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First thing to handle is getting off VHF 4 (they have a translator but it can only do so much heavy lifting and you can't have everything in the market on an LD). Then accommodating those who don't want to lose a 'safe/religious' viewing option via a sub (its DT2 high school sports sub is already in wind-down mode).

And if you're checking on 'maybe Lions lead-in?' for WWJ...Thanksgiving is the realistic last CBS Lions game for the season. Expect a promotion/launch date announcement then if not before, but it won't be on that day.

It's a very close Canadian Border Zone station and the allocation conflicts with CTV2's CIVI-2 up in Vancouver; CTV didn't want to move, petition would be denied (orange mark is CHEK on adjacent 16; same with KNDO).

Speaking of Kelly, one of her constant guest hosts is Jay Leno, and you may have heard he was burned by gasoline in a garage mishap yesterday. He should be okay (befitting his work ethic he says he'll be out for 'a week or two'), and You Bet Your Life taping is done for the season already, so any effect on that show won't be seen for months.

Peacock is adding affiliate stream access to the $10 premium plan at the end of the month (NBCU-owned stations are available now to start), which is equal to what Paramount+ provides on their own tier (Fox and ABC don't provide the same, and Fox is limited to owned stations besides KCPQ and WITI because of contractual issues). As someone who finds the NBC app's affiliate stream with TVE a nightmare just to get to, this is a better way to get it.

Another interesting note about Drew; today they moved the Drew's News segment from leading the second half-hour back to the top of the first half-hour before the day's celebrity interview. Guess some who did have the split-schedule gave feedback about it.

Whose Line will film its 20th season in January, and 11th and final season for The CW...surprised at this one because it was reasonable and cost-effective to film, but obviously it wasn't going to stay on the Perry version of the network unless it filmed in Branson or some other cheap tourist hell.

At the very least a lot of comedy and hour dramedy-type content like they air from their Canadian partners. But it's a good sign that it won't be all cheap reality-video content from $8 producers, or a Pax TV redux (as in cheap, not so family-friendly only nursing homes will watch).

The perception should be 'there's nothing but fulfilling news in this program' and you won't run into Morning Save, a native advertising pill ad disguised as an interview, or fluff memoir trash...but then most of the news is stuck on the ticker or in brief (leaving the viewer to seek it out on the .com or app for more), stories that just run overlong, or the news is unimportant fluff after a certain point but still technically 'news'.

Considering the network's muddled direction (not quite Fox News, but also CourtTV), this is more just turf protection for their FNC brethren than a political axe to grind. I do take a few things seriously here (especially the whiny timeslot hysterics). This is just more a case of an impatient media divo not understanding the days of his show getting 1 million+ are over and he has to rebuild an audience week by week and month by month with patience. If he wanted instant gratification he should've started a Twitch channel with Mr. Beast or something.

He's just mad Frank Reagan is more respected on NewsNation than him, a real person. The entire endeavor is beginning to remind me of the Brooklyn Nets; it should easily be a well-run and loved team, but they have a bunch of people screwing things up and the ones trying to fix it just won't be heard, so they walk away for their health.

Glad you said it; I don't like dropping names in case someone here likes them, but there's nothing worse than a channel with no theming that just grabs things via a YouTube downloader, screencapture, or 'Android pointed at TV/PC' without any proper credit. It makes all the archivist channels in it for the passion look terrible when others steal their work.

All the more galling as there are a certain few channels which refuse to credit anyone uploading 100+ videos a day (most of them swiped from ntropolis and RetroOntario and the like) and which attract only the annoying 'channel number/current owner' comment crowd. They've been polluting my algorithm as of late, and it drives me crazy.

As long as dumb companies keep putting their stupid money into sports gambling efforts (even as Fubo tapped out and Gannett's Tipico partnership bombed) and Bally needs stuff to air without paying Jimmy Hanlin and Natalie Gulbis to show off Putt-Putt courses, Stadium will be fine.

They can forget to take Hot Wheels ads out of a Hot Wheels show, but they'll never forget to keep KDNL out of the ABC affiliation renewals. (not that it makes a difference now since the alternative is Nexstar)

Plus it's perfect to tie into 'one week until the election' 'down the stretching' coverage (which of course turns into a 2024 preview ...there are many people that don't care about elections after November 9 but they don't seem to be heard any longer by cable news).

