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Just a quick update for in-season that the pitch clock is now within the pitch count/pitch type box more naturally on this one (and also generated in Helvetica).

Agreed; it's strange to say, but compared to most groups Sunbeam's style, even with all the crashes/fire/crime news, seems more mature and settled than many other larger groups, and it's fully consistent. If you compared a 1993 newscast to a 2023 newscast, the formula doesn't really change, but it does adapt.

The best result may be for Sinclair to just give up on WPMI, let the NBC contract expire and either turn it into a Dabl zombie or turn in the license, and making way for NBC to come home to WALA as a DT2 the same way ABC/CBS is combo'ed on WLOX to the west. What kept WPMI going despite the Sinclair spiderweb that was woven was the Main Studio Rule, and with that gone and just this limited SSA pretty much keeping its programming options limited, there's no longer a point to have that station, much less WFGX, once syndication starves out that station's own schedule. There are just a lot of Sinclair stations with the Big Four where the bare minimum is being done and Sinclair is treading the line between keeping stations viable and being non-factors in the worst ways. I never thought I'd see the day, but the days of KDNL just sticking around ABC because of the 'what else are you gonna do' threat of losing WJLA, KOMO or WSYX are over, and like the Fox/Ion threat, sooner or later you'll see Scripps/Ion or even TCT happily putting a Big Four affiliation on a subchannel and outside a lack of news/a simulcast of morning/5/6/11 from another sstation nobody really batting an eye because it's better than SBG ran their affiliate.

If you've only watch WSB to be informed about Atlanta since 1991, you probably have never wavered from North Georgia being a worst place to live than the actual country of Georgia, everybody is ripping you off and Clark Howard is a one-man army protecting Atlantans from fraud, and that the Olympics never happened and the Georgia Dome never existed, much less MBS; graphics also got really annoyed about having to change the state flag graphic even once. They have, and will never, change, and the day they become 'ABC2' will be on par with the moment General Sherman entered the city limits. (I'm exaggerating but when I look at WSOC's current 2002 weather graphics I feel physical pain and Cox has more a true art department than a graphics department)

Considering WLBT's Civil Rights Era history of being unapologetically racist to the point of FCC license revocation threats and an entire housecleaning of management...no sympathy for Barbie here. If this is some other station and an outlier incident, a warning would be fine, but she should know both her station's turbulent history and her own HR issues of the past.

And it's all over; Newsmax will be back on DirecTV tomorrow, with the agreement also specifying that the free network availability on everything from YouTube and every AVOD service up to barbecue grills and Yeti coolers being ended in the coming months.

And whoever created the city's flag and seal...who got them from William Pitt's standard. that's where the colors came from in the first place.

I was waiting for this to happen since that company has been around for decades.

Yeah, this is much more likely; better to just run out the clock. And most likely, the harassed employee is a lot more important to GMA to retain rather than a guy who they can replace with a surplus of available talent who is drama-free.

I'd assume it was a three-party deal where the victim pretty much said 'fine, but if he comes near me again' and management said he wouldn't and blocked him from TSS. He's more a roving weather reporter anyways so his in-studio appearances were limited to begin with (usually he's stuck near the GWB for a location shot, as Ginger does for WNT within sight of the Tappan Zee).

It's replacing a couple of Family Feud episodes on WPCW; probably more that the station would rather have local control than waste yet another hour about exaggerated 'horrible teens on TikTok'.

Just as I feared...YouTube TV is up to $73.

The Texas Rangers are proceeding to walk away from Bally after the bankruptcy.

Which essentially resets (outside of Comcast) the channel's original ownership group, funnily enough. Unlike when the channel started though, the Astros are in a much better financial (and competitive) position here, and you don't need to bang a trash can to know that.

If the carriage of KAUT (with its dead "Freedom 43" military gimmick that somehow continues from the Zell era unscathed) and KZUP-CD (a dog of an LP station that has no reason to exist) increases YTTV prices nationwide, there aren't going to be a lot of happy viewers out there. Good that they got their CW and MNTV affiliates lit up (which should have been there at launch) along with their Big Six market stations, but I fear the RTC costs will make this a poor value for the service going forward outside Nexstar.

