mrschimpf

2 hours ago, susquvalleywgal said:

Nice theme, even tho I feel this is a HUGE gamble for Amazon Prime ... how many bars will have this on?  lol

 

-- Matt

They'll have a feed on DirecTV to count on (Good luck to those that have cable? And if you still have Dish and their 750 RTC issues/dumps in 2022 I don't know what to tell your business sense.). And of course if the game is local a regular station will carry it in syndication per NFL rules.

With NBC now having a regular Saturday night football package, I wonder how they'll pacify Lorne if we get a nine-overtime game like we got last year...along with the stations who may just have to do a speed-run five minute newscast.

And for next year, will CBSSN get some Big Ten overflow action if CBS has to move onto the SEC at 3:30...or even someplace else like MTV based on ubiquitous carriage/other conflicts.

24 minutes ago, tjt24 said:

So I'm not sure if this goes in this thread or not (feel free to move if not), but WFMJ's assistant news director just tweeted this...

Congratulations to WFMJ for finally realizing 1988 happened 34 years ago and it's time to have a 5pm newscast.

3 hours ago, DJonNews said:

Watching the alternate broadcast of the MLB Game of the Week on YouTube with celebrity guests in every inning...

..and judging by the live chat and the Twitter replies, we're only one inning in at the time of this post and already, the reception isn't good, as many fans are frustrated that they are forced to listen to the celebrity conversations (which are only barely related to baseball at all) take precedence over the baseball game itself. For fans of either team (Mariners or Angels), doubly so, as they say this is the only way they can watch it thanks to the regional blackout.

 

One person is quoted as saying "Would rather watch commercial breaks than this."

The good thing about the YouTube broadcast is they do offer the radio play-by-play for each team through the settings/gear menu. They barely let you know that, but when you finally do, it's bliss. I do enjoy the Apple TV broadcasts but I wish they'd offer the same thing for FNB.

35 minutes ago, The Frog said:

How the hell?

Hour-long superhero shows + CGI × COVID compliance + all those writers trying to keep Riverdale from becoming an ouroboros =

This is why you're going to be seeing A LOT more of Eric Estrada and Laura McKenzie on The CW (I'm shocked Associated Television International isn't getting their own 25% piece).

Also...Hearst does have leverage with the Litton E/I block, so don't expect them to go gently into that good night either. 

The big question here is if Nexstar maintains the CW+ infrastructure and continues to offer it as a sub/cable network, or begins to wind it down, along with overall caution for the largest affiliate bases like Sinclair and Gray. It's still worth it for now to offer syndicated product that would otherwise go unseen in a market, more than the 18 hours of CW programming.

8 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

I actually didn’t realize that about the combined cost, so I stand corrected. And I completely agree that those games aren’t being “banished” at all, even though (at least until those streaming services see further growth) the ratings for those games will be lower than those on, say, ESPN, it still beats being tied to cable for all of it.

I still remember the late 80s until BTN launched that trying to actually find a Big Ten game that wasn't the big ABC game of the week or on ESPN (and it took awhile for the Badgers to get there)...that meant you had to deal with syndication and ESPN+/Creative Sports and so many different presentations of the team from just game to game, or station to station (or just gave up and waited for the public television student broadcast replay in late night); there was pain when WMLW was still low-power in Milwaukee and you prayed your cable system picked it up because they had some games on that station and you couldn't get it at all.

At least now you get to see the game on a streaming service nationwide (and every game period; anyone born in 1980 like me doesn't know how much it used to suck to watch anyone but the big programs when the Badgers were literal football roadkill) with quality announcers and conference-minimum presentation requirements, not just whoever responded on the sports announcer/cameraman equivalent of Fivrr in 1995.

On 8/6/2022 at 6:41 PM, iron_lion said:

Do we see NBC News Daily lasting? ABC's The Chew and The Revolution are both gone. Surpisingly CBS has held down the Talk and Lets Make a Deal (replacements for As the World Turns & Guiding Light) for over a decade now.

The Revolution was a 'fad show' and done from its first week; a very blatant and nasty attempt to try a reality show during the day. Unlike Starting Over though, it outright insulted its target audience and was completely focused around weight loss and fad diets and saying 'you're never good enough, take our advice!'. The Chew likely would've stayed on until at least March 2020 had Mario Batali not ruined everything though.

I think CBS has finally found a Talk cast that isn't confrontational, and LMAD has found a perfect format and niche, so that's worked out for them.

I do see NBCND lasting; if anything it'll only help NBC affiliates finally stop slacking on their local noon newscasts as the place where corporate must-runs and cheaper advertorials go to die, along with B-team anchors before their retirements.

1 hour ago, carolinanews4 said:

So essentially the network will simply broadcast an hour of NBC News Now. Or I guess you could say NBC News Now will stream four hours of NBC News Daily.

And since Tom Llama's program airs in overnights, it's essentially two hours of airtime given to NBC News Now, but five production hours for the network, of course allowing breaking news and scheduled cut-ins by Lester and the NN gang. There will be one hour of bleedover with the Hoda/Jenna hour of Today in the Pacific Time Zone west, so we'll have to see how they would handle breaking news in that situation.

