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ABC-Disney usually sticks to only Kelly & Mark and Tamron along with the 20th leftovers in syndication, so they probably figure CBS can get proper rates and advertisers better than they can since that's right in their wheelhouse so they don't have to worry about that.

Gray is looking towards the ATSC 3.0 future for WGGB and a full Bay State presence; Gray put in an application to move WSHM-LD from Springfield to Boston from the Neeham candleabra. You wonder if they see WFXT's time with Fox coming to an end.

At least the real estate agents gave us a really nice tour of the building out of this link. Not often you see a station tour without anyone working in the facility showing it off.

There's no variation in the voice and an improper read of tone (either too excited or as flat as a Sunrise Semester professor) unless you really prompt the thing to death; ABC did the same thing with their Rob Reiner special promo yesterday, which was very noticable as that voice had no care or emotion within it, like it was reading a roofing ad rather than a program with both a sympathetic and questioning tone. Here's the KTVX example.

I hope it's a smaller copy of the GMA Iger set, with the video walls and floor at the very least now that they have several months of live experience.

Reminds me of 2006 when Steven Arnold suddenly pulled up stakes with some stations and they had to quick-sub in new packages (WBAY went from Counterpoint to EWN with only hours of notice). Truly a bummer and sad to see another good studio just go quiet.

Thankfully for Radio City in Milwaukee the only possible deal is the parks department, and there's no doubt the city woulld immediately force historic status on the building, so good luck to Scripps unloading that (they're literally now in the middle of an area where storage companies overserve the area; the transmitter in their backyard also makes it not so fun to unwind operations there). I would assume the same would be done for WEWS.

Never thought I'd appreciate it, but thank you Sunbeam for remaining stubborn to the open newsroom Newsplex when every news set these days is bereft of life but has plenty of screens.

I think the triangle in the 'n' should be green to represent up on their ticker and the currency color, seems like that would've been more natural. There's also a easter egg in the bottom of the "N" and "C", which hints at the 'trapezoid N' logo, so there's a little reminder of their NBC heritage in there.

WACY is baffling because they're Appleton licensed and all the market stations brand as "Green Bay/Fox Cities" or vice-versa; I know it's long just been legal fiction back to the WXGZ days, but at least put the COL sub-region in the logo and at least keep standard to everyone else. ETA - Didn't catch a show until tonight, but it looks like WTMJ is the latest to get the 10 p.m. Scrippscast treatment.

A good rundown and summary of everything Merit/Envoy up to today, including transcript and evidence detail. (Mods, please add "Envoy TV" to the title)

At least they have a claim to still doing some kind of arts (interior design and light bending) compared to the real A&E, so I say they can keep it (not legally binding).

And as for the other apps, the message that 'this app is no longer available' has been changed to 'this app is temporarilly unavailable but will be returning early 2026', so at least they'll be returning soon.

Them, Gray and Nexstar really want this 'America 250' effort to be bigger than 1976 obviously (every Gray station suddenly has a 'this day in history' feature tied into it officially and Stellantis is really into it) and are trying to court an audience that just isn't there at all with these generic 'America is the best' shows. I just think this is all going to end up being a massive flop and the most we'll get is a couple new Hearst shows to fill the E/I roster and backlog content. As for this, the numbers they cite for subscribers (of course aggragate because who needs real numbers?) are very misleading; AA on YouTube only has 21,000 subscribers, the AA Instagram account has had six name changes since being created in 2021 so it definitely looks like it was some other Sinclair bomb before being repurposed a la Circa News to the National Desk, and it looks similar on TikTok. All this to say, congrats Michela on your free cross-country vacation next year (this time above board unlike that KTLA spa/furniture thing!), but you could've gone with a better company.

Thirty years ago, Sinclair tried to file a license challenge to usurp WMAR's license because 'I'm a local gimme the VHF license and McGraw Hill can kick rocks' (didn't work); I swear David Smith has a vendetta against having any competition and is hopeful to see his lifelong dream of WBFF on channel 2 come true even though it's otherwise pointless and he's already ralphed up the Sun into a paper that's just Armstrong Williams's 3am must-run show in print form.

