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I'm in the Miami market and using Roku. Nope, nothing local.

On 6/21/2022 at 3:15 PM, CircleSeven said:

New M&A. Owners of the former Fox affiliate in the Central Coast is selling its station.

 

Seal Rock Broadcasters is selling now CW affil KCBA to VistaWest Media for $1M. 

 

The paperwork included an SSA & an Option agreements between NPG (owners of KION) & VistaWest.

 

I know nothing much will change here in terms of programming but I wonder if there will be an effect on local news and if KION will do more to have more news on KCBA or just keep it status quo as is.

I find it interesting even though I know it won't have much effect.

1 hour ago, carolinanews4 said:

 

I don't understand this so I must be missing something. Could you show me how COX been running the Telemundo brand into the ground? I can only speak to WSOC who has been putting resources towards their Telemundo affiliate, like an evening newscast and producing Charlotte FC games with Telemundo specific announcers in their secondary studio. Not bad considering they could have just taken the national feed and slapped it on a subchannel. 

Yeah seems like CMG has done well taking care of Telemundo Charlotte. I see them doing the same in Seattle and Jacksonville, but more so in Seattle IMO since Seattle also has Univision too.

10 hours ago, Amra said:

That might be what NBC is preparing the stations for. Telemundo 49 in Tampa also got a new building as well, with all state of the art equipment and studios as well.

I know Telemundo has other low-power O&Os to their roster but I think they should give more priority to it's newer Florida O&Os because of the Hispanic population throughout the state, especially in the areas it broadcasts in: Tampa Bay, Central Florida and yes, even Southwest Florida IMO should count towards this.

Back where it belongs... IMO.

21 minutes ago, mvcg66b3r said:

They would have to share spectrum with another full-power station; it's already on a subchannel of WRDQ (albeit in SD).

That's fine with me but Channel 31 is the same Telemundo signal three times over to cover three different areas. Replace three low power signals with one full power signal across the whole market. If NBCUniversal went for this change, the FCC would so approve it in a heartbeat.

I remember Megan from her time at WFOR. I'm trying to remember Erin but her name is so familiar to me.

EDIT: Now I remember! From her time at WPRI. Wow.

10 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

 

Wow! All that effort for an LPTV station?

I have a feeling in the future that Comcast will take those three LPTVs (WTMO-CD 31.1 Orlando / WKME-CD 31.1 Kissimmee / WMVJ-CD 31.1 Melbourne) and convert them into a full power outlet for WTMO (DT) on Channel 31.1.

10 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Seems to me there are several CM's that work in the AM.. WXMI's Kevin Craig here in W. Michigan works AMs

WITI's Chief Rob Haswell is on the Wake-Up News and Midday.

So is WBAY's Chief Steve Beylon on morning, 9am and Noon.

On 6/18/2022 at 1:33 PM, AdamTheJ said:

Speaking of Test runs, I have a question. If an American version of the UK hit game show Pointless were considered for syndication, and it was an hour long, just like its British counterpart, but with commercials, would you watch it? Or would you rather watch coverage of a mass shooting instead? And please be honest. If I worked in television,  I would pitch Pointless for the CBS owned stations. What day you?

I love Pointless! I'd watch it.

On 6/12/2022 at 1:35 PM, Spring Rubber said:

Fox Weather has been experimenting with completely dumping long-form from their weekend afternoon/evening schedule. After doing their preemption for PTC One last Saturday, programming last Sunday and both Saturday and Sunday this weekend has consisted solely of the "Fox Weather LIVE" automated loop of weather maps throughout the entirety of weekend afternoons and evenings.

 

Edit: Looks like they're still doing long form on Sundays after 8pm ET. I suppose it's a sensible time for that sort of programming.

I've been watching FOX Weather alot this weekend and it looks like that's here to stay because, once again, they aired FOX Weather LIVE from 12:00-8:00 p.m. yesterday and it seems like they're doing the same for today as well. Long-form is still airing from 8:00-11:00 p.m. but I prefer FOX Weather LIVE over the other stuff The Weather Channel likes to air from 1:00-8:00 p.m. on weekends anyways.

Seeing FOX Weather cutting back on long-form programming is a nice thing for a change, just not 24/7 WeatherNation, AccuWeather NOW or TWC-ES type of coverage just yet.

On 6/13/2022 at 1:45 PM, Spring Rubber said:

Effective today, TWC has permanently moved the rerun of Pattrn from 1pm ET to 4pm ET.

 

Are they STUPID? The 4pm ET hour is typically when severe weather starts to explode on any given day, and now they're going to remove most live weather coverage from that hour. Unreal.

On 6/13/2022 at 2:55 PM, NBC 5 Chicago said:

Wow... their better option would be 8pm ET. Run their live programming through the day and then at 8pm is the rebroadcast of Pattrn then they can run their deep bench of reruns of shows. This also gives them an option if Pattrn didn't air that day due to severe weather they can run a show if severe weather isn't happening at 8pm or continue with live coverage. 

 

I actually like Pattrn. It's a really neat show and I like where they're going with it. You'll still get updates on weather across the country. The climate stories they are doing are quite interesting and informative. 

