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I can't compare this to Quibi; this was more like the old guard throwing a temper tantrum they were getting new management and trying to throw them a headache right at the start which was dealt with when Zucker was terminated but his minions remained. You definitely get the feeling that Chris Licht took one look at this and said 'that's done' when he gets into the office. It's more comparable to Seeso, NBC's comedy app which always seemed to be a niche plaything and was never going to do much for NBCU's streaming ambitions, along with NBC Sports Gold and its 10 esoteric sports plans where you had to pay for access to soccer, cycling, rugby and/or NBC Sports Philly debate shows, each separately. It's also still the first month, so however customer service has to deal with it will likely be with pricing credits, which I feel like what will happen with HBO Max involving Discovery+'s yearly subscribers (or a refund for those who authenticate HBO Max with their pay-TV provider). There just isn't much of a base to involve much complication. As for Discovery+, HBO Max has just had major updates which use the native players for Apple/Google/Fire TV and Roku so at least there it'll just be a matter of adding the titles and appropriate D+ verticals, along with updating the Turner cable apps under Discovery's "GO" cable app brand. Compared to two years ago HBOMax is a joy to use now. And another minor thing, Discovery is likely to FINALLY kill Turner's Stretch-o-Vision for what little SD content remains on TNT and TBS.

Going by the test closing they're still getting the hang of things, so Zulu time won't stick around...but the Gray ticker is here to stay (though looking at it clear they should try to make that permanent with a better font color to stand out?).

I had a feeling something regarding a deal was happening as the Grammys had promos for her in full-throat on Sunday; they wouldn't have done that if they were pushing her out the door.

With Fox launching a hip-hop focused TMZ pilot run this week think we'll be only seeing more TMZ extensions. I eventually think we'll be seeing the original TMZ extend to an hour or a Drew-esque split format since the Live show already easily fills an hour on the Fox stations (if not for required breaks and downtime I'm sure Fox's stations would be eager to go 4am-7pm with all-news).

Along with even more gambling info . I know the game's become all about statistics, but some people actually watch the games and don't care about laying money on them.

Called it in the NN thread when the departure PR came out, and am holding off my Brainy Smurf impression that he'd end up at 'BBM.

I have no real issue with Rachael's show as it still has a base of good to mediocre stations, even if its in late night or early morning timeslots and they still put in effort into the show, and Cheaters...well, that's another evergreen format that can continue as long as low-tier cable networks and MyNet stations need filler content. But, there is Celebrity Page, which you'd think would have been gone four years ago, but continues to air despite a fully lousy affiliate base and timeslots.

No more getting to mock The Doctors...what show will I use to be the zombie example of syndication now? As for DMTV it was on borrowed time once WPIX got bought by Nexstar; they'll be happy to add newscasts when they had to get off their own set for it to tape.

I thought TVNT put up an April Fool's joke two days early...how wrong I was. Get ready for the brokered model from radio to become a part of TV, where the IP of a schedule and news operation with a TBD owner has to pay INSP for their spectrum. And TBN looks a little bit hasty cashing out some mid-markets to Ion when if INSP makes this succeed, they'll be in a good place.

And that's been taken care of; WUVG now has a news-share with WSB.

On a basic level, cable/sat providers haven't really reorganized their channel lineups since the early 2010s (I'm still waiting for my Charter lineup to be re-organized as it is on Time Warner where 1000's are HD and 2000's are niche/ethnic channels), so BNC did get carriage...but it was so far away from the actual news channels that nobody was going to discover it in-between randomly-assigned networks added since that re-organization took place like ShopHQ Health, Discovery Life, the Olympic channel and Pac12 Arizona. It wasn't going to work because they took just plain carriage over demands to be right in the news tier. To be fair, Newsmax is in the same channel tier situation, but is also carried on anything with an electrical plug and a video player so they're in a much better state. The other problem was it was just better as a streaming service to begin with. They should have done that first, rather than as a recreational sideline where you got their lesser content. Except for wasting money on satellite space, it was utterly pointless to start as a cable channel in 2020, and launching one month before the pandemic absolutely undid any publicity that would have helped them succeed. Or lowest common denominator stuff like Byron Allen. There is Aspire and Revolt, but they've long retreated to their own niches (archive shows and videos, respectively) with little news content, and TV One has fallen into Viacom Useless Network Syndrome with marathons of old sitcoms; they have an entire radio group with simulcast-ready content to draw from, and just chose that direction because it's what works in the cable world now.

