABLE assets for a short-term surge, or if they need to dump the money-losing ones and go pure-play.

    Ad-supported media is getting hammered across the board. Merging into a larger entity with the same vulnerabilities isn't going to fix that problem.

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    3 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

     

    There's no indication they are for sale and that would be all rumors. They do have financial problems right now, but if the pandemic ends soon, it wouldn't be fatal. (That said, companies like Gray, Scripps, Hearst and Nexstar, and the networks themselves, are in pretty good shape and holding up without any job or salary losses).

    Meredith's financial problems are not on the broadcast side primarily but the print side, particularly the ex-Time properties. That said, all media that rely on advertising revenues are going to face near-term issues. Based on their decision to develop an in-house syndicated show based on their People Magazine property, it seems they're trying to monetize the print side to the maximum extent possible.

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

     

    Where are you hearing this? And don't worry, I see WGME doing it too once Judge Judy goes off-air.

    They're promoting it on-air. In fact, TitanTV jumped the gun a bit and starting listing the 4PM newscast a couple of weeks ago. And I agree that WGME will join the 4PM news sweepstakes once Judge Judy ends.

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

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    News Center Maine (WCSH/WLBZ) is adding a 4PM newscast starting June 1, replacing Daily Blast Live. Hearst's WMTW was first Maine station to start airing news in the time slot in September 2016.  No Bangor stations currently air news at 4. In Portland, Sinclair's WGME will be the only Big 3 station not airing news at 4 (they run Judge Judy.)

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    Former WBZ and WCVB producer Donna Morrissey is dead of coronavirus at 51
    https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/05/23/donna-morrissey-american-red-cross-dies-coronavirus-wbz-tv-pr-spokesperson-boston-archdiocese/
     

    The Boston Globe obit focuses on her much higher-profile positions in PR for the Boston Archdiocese and the American Red Cross
    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/23/metro/donna-m-morrissey-whose-headed-pr-boston-archdiocese-american-red-cross-dies-51-covid-19/

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