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I think they were burned by the radio station sell-off to Citadel ending up in a financial ralph-up and Cumulus taking them over badly; at this point, would rather keep control of the TV stations then let that happen again, and they have been burned somewhat (AMG pulling their own ralph-up of WJRT when they thought Gray would be a good steward).

Had the same for WBAY, which seems to be implementing the graphics at the same speed glaciers overtook Wisconsin at this point with weather and news staff trying to put out little fires as the new system has been implemented (things like the T&T bug and the streaming infrastructure). It's just going to take awhile before everyone can be on the same page.

This isn't really syndicated in the traditional sense, but Gray's new Aging Untold series for 50+ers starts on Monday on their stations, and its weekday carriage will cause a domino effect of stations removing programming (or cut into an existing Local News Live hour) to carry it. Article and station list/schedule

Kendall Keys at WISN is becoming the station's official weekend evening anchor.

Why would you sell the network without subchannel rights remaining steady, especially for a channel whose core audience is 50+?

It's so nakedly obvious WVTV wasn't spun off to Rincon because it was a bad station and that they just keep wanting it to get a major duopoly partner in Milwaukee, but they keep running into dead ends (the FCC won't let them do it).

Settled just in time for the Super Bowl yesterday.

The Tulsa Reddit managed to get a post up with that text just in case it's removed (alt text is available if you do have an alt text extension).

I am very interested to see if their CW stations (and especially WVTV, who under Rincon shouldn't, but does still carry TND) do dip out of the CW's Penn & Teller marathon on Sunday night to air it.

After the metorologist merry-go-round as KTUL took its last breaths, this may even be worse. KOKI was the true alternative in Tulsa and there should've been no way SBG gets to control three stations and undermanage them like this. I was so relieved when pre-Apollo Cox bought KOKI from Clear Channel and let them thrive. KTUL was a rug pull, but Apollo-era Cox, INSP and now Rincon just decided to neglect a station towards irrelevancy, which is far, far worse. I'm also fearful SBG will copy the Tulsa template with WHBQ and hub everything out but weather to WZTV in Nashville, and it's all but inevitable with KBSI.

With Kelly in reruns during the Winter Olympics, WGBA is going to test a hour-long 4pm newscast throughout the next two weeks instead to take advantage of the lead-in of dayside coverage. I do hope it does well because if it does, Kelly can move back and replace their afternoon Family Feud block.

I guess using the "Fox NM" brand (which they do own the domain to and goes to KRQE.com) was not considered, or they have someone who was nostalgic for the overlong local domain era pre-LIN making this decision. "Fox 505" just means nothing, is numerically confusing (so it's next to HBO on cable now?), and there was nothing wrong with the name "Fox New Mexico". Just branding for the sake of boredom.

And now WINK has escalated to some kind of DEFCON since the station possibly has removed his Facebook page; it's standard operating procedure but a little petty.

Weather coverage, especially with lots of snow in the South this weekend, so they need all the schedule flexibility they can get.

I doubt they wanted to, this is all TU corporate getting their hands into the branding and turning it into a mess, it seems. They have a two-headed monster in Foro/N+ already in MX that they won't drop the older brand for either.

They still have 'Sinclair, Inc' on the website footer so my skepticism that Rincon is just a Sinclair sidecar, but dressing KTVO up in another graphics package, remains strong (especially with what they did in Providence).

It's already visual clutter on Foro; this is even worse. At least they didn't include the stupid | character between both logos.

I'll wait for her to confirm the end, not whichever 30 Rock intern had their palm greased by Page SIx; ultimately Kelly and NBC will arrange something.

With the Olympics prep being a focus I can understand why they would do an early intro, so they can focus on improvements before February with these couple of playoff dry-runs. If it's anything like the NBA package I'll be fine with it.

Word is now coming in that the remaining nine MLB teams are also out of FanDuel, according to ESPN. Should be noted that in KC, Miami, Milwaukee, Detriut and Tampa Bay (which has already done so), Scripps is ready to flip those Ion stations or existing indie to local "The Spot" stations to carry teams if needed (and Milwaukee also has Weigel and Fox in play). Atlanta (multiple indies, including WPCH and WANF), St. Louis (Gray's Matrix Midwest), and the Angels (the most Wild West situation; anyone's game, even including Spectrum onto the Lakers network) also have possibilities.

With the de facto launch of America 250 today (the NFL has it noted on the field and on the ball), Fox has introduced an on-air logo referencing the Semiquincentennial at the start of programming; curious what other networks will follow.

I know Ernie's estate had a website where stations could use him for a voice for a fee after his death using specific clips, but I don't know what the current view of the estate is (along with his children like Paul Thomas) about digitizing his voice in the same way Jim Fagan's was done for NBC.

They have confirmed that he'll be on EN tonight, and Deadline confirms that he'll be at KPIX and the 10-in-10 city tour is 'delayed'. ETA source/location

High doubtful (it wasn't even memorable when it was the WB/CW affiliate in Columbus before it became a Pappas orphan like WIWN). This feels like a vanity project where someone thinks must-carry on Atlanta cable means that it's a magic wand to attract viewers, not knowing that WATL, WPCH and WANF already has that audience (and WUPA still has spillover), or can't stand Atlanta's gossip scene. If Hot 97 TV lasts a year, I'd be shocked. Easy to explain as it was moved from KCCI's MeTV channel (where it's aired since 2016); they didn't air on Saturdays to stay out of Svengoolie's way. Obviously even without the need to work around Berwyn-based hijinks, there too Fox overruns make it a nightmare to maintain a Saturday at 9pm newscast.

You'd assume then it'll air within the Nexstar email wall on their apps too, and KTLA is pushing the CW rent-a-doc airing otherwise out to 1am. WGN joins in at 10 on a two-hour delay, WPIX at 11.