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Trying to push viewers to switch their sports rage opinion source of questions nobody asks from ESPN to FS1 by using the Super Bowl's momentum; all of these networks have lost the point of how to push viewers to other networks, including the Puppy Bowl now getting a Discovery and TNT simulcast while cannibalizing Animal Planet's own audience. Even last night the NFL Honors was simulcast on Fox and NFL Network, and for no real reason, it aired at 9pm ET to take out the 10pm news rather than the usual 8pm (ETA - Didn't know it was the season finale for Hell's Kitchen so it makes sense). I'm sure the viewer feedback and tip lines at Fox affiliates have a few unhappy viewers this afternoon, along with Harvey Levin, who gets TMZ Live pre-empted.
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Ben from The Oddity Archive (one of my favorites) got ahold of some raw Betacam video on a tape from KMGH during their coverage of the 1989 Alpine World Ski Championships. For 1989 video the clarity (converted to 720p60) is incredible. And a promo compiled partially from that tape;
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Hearst stations usually have an app or weather promo with proper ID before the newscast intro so I'm not worried for the ID here and they'll probably adjust it quickly.
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The day of TV on the radio are back in Atlanta; Fox 5 will simulcast the audio of their news and local content on WHTA's second subchannel.
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Altitude and Comcast have made up and the network is returning to Xfinity in Denver and throughout the Nuggets/Avalanche territory (with a requisite bump in the sports package price, of course).
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The fall of WFRV's web efforts from their CBS days, including a livestream page that doesn't even load and is under the 'Digital Center' category like it's 1999 and CueCat is the future is a case study on how badly they've done (the page points to another page called Video Center in the same vertical, itself literally a clone of their YouTube page, just with the janky Nexstar player instead). I completely forget they exist because Nexstar's apps and websites are just so bad as glorified web wrappers, and even their Twitter presence is terrible and was always underdeveloped (they had one of their news anchors running the feed under Four Points management!). The station brands as Local 5, yet their app is named WFRVNews and the website is WeAreGreenBay.com; it's no wonder it would be a last place operation if not for WGBA (which at least is NBC26 everywhere, and WBAY and WLUK have the same branding consistency). And they acquired Frankly in the MG deal, a known good news site developer; how did they manage to screw it all up so badly?
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This is from a company that kept the 1990 GFX package on Up to the Minute until the Couric era, so I'm much less surprised their graphic continuity doesn't extend to the weekend show.
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TBN still runs non-commercial stations, and very, very few (we're talking about mainly small town stations where it's justified appropriately to support their ministries) religious stations and networks run any kind of advertising, even K-LOVE (who always converts their stations for the most part to non-coms upon acquisition); TBN is a craven outlier who has made it clear their priorities are not those of the founding Crouches (spreading the gospel in whatever ways they could), but just about becoming a race to the bottom regarding whose ministry gets the most money. And their ties to Merit Street, which is antithetical to every single part of the most basic of religions, show who they really are.
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Also if they're going to investigate NPR/PBS over their underwriting load, how about TBN and multiple other religious for doing the same, but in an even more egregious manner as some of those channels are carrying obvious commercial advertising. They're not going to do it because they'll just grease the palms and open up more non-commercial licenses which will be specifically conditioned on things only the EMFs, Daystars and TBNs can provide to lock out true non-commercial and educational interests.
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The difference between 2020, when everything reality with a cop was pulled from television, allegedly never to return, is now very obvious...now Free TV is coming out with an entire subchannel network called Busted...it's another A&E library rerun mill with COPS, Jail, Wildest Police Videos and all of A&E's various Cam and Wars shows.
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With how the kid's market has now declined to the lowest effort slurry like Poppy Playtime to 'educational programming' meant more for seniors, PBS is the firewall for good kid's programming. Like this and the BBC and CBC defunding drives, they want kids to suffer and be marketed to, and public broadcasters are seen as obstructing commercial interests and as liberal havens, even as the average PBS schedules and pledge drives actively market to a conservative nostalgic audience.
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Pictures are absolutely awful tonight. CNN is really on it tonight, along with Fox 5/WTTG. I had a fear we were due one.
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If the other site is to be believed, the mess at WDJT is so bad that Norm Shapiro actually made the drive up to Milwaukee for the first time in decades to talk to everyone in West Allis and take in what's going on. Weigel is pretty hands off and autonomous about their markets outside Chicago and they rarely meddle, so for the big boss to actually come into Milwaukee (and probably complaining about having to pay the tolls up the Tri-State) means heads are going to roll.
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Today's counterprogramming on Merit Street against football...Dr. Phil embedded in ICE raids in Chicago. Even FNC wouldn't do this because they wouldn't want to be sued for filming people without permission, but I think any last guardrail against responsible broadcasting for Dr. Phil has been long passed. This is something you'd see from a YouTube streamer, not someone who used to at least have some respect in the industry. Both him and TBN are being very highly irresponsible and going against everything they used to stand for; the elder Crouches weren't good people but at least at the end of the day they still never would have gone anywhere near this or worried about ratings outside their niche.
