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The entire network subsists on FUD, especially on crime, which is incredibly over-covered even compared to FNC. It's balanced towards the local news side that can't stop mainlining bleed-leading journalism even as viewers have long tired of overcoverage of news they absolutely cannot use (Alex Murdaugh, accidents on roads they'll never see in their lives, and UFOs).

I'm of the mind that as long as things are okay for him it's none of our business, and we should just let hosts take breaks when they need them. The age of social media where everyone is required to check in daily because otherwise Deadline and The Sun will harass their management as to why is so damaging to privacy.

Considering he broke the contract (which going by what he claims didn't exist in the first place) clearly he doesn't really have a case here; he might be confusing himself with the terms of the has-been networks he carried before; this is a station that proudly carried Newsmax for a couple years in primetime for some reason and couldn't bother for years to upgrade to HD while they carried WDIV pre-emptions, so his business acumen is really dreadful.

The coffin is the station's ultimate fate as an Innovate/HC2 subfarm, though I think Adell could screw up even that deal.

It feels like a TBN Inspire replacement because of all the damage that occurred from the Hillsong deal; they put all this money into a new studio, intending it to be their new main programming base, and their partner just implodes...and now you've got someone who is looking for their next act to partner with in the Christan equivalent of Los Angeles production-wise. I would be shocked, but not surprised, if it does replace TBN proper though. Despite their stations mainly being non-com licenses they haven't seemed to have an issue with promoting things at all, and eventually they'll be rid of their stations and able to get more commercial plugs in. Having a name to take over the concept will also help them comply with carriage agreements.

No, that's not a mistype. Dr. Phil plans to launch a new cable network by February which will feature him in primetime from a new base in the DFW Metroplex and former staffers with the talk show have also moved out there. And yes, he plans a news operation of some kind led by Joel Cheatwood, so make of that what you will. All I can say is it would probably be easier to lease time on OWN or another existing cable channel than launching a new one during the decline of the format, but apparently I'm not mainlining Dr. Phil's out-of-date gut here.

Glendive's covered by The CW+ and has been since the WB100 days; KXGN never contracted with any network lower than temporarily Fox in the 90s to serve the area's football fans until KHMT was re-established for the bulk of eastern Montana.

I love just reading this with no contest and just being like 'that tracks for NWA' (I am not a wrestling fan, I just observe from afar).

The former package definitely was influenced by local news. This one, meanwhile, screams loudly 'we have a guy who used to produce GMA'...way too big, way too much wasted space, designed for the older folks rather than anyone under 60, and Perry's Flag Corner screams post-9/11 Fox News Channel (and I loathe that newsorgs just fell lockstep into the new Twitter branding rather than most normal people just still thinking it is Twitter). Also if you don't even carry any business news, stock index tracking is less than worthless. It's pointless decoration for the sake of decoration and for the UFO/true crime crowd they have now might as well be Thai in its 'news you can use'-ability.

I definitely know that, but it is Nexstar and they'll look for any way to get the network on. I do think more likely that there will be a preliminary injunction and WADL will have to carry it until the sale because there's been no injury to the station at all and they did enter into a legally binding agreement, and I'm sure we'll hear Nexstar/Mission's side soon enough. This isn't Bridge or Get After It we're talking about where a station can just tell them to sit and spin to get out of their agreement to carry Retro TV.

It would be so interesting if Nexstar appealed to CTV or Global and the CRTC to borrow a subchannel across the river for The CW+ while they got in the Adell legal congo line (and because it's currently packed with CanCon). And for purely personal reasons I don't want to see the CW on WDIV-DT2 because it's This TV's longest-lived affiliate on the same channel outside WHDH.

For the most part these are games are played by public schools on public property and team rosters are publicly available (same with private schools), so there are no privacy concerns here. Please stay on topic.

Kevin Adell just burning every damned bridge before the inevitable lawsuit where he loses all his holdings in bankruptcy. He pulled the rug under the local personalities on WFDF to push the standard Generic Conservative Talk Show Lineup nobody under 54 likes and The Word Network is just eighth-ranked compared to any other religious network. And the issue here just seems to be a standard affiliation agreement contract he refuses to sign for seemingly no reason (the network asked him to while the Mission sale goes through FCC scrutiny). CBS was right about him in 1994; he's a dumbass who doesn't deserve to be in the industry.

