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Twitter and Facebook are frozen on the last jobs report so it might be on the morning video loop with no one minding the store. Twitter/Facebook is frozen on the monthly jobs report. Stick a fork in it; it's done. Seems like the folks who have been financing the Five Hour Energy guy's spare parts media empire are done with him too; I saw an absolutely long and long-winded 'buy 2 get one free' offer on cases of the stuff last night scanning by FNC which means their longtime agency also was done with them. Next spoke to watch will be ShopHQ, which turned down an all-but-done deal with RNN to become a part of Indian-American Byron Allen's company; and we'll have to see what happens to Coastal's own news ops.

I know it's not going to happen, but it would be so amusing if Fox tells them 'yeah, we're giving you a new studio, but you still have to use the old set'. But jokes aside, it's about time they get an up-to-date building with plenty of parking, though I'm sure WNYW is now feeling like the MSG of FTS (as in building age).

I still remember when the independent Wazoo Sports Network in Kentucky existed and how that seemed creative back in the late 2000s...but sadly the low-effort Luken networks at the time made subchannel sports coverage seem like a money pit, so they went bankrupt I do like this though, especially as public access stations begin to wind down operations as cable moves to IP-based distribution, and it's become a maze of other online networks and high school YouTube feeds to find games, and as Awful Announcing has cataloged, some of those online networks have personnel with few background checks that seem to hate the teams, sports, or women's sports they're assigned to cover and disregard 'the mic is always hot' liberally. Allowing local sports teams who know broadcasting inside and out and the teams to carry those broadcasts just makes more sense overall. South Carolina is a good high school sports market, so this will work naturally and it's one less repeat feed to have to pay revenue to.

Nowhere, likely just the usual; 480i widescreen CW+ on 12.3 to replace Laff (or 12.4 because 12.1 is SD for some reason), HD on cable/IPTV.

Here had to be Nexstar; they didn't want another mid-January surprise for CBS to pull WJMN's affiliation and look where that station is now, and both had priorities; CBS to keep their coverage, Nexstar to not have The CW end up on an HC2 station (or even worse, cable-only or ATSC 3.0-exclusive). Perry learned his lesson from the affiliates; play chicken all you want with the sidecars and cablecos, but when it comes to the networks you will not have a happy new year if they're having to throw Grit on a main channel and lose event revenue because of egos in Irving. Because of that, the alleged 'worst' station in the market in WZMQ was giddy to grab CBS and suck all the oxygen out of their competitor's news division to have it sold for a pittance to Morgan Murphy.

At this point it's believable outside of cable ratings that Ion is the 5th network, with MeTV easily 6th (not going to argue about major because that Wikipedia fight wore me out).

Yup, three-hour block of news. WITI bumped their 10pm to an hour at the start of July.

This channel just Will. Not. Die.

When Tribune acquired them they were a #5 CW affiliate and they switched to CBS, so it's allowed to stand with no issue. Most of the Big Four combos were allowed when the Fox affiliate had a sudden bad month against the WB because the FCC uses Nielsen market rank at the time of proposal to determine if a non-failed station waiver merger could go further or not; remember the attempted WTVJ sale to Post-Newsweek that didn't go through because Uni and Telemundo ranked higher than them before it died due to inaction.

WITI already switched their 10pm news to an hour a couple weeks back, which lost Seinfeld its second run and pushed everything further a half-hour back.

Scripps is getting out some new opens and re-orchestrated music for the Olympics; WTMJ started rolling them out on their 5pm today.

I still remember the story about how WTMJ Radio in Milwaukee lost the rights to produce Badgers content to Learfield because someone at Journal submitted the paperwork late, being overconfident because before the 90s, the UW programs were a national joke and they figured 'we have a long relationship, they'll understand' (the UW Regents did not). They still carried the radio broadcasts, but it was one of the balls that started the inevitable roll towards Learfield/IMG producing anything college and after Journal/Scripps decided not to move the Packers to FM, the team did it for them with iHeart. WBD had two years to seal this up, and I think the dumping of the Turner Sports brand for that awful long WBD Sports monicker was the start of their doom; they quickly adjusted to TNT Sports, but it isn't Turner Sports. Really, I think it was lost the moment they decided to start throwing game simulcasts on TruTV surrounded by gambling and sports talk dreck; you've got Inside the NBA and Kevin Harlan?! Nobody gives a crap about some random multicast only out there for degenerates and to satisfy 'new content' checkoffs in provider agreements because you can't keep running Impractical Jokers all day and all night. The ESPN multicasts make sense to someone, but the TruTV content never will.

Calendars have been this way since the 1800s; red indicates weekends and holidays, white or black weekdays. Some stations may differ in color, but weekends are always demarcated by a different color than the weekdays.

Besides the website archives being dumped for the cable channels it sounds like corporate is about to start another slow-roll cull of big name talent via early retirement (just like the New York and LA offices are heavily filled with Robert Half contractors)...this can only end badly and I feel like Skydance/Son of Oracle is about to give us an even uglier replay of the Tisch era for CBS.