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And of course it was because Dan O'Donnell threw another temper tantrum about 'free speech for me but not for thee'. These stations just have to stop listening to these cranks because the only thing they're good for these days is outrage. I didn't even know she had an Instagram account, so this was her personal one, not anything connected with the station. Godawful situation that should have been a quiet suspension at the very most, and our X-obsessed man is a private citizen with no government power. She should not have been fired, and these news orgs are turning 'balanced views journalism', meant to deal with little things like football lights at the high school stadium and road expansions through neighborhoods, into a punchline.
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At least unite the graphics packages, WTHI is still on a LIN-era system. I like unique looks but not because you starve your stations to make more cheap game shows with expensive comedians and court show hosts.
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Speaking of AI, The Weather Channel now has all AI captioning, which is a sick and terrible thing that TBS, TNT and NFL Network have been doing lately, even for scripted shows and commercials that are properly captioned because they never turn it off. Sadly it feels like even if there was an FCC report about AI captioning it's in the letter and spirit of the law, so there's nothing we can do, and I fear they're probably going to remove the requirement that a specific caption rep is available at all times.
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Just in the Hawaii case alone which otherwise only has Nexstar and Gray as viable news operations, this feels like it should be a license-forfeiting offense; there is no serious reason there should be weather forecast from 4,500 miles away nearer to another coast and a quarter of a day away. It's already questionable enough when TWC absolutely refuses to forecast the western mainland well to begin with unless it's in severe danger.
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There though it mostly involved stations with no infrastructure whatsoever in the News Central format, and at least even in the TND era they still use mostly local folks on downtime to deliver forecasts and general breaking weather news. That I have no issue with because they still have that staff for the most part deliver breaking weather, even in the KTUL and WNWO situations. Just having everything come from TWC...say if you're watching on WAOW, are you going to have to deal with severe weather non-applicable to you from WKOW because master control doesn't know the distance between Beloit and Wausau? How do you know local landmarks and street names? And how on earth do you have viewers submit videos and photos now, because they have to go through TWC's national system rather than the known local system? There are a lot of dangerous unknowns in hubbing weather nationally even in a well-planned transition over a couple of years, and it's worse in this ad hoc setup where now you have bitter ex-staff either on a new station or just starting their own efforts online.
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Look to the Equity bankruptcy and WLNE circa Great Recession for a little insight; they didn't shut down right away, but just let unpaid expenses and payroll claims escalate to such a dangerous level they start losing programming outside the network, then staff who are tired of them, and eventually it gets to actual satellite transmission, then IP, newswires, then the network finally gets to the point of revocation and then you're down to a sky cam shot until THAT contract gets revoked too. Allen at least has fallbacks, but viewers will NOT be happy to see 15 year-old car, pet and media junket shows in prime time.
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I think that's what we've seen with the last big station moves with KMGH and KMOV; everything is going IP-based and you really don't need a studio to look like a stereotypical studio with all that exposed infrastructure any longer, and it certainly saves on any legwork to monitor outside. Even with the KETV move in Omaha a few years back the dishes and STL are well hidden. And FoxLocal has been building around podcasts they can air streaming there and on Tubi in syndication/network time so I like that they're planning around that rather than just having it as an afterthought.
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I just don't see how you adapt the Weather Channel Radio model to TV at all; they get on during emergencies on radio and do fine there, but radio weather outside full service and all news has become one of the lowest priorities (either just by tossing TV audio or just having the EAS butt in and get back to Hannity), which is why Weatherology is thriving now. Replacing local forecasters with staff in Atlanta already overwhelmed by so many other network and station commitments is going to bite them hard. And we may be entering a dark age for stations and the FCC. Like Townsquare and Alpha just turning in licenses and refusing to sell to someone who will put effort in, I'm very scared. Also, Allen runs the state TV network for WIAA high school sports, so I feel like that's next to be in the lurch and Sinclair (who carries the network in Milwaukee) or FanDuel may have to jump in last minute for the hockey and basketball tourneys.
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Imagicomm Communications plans to sell its TV stations
nathannah replied to Howard Beale's topic in Corporate Chat
I always believed it was like the 'minority owner' racket in the 2010s where a distant woman or other racial group were suddenly 'running' stations stripped to do-nothing subchannel farms in the middle of the Great Plains until Gray and Nexstar could buy them back under a GOP FCC. INSP was so hands-off I was shocked and pretty much ran the stations status quo, so it feels like Imagicomm was actually Legacy 2.0. -
Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion
nathannah replied to Smitha A's topic in Corporate Chat
They also renewed their NBC affiliations, and yes, WTWC continues to carry the network. -
Imagicomm has put all the stations they got from Cox back on the market.