I doubt it's because nobody's watching, but more that Jewelry TV is offering much more money for the space than the A&E programming license fee has justified two separate gendered networks so far. At the end of the day, it's a rerun feed and Scripps isn't going to dump money into a network that's doing nothing, when JTV can dump money into them and give a sales cut. Also most of TR's programming was the dregs of A&E, and they ran away from Dance Moms once it became clear everyone in the cast outside Abby would just like it to die.

At the same time; there are cases where you can see it in syndication, on MyNet, Oxygen, True Crime Network, ID and the Peacock Dateline channel!

And she hasn't lead the organization since the 90s. Why ask for support from someone who was never in the post-Comm Act age?!

Going by just a check of their website they pretty much sold out to the Real America's Voice for Spanish speakers. This may be as interesting as that radio sale in Miami a few months ago to watch (as in either a trainwreck or fireworks).

I do love when a company cites 'the numbers are up some certain percent from the programming that previously aired there'...and the comparison is literal infomercials, 'E/I' programming, outdoors shows that take 28 minutes to shoot a deer or catch and release a fish, and the 854 sports profile shows which have seemed to suddenly become endemic on weekend CW/MNTV schedules. There is nobody under 60 without a streaming service watching those stations on weekend afternoons.

Yeah, because iCrime, the Bryron Allen SAG Card Court Show Mill and The Balancing Act are the most illustrious programs on broadcast television, Harry. Pleeeeeease! It's a bad deal for everyone.

I'm surprised it was a twenty-year grant of trademark for Audacy rather than just five. At least one situation's seemed to go well outside CBS; WTMJ-TV is "TMJ4", and WTMJ is still "Newsradio 620", and they both made clean breaks, while KMOV just changed it back in 1988 after being sold to Viacom I and there's never been an issue between them and 1120. Meanwhile there wasn't much issue with the WBBM stations in Chicago (which has finished the "Newsradio 105.9" transition without much issue, and B-96 just mentions calls at the top of the hour). And KYW...at least "CBS 3"/"KYW Newsradio" is easy enough to differentiate. Even WCBS is fine with "CBS2", "CBS-FM" and "Newsradio 88" (which feels like it'll be sold off sooner than later with the WINS newsroom merger). Then you have branding disasters like the LA/SF KCBS situation I mentioned a few pages back, and the WBZ stations with '''three''' different owners (and an FM with headache-inducing sports hot takes a la KDKA). The KDKA mess is a quagmire that can only be fixed with either a format blow-up (not happening) or AM being sunsetted (more likely), while KDKA-FM just kinda exists without a provocative sports format. And this isn't CBS-related, but Disney just needs to pay off Cumulus already to yank the KGO calls of 810; they in no way should be associated with degenerates talking about betting on Montana State-Glendive vs. Central Tennessee Presbyterian girl's volleyball, and KABC might as well just be sold off to VCY already because it wouldn't even be a good station under Salem. WABC just has too much tradition and differentiation, though (not a station I'd listen to, but at least the billionaire is putting in effort there).

ESPN's version of the pitch clock; a little more naturally integrated into the box and it slides in and out (though since it's the first game they've done it's taken the producer a bit to remember 'oh yeah, pitch clock graphic, shoot!' and slide it in).

I expected low numbers, but not to the extent that an Ole Miss/Mississippi State Raycom game in Montana would get. There are Gravitas/Pureflix weekend movie packages that have better ratings, yeesh! I tuned in for a few moments out of curiosity, and the presentation remains confusing (golf teams, but someone wins? And a crowded NASCAR-esque scoreboard) and it felt like something that was created to fill time on Golf Channel.

At the very least he could've just been honest and DT2'ed an affiliation onto one station like Sinclair has done. It's brutal and turns a station into the equivalent of a bot under whichever widget salesman now 'owns' the station slumming it with Dabl, but it would have passed the FCC. I hate to say it (as they deal with Diamond because they had to do that deal or the great RSN reckoning would've happened in 2020, not now), but Sinclair learned their lesson the hard way with the Trib merger and now their DT2 strategy is FCC-smart. Stantegnox was never going to be a reality in this environment, under this setup, and with as much horse-trading as the hard computer in a Monopoly video game just being brutal.