mrschimpf

KRCR had taken up more of the slack for them after the Bonton deal brought them under the SBG banner since KOBI and KDRV are the giants there.

The zombie shells of WNWO/Toledo and KTVL/Medford, OR''s outsourced 'news' ops (mainly now just weather and a couple MMJs) are being wound down...

Exactly that; you're being transferred from the local station over to the network feed, where the curtain is being raised on both the network programming, and then a presentation produced by the network itself in that show. It's the same reason it originated even in the days of radio where you had 'The National Broadcasting Company presents...' lead into a show.

As of Monday, the title of Afternoon Focus has been (and smartly) re-titled as The UpSide from Scripps News.

It's within Charlotte, so it's not a surprise that SBN would go after them. But really sad that their Hickory-specific newscast is likely gone because of this.

So you're saying they shouldn't have given Lemon aid and served Meade instead. Bad jokes aside, he will not be missed at all.

It actually launched a few months back, just around Thanksgiving, and just in time for Bridge News to buy out even more do-nothing ex-Equity/TBN sub farms to put it on.

The last thing the industry needs is yet another 'token' company operating a few do-nothing TV stations for another broadcaster which is being operated just to round clear caps and otherwise owns perennial cellar dwellers (somehow they've managed the impossible and made WLNE much worse). More Center Citys fighting against RTC laws for good and positive Black management are needed, and many fewer White Knights, Vaughns and Deerfields should exist, whose minority ownership's biggest role is to sign FCC statements and nothing else, outside having to convince providers that the $4/month for a low-power Baton Rouge indie Nexstar wants is a proper rate. Glad this deal is dying.

Friday at 10 is the official CNN Death Slot (it's where Rachel Nicols was burned off when CNN decided to stop covering sports), so...not a very good sign.

Yes, I have no problem with the studio dancers (which is still odd)...but there at least you have professional floor direction in the studio. The home segments all look like "Mommy/Daddy's first TikTok" or like the worst sext of all time to the most mid music of all time.

Eh, the tabloids have said that since like 1989 (if the Enquirer didn't have a "REGIS IN DISGUST" story that week, they just plain forgot to write one), but the show's still on, Mark's guested so many times already, and the DM just searches "kelly mark sucks" to write an article summarizing it and calls it a day. If Disney didn't think works any longer it would've been gone years ago. Instead it's evolved, the copycats have all died, and every advertorial going against it just goes in knowing they don't have a chance. It'll be the same when Ali Wentworth (once part of one of those copycats) inevitably takes over for Kelly. The only thing I'd cut is the weird 'home dancer' segment from trivia; sometimes they choose dance videos from people who have no business being filmed, much less on a national morning show (one from some 50-ish woman looked like the most uncomfortable striptease was about to happen).

I am shocked, I tell you, shocked that FF is filling more Sinclair timeslots!

DMTV used WPIX's main studio, which has since been redone and is still for WPIX; the most they had to do is put up a couple of Command hooks or something to put up their logo in Styrofoam.

That and 780/105.9 has all the news tradition; best to leave the calls with them and just try to get away from any call/numerical branding and wipe the slate; don't forget there the channel number and reception issues have been a curse, along with there being a UHF WMEU simulcast, since the 2000's management and NY decided to stick them digitally on miserable VHF 12 (and even worse 3 pre-2009).

This was done for technical reasons to prevent co-channel interference on cable systems between the cable frequency and over-the-air frequency. It's not that it was irrelevant, but for overall picture quality.

Very surprised they didn't move Estrella to 25.5 and Weigel took 25.2, but it must've been an abrupt drop for that to happen.

I still don't understand the green choice so long ago, it was such an awful color choice both for branding and accents.

With this purchase, I think Hearst is building up a news network of some kind in Florida to compete with both Scripps and Spectrum; going by the direction of syndication, it'll be inevitable that WBBH and WESH have an outpost of some kind with WMOR, and WPBF will certainly contribute too.

A little break from the 'God Nexstar is awful' talk for a bit; WFRV is now broadcasting its 4 p.m. newshour from the Appleton bureau rather than Green Bay; it's the first time since WGBA closed its Appleton newsroom during Journal's infamous Great Recession cutbacks there that newscasts originate from the Fox Cities.

You assume they actually have viewers out there. (Tribune preferred to distribute KTLA over WGN in those states during the superstation era) . She hosted 20/20 and that greenscreen mess that is iCrime (I assume that'll be renewed because it costs as much to produce an episode as her car payment); she knows her audience is the same kind as those two shows and will appeal to them.

This; they already have Fox on WVII-DT2; wouldn't you just turn in the license rather than pointlessly pay for a redundant one and just keep the branding without the channel? Plus it's VHF; just try to get WVII on UHF instead, it's not like northern Maine/New Brunswick has a crowded UHF band.

Just a quick update for in-season that the pitch clock is now within the pitch count/pitch type box more naturally on this one (and also generated in Helvetica).

Agreed; it's strange to say, but compared to most groups Sunbeam's style, even with all the crashes/fire/crime news, seems more mature and settled than many other larger groups, and it's fully consistent. If you compared a 1993 newscast to a 2023 newscast, the formula doesn't really change, but it does adapt.

The best result may be for Sinclair to just give up on WPMI, let the NBC contract expire and either turn it into a Dabl zombie or turn in the license, and making way for NBC to come home to WALA as a DT2 the same way ABC/CBS is combo'ed on WLOX to the west. What kept WPMI going despite the Sinclair spiderweb that was woven was the Main Studio Rule, and with that gone and just this limited SSA pretty much keeping its programming options limited, there's no longer a point to have that station, much less WFGX, once syndication starves out that station's own schedule. There are just a lot of Sinclair stations with the Big Four where the bare minimum is being done and Sinclair is treading the line between keeping stations viable and being non-factors in the worst ways. I never thought I'd see the day, but the days of KDNL just sticking around ABC because of the 'what else are you gonna do' threat of losing WJLA, KOMO or WSYX are over, and like the Fox/Ion threat, sooner or later you'll see Scripps/Ion or even TCT happily putting a Big Four affiliation on a subchannel and outside a lack of news/a simulcast of morning/5/6/11 from another sstation nobody really batting an eye because it's better than SBG ran their affiliate.

If you've only watch WSB to be informed about Atlanta since 1991, you probably have never wavered from North Georgia being a worst place to live than the actual country of Georgia, everybody is ripping you off and Clark Howard is a one-man army protecting Atlantans from fraud, and that the Olympics never happened and the Georgia Dome never existed, much less MBS; graphics also got really annoyed about having to change the state flag graphic even once. They have, and will never, change, and the day they become 'ABC2' will be on par with the moment General Sherman entered the city limits. (I'm exaggerating but when I look at WSOC's current 2002 weather graphics I feel physical pain and Cox has more a true art department than a graphics department)