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And the judge and lawyer involved will just say 'so you can totally pay for those rights, correct'? DS has no legal ground to stand on.

KRCR had taken up more of the slack for them after the Bonton deal brought them under the SBG banner since KOBI and KDRV are the giants there.

The zombie shells of WNWO/Toledo and KTVL/Medford, OR''s outsourced 'news' ops (mainly now just weather and a couple MMJs) are being wound down...

Exactly that; you're being transferred from the local station over to the network feed, where the curtain is being raised on both the network programming, and then a presentation produced by the network itself in that show. It's the same reason it originated even in the days of radio where you had 'The National Broadcasting Company presents...' lead into a show.

As of Monday, the title of Afternoon Focus has been (and smartly) re-titled as The UpSide from Scripps News.

It's within Charlotte, so it's not a surprise that SBN would go after them. But really sad that their Hickory-specific newscast is likely gone because of this.

Friday at 10 is the official CNN Death Slot (it's where Rachel Nicols was burned off when CNN decided to stop covering sports), so...not a very good sign.

I am shocked, I tell you, shocked that FF is filling more Sinclair timeslots!

DMTV used WPIX's main studio, which has since been redone and is still for WPIX; the most they had to do is put up a couple of Command hooks or something to put up their logo in Styrofoam.

That and 780/105.9 has all the news tradition; best to leave the calls with them and just try to get away from any call/numerical branding and wipe the slate; don't forget there the channel number and reception issues have been a curse, along with there being a UHF WMEU simulcast, since the 2000's management and NY decided to stick them digitally on miserable VHF 12 (and even worse 3 pre-2009).

This was done for technical reasons to prevent co-channel interference on cable systems between the cable frequency and over-the-air frequency. It's not that it was irrelevant, but for overall picture quality.

Very surprised they didn't move Estrella to 25.5 and Weigel took 25.2, but it must've been an abrupt drop for that to happen.

I still don't understand the green choice so long ago, it was such an awful color choice both for branding and accents.

A little break from the 'God Nexstar is awful' talk for a bit; WFRV is now broadcasting its 4 p.m. newshour from the Appleton bureau rather than Green Bay; it's the first time since WGBA closed its Appleton newsroom during Journal's infamous Great Recession cutbacks there that newscasts originate from the Fox Cities.

You assume they actually have viewers out there. (Tribune preferred to distribute KTLA over WGN in those states during the superstation era) . She hosted 20/20 and that greenscreen mess that is iCrime (I assume that'll be renewed because it costs as much to produce an episode as her car payment); she knows her audience is the same kind as those two shows and will appeal to them.

This; they already have Fox on WVII-DT2; wouldn't you just turn in the license rather than pointlessly pay for a redundant one and just keep the branding without the channel? Plus it's VHF; just try to get WVII on UHF instead, it's not like northern Maine/New Brunswick has a crowded UHF band.

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.

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 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).

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.