It does feel like Disney can get much more renting out the studios, which had been the original plan when the industry was a lot less conglomerated but over time it just became an ABC-exclusive space. It also didn't help at all that Times Square was pedestrianized so you're not getting an audience stuck in one NYPD-corralled place, but they're wandering and exploring the space and without traffic, you no longer get a sense that it's in the middle of a city, but like WCCO/Nicolet Mall, it's crowded at certain times, empty at others.

Chopper 2 (and its pilot) got a bird smash through the cockpit this morning in Kenosha. Thankfully superficial injuries to the pilot and they were able to land safely near the state line.

I like to imagine that someone's going to walk in looking for the public file and a newscast is the front lobby... "Whoops, I'll come back another time, that red wine study is more important than checking the yearly kidvid report!"

Pretty easy to explain that one (WVTV-DT2 does the same thing); they want the network to start on time for the sake of DVRs and just throwing on episodes of iCrime in that 9-10 timeslot that aren't critical to watch in full is a good buffer to assure it starts at 10 in case the game does go into overtime or runs late because of a weather delay.

In addition to the wind-down of BSAZ, the WIAA (the high school sports body for Wisconsin) has announced all their events have moved back to the state broadcast network owned by Allen Media and syndicated to WMLW/Milwaukee and WCWF/Green Bay from Bally Sports Wisconsin. The basketball and hockey tourneys had only previously been a part of it after Bally took over the rights in the MSC days for the rest of the tourneys. Now all the high school championships are back on broadcast, including the upcoming Camp Randall-held football championships.

For ABC dropping WPGA at the time was probably the best result, considering this happened when he was forced to sell his radio stations. There was no way they could continue to have that affiliation and with him now gone, things are more normal under Gray, and Grey's Anatomy (the show he objected to, along with Desperate Housewives) is still on the air all these years later.

I wish we could go back to the show being about meeting the press, as in 'not just one person from NBC News'. It's a new face, but the same tired presentation, production and booking behind her, and she can only do so much. They couldn't even be bothered to blow up the entire episode for actual breaking news because they HAD to air yet another not unique interview with Matt Gaetz and his Dennis the Menace act which was already spoiled to death, and a 'but actually' interview with Nicki Haley nobody asked for. MtP is in 80s-esque nadir where the format needs to be blown up.

It should be noted that the Coyotes and Scripps will eventually have an in-market streaming option in the coming weeks, so that will eventually be covered. The big thing I'm worried about in the meantime is those subchannels better be upgraded to 720p at the very least by opening night because hockey is not a good sport in standard def to watch. You'd have to assume by next season too that KASW will be converted to a KMCC-esque indie with CW moving to KNXV-DT2 to better accommodate the games; it was just way too late to do anything last-minute. But at the very least in Salt Lake City, which is getting both the Golden Knights and Coyotes, along with the Jazz on KJZZ for free TV options, along with Phoenix overall, you're a very happy winter sports fan.

Still the preseason for the NHL; we usually start those threads at the start of the season.

WISN and WITI pretty much have all the momentum now and there's no stopping them. The 4:30 half-hour was only two-staffed anyways and never could justify itself. And it took them about nine years to get to it, but Scripps finally covered up the Journal Broadcast Group logo label scar that's been on the front of Radio City for years and was never replaced; this flat sign just felt like they could've done MUCH better, but it feels like the least they could've done was light it (even for a basic lightbox sized to the logo LEDs are nothing now). Were they seriously waiting for the radio side to move out before finally replacing it?

Watching the WGBA version, it comes of as 'thin-staffed small-market Gannett newspaper operation' where only weather has money put into it instead (as it should, it's their main and only strength) and they're reporting about evergreen topics like 'how did my high school mascot get their name' rather than anything investigative or current-day, and like the Gannet example, struggle to fill 35 minutes the same way they struggle to fill twelve pages (and ten of them are pre-filled with USA Today filler and one page of classified/legal notices). It's fine for what it is, but if what it was was already kind of a mediocre product to begin with, it's just making it even more unremarkable.

I'm wondering if they're just testing for now so they don't run into the situation they did when WIFR-LD shifted and had to deal with WISN's interference; plus it is on VHF in a UHF-heavy area so they may have an educational campaign to ramp up before shifting CBS there. Only a few people will be concerned with the CW going away on UHF.