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They haven't been doing crawls or announcements on WITI, sticking to the top banner to the template website (though they have one promo which tries to say 'you could lose the spectre/the full spectrum of Fox 6 programming' like a bad dad joke writer got in the fun). Charter never has really got into pulling a channel at all (outside the weird issues involving the cheaper TWC contract and Univision this year and Viacom's self-induced idiocy last year, but those were anomalies), so they must think they can get this settled easily by Tuesday. Whatever the case it's only for the short term thanks to Nexstar, so they'll only be making a deal for the short term.

Usually Spectrum losing Tribune/WITI in Milwaukee would have had the state of Wisconsin threatening to take control of Spectrum to force Packers playoff games on WITI to air. This year, there is not that leverage.

As long as TPIR, Y&R and The View still exist at that time of day to Hoover up the eyeballs (and Wendy to a smaller extent), those NBC affiliates don't want to be stuck with that timeslot; 10am-noon on an NBC affiliate is a black hole where the worst of syndication goes to die otherwise. The same stations are still dealing with Santa Barbara's cancellation forcing them to fill the 3pm/2pm timeslot 25 years ago and outside a few lucky stations with CBSTD shows or Ellen, have never figured out any way outside of fluff talk or Access Live to have a pulse there.

ABC just offered a ransom to keep it on their O&O's to the 40th year and keep it from moving to Fox O&O's. All about money, in every market.

I was wondering why TVNewscheck posted a sudden WDJT evening opening last night, just seemed so sudden. But if you get a #3 market job, you jump, and jump fast like Kate did.

All of them seem to serve some part of Virginia so they could likely try to cluster a case of lack of basic community service.

WISN got burned by a in-market swatting hoax story last night during prime time they had as breaking news before the police said 'it isn't real' (and had to air a DWTS dance during their late news because of it). The 'details' may have also either scared WEWS from sending out anyone, or based on their sources, they may have decided there was more smoke than fire in what was going on. When it comes to any of this, you don't want to be the station that gives the most attention or credence to a swatter and show 'this is fun!', so WEWS's caution was appropriate here. If the story grew, they just would have been late and had to catch up, and only the promo makers would have cared in the end.

And don't forget "Last Call”. They worked all of this out already years ago. Meanwhile, DCA-->JFK is no big deal at all. Peter may even just take in the Acela and not even bother with the flights. The route certainly isn't a buggy route by any means at all.

And Kathie Lee and Hoda are giving her thanks for the free studio remodeling with audience they'll be moved into permanently within the month. There's nothing dumber than having your network make this large capital and resource outlay for you and you somehow screw it up.

In a stronger position she might have lasted the rest of the TV season. But when you have stations free to move her to 10am because "Kelly" and local advertorials do much better at 9am and your only buzz is to continually screw up in interviews and panels rather than content merit...that's the kind of 'bad PR is still good PR' you really don't want going forward.

She was rightfully angry because they were changing her show because of the random whim of ABC News. She's not part of ABC News, and she had the right to feel offended because of that. She took a week off, came back and decided to go right back to work, speak of it once and let the ratings in the time she hosted with guests speak for themselves. It happened. It's long over. At this point no matter how much influence Ryan might have, it truly is Kelly's and Gelman's show to do with what they want, and ABC-Disney isn't going to let them go to someplace like CBS, which would only be happy to dump Let's Make a Deal and give them full rein. Men pull this stuff off too, but we don't hear about it in the tabloid media because it doesn't fit their 'all women are difficult and are Real Housewives off-camera' narrative. The lesson; don't anger your talent for fun, because it'll come back to bite you.

The concerns of an anonymous idiot who has been known only as "Sources Say" for 35 years and seems to have a regular feature about "Live! Panic!" in the National Enquirer has little to no say in the matter. Ratings are good and stations across the Big Four network aren't dumping the show, and they only dump it because another station offered more money to air it.. The show has vanquished tens of copycat shows in a way most companies can only dream of. The only time they could have cancelled or took it network-exclusive passed the moment Disney purchased ABC and decided to keep Buena VIsta as an outside syndicator.

Most stations didn't really all get 5pm shows until the early 1990s in Wisconsin. I still remember when WISN had The People's Court at 5pm leading into WNT up to about 1989.

