mrschimpf

This is beyond inexplicable. If this was Steve, Dr. Oz or Wendy, I could maybe understand why...but this is still the number one 9am syndicated show. It's outlasted 20+ clones. And you replace it with the same round of roofers and questionable plastic surgeons that pollute the airwaves in other parts of the day? And you shove that show off to a MyNetworkTV affiliate where it leads into...Sister Circle, which has its own completely incompatible audience, and the audience flow just dies even more from there. They cancelled The 504 a couple years ago; why not bring that back (yeah, it was DOA leading in and out of MyNet, but still)? It seems like a novelty name for the process that Tegna puts their stations through to bring them in line with corporate standards is spreading, and sadly, there's no cure. If I'm laying down odds, it's 75% Disney-ABC tears up their deal with WWL and bumps to WVUE in September (WDSU's stuck with Today's Third Hour, and WGNO has Wendy and even with a complete Nexstar "Local"ization, that part of the schedule needs no changes).

Bumping this up since STIRR launched yesterday and it's....really good. I tried it out with WLUK and it's got a good design behind it, all of Sinclair's subchannel networks (in Milwaukee they only have Comet so it's good to have access to them in some way), along with Buzzr. It looks like they want to put on syndicated programming eventually when the syndication industry finally finds a full-show streaming solution (so...seven years from now ), plus local news streaming/on demand in their major markets. I hate to compliment the evil empire, but they made a good app here.

WTMJ/WGBA at least throw on some kind of identifier for some big stories into that box, along with their Packers coverage, but usually when I watch, that box effectively becomes dead space that I completely ignore. The Media General Jimmy Hart version that Nexstar has dispensed with aged just as badly, and sometimes the gizmo box would glitch so we'd see the off-air dimensions screen or it would appear in full on-screen if the producer accidentally switched to it.

MyNetworkTV affiliates have been dumped on much worse in these disputes; Time Warner pulled the Journal stations and pretty much said 'all their stuff is on other networks and streaming already or is awful; you are missing nothing'. When WGN America gave up for whatever Cancom drivel that's cheapest for Tribune to buy as they waited for Sinclair to take it over, it basically became a dead zone of nothing. I dumped it the moment they killed Manhattan, and their hasty cancellations really came back to bite them, since Rachel Brosnahan, one of their leads, is grabbing all the hardware for her role in Mrs. Maisel. But to add to this, it looks like Fox played 'uhh, what firewall?' with Fox Sports Go tonight, perhaps with NFL prodding. FoxNow is currently blocked out for Spectrum customers in Tribune Fox markets for regular Fox livestreams, but I had no problem at all streaming the wild card game on my Apple TV through Fox Sports Go. Even if it hasn't worked, Fox Deportes on-screen and Westwood One on radio would've been just as as good of an experience. And I can just wait to watch Bob's Burgers for one day on Hulu. But I loathe to think what the sports bars with Spectrum must do to get a signal if they don't think ahead of time.

They haven't been doing crawls or announcements on WITI, sticking to the top banner to the template website (though they have one promo which tries to say 'you could lose the spectre/the full spectrum of Fox 6 programming' like a bad dad joke writer got in the fun). Charter never has really got into pulling a channel at all (outside the weird issues involving the cheaper TWC contract and Univision this year and Viacom's self-induced idiocy last year, but those were anomalies), so they must think they can get this settled easily by Tuesday. Whatever the case it's only for the short term thanks to Nexstar, so they'll only be making a deal for the short term.

Usually Spectrum losing Tribune/WITI in Milwaukee would have had the state of Wisconsin threatening to take control of Spectrum to force Packers playoff games on WITI to air. This year, there is not that leverage.

As long as TPIR, Y&R and The View still exist at that time of day to Hoover up the eyeballs (and Wendy to a smaller extent), those NBC affiliates don't want to be stuck with that timeslot; 10am-noon on an NBC affiliate is a black hole where the worst of syndication goes to die otherwise. The same stations are still dealing with Santa Barbara's cancellation forcing them to fill the 3pm/2pm timeslot 25 years ago and outside a few lucky stations with CBSTD shows or Ellen, have never figured out any way outside of fluff talk or Access Live to have a pulse there.

ABC just offered a ransom to keep it on their O&O's to the 40th year and keep it from moving to Fox O&O's. All about money, in every market.

I was wondering why TVNewscheck posted a sudden WDJT evening opening last night, just seemed so sudden. But if you get a #3 market job, you jump, and jump fast like Kate did.

All of them seem to serve some part of Virginia so they could likely try to cluster a case of lack of basic community service.