I wholeheartedly agree! 8PM would've been way better for the repeat instead of 4pm. FOX Weather and WeatherNation would seriously take advantage of it.

I can see the newsroom and lobby right there. It does scream a broadcasting studio.

The LIVE bug is now at the bottom, not the top.

Just a minor thing I've noticed this week from watching.

1 hour ago, 24994J said:

Time to blow the dust off this thread. The weather graphics are almost always the canary in the coal mine, the fist sign of changes. These debuted at 4pm, an they align with all new graphic teases I've seen, from the colors, to the font, to even the little arrows that appear in a few spots.

Wow. I'm in love! Some of the best weather graphics I've ever seen, anywhere.

17 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Mentioned about it back in March.

 

The deal was greenlighted on May 11. It has yet to be consummated. 

Oh okay. Your on top of these FCC deals so I had a feeling you would know.

23 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

If they gave 2:30/1:30 to the affiliates would allow CT/MT/PT an hourlong midday news but not ET. I think CBS should give the ET affiliates the choice by adding another feed of  YR and another feed of B&B. Either keep YR at 12:30 and 1:30 or move it to 1 and 2. So you’d have three feeds of Y&R at noon, 12:30 and 1 ET and two of B&B at 1:30 and 2 ET. It’s just a suggestion to give affiliates more flexibility but it might be more expensive to add more feeds. 

I support that only in which I believe that there are CBS affiliates out there that wish they had hour-long midday news. I'm looking at WINK Fort Myers and WKYT Lexington as two such examples. There's probably more out there that want to as well.

I'm thinking so does KDKA Pittsburgh and WTKR Norfolk since both are in very competive markets.

On 6/2/2022 at 12:32 PM, Action Newsroom said:

New President Chris Licht says he wants cut down on using the "Breaking News" chyron. Personally, I support this completely. 

The resurrection of CNN has officially begun.

7 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:

Taking a page out of TWC's book of what they do in the day(s) leading up to a tropical landfall, Steve Bender is co-hosting America's Weather Center from the field today in Miami. For whatever reason, he took the creative liberty of standing next to his own live program monitor.

 

Ah ok, so the monitor was intended to be used for weather maps, and perhaps they had the monitor set to the wrong source in the opening segment.

 

Either way, the monitor is still kinda dark out there in the bright sun.

 

 

I'm starting to call foul on the network because I was watching yesterday and noticed that the second and third hours of America's Weather NOW, outside of a TOTH update, were bascially repeats but FOX Weather called it live on its bug when it really wasn't.

Like, shit. I feel like I need to watch WeatherNation more and more as a result.

9 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

It seems when they close to completing an LP deal (WKSY deal was approved today), a new LP deal comes up.

 

They're getting Selma, AL's K35OX-D from Richardson Communications for just $40K.

 

And also this needs to be mentioned, remember Gray announced they're building that new production facility at the former car plant near Atlanta? Well earlier this week, Gray had struck a deal with NBCUniversal for NBC to lease and operate the facility, once its up and running in 2023.

 

From the press release:

 

Do you know of anything about WGUD-LD Pascagoula? According to RabbitEars, it says that Gray Television owns that one too.

Apologies if this is in the wrong place (please put it in the right place somewhere. I haven't opened a new thread here in a LONG time) but I'm doing this because I'm launching a newsletter that's all about SiriusXM. They do send out newsletters but its more of promotions of their channels and not of the latest news, programming/channel changes, new channels, events, etc. involving the service.

So I'm taking it into my own hands and launching SeriousXM, a FREE newsletter, on Monday, June 6th. This newsletter will cover everything previously mentioned and a whole lot more plus features like looking back at old lineups/channels that were on the service, feedback and complaints about the service, and much more. It will grow as time goes by. And yes, its FREE but I may add an option for donations to support my project.

If anyone cares and is curious or interested to sign up to subscribe for FREE: Here's the link to do so. You'll have my grateful appreciation and I thank you for doing so in advance!

I'm keeping an eye on weather brandings. Outside of Weather, First Alert Weather is the most popular brand in the country and continues to grow.

I know because Gray's WGGB/WSHM just adopted First Alert Weather within the last two-three weeks. CBS saw the name as an opportunity for some of its markets.

Man you really do keep an eye on FOX Weather for us @Spring Rubberand I thank you for that!

On 5/17/2022 at 12:17 AM, sanewsguy said:

Seems like a useless move. I get they are moving closer to DC since more money can be made in that area, but at the end of the day, it's still a rimshot signal most of the DC metro wouldn't be able to receive.

I mean, can't they just stick WDVM on a WDCW sub and vice versa? Seems like a better use of spectrum to me and continue to give the people of Hagerstown some OTA broadcast outlet.

I thought WDVM was already on a WDCW sub via 25.1 to provide D.C. coverage via the WDCW transmitter.

I paid for a plan but then it took me to cable/satellite authentication when I don't have cable/satellite. So like I had to have cable/satellite and then pay for a plan to stream TWC? Like, WTF?