The crapification (there's another word) of television advertising, especially on the local side, has been swift in the last few years. If you go by television ads alone, we have a crisis of wasted energy from bad 80s insulation, old window glass that is a national crisis, and roofs ready to leak any moment, that can be fixed with no finance charges for six years and your bath can be fixed for one day (often now illustrated by false AI in a violation of every single ad code/consumer law in the state law library), along with SonoBello ads which just scream 'women, you are terrible, weigh too much and you need to freeze this fat off but if you need it removed, we don't know how to!' (love that one for being an ED trigger that can't be stopped by any ratings system). Meanwhile, things that used to be in ads (fast food specials and special hours) are now being reported on as news instead because it's cheaper to put out PR about it than film an ad about said changes with actual people...and that's what now makes up these thinner and thinner newscasts. I wonder why old standby advertisers aren't doing commercials now...because your newsroom literally let them have your anchors do the commercials instead as 'overtime' with full knowledge that they are.

Every time I see this 'we're going to expand our state capitol/Washington coverage' in these filings I want to scream because Washington is extremely overcovered as it is! Nexstar pulled a bait-and-switch game with NewsNation with their 'news for all Americans' branding/personnel that got dumped after a couple of years in for 'news for only the Beltway and maybe a true crime story here and there to mollify the HLN refugees'. And they draw bupkis from their state capitol bureaus outside 'both sides' claptrap about votes (usually just the aftermath where they just literally read out word-by-word Facebook and Twitter posts from politicians with zero questioning), never any in-depth investigation about how stories affect anyone in their state. Politics is so absudly overcovered as it is, and it's long past time to stop trying to 'public service' everything to get station approval. They always go to this point in every single deal they try to make, and every single time it just ends up being empty lip service unless they have an actual station in the capital city. And it's never 'we're going to expand news coverage in our city of license or (growing community severely underserved by local media)' usually, and if it is, it's just 'we'll put on more newscasts' and in the end it's just going to be more things that should be done by advertisers on their own paid time (store hours, discounts, openings, closings, chicken sandwich war entrants), not a television station in a news side role. Big Tech isn't forcing them to take home improvement contractor ads that should be sent directly to the BBB for obnoxious use of AI, either, and Big Tech isn't forcing them to create entire 'community service' shows that are nothing but ad vehicles. The shell game about top four isn't convincing either; the literal only clean deals that can be made are station shutdowns and moves to subchannels a la WCGV, but of course that's not going to happen with Perry.

Byron Allen saw the reaction to the 20 ads on-screen for the "NBA Finals Presented by YouTube TV" and decided he could be even more obnoxious today as the sponsor/broadcaster for the CIAA football championship.

They should change the calls to WHNE, because the love is certainly gone. Also they could've finally settled the NBC Boston channel confusion on channel 10 by just moving to 6.1 and 6.2, but we're talking about Sinclair, who just loves to bungle things as of late.

I just tried the USA and Oxygen apps on Apple TV (now developed by Versant) thinking they would get redesigned, and it gave a 'this app is no longer available' message. I hope they have something planned.

I always figured this stupid model (signing on six-seven LPTVs to take on the big station in town and grab all the RTC while pissing off viewers used to big city stations) would bomb, and I've sadly been proven right. It can only work in markets like Victoria and Lima because there's nothing real to replace. Once you mess with an actual adjacent market (here, and Lafayette, Indiana), it never goes well at all.

I can't even remember the last time outside of severe weather coverage and Way Too Early the last time I saw any forecasts on MSNBC to speak of. I'm shocked they even put out PR about this.

The slogan was created in the 50s, so that may have applied better in an age where different formats were tried (weather, maybe a community service discussion, then the news), and of course you had sponsor segments before the news that took up several minutes. Now it certainly feels unsurprising that 'the news comes first', but we're talking about an industry that is just finally dispensing with "Eyewitness News" from the 60s. The news is fast, but slogans and ways of doing things can remain the same forever when nobody wants to shake it up in fear of screwing things up.

They haven't updated that logo in two years, which is a bit behind then; KAIT's logo is just "K8" now in a rectangle. That's a Hulu/ABC issue with not updating the logo, though hopefully that's changed by now (their logos look fine now just looking at the zip code lookup).

It's a big state so it takes awhile for it to get to Anchorage unlike Honolulu. I like they kept the red for the 2, now in negative space; there's no need to change what works best.