WBAY has slowly been integrating the new typefaces and graphical style into their promos but haven't made the switch yet for the actual newscasts or weather (or my beloved, the weather subchannel)...which makes the rebranding of their formerly unbranded seven-day weather planner into the SUPER 7 DAY® with the current package very surprising. ETA - They've adopted the 'weather in 7' format seen on other Gray stations. 1BF19E26-DFC1-4AA1-AA26-E8CC7B201FCF.MOV 1BF19E26-DFC1-4AA1-AA26-E8CC7B201FCF.MOV

A lot of stations get a clean feed, and since it was during local time (Deco Drive), WSVN preferred to do that and stick with it rather than an awkward rejoin of the network at 8. In network time, stations can do what they want, and it wasn't a 'red alert' event requiring taking the network feed. I've seen a lot of stations do it before because they prefer both to make their own calls and not to be left in the lurch if the network doesn't cover it.

Already seeing it really with Spectrum and Comcast where unless it's the only way you can view it, they're done with cable boxes and going to IPTV streaming. InDemand, the PPV provider will be done by 2025 and it's doubtful their former partners retain the status quo on their own. With both providers they're giving out Xumos or Apple TV remotes and pushing folks towards the apps, and once they get DVR-like controls on their cloud DVR systems (Spectrum plans to launch end of year), that'll be it. Outside channel availability that's the only thing keeping me from moving on (still have TiVos and an HDHomerun), but if their FF/rewind works well I'll dump them. It's already slowly going away, and I don't think we'll be seeing things as is even by 2027.

Oh, I'm sure they did tell him the reason truly (likely that he refused to help any of the younger talent out of jealousy and anger that his low-effort anchoring was being replaced with actual personality), but he dismissed it out of hand in multiple evals and then when they pull the trigger he just dismissed it and then caught the Larry Conners Express to refuse to take any blame for his own demise. Putting all of this in writing in a legal filing just amplified it.

Considering no one ever heard of him until this moment (sounds like a mediocre midday/weekend guy) and he's being represented by a certain friend of 45 legal firm that campaigns for only straight white men, this is the most sour grapes lawsuit so far this year. The thing that gets me though is why did he have such a problem with 'someone who didn't live through it' doing 9/11 coverage? My man, you are in LOS ANGELES! Most people there didn't see any affects outside flight delays and TSA's creation directly after. I'm sure you were there then but your co-workers are allowed to have assignments about historical events.

One of the most confusing network 'launches' I've ever truly seen. They knew the CW wasn't going to let that slogan and name fly, they had the same library and it was still a last-minute decision where Scripps just handed them the Defy name? And right now their affiliate body is the decaying husk of HC2 and whatever full-power crumbs they could get from Gray? Scripps is the clear winner here; they got to throw back on a popular channel over-the-air in Ion Plus (I think it should've never left but Katz got his way for a bit after the Ion close before he got pushed out), gets completely out of this gender-segregated network nonsense that has never worked (TrueReal already died last year) and Free TV Networks gets that A&E reality inventory that has become an absolute viewer repellent, aging like raw milk. About the only positive thing is they're adding Live PD reruns, but who wants to watch old crime coverage from six years ago?

Ft. Myers will likely be a WFTX subchannel, which is already crowded enough as it is since Ion has no Ft Myers station alone. You'd hope though they would just affiliate with another station just to keep it in HD.

And a better use of a signal for sure rather than plugging in syndicated talk shows, brokered or religious content. Hopefully a translator is in the works for the FM side.

CBS dumped MyNet from WBFS and WSBK three years ago, so it's an all-indie roster at this point (outside the oddball Start TV low-power in Indy). I just don't see Nexstar giving up on WPIX at all and having to rebuild WLNY from the ground up (and the ramifications for NewsNation would mean it would have to be at an HC2 price to be believable). WKBD going back to the CW and some NX rural sticks being sold off would make a whole lot more logical sense for Detroit so Kevin can get his HC2 money and fly off into the sunset. And the only way KCAL gets sold off really is years down the line when 3.0 is standardized and they can fit its schedule onto a KCBS sub; it's just too insulated into that LA operation to really be spun off with the WBFS and WPSGs here.

A smaller thing; guess this means Woody Paige has a new Around the Horn 'set' for his appearances (I assume the board is coming along if not the green screen).

Probably because it's very pointless these days more than anything? Unless it's a breaking story or the aftermath of a meeting during primetime you can't possibly rush back to the studio for, 'live at 10' when you can get out your phone and post to the socials straight off well before 10 is more exciting. A live shot in a dark police parking lot you had to burn fuel to get to in a lean time for TV news for 'scenery' just feels pointless. Yes, safety definitely has a lot to do with it (though I'd argue the suburbs are much worse with domestic violence stories), but when everyone has already saw everything hours before, 'welp that happened' live shots feel like a waste of everyone's time, including the journalists and the viewers.