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Greta's been rumored to be moving to Newsmax, so the end of FCP definitely tracks. As for RTM, you can just assume that nobody would've noticed they stopped production until it didn't have a schedule slot in September. As they inherited their share from Raycom I assume they would have gotten out earlier if COVID hadn't got in the way and taken out some Fall 2020 premieres, and because it was just Zoom reactions mixed into clips for the last two years it was cheap to make. The other thing to watch in the next few months is if the Meredith stations retitle their versions of Better and More so Atlanta doesn't have to pay licensing fees for those magazine titles to DDM, or just because Gray prefers blended up-front advertorials in their newscasts to an outright hour lifestyle show, just cancel them for news extensions. Also interesting to see that station sale from Daystar; I get the feeling with Marcus Lamb's strong-arm tactics now gone, like TBN did after the elder Crouches passed, they're going to start taking a deep look at whether outside their Texas full-powers, they really need to own television stations when selling them to others and leasing a subchannel KOCE-style will keep their reach while saving them money.

Tamron is moving to 2pm, then Jennifer Hudson at 3pm in the fall, so outside sliding back their lineup an hour, there's nothing to move.

WISN has always been the 'hard news and people you know' station in the market, and it's always felt like if it was up to the news side and not the bulk deal corporate had with Warner/Telepictures, they would've done so in June 2011 after Oprah ended rather than sliding Ellen up an hour. A lot of local news seems to happen in that 4pm slot and WISN has been handicapped to balance covering it with not getting "AngyAngie13030' yelling at them on Facebook because they missed one of Ellen's games or the 'secret sweepstakes keyword' during sweeps. WTMJ has had the timeslot in 1993 but over time their news in that slot deteriorated due to corporate mandates/egos, as Journal and Scripps were more interested in making it light and forming their shows to the whims of the siding/window companies that advertised on it (also when they had WTMJ radio, promoting that and their hosts to absurd points), while WITI and WDJT took to the timeslot in order to counteract that and Ellen to be the hard news option in the hour and just all those talk shows bombing at 4pm after 2012 just forcing their hand. Honestly though, WISN was very limited in the middle of the decade, still only doing morning/5/6/10, and the expansion has sorely been needed for years. They've expanded much more judiciously over the years and they have an anchor roster/weather staff that will have no problem handling it.

I feel like this was the worst-kept secret in Milwaukee once it became clear Kelly is stuck on 'TMJ for the foreseeable future and they never got any real viewer pushback on Ellen pre-emptions for breaking news. Also glad to see Derrick will be on with Mark (they're like a Laurel and Hardy at 9 so it'll be nice to get them at 4 now). They usually have more studio stuff in the 5 and 6 shows and more live shots in the morning and at 9 and 10 (with 11am and 9pm where you see Hearst must-runs and verticals), so this will be a slight change as they get in more live coverage at 4 permanently.

Joel Osteen has his Sunday shows on broadcast stations sponsored by Lifelock/Norton (including ads at the beginning and end), so sadly this isn't an alien concept to American televangelism either.

Gotta give them props for trying at least; it's not like the FCC can take away their other license. As for the bidders, it's shocking that Sinclair doesn't have everything in order, and good to see that Weigel is still using that spectrum auction money from WMLW to up their reach. We can immediately rule out Renard (one of Craig Fox's companies) getting anything, along with Rxdio, which going by this site has no real business plan for their Muzak service in the middle of the desert outside 'get TV spectrum...profit?'. Estrella might have their name in the hat, but with their struggles right now they'll be out early.

Going by the test closing they're still getting the hang of things, so Zulu time won't stick around...but the Gray ticker is here to stay (though looking at it clear they should try to make that permanent with a better font color to stand out?).

I had a feeling something regarding a deal was happening as the Grammys had promos for her in full-throat on Sunday; they wouldn't have done that if they were pushing her out the door.

Called it in the NN thread when the departure PR came out, and am holding off my Brainy Smurf impression that he'd end up at 'BBM.

And that's been taken care of; WUVG now has a news-share with WSB.

The Son of Ghoul website is still up, and it is on the WIVM quadcast. Meanwhile if Weigel keeps up Retro TV at this point like they are on WJLP solely so Luken/Get After It can't sue them when the contract expires, it's out of purely starving them out rather than an interest in 'helping' a competitor. And you know a music package (at least not like the faux-WGN PAMS style) is on its last legs if you're thinking 'are these singers even still alive?'

And the WIWN move from 44 to 5 (as Pappas was going through their bankruptcy and hadn't launched digital facilities for what would be WIWN) actually allowed that move for WLS in the first place, so it continues the chair-shuffling involved with that move from all the way in 2009. Also part of the petition is WIWN wants to launch a DTS translator for Fond du Lac proper (COL is that but they've long moved to Milwaukee FAIAP). WCHU currently translates WAOE, the Frankenstation which 'moved' from Peoria to Oswego, but as they're playing the channel-hop game to get to Chicago and if they get a site in downtown, they'd be happy to let that WCHU go.