Why tear up a helipad even if it's dormant?! Knowing Tegna they'll just keep it a gravel pit because they can't afford to landscape it.

I would've thought this would be used for "Fox 6's" own stick, but other than ATSC3 I'm confused with this one. Telemundo is already O&O'ed in Hartford and Springfield, and the 'Fairfield County' version of WFSB is just the main station with Fairfield ads now since they cut all syndicated product that could be claimed by NYC stations, so a hop down there doesn't make sense. Only thing could be expanding WSHM coverage south into Windsor and Enfield, but I'm absolutely stumped unless there's a second hop to Pittsfield to return CBS/ABC/Fox local coverage to the Berks after WCDC was shut down.

Fox has been pretty brutal in past disputes though in cutting off Hulu and FoxNow to customers of a disputed provider (and they forced a TNF game off NFLN because of a Dish dispute), which is why I'd like to know, especially if those customers use the 7-day free trial to round it, if they force the league to pull that offer and make it TV/ST-exclusive. At least with the other companies you have a streaming alternative, but FoxNow is it for them.

I am curious to see how a subscriber to both Optimum and NFL+ will be affected if this happens as they do provide in-market streaming.

In the ABC case, there's only two possible markets and six O&O stations each (plus Univision and Telemundo here) that can host a debate (because WMGM or the Atlantic City-licensed infomercial farms certainly aren't), or NJPBS. Both are universally available through NJ, and ABC usually deems it a news event where a simple courtesy is all they need, not this 7-bullet point list to protect a scratch-rating-filled opinion network which has most non-NX stations like 'we're just going to read excerpts and you'll be happy with it, Sook'...plus they were streamed to YouTube live. And C-SPAN airs most debate, which everyone with cable or satellite has. NX stations posted it to YouTube after the fact and NX refused to provide it to C-SPAN. Nexstar sites, outside of WGN's, are a nightmare to navigate the video from, they refuse to work with any non-IPTV TV news streaming services that people actually use on a big screen, and it's not an acceptable solution when YouTube is the video standard. I just don't think a debate should be reduced to being limited to one station group, nor should it be on a low-tier station nobody watches just for FCC backpats and brownie points, or should be protected by copyright. It is a public service and shouldn't be subject to overprotective restrictions designed to obstruct constructive use of clips within it. Either put it on the PBS station or a Big Four commercial station in primetime or after the 11 pm news, or don't bother organizing it.

Putting it on the MNTV affiliate is the Cincinnatian equivalent of Northern Mongolia (WBQC is Cincinnati's television Siberia, of course). Surely it could've gone on WKRC, a station people actually watch, or even it's DT2 CW, rather than being stuck in the Sheldon Cooper timeslot leading into SVU reruns on a station only watched by doctor's offices, people who just will never stream TV, and restaurants who don't want to deal with the cable news arguments. My point stands; Nexstar, and here Sinclair, should've allowed any station to air it like they do in Wisconsin and most states instead of this 'exclusivity' racket. This isn't Thursday Night Football, that the parties actually agree to this racket to prop up a failing cable channel is ludicrous, and it should be in the public domain and available to C-SPAN. End of.

I can't understand station groups keeping a debate to themselves; in Wisconsin the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association organizes the debate, with either Milwaukee PBS or PBS Wisconsin hosting it, and it basically being open to everyone to take; WVCY, the Milwaukee religious station, even broadcasts it both on TV and radio, about the only time they're neutral (though with a strong 'vote how God would want you to' message at the end). And Nextar's requirements for debate coverage? How any media org accepts them is just beyond stupid. They basically read 'radio can rot', and the big annoyance in campaign ads, where a clean feed isn't available so a station gets dragged through the mud with some PAC, is just completely self-inflicted idiocy.

They could do Friday, but Saturday nights with Notre Dame (and the Big Ten in the future), along with SNL live coast-to-coast, it's impossible there. I'd say more Tuesday since that's a struggle night for them, and Wednesday and Thursday are currently Dick Wolf territory with the Chicagos and L&O shows (I have no idea how they balance that out with three hours on each unless a show goes on the block at the end of the season).

Especially after Spectrum had to bump their Broadcast fee $4...it's time for reform. There's no justification for a MyNetworkTV affiliate running on autopilot to rate the same cost as an NBC station.