mrschimpf

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.

On 2/7/2022 at 5:26 PM, mrschimpf said:

Of additional note...this WGCL news share deal made with Univsion's WUVG in 2017 will likely come to an end, suggesting that it's possible the WKTB buy-out came as a result of the new TelevisaUnivision deciding to put actual resources into the WUVG news department and kill the Meredith agreement.

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.

1 hour ago, Gavin M. said:

We need our own network owned by black also I firmly believe blacks should own their media, not a white person running it like at BET, which lost its spark a long time ago.

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.

4 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Better Weigel than HC2.  This leaves WNIR 100.1 "The Talk of Akron" as the Klaus family's only media asset.  They turned in 1520 am several years ago, and cashed out WAOH-LD in the spectrum auction.  The two low power stations used to be the "CAT" or Cleveland Akron television network.  Much of their local programming went away in 2009 when they picked up RTV.

 

Speaking of local programming, where did "Son of Ghoul" end up?  I think it's on the Image Video stations out of Canton.

 

And WNIR still uses THIS image package to this day....

Upgrades are coming to W27EA for sure.  They probably still have the Video Toaster that W29AI (WAOH) launched with!

 

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?'

19 minutes ago, CLETVFan said:

So now who will filled the "you are the father" void?  

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

On 3/9/2022 at 5:01 PM, CircleSeven said:

And one more petition posted late Thursday (3/10)

 

Milwaukee station WIWN (owned by CNZ Communications) wants to vacate VHF-low 5 for VHF-high 7. 

 

Most folks know that RF 7 use to be occipied by Chicago's WLS, but they bolted to UHF post DTV transition (first to 44, then to 22 after the repack).

 

But a low-power station in the city have now occups that allotment. And that's Venture Technologies' WCHU-LD. And should WIWN gets approval in the channel switch, then WCHU would have to either greatly-reduce its contour or be displaced to a new allotment since LPs don't get protection.

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.

18 hours ago, TheSpeedKing said:

Infomercials and newscasts lol. Zero originality here.

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.

1 hour ago, dman748 said:

And now we have our first look at the Comprehensive Exhibit on the deal.

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

2 hours ago, iron_lion said:

This one actually sucks because The Real was a more relatable, less political version of The View, and a lot less generic than The Talk. It was looking bad for 'The Real' especially in New York where WNYW kept pushing it out of its 11 AM time slot. I could however see this show continuing as a topical YouTube series. 

Currently it seems talk shows are either a hit or miss with no clear success formula. The market is espacially saturated with the the soap opera genre near death which would offer (more expensive) programming alternatives.

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.

3 hours ago, Kenneth Kissel said:

Replacement for Ellen on the Hearst Stations?

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

2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

WJZ is launching a 9am newscast March 7th. Maury moves to WUTB at 2pm.

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. 

4 hours ago, Oliverolang said:

Two Departures at KCRG, both for different reasons.

 

Morning Anchor Jay Greene has been fired:

https://www.kcrg.com/app/2022/02/27/kcrg-statement-former-anchor/?outputType=apps

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.

19 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

This placing a "counter-proposal" is nothing more that to delay KTNV's process to move to that allotment. But in the end, like I stated in the Medford situation, King Kong don't have any standing. KGNG-LD is a regular low power station (not a Class A). And LP don't have protection in their allotments. And if KTNV wants to move to that allotment, it can. KGNG just doesn't want to move again, after leaving RF 47 during the spectrum repack.

 

It'll probably be lenghty, but I believe the FCC is going to greenlight KTNV's petition and throw that counterproposal in the cellar.

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.

1 hour ago, mre29 said:

 

I wasn't aware that Scripps had started a news operation on WBPX.

 

Are WHDH's numbers for their 10pm news counted with or without WLVI? Because if it's with, that seems unfair.

 

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.