New from TVNewser...the 11 p.m. newscast is now permanent along with an hour weekend expansion, a new hour will be added to Morning in America and Rush Hour, and Joe Donlon is gone after next Friday (thus the RH expansion), so start the 'when is WBBM picking him up' spec. All in all, 12 hours of new live programming to be added by Memorial Day to the schedule.

I don't know if site filtering ate up the link but I can't seem to click on it.

Feel free to revert the link if not appropriate but this Facebook gossiper says it was due to conduct before emceeing an event at a high school. Salt grain taken, as the rest of their page content is 'MSM is poison/Q' stuff.

If they had one of those minority services on DT1, I'd see something in their response, but HSN is on DT1, along with GetTV, Buzzr, QVC2, and Alex Jones 24/7 on other channels. 5/11 of their channels actually serve true minority audiences (counting TheGrio), so there's too many holes in their argument here, and KTNV's offer is much more lenient and open than most full-power broadcasters would give to an LPTV; you wouldn't see an HC2 station ever get any of this because a full-power would think they're cute.

I think MF was also counting the hour of CBS Boston on WSBK, along with NECN there. Whatever small numbers they get with WLVI at 10 are negligible in the full count from just 7 though; WFXT's presentation is very lacking and is so generic it would probably be walloped if the format was copied exactly in Peoria or Nashville.

That article was written in August 2020; two years later, there's been a new NFL deal. There might be a sale in the meantime, but until February 2033, you can count on the networks to stay on the air just for that alone.

I see station divestments...but I also see the possibility of situations such as WTLV getting ABC on DT2, WJAX hosting Fox on DT2, and then WJXX/WFOX sold off to 'minority/women ownership' KNHL-style with their 'owner' as a figurehead and their programming being contractually non-competitive. How the FCC hasn't addressed that station purchasing strategy by now after Sinclair started shifting affiliations from their sidecars...this deal is a regulatory mess that needs to set case law precedent.

Two things; •"Prime"= Amazon Prime now. Branding confusion with both the name and hashtag of #missingonprime, which leads to... •It always feels like these 'locate missing people' efforts are designed not to find people, but get out-of-work LEO 'experts' on to blather on about missing person cliches and fill an hour. Michael Corn clearly wants NN to be a 'crime network' in the vein of the '7:30 morning show murder story' rather than a news network.

And in a long sign of the times, nothing in the FAQ about an audio simulcast on 87.7, which they fought and lost to keep in 2009 (I assume once SBG came in, they said 'stop it' and ended the efforts). One good thing about the phone age is that any TV station can technically be 'on the radio' if their stream audio is converted to Bluetooth/plugged directly into a head unit.

I still remember when they did offer regular CNN( and HLN without a cable subscription, when they had Pipeline and it offered a different news-centric broadcast and CNN breaking news when required. Still a pity that service went down. Honestly, I'd be happy to just pay for CNN at $7/month (if they fix the worst of Zucker's obnoxiousness)...I don't want a watered-down news product. But I honestly still find value in a cable subscription on the TV side, where I don't even have to think about remembering a password/username combo to watch a live event.

A change that should've been made all the way back in 1994 when they bought Paramount, frankly. I never understood why they were so wed to the Viacom name, which has always been associated with 'cheap'.

Going by the building seen in the window it's the back of the building on the east Stetson Avenue side, and the last Google Street View update last summer, shows a lot of shifts of stuff in that area, including a full-scale remodeling of the back patio/entrance and tree removal. It also helps that a planned hotel project which would have gone up on that site (and cursed this new newsroom for years of construction) failed and it's remained purposefully vacant. Probably extra windows added since that update; the four-pane seen there wouldn't match to those three panes, and again, definitely a part of the site next to it remaining vacant that those windows could go in.

I would love to say that's true, but if Nexstar would love to go the 'confidential settlement' direction with Michael Corn to get him out, NewsNation would take Jeff in a heartbeat. HLN is surplus thanks to ID, so I fear another tax purpose sellout to Bill Abbott to bump up GAC Family's carriage (even though it seems like he has no damned idea what to do with his own channel outside Christmas and Valentine's Day; airing 80s sitcoms on loop the rest of the time and trying to start a 'culture war' against your old bosses at the Hallmark Channel isn't a programming direction, Bill!). And I really am not loving that CNN+ is becoming 'where the real news is'; they're giving Sanjay Gupta a show there, though he used to have a show on CNN on the weekends, another thing I hate because CNN used to have a varied non-news schedule on weekend of lots of niche shows they got rid of for docs and murder repeats. Why do they need to launch a streaming channel when they have plenty of surplus time on the main network and HLN?! Also everyone's said it; their coverage of Zucker's firing makes it seem like they lost William Randolph Hearst in a mysterious airplane crash, in his prime. They didn't help their 'pop news' rep at all this weekend.