I do hope though that the network specifies that the affiliate time must be used for the majority of the time for news and weather; there are already some stations (WTMJ looking at you with Blend Extra!) that only do 30 seconds of news and the rest is either ads or (after 10) sponcon advertorials.

On 6/2/2021 at 4:21 PM, mrschimpf said:

Kari Lake, ex-KSAZ'er, is running for AZ governor. Of course, she totally expects to win the race by refusing to talk to any media, so we'll see how that goes.

This is why I do not gamble.

5 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

I was just thinking that. It should’ve had its own thread yesterday. And with apologies to Salt Lake City where they will have to drop one of their syndies if they clear this, it didn’t belong in the syndicated thread.

I don't think Hot Bench moving to overnights (or sold off to the Sinclair/Nexstar duops) will be a criticized move by KSL. It seems like they moved DOOL (as has been proven over the years) not because of any plots which went against "Mormon values" (like when they aired SNL again as their Saturday night Utes sports show declined), but they just plain got sick of having to shuffle around the schedule and deal with viewers when the show got pre-empted, so they just pushed it to overnights so that it had a steady timeslot where it's easily recorded without fear 95% of the time of a pre-emption.

They'll be fine to get a news show at that time...or just keep their schedule as-is if they fear the NBC News replacement ends up as sponcon fluff most days if ratings don't work out.

But the thing is the affiliates have lost power...like the 'you don't like it, deal' trash involving the College Football Playoff (and Rose Bowl) being cable-only, stations can no longer argue against the networks to keep shows, and it's terrible that now they have to play tech support to help their loyalist viewers navigate Peacock instead of having the recourse to just air the show if they chose to under an equivalent 'internal syndication' deal to the Litton E/I blocks.

And...it looks like it's been merged with theGrio TV; my Spectrum lineup and BNC Go both now show that network rather than BNC. I guess we'll see if they launch news programming soon, but for now that's what's airing (and makes sense; some markets don't have theGrio or cable systems that don't carry many subchannels and it's definitely compliant with BNC's existing RTC deals as-is, so why not?).

You have to assume there will be a number of affiliates not happy right now to learn their schedule is incompatible thanks to NBC giving an hour over to news, and since Kelly Clarkson is a lead-out from DOOL in some markets, her flow is also screwed up. There are still NBC affiliates that have never recovered from the Santa Barbara hour going back to them and having to fill it with a C-level talk show (or now Dateline), which is why NBC couldn't give up the Another World/Passions hour when they expanded Today the second time. And now the affiliate base has to take the brunt of the 'what is a Peacock', 'can't you just air it anyways just hook up your TV to Peacock and broadcast it' and 'I will never watch your station again' calls.

If this was announced a year out maybe it would work out well. Now it just seems like a panic 'follow the leader' move because ABC lucked into a good thing with GMA3WYNTK and NBC itself has such a deep hard news vacuum between 7:40 a.m.-6:30 p.m. outside breaking news days. And oh God this is inevitably gonna have a 'deal of the day' segment like GMA3WYNTK and The Talk isn't it?

And...(LeBron timeout pain GIF)...MSNBC. You already have a news channel. You're basically telling Chris Jansing you don't care about her 1 p.m. show. ABC at least gave plenty of notice All My Children was ending and had the 'we don't have a news channel' excuse to cover the move.

On 7/24/2022 at 9:32 AM, ctmajka said:

They've dropped their long time musical logo for an altered version. Makes me wonder if that was a conscious decision, or if TM owns that musical logo outright.

It might have been a purposeful decision as the older package is intended for true news radio stations, but more and more is used by 'news/talk' stations where the news is second to the talk, so it's now one of those 'misnomer' packages. Thus after everyone else changed in the group, WBBM/Audacy were ready to ditch and modernize it.

I want to know the drama going on behind the WGN News Twitter account before they were forced by Perry (with this embarrassingly bad soundbite) to throw this on their feed :

A final update to this thread so much longer later; they've switched the weather system to the O&O system as of July 20, 2022. Now to wait for the station to hit FoxNow full-time.

Not sseing anything online yet, but WBBM (the AM/FM news radio version of course, not the pop FM) just unveiled their first sonic branding in around twenty years and the FM broadcast on 105.9 is now fully emphasized in it with no sign of 780 outside the ID. It's a match for the older version, just much more modernized...and now traffic has music backing it for the first time ever. No logo change with this one since they did that a few years back already.

If you can hear it I think you'll like it; it's like the KYW sonics, if a little more 'Chicago hard-edged'.

And it has closed. If it doesn't move to TWC's Interstate Parkway building in Atlanta, I would be awfully shocked, because it was a channel that should have been in Atlanta in the first place. Now ES can start to distribute news on their own rather that depend on the networks, and AMG will likely launch their own wire and down the line, can have a national hub. Yes, it's Black News Channel first, but this definitely wasn't a purchase made to only keep things as-is.

