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It doesn't really shock me that somehow Sinclair would buy a show about Hot Wheels for their kids block...and then forget to keep the Hot Wheels commercials out of the Hot Wheels show! And this isn't like those cases with syndicators and Kids WB where it was mostly inadvertent and good faith just forgot to get the ad out, before broadcast automation let you see an entire log for a show. Sinclair was the producer and distributor and 100% screwed up here. This also ensnared Nexstar, but again, they have the logs and could've easily blocked them out, but just didn't. It's no wonder kid's broadcast TV doesn't go anywhere near toy franchises any longer.

If those 1/2 million were a majority 54+, then they've done their job in making the audience younger, or at least made the 70+'s flee the timeslot. Plus it's a soap opera site so of course they're going to be giddy about it losing women; NBC likely wants a 50/50 mix.

They probably had to give the Campmeeting guy and Joseph Prince make-goods though; I wouldn't be shocked if they got higher ratings at 5am than the primetime lineup does on a dead news day. But hiring scandal-plagued anchors and covering non-newsworthy stories looks really bad when you have a station afflicted by multiple issues/scandals already as-is end up like this last night:

I hope something; CBS does so little regarding WSBK you've had to get very exact on Google to find a TV schedule for the TV station, not the World SuperBike circuit, or for WBFS, to avoid links about a Wii ROM file format. Still, better that filler programming than Chicago/Dateline reruns on MNTV competing against Chicago/Dateline reruns in syndication/cable/Ion/True Crime Network.

Looks like Gray is already building a strong farm team for the Meredith stations; meteorologist Cruz Medina departed WBAY over the Labor Day weekend and is moving to WSMV in Nashville. I watched him on WBAY over the last two years and he has a bright future ahead for sure!

The show is so dry it might as well be Early Today. That's fine at 3:30am in the morning when you have no expectations, but not as a mid-day program. I'm all for a basic news rundown show but I didn't need it to be this basic and unchanged from the streaming feed where you can just see the affiliates watching and being like 'you know what? We agree Irma, give us Days back!' and seeing people flip over to a more dynamic GMA3.

To be fair FNC was showing boring live coverage of a dull border apprehension at the US/Mexico border (aka them doing their job) with a whining pundit about the 'southern border crisis' as the other news channels switched to coverage before the death was announced, so they were doing worse. Much worse is BBC America, which had...nothing. Not even a 'important news story, go to BBC World News for more information' ticker. And honestly, this was more an international story than the domestic stuff that's NN's forte, so I can't be mad, or disappointed in them. Dan Abrahms is absolutely useless here and they don't have a big international bureau or 'royal expert', and you don't need one of their opinion folks leading coverage.

One of the problems was the tail end of the 19-20 and last season of Ellen were pretty much the last thing most viewers wanted to watch, so for many of these stations, they do have to spend the money and say that they have something to watch at 4pm, even if it's a newscast. Also The Four is probably there to stay just based on hashtag-ness (#thefouronwccofour or #thefouronfour); if it was The 4 on CBS 39...yeah, that's a temp title.

Trying to cast this as but anything but a downgrade and contract burn-off is completely impossible.

Nothing truly exciting/groundbreaking here as Hearst starts to get the de-glossed logos on their stations with WISN-TV today (note the bug just has the new bug overlaying the old ABC logo, apparent when it does the freeze-in prevention animation);

I tried to quote Nick, but it ended up as a blank quote, so I'll say that launching on a holiday; best time to do it outside a weekend morning. You have the diehards paying attention to glitches and errors so they can be fixed the next day easily and not show up and be very noticeable to regular viewers, and behind the scenes is less stressed having to fix things around known and scheduled coverage of Tajikistani Sorghum Days at the Fairplex in Pomona, last day before back to school coverage of sprinkler pads to deal with the heat, and 'boy the box office sure does suck, huh?' coverage rather than a breaking 'all hands on deck' story.

Tampa/WTOG is really the only one left on cbslocal; even WUPA has a site on the cbsnews domain.

I do love that Comcast has a realistic expectation of where things will go cable and broadcast-wise, along with Disney and is making proper cuts to channels (witness Oxygen OTA in NBC O&O markets); compare this with Paramount Global, who has this happening this week with TeenNick (on top of Rob Dyrdek's de facto ownership of MTV);

They already have their own newshour at noon, so here I think keeping the pre-emption is justified, and Rachael/Drew just works for that time in general. And why would you air 12 hour-old news when you can air five hour-old news in late night? NBC was probably happy here to keep the status quo with Bonneville and not shake things up.

It'll be interesting if they either adopt this or don't and take the in-house style from WBND, as they've never switched away from channel number branding and it's always been "The CBS 58 News".