We were so focused on Gray cutting it that DDM just saying 'we're done' wasn't even in the cards. And that WGCL has just been counting the days to launch a 7 p.m. show isn't much of a surprise at all; we'll be seeing a few 7/7:30 (6/6:30) newscasts launching in the ex-Meredith markets because it IS an election year.

The Son of Ghoul website is still up, and it is on the WIVM quadcast. Meanwhile if Weigel keeps up Retro TV at this point like they are on WJLP solely so Luken/Get After It can't sue them when the contract expires, it's out of purely starving them out rather than an interest in 'helping' a competitor. And you know a music package (at least not like the faux-WGN PAMS style) is on its last legs if you're thinking 'are these singers even still alive?'

They actually do have that planned; Karamo Brown is effectively his in-house successor.

And the WIWN move from 44 to 5 (as Pappas was going through their bankruptcy and hadn't launched digital facilities for what would be WIWN) actually allowed that move for WLS in the first place, so it continues the chair-shuffling involved with that move from all the way in 2009. Also part of the petition is WIWN wants to launch a DTS translator for Fond du Lac proper (COL is that but they've long moved to Milwaukee FAIAP). WCHU currently translates WAOE, the Frankenstation which 'moved' from Peoria to Oswego, but as they're playing the channel-hop game to get to Chicago and if they get a site in downtown, they'd be happy to let that WCHU go.

New from TVNewser...the 11 p.m. newscast is now permanent along with an hour weekend expansion, a new hour will be added to Morning in America and Rush Hour, and Joe Donlon is gone after next Friday (thus the RH expansion), so start the 'when is WBBM picking him up' spec. All in all, 12 hours of new live programming to be added by Memorial Day to the schedule.

Also, The Doctors, just to keep Dr. Phil and his son happy. A Fallout situation could occur, and there's Dr. Ordon, still hosting it in the void of the metaverse about how to increase your brainpower with green smoothies so you repel the zombies from eating you.

I don't know if site filtering ate up the link but I can't seem to click on it.

The problem is the only thing that's actually working in the talk show field, clear advertorial junk like The Balancing Act or The Daily Flash, is crap viewers will not go near because it screams advertorial, and ends up with awful time slots, and shows that move into segments with it have to step around a minefield. And there are still new court shows and formats being thrown in syndication, even as Judy in repeats, Judge Mathis and The People's Court are the ones that stick around. There's also the fact that even as Kelly is doing well, it also faces obnoxious pre-emptions for press conferences and local breaking news, which seem to be increasing as stations realize that they can just say 'uh, check YouTube or Twitter, record Bravo at 3am, or just pay $5 for Peacock', something they can't do for Ellen. Some stations want the 'news' cake, and will take a bite of it, even if talk show pre-emptions are the result. Also not helping; most of the stations where The Real ends up are the low-totem priority in a duopoly, so there was little promotion in these last seasons even as it was still going strong, and it got bumped to 4am through no fault of its own in many markets because Access Daily still has to be a thing, along with these lower-tier court shows. You don't promote shows on a MyNet affiliate or like Sinclair, bump it to a DT2 or DT3 position and then just collect the retransmission consent for a Dabl/TBD TV do-nothing schedule on the main channel, this is what's going to happen.

Or a sign that they won't pick up the Good Dish in the old Oz slots on stations that have that.

Or WBFF-DT2 since they moved the MyNet channel to a sub position (though it would be funny if they did actually move to the TBD TV wasteland it now is). RIP to one of Maury's last stands on the Big Three.

Feel free to revert the link if not appropriate but this Facebook gossiper says it was due to conduct before emceeing an event at a high school. Salt grain taken, as the rest of their page content is 'MSM is poison/Q' stuff.

If they had one of those minority services on DT1, I'd see something in their response, but HSN is on DT1, along with GetTV, Buzzr, QVC2, and Alex Jones 24/7 on other channels. 5/11 of their channels actually serve true minority audiences (counting TheGrio), so there's too many holes in their argument here, and KTNV's offer is much more lenient and open than most full-power broadcasters would give to an LPTV; you wouldn't see an HC2 station ever get any of this because a full-power would think they're cute.

I think MF was also counting the hour of CBS Boston on WSBK, along with NECN there. Whatever small numbers they get with WLVI at 10 are negligible in the full count from just 7 though; WFXT's presentation is very lacking and is so generic it would probably be walloped if the format was copied exactly in Peoria or Nashville.

That article was written in August 2020; two years later, there's been a new NFL deal. There might be a sale in the meantime, but until February 2033, you can count on the networks to stay on the air just for that alone.