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Don't forget that Orlando has stations with sister stations that they can overflow to (Fox had enough time to get the DVR recordings moved from WOFL to WRBW for one, WFTV shifted to WRBQ and WESH and WBBH already pushed their schedules to their .2s). There's no point to exhaust staff until the last possible moment and outside WFLA's Nexstar trash IT having to work around Perry's 2 hour delay, all of them have robust streaming presences to push coverage to for now.

All the teams involved have pretty much confirmed the same; the Brewers had press availability about it. Thankfully outside obvious graphical changes, most of these teams long ago switched to employing their on-air staff directly, so there should be no changes in personnel beyond the usual post-season moves of individual talent. And cable carriage should be easy for the most part, as most providers never filled the space left by NBCSN, or will quietly plan to stick the coverage in the RSN+ slot until the Cavs, Wolves and Bucks end their seasons, then move it to the main channel. It'll be nice now to not have to worry about Bally RTC negotiations any longer and now VPNs won't be needed for local teams just to sync the radio call with the TV video.

Launching a newscast at 4pm ET on a sports channel where it's ALWAYS going to be pre-empted by European soccer is just suicidal. I give it one month at minimum before it's quietly off the air once Rachel whines about soccer Twitter calling her various names and Fox Sports notices their ratings for their afternoon shows plunge (they have a live football show from Spain that's like PTI on steroids that's their baby at 6 ET).

A good look at the new board for NBC Sports Philadelphia as the Sixers give the traditional international preseason exhibition shellacking to New Zealand;

WDJT is doing this against WITI (noticed earlier in thread).

Based on the very negative social reaction to this interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where Tony basically said his new book should be 'in the backpack of an extremist' and questions about whether Palestinians should exist, whatever promotional juice they had for the third hour is immediately gone because now PG has to do damage control around this mess. I'm not going to be shocked if multiple publishing agents are pretty much done with the show if you get overly aggressive questioning about what you wrote on a morning show where your publisher paid for the promo. Morning show interviews about beach reads never get this heated, much less most bio or non-fiction fare. Like you should question about the book for sure, but Tony was virtually screaming at the author and it's a shock that Ta-Nehishi was still able to joke at the end of this.

Fox maintains a backup streaming-only feed for the few stubborn stations which refuse to get anything online.

They did during the Olympics but that was during the off-season. You don't want to mention something that you don't have yet nearer or during the regular season to avoid viewer confusion, and when you don't have much of an on-air staff to promote it yet. Roundball Rock can only do so much right now, and you don't want to step on TNT's long and strangled goodbyes, either by rubbing it in.

I don't feel the frontline people in SBG outside the ones who advertise they're there because of the c-suite's views are that at all. Like the big gas station chain in Wisconsin, they give a lot of GOP money but the actual people working in the gas stations may share views, but it's not why they got a job there at all. It's a stupid business decision to dump a network in another language that lets you only need to fill five hours of time a week for a lineup of declining English syndication surrounded by Blazers and (eventually I'm sure) other local sports. And I hope Univision gets an equal affiliate that isn't 260 miles away and requires LD stations to get to the city's main market. But it isn't racist. They ruined a relationship burnished by Fisher to make in-roads with a community that wasn't often seen, just because they wanted to air sports, The CW, and have an overflow station for their news coverage (which for KATU and KOMO I will argue trades on appalling self-hating of Washington, Oregon, and its citizens...all of them). They lose that loyal audience that won't come back outside Blazer telecasts, and that own audience ain't gonna be loyal viewers of ARC Portland, AMG court shows and probably 50 episodes of Family Feud a week or whatever surrounds it. It's not a racist move, but just a plain idiotic move when KPDX, KRCW, or even KGWZ (KGW's LD sister carrying ODOT/weather 24/7) would've been much better partners that don't require you to buy or find 156 more hours of programming a week and run a failure of an indie around the NBA. Honestly I wish the NBA would've made arrangements like the Padres, D-Backs and Rockies did for streaming and cable, but they have a different strategy, and they don't care whether nobody is watching KUNP the rest of the day, just during the game, and the team is definitely selling the online streaming much more in this arrangement.

I'm more shocked that finally after so many years, the Blazers are finally ditching their weird love of pay-per-view broadcasts and cable, which they've been insistent on for years, probably only because most cable providers just don't do PPV any longer outside the satellite companies who still love rural WWE viewers who are naive and will hand off $50/event, or will not pay for Peacock and Starlink. They went kicking and screaming all the way to the end before returning to broadcast, but I get the feeling they'll promote the DTC service much more than KUNP. As for Univision, here we go again with the same issues their Seattle viewers faced last year. Unlike Seattle which got Weigel to take it on KVOS, there are no full-power options for the network unless they convince Scripps/KPXG or Gray/KPDX to take main-channel carriage.

They rebranded around the same time as WFTC did as Fox 9 Plus so they'd probably not rebrand anytime soon and the Houston cluster seems to be in its own other world; an oddball market where FNC has no baggage and KTXH just comfortably exists with little competition outside any plans Scripps and Tegna would have for their station since the Space City teams aren't moving anytime soon.

As of today, it looks like My 50 is no more...just happened to tune into 32's stream to check the weather for Thursday down there, and they showed a Family Feud clip with a local family recorded off the broadcast showing WPWR is now "Fox Chicago +". MyNet airs 11p-1a and is replaced in prime time with a quad block of the Feud.

At least they have their existence acknowledged by Fox, unlike KCOP, or "Fox 11 Plus". Just awaiting the eventual day they move it to 11.2 and channel 13 just becomes LiveNow 24/7 or the Best of Tubi (wouldn't make sense to rebrand MNTV as something Tubi-adjacent or just put stuff from it on instead)?

For the late night games you figure that the West and Mountain time stations are good with it, and most of the Nexstar and Sinclair CW base is pre-empting filler like True Crime News and The National Desk, and had enough time to bump their local coverage to their MyNet sister or to the DT2 subchannel. As for the Fox stations it can only really help their coverage since they don't have to rush footage and pack editing suites to get their entire segment done, so it gives everything more time to breathe, and worse comes to worse, any pre-emptions have a full two days in overnights to be covered. And for Fox's O&Os they've begun to push their late newscasts to Fox Local on-time and a replay after the game, so at least for them there's no extra pain or having to wait until midnight to get on-air. For other groups with sister stations, things like "First on Fox" and "Most Wanted" aren't aired and the Big Three newscast is repeated late, or centralcasters like Coastal had the show well done outside weather before the game even started. The thing I don't get though is why Fox hasn't killed the Saturday late night hour. No SNL rival is oncoming and you can't keep justifying a reality show repeat these days in that slot. And they might as well put Weekend Marketplace out of its misery already because the little money it makes when it does air can't even be a lot these days.

The good news is that this did happen and KICU picked up MyNet... for 3am-5am, which is the bad news. You might as well not even call them an affiliate of MNTV at this case, or even an O&O.