WBAY is keeping their noon show and having GMA Day air at 2pm like they did The Chew. WBRZ, that just seems like some kind of listings error; more likely Wendy goes to 11am, then GMA Day at 2pm.

If they started it out early enough, then they definitely did so at the right time where people in Baltimore didn't care about the 10pm shows and that it was always there. Me now helps by airing Hogan's Heroes in that slot, which many people can take or leave. It also helps that they definitely use it for an NBC backup in the right way, where programming airs day/date/time rather than 'after the 4th hour of Today repeat' at 3 in the morning. And yes...WBFF being the Sinclair Death Star in the market helps with alternatives.

The big problem with subchannel news is three things; people who shun you because you aren't airing what's on nationally at that time (probably one reason Hearst can't make their MeTV shows work), lack of promotion, and horrid advertising. WITI couldn't sell an ad to save its life on Antenna TV when they had to shift the regular shows there during the World Cup, so it was a continuous loop of PSAs and the occasional national class action ad. And most of the time whenever you try to market a network the way it wants to be (Justice Network wants you to air local pieces, the long-dead TheCoolTV wants local artists to submit videos), nobody cares. They just see it as another place to watch reruns of a certain genre or don't even think of it as an OTA subchannel, especially on cable.

The last book has them #40 in a 50-station metered market, only above KLOVE/Air1, Spanish sports talk and tied with a Persian station. At this point, their ratings and schedule make WBAI look competent and altogether in comparison.

Big difference though is Bounce has a quality rep and original programming going for it, and an obvious viewership base in the market Hearst wouldn't ditch (thankfully Scripps isn't tinkering with that so far). Escape and Laff have none of that going for them and have little to no local advertisers wanting to burn money on those networks.

They'll dump Escape and Laff first chance they get; those aren't networks Hearst has affiliations with solely for quality concerns, along with them being Scripps networks. I could see them also killing the "WPME" schedule off to remove the confusion of the Ion deal and move the 10 hours of dead weight to 51.1's overnights and bump it up to 1080i when they merge their MC in.

Better yet, "24/7", then "Evening Report" (keep 'on your side' confined to consumer/enterprise reporting like it was intended). The entire thing is a word salad and you've got the circle 7 highlighted enough where that just stands alone.

Once again a reminder; Kelly and Ryan are in syndication. They aren't universally on ABC stations. And said ABC stations with the show aren't removing that show anytime soon from 9am, and Kelly Ripa would burn ABC for millions if she was shoved out of her longtime timeslot by the O&O group and ABC affiliates. The show basically dies with her...and she's staying healthy for years to come. That said...GMA Day is a title clearly come up with at 4:59pm on a holiday Friday by some intern who had no idea what the branding manager wanted them to do, and is shockingly horrid. Did someone else trademark Good Afternoon America in the interim or something?

A little more on Colleen Henry from the Journal Sentinel (no painful Gannett autoplay on this one); her husband beat some pretty aggressive cancer and they're off for well-earned relaxation in Puerto Vallarta. Her loss is big for WISN, but they have so many veterans and prime talent there that will take the baton in her absence and honor. ETA - Even as she got a salute at the end of the 6pm show, she was still working a story in the top of the show about kids abandoned in a car at a local casino, doorknocking and confrontation of the kid's mom and all. Gotta have massive respect for still putting in good work on the last day! ETA - Here's said valedictory in full; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=jcFh8N6aSUE

True, but it's right up the CNZ wheelhouse; both have the same MO of packing a signal with 8 subchannels and collecting whatever comes in. But from now on out that's spec anyways.

This is much worse than the Evansville situation where WTVW had to step in as WAZE's utter incompetence forced the CW to put the affiliation there ASAP. At this point I see only one fate for WBNX; DTV America or CNZ buys it and turns it into the market's place for subchannels of last resort (like WIWN and WTSJ serve in Milwaukee) while burning off the syndication contracts for a year or two (WUAB just grabs a bunch of the better stuff and ditches their bottom feeder shows). They're the only ones who would pay whatever Angley wants for it; the other three would pay much less and likely use it for something more inane like giving the Justice Network full-market coverage.

If you're not WSB or WAGA, it seems like Atlanta stations like throwing money at high-power talent or ex-CNN'ers (especially those who didn't want to do 'here's the story, here's the panel, I'm the referee'-style anchoring) in order to try to beat those stations. I don't think it's really worked though.