Note how this was done before football season; I will be very happy to have that white whale (ALWAYS been bad since they launched their digi signal) in my channel lineup, and this makes Green Bay an all-UHF market (including whatever Weigel's Wittenberg station will be).

Oh, I've seen that shot on 4 before with the Chaser. It's not a chroma, but just a superimposed graphic; Marisa (the met) is on the right side pointing to the graphic (the 'screen on a pylon') to the left and working off a full screen/iPad in front of her to point things out, likely just either because that carport has no room to have the hatch TV out without obstructing other passing cars, or image clarity. Traffic is being done in-studio and the reporter is waiting for Marisa to finish.

A sad and shocking loss at WAOW in Wausau – Their morning anchor, Neena Pacholke, died suddenly over the weekend.

Some duopolies already do this, like WDJT/WMLW; the latter will 'technically originate' the 5:30 p.m. Sunday newscast and 5 pm. Saturday newscast, for example. But...most of the time it's pre-empted on WDJT for CBS Sports. Thus, WDJT will 'simulcast' those newscasts with the same ads from WMLW when they can, and be able to get two ratings in one. It's also the same for a combo unit like Western Mass News, which just takes a cume between WGGB and WSHM, and on some nights when Fox Sports pushes it beyond 11, WGGB-DT2 gives them a triple-cume number to work with. It just makes more sense than having two separate ad schedules to run when one will do the job just fine.

A lot of people barely watch anything but 10pm evergreen content such as the L&Overse and Blue Bloods. The timeslot has been dying since it became the 'DVR catch-up' slot, and it's nothing now with streaming. Most nights it's just filled with Dateline episodes and obviously the Big Ten Saturday night slot and SNF aren't included by contractual force Funny that they're doing this now when WHDH had the right idea thirteen years ago to try to dump it for news.

Ahh, it IS at the end of their expected 10-year life (which is now a low-end expectation for lights these days), so that makes sense. I knew you'd have the answer.

Wanted to confirm this was also happening on a weekday, and now I have; WTMJ is currently working in what seems to be a back wall of the current set or in front of a screen (post-COVID, two anchors look really crowded in that shot) and have been since Saturday morning, along with weather coming from the weather office with one of the set TV's plopped in the middle and the storm chaser outside. The Morning Blend gals are claiming a 'lighting upgrade' is going on so I'm inclined to agree it might merely be a move to LEDs...but I'm hoping it's more because that set was already behind the times when it launched (and the neon blue lighting they now have doesn't work in any way). Also if it was just a 'lighting upgrade' why is their half of the set also getting this so-called upgrade that requires set dressing to be out in the hall?

A hurricane-afflicted area with a lot of transplants needing homes remodeled or built does keep siding, roofing, concrete, HVAC and pool contractors and maintainers well in the black...and you need to get around by car too, so dealers get their piece too, along with a captive tourism audience wanting to head north or east. Today in Florida was launched at the right time; WTVJ and NBC can't copyright that as long as the Ansins keep puttering along. There won't be a name change anytime soon, and I could see them gaining two hours eventually when Rachael ends or if Sherri (don't know if they're carrying that) doesn't succeed. Divorce Court will continue to exist just because it now has AVOD/YouTube channel revenue coming in along with syndication, and spouses will want to air their stuff out on TV.

If it wasn't for Scripps trying to make their Must-Run Hour a thing (along with advertorials), a lot of their NBC affiliates would be in the same position. We're also losing RightThisMinute, so that's a lot of stations that already had an hour free going into summer. CBS Daytime is proud of their 36-year daytime #1 streak, so just for that I wouldn't count it out yet just based on that boast; it'll be considered when ABC blinks and moves General Hospital to Freeform or Hulu or cancels it and CBS just declares 'flawless victory' by attrition. The Talk would likely go over the soaps for a newshour More likely they want to hit that round number of 40 years, and then bring those shows to a dignified end with proper closures for both.

I can at least say they were open to criticize issues involving their management. Yes, these media shows definitely don't like to bite the hand that feeds them, but they did bring their bosses to account, and I will admit I've never been a fan of Brian Stelter (I can't stand self-promotion), but it's still downright uneasy to fire a media critic. Also, any kind of Sunday morning show now merely appeals to a circular audience of both Washington insiders and those looking to find (very rare) gotcha journalism. The ratings and their influence are declining as to a normal person, it just seems like a thing designed to fill with soundbites for two minutes on Sunday newscasts with something besides coverage of North Platte Alfalfa Days. When Tim Russert and David Brinkley died, their aggressive questions and call to power seemed to do the same thing.