1 hour ago, Kenneth Kissel said:

Fox isn't giving up their O&O networks. The only broadcast network that has a real chance that could happen is CBS/Paramount for reasons discussed on this website before in other threads. 

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.

I see station divestments...but I also see the possibility of situations such as WTLV getting ABC on DT2, WJAX hosting Fox on DT2, and then WJXX/WFOX sold off to 'minority/women ownership' KNHL-style with their 'owner' as a figurehead and their programming being contractually non-competitive.

How the FCC hasn't addressed that station purchasing strategy by now after Sinclair started shifting affiliations from their sidecars...this deal is a regulatory mess that needs to set case law precedent.

1 hour ago, freelanceproducer said:

More schedule changes are coming…

Two things;

•"Prime"= Amazon Prime now. Branding confusion with both the name and hashtag of #missingonprime, which leads to...

•It always feels like these 'locate missing people' efforts are designed not to find people, but get out-of-work LEO 'experts' on to blather on about missing person cliches and fill an hour. Michael Corn clearly wants NN to be a 'crime network' in the vein of the '7:30 morning show murder story' rather than a news network.

5 hours ago, sanewsguy said:

WRGB has made its move to physical 35. 

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/antenna-users-wrgb-to-change-channels-for-over-the-air-broadcast-service

And in a long sign of the times, nothing in the FAQ about an audio simulcast on 87.7, which they fought and lost to keep in 2009 (I assume once SBG came in, they said 'stop it' and ended the efforts). One good thing about the phone age is that any TV station can technically be 'on the radio' if their stream audio is converted to Bluetooth/plugged directly into a head unit.

On 2/8/2022 at 11:26 PM, froyo49 said:

Because an increasing number of people, including myself, don't want to spend upwards of $60 a month on a bundle of channels. It's the same reason I prefer watching NBC News Now free on YouTube than MSNBC on expensive cable television. 

I still remember when they did offer regular CNN( and HLN without a cable subscription, when they had Pipeline and it offered a different news-centric broadcast and CNN breaking news when required. Still a pity that service went down.

Honestly, I'd be happy to just pay for CNN at $7/month (if they fix the worst of Zucker's obnoxiousness)...I don't want a watered-down news product. But I honestly still find value in a cable subscription on the TV side, where I don't even have to think about remembering a password/username combo to watch a live event.

A change that should've been made all the way back in 1994 when they bought Paramount, frankly. I never understood why they were so wed to the Viacom name, which has always been associated with 'cheap'.

14 minutes ago, Greggo said:

Mornings are, by far, their weak spot. They have Jack Benny and Burns & Allen from 7-9a, pulled over from Antenna. Pretty much anything would be better.

You can pretty much argue mornings have been a wash to them since March '92 with all of CBS's morning efforts doing zilch, and then losing Kelly & Ryan once WFRV did to WLUK/WLUC in that short period under common Media General ownership.

The Entertainment Studios filler is likely at the corporate level where they got stuck with it and backfilled the rest of the CBS schedule openings with their best shows.

The same Buzzfeed writer who exposed Ellen's issues is now after Dr. Phil in a new expose.

Color me surprised that the unlicensed egomaniac that forced primetime specials and two fictional retellings of his origin story onto CBS runs an ego-centric talk show full of abuse against lower staff and guests, including the withholding of medication. But really, everything found out here is unacceptable.

Going by the building seen in the window it's the back of the building on the east Stetson Avenue side, and the last Google Street View update last summer, shows a lot of shifts of stuff in that area, including a full-scale remodeling of the back patio/entrance and tree removal. It also helps that a planned hotel project which would have gone up on that site (and cursed this new newsroom for years of construction) failed and it's remained purposefully vacant.

10 minutes ago, cbs2worksforyou said:

Is this the other side of those windows? Sucks they only have a few windows for that entire wall. But good they have some light coming in!

Probably extra windows added since that update; the four-pane seen there wouldn't match to those three panes, and again, definitely a part of the site next to it remaining vacant that those windows could go in.