WISN got burned by a in-market swatting hoax story last night during prime time they had as breaking news before the police said 'it isn't real' (and had to air a DWTS dance during their late news because of it). The 'details' may have also either scared WEWS from sending out anyone, or based on their sources, they may have decided there was more smoke than fire in what was going on. When it comes to any of this, you don't want to be the station that gives the most attention or credence to a swatter and show 'this is fun!', so WEWS's caution was appropriate here. If the story grew, they just would have been late and had to catch up, and only the promo makers would have cared in the end.

And don't forget "Last Call”. They worked all of this out already years ago. Meanwhile, DCA-->JFK is no big deal at all. Peter may even just take in the Acela and not even bother with the flights. The route certainly isn't a buggy route by any means at all.

And Kathie Lee and Hoda are giving her thanks for the free studio remodeling with audience they'll be moved into permanently within the month. There's nothing dumber than having your network make this large capital and resource outlay for you and you somehow screw it up.

In a stronger position she might have lasted the rest of the TV season. But when you have stations free to move her to 10am because "Kelly" and local advertorials do much better at 9am and your only buzz is to continually screw up in interviews and panels rather than content merit...that's the kind of 'bad PR is still good PR' you really don't want going forward.

She was rightfully angry because they were changing her show because of the random whim of ABC News. She's not part of ABC News, and she had the right to feel offended because of that. She took a week off, came back and decided to go right back to work, speak of it once and let the ratings in the time she hosted with guests speak for themselves. It happened. It's long over. At this point no matter how much influence Ryan might have, it truly is Kelly's and Gelman's show to do with what they want, and ABC-Disney isn't going to let them go to someplace like CBS, which would only be happy to dump Let's Make a Deal and give them full rein. Men pull this stuff off too, but we don't hear about it in the tabloid media because it doesn't fit their 'all women are difficult and are Real Housewives off-camera' narrative. The lesson; don't anger your talent for fun, because it'll come back to bite you.

The concerns of an anonymous idiot who has been known only as "Sources Say" for 35 years and seems to have a regular feature about "Live! Panic!" in the National Enquirer has little to no say in the matter. Ratings are good and stations across the Big Four network aren't dumping the show, and they only dump it because another station offered more money to air it.. The show has vanquished tens of copycat shows in a way most companies can only dream of. The only time they could have cancelled or took it network-exclusive passed the moment Disney purchased ABC and decided to keep Buena VIsta as an outside syndicator.

Most stations didn't really all get 5pm shows until the early 1990s in Wisconsin. I still remember when WISN had The People's Court at 5pm leading into WNT up to about 1989.

WBAY is keeping their noon show and having GMA Day air at 2pm like they did The Chew. WBRZ, that just seems like some kind of listings error; more likely Wendy goes to 11am, then GMA Day at 2pm.

If they started it out early enough, then they definitely did so at the right time where people in Baltimore didn't care about the 10pm shows and that it was always there. Me now helps by airing Hogan's Heroes in that slot, which many people can take or leave. It also helps that they definitely use it for an NBC backup in the right way, where programming airs day/date/time rather than 'after the 4th hour of Today repeat' at 3 in the morning. And yes...WBFF being the Sinclair Death Star in the market helps with alternatives.

The big problem with subchannel news is three things; people who shun you because you aren't airing what's on nationally at that time (probably one reason Hearst can't make their MeTV shows work), lack of promotion, and horrid advertising. WITI couldn't sell an ad to save its life on Antenna TV when they had to shift the regular shows there during the World Cup, so it was a continuous loop of PSAs and the occasional national class action ad. And most of the time whenever you try to market a network the way it wants to be (Justice Network wants you to air local pieces, the long-dead TheCoolTV wants local artists to submit videos), nobody cares. They just see it as another place to watch reruns of a certain genre or don't even think of it as an OTA subchannel, especially on cable.

The last book has them #40 in a 50-station metered market, only above KLOVE/Air1, Spanish sports talk and tied with a Persian station. At this point, their ratings and schedule make WBAI look competent and altogether in comparison.

The upper Midwest started as the Northwest Territories; the claim is definitely there.

Big difference though is Bounce has a quality rep and original programming going for it, and an obvious viewership base in the market Hearst wouldn't ditch (thankfully Scripps isn't tinkering with that so far). Escape and Laff have none of that going for them and have little to no local advertisers wanting to burn money on those networks.

They'll dump Escape and Laff first chance they get; those aren't networks Hearst has affiliations with solely for quality concerns, along with them being Scripps networks. I could see them also killing the "WPME" schedule off to remove the confusion of the Ion deal and move the 10 hours of dead weight to 51.1's overnights and bump it up to 1080i when they merge their MC in.

Better yet, "24/7", then "Evening Report" (keep 'on your side' confined to consumer/enterprise reporting like it was intended). The entire thing is a word salad and you've got the circle 7 highlighted enough where that just stands alone.