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Do not talk about Orlando. Everything is staying put. The owners are happy with their stations, and SERIOUSLY have no plans to sell anytime soon. Not now, not for a long time.

Yes, it's ridiculous to think that anyone is selling at this point in Orlando, and the only possible buyer is the networks (as NBCU did for WTMO and Fox hasn't floated the WOFL/WRBW duop in years, nor even WOGX). WRDQ is in that group too and staying with whoever gets WFTV.

Orlando is rare in being a steady market where there are no sellers and the only buyers are either among the low-power bottom feeders, or the religious groups desperate to get carriage on The Villages cable system, and there the only move is someone selling out inevitably to TCT (the K-Love of religious television right now).

27 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

People check the weather, they don’t check the “First Alert Forecast™.”

Even in a Gray market with that branding, it eventually does blend in over time where they just have the one call-out in the sponsor tag, and otherwise it's scripted 'in weather tonight...'. I'm glad it's there, but that the branding overall isn't that absurd. I think this will eventually be the case with the CBS intro of the Next and First Alert trademarks.

30 minutes ago, PhillyWatch said:

I'd likely watch SN1 LA (along with the other SN channels around the country) about 100 percent more if I could watch it on a TV. If anybody is aware of something I'm not doing, let me know, but overall it's just been a huge disappointment.

They have now added all of the Spectrum News channels nationwide through the regular Spectrum app on Apple TV/Roku in the 2200s tier, though I don't know if it's available to watch through bare Internet packages without TV service.

I think this is actually a good move, because like awards shows being taped and edited, the network morning show ending up with the same type of treatment when you've got it available live through SXM or your streaming service has gotten downright stupid; it's why Pacific Time stations are taking the 6:30pm ET newscasts more and more live at 3:30pm PT, and where the network overnight newscasts used to be live in all time zones, you only have World News Now done and out by 2:30am, then onto the morning newscasts by 3:00am.

If you're a CBS station with no morning news, that means if you air the CBS Morning News at 6:30am PT...that's a six hour old newscast you're carrying (with a twelve-hour old newscast leading into that). And then you're leading into a morning show when Today is already onto Hota and Jenna outside breaking news days and CBS Times Square is empty and unused. It's an outmoded model, and there shouldn't be this artificial wall up around watching a morning show live in PT because 'that's the way it's always been'.

I know KCBS will take a ratings hit, but you gotta start experimenting, and why keep KCAL in infomercial hell when they can be live 4-11? Most Fox stations are already in this mode, so it's basically CBS being adventurous and being the first here. I don't mind that they're going for it, and frankly, KPIX/KBCW should be next, and KOIN/KRCW should get incentives to try it themselves. You already basically had KOVR/KMAX as a half-model of this (their local show is active 4:30-11), and that seems to work pretty well for Sacramento.

11 minutes ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:

Too bad that the late David Downs' legacy has been wiped from YouTube. That is why I've been on the fence on posting any 'Price' episodes as I now know Pluto has a 'channel' with both Barker and Carey-era episodes.

It looks like some of his stuff was retained by folks who knew it was coming; Ben from The Oddity Archive is uploading non-game show stuff from the collection on his Archive Annex channel for instance.

18 minutes ago, Newsjunkie24 said:

 

I don't know if this is the main reason why these takedowns occurred. Sony and CBS have always been strict with J!, WOF and JJ long before these channels and content were made available. David Downs's and Sam Mitchell's channels were terminated about Memorial Day.

It's certainly a part of it though; you'll never notice any of NBCU/Multimedia's 90s shows on there because Nosey has been pretty consistent about getting those talk shows on any AVOD channel possible. It's just a part of those two finally realizing there's free money and viewers to be had putting it on Pluto, and TPIR was a great test of that thinking. I know I've stopped on the Pluto court show channel a few times to catch a few old Judge Judy episodes.

This would be the reason SPT and CBSMV cleared out a whole lotta WoF, J! And Judge Judy content:

https://deadline.com/2022/07/pluto-tv-adds-judge-judy-streaming-channel-wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-1235061482/

Hopefully it’s not the same limited episode pools that GSN got stuck with. 

On 7/8/2022 at 5:33 PM, iron_lion said:

what was the sense of that? literally erasing years of daytime television? Wendy's hot topic videos used to get a lot of hits.

I can understand deleting the website (you can't get tickets to a non-existent show) and Twitter/Instagram (that's so ephemeral), but the YouTube simply is probably Wendy having control of that content and refusing to allow DM/Lionsgate to retain the channel at all (same as when Letterman had his CBS-managed channel removed when the show ended and then started a WWP-managed channel), which would be justified.

Sherri also probably didn't want to keep the content of her guest host run up because she's already dealing with a big enough minefield with everyone as it is and prefers a full fresh start, and that includes the social accounts; unlike other cases such as Circa's subscribers becoming National Desk subscribers and being like 'oh yeah, Circa's gone...guess I'll stick around for this, same thing', you do not want to have those Wendy-era followers who don't like the show now sticking around to hate-watch you and just "Where's Wendy you suck"-ing every post.