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I just don't see how you adapt the Weather Channel Radio model to TV at all; they get on during emergencies on radio and do fine there, but radio weather outside full service and all news has become one of the lowest priorities (either just by tossing TV audio or just having the EAS butt in and get back to Hannity), which is why Weatherology is thriving now. Replacing local forecasters with staff in Atlanta already overwhelmed by so many other network and station commitments is going to bite them hard. And we may be entering a dark age for stations and the FCC. Like Townsquare and Alpha just turning in licenses and refusing to sell to someone who will put effort in, I'm very scared. Also, Allen runs the state TV network for WIAA high school sports, so I feel like that's next to be in the lurch and Sinclair (who carries the network in Milwaukee) or FanDuel may have to jump in last minute for the hockey and basketball tourneys.

I always believed it was like the 'minority owner' racket in the 2010s where a distant woman or other racial group were suddenly 'running' stations stripped to do-nothing subchannel farms in the middle of the Great Plains until Gray and Nexstar could buy them back under a GOP FCC. INSP was so hands-off I was shocked and pretty much ran the stations status quo, so it feels like Imagicomm was actually Legacy 2.0.

They also renewed their NBC affiliations, and yes, WTWC continues to carry the network.

Imagicomm has put all the stations they got from Cox back on the market.

Meanwhile the Weather Channel's Deep Water Salvage is going into syndication next fall (likely in the weekend graveyard slot), but you wouldn't know that from their spin of it as an 'all-new HD series'. And yes, Spectrum still has TheGrio and I completely agree that what they did to WTHI has been a travesty. Tony Hulman is spinning in his grave.

You can see that in that they carried the Spanish statements with captioned Spanish even as other EN stations just broke off from the latest combined LA metro conference.

Everything has been sterling about KABC's coverage, but what I dreaded the most about the 'live view' element in the new opening has been happening through this and I wish they'd just turn the weather ticker pane off or fill it with 'Continuing Coverage', 'Red Flag Warning' or any other filler text because a general forecast is just not working right now.

All of the stations (including Spectrum News 1) are streaming on YouTube right now so simulcasting the same feed on the national streaming nets is pretty well duplicative, so that can be justified. And I think NBCNN is trying to stay in-format as much as possible for that same reason as they know the local folks are doing a better job covering everything than anyone in New York can.

All stations are pretty much live and you can expect the first network prime time back after the holidays is not happening for the O&O's. This is where you see everyone on high alert. (Nine-box image from Geo on Discord) ETA - KABC deferred to WNT at 6:30, came back at 7, with the game shows moving to Localish. Fox 11 saying 'all night' with their coverage. 8pm, nobody went to network and KTLA is now simulcasting on NewsNation. FNC and CNN have been in and out, MSNBC more out than not.

Same voice; just a different tone, which had been needed for weeks for a more serious opening.

I just don't understand launching an entire new station like this when KUNP would be better served providing eastern Oregon a KATU satellite and just pushing the Blazers to an upgraded 2.2 TBD subchannel (they do have translators on the same stick but it's baffling they just never did anything with it outside Univision in the digital age). Without the NBA, there's literally no purpose to this station without (and it's sad to type this) a MyNet affiliation at the very least outside continuing Sinclair's bizarre mission to denigrate Portland's very existence through their local and national newscasts, and three hours of advertorial programming in a row during the day? You might as well just offer three hours to Les Schwab, because those folks will be the only ones watching it captivly in the waiting room (and thanking Steve Jobs for the iPhone to avoid being stuck watching it).

They'd be more likely to go to KSBI since that would not hit any subchannel rules. And in most markets where Inyo or Scripps aren't sistered up, the Ion station is a possibility for an emergency affiliation, but Nexstar playing chicken wtih NBC is going to hurt them more than it does the network, which can simply shift viewers to Peacock or at worse, junk one of their SpinCo networks like SyFy, Universal Kids or Oxygen market by market to carry their shows on a one-day delay if somehow Innovate/HC2 refuse to carry them (I would hope it wouldn't get that desperate).

The only thing that video created was fear, uncertainty and doubt and it felt oddly personal to the GM as he probably has the same spiel for WYOU but they can just sub CBS/P+ in there. You don't tell an audience you could lose your affiliation without warning. They're lucky this was on a New Year's Eve broadcast barely anybody watched and that WNEP eats their lunch and dinner. If this was 16 the Talkback line would no longer know peace.

Still seeing it on Spectrum with its automated Sony sitcom schedule, but that might just to be fill the last of the Black News Channel contract for them. That, or they somehow can't pay the fee for program listings.

It really doesn't help that both WGNO remains merely existent in their market and Nexstar/NewsNation forcing them to focus there more just complicates things. NBC, CBS and Fox have always-on stations ready to go while ABC had so many balls in the air beyond affiliate issues (losing the NOLA segment of NYRE several years back thanks to local politics and managing their relationship with the Sugar Bowl folks).

And here's the channel's final moments.

So the Brewers moving to MLB distribution? Never mind...they've come to terms with FDSNW for 2025. However, in-market streaming will be available through an Amazon channels subscription, so at least the nightmare of having to use the FanDuel streaming app is now optional.

This week every news organization is going to have an abnormal schedule. It's the holidays. It's expected. We go through this every year and seem to begrudge people for taking time off during the holidays and...no. Just enjoy different people getting on the air. Some of them REALLY need it after the abuse some of them have had to deal with this year from the public, politicians and c-suiters pushing them to their last nerve. Live with your ABC station not having news on Wednesday because of the NBA being on all day and get over that your local station doesn't have your precious morning news and advertorial show on that morning and instead runs a mass, some bargain-bin Christmas film from Trifecta, or a taped parade. I feel like I have to say this every year and it's tiring. People deserve time off.

Just spotted on WBAY; ticker's made the change so we'll see if we get a launch today or before Christmas.

Never too early to start and we have a big one to start the thread out with...Gray is picking up 15 Braves broadcasts and ten spring training games throughout their territory for next year, and yes, good ol' channel 17 (or some games, 17.2) is the flagship as God intended.

It does look like Sinclair did a bulk sign-up for CHSN; WVTV just signed on 24.4 to carry it in Milwaukee (Blackhawks-only; Wisconsin is a bizarre market where FDSN carries Wild games and the Blackhawks just haven't had any carriage outside its partners in Kenosha County), along with KMEG in Sioux City and WHOI in Peoria (assume all three teams there).

Considering the last package had their italic "23" looking goofy in the middle of the Peacock's torso this is actually a much better upgrade. I don't see how it's 'aged' really, or that graphics packages should be limited by network outside the looping background. It's not like they're downgrading to the last Quincy package that Allen will never move on from.

Considering it's otherwise a channel in the 180s or 990s far away from the regular stations, it's in standard def and as I said, its lead-ins and lead-outs were very inconsistent and it also disrupted that hour of programming (on Friday nights you just got dumped into the middle of a Dateline episode), it was uphill. I assume they kept the show on so long because it was a case of 'we have the folks here' in the past, but with Derek Rose's role expanding earlier in the day and all of their personnel changes this year it was getting harder to keep on, along with the November swoon once the political ads ended.

RIP "No Rules Nine" (as it's affectionately known on-air)...it was actually a pretty good show, but really without MeTV on that channel and the lead-in changing night-to-night from TCN, it really couldn't establish a steady audience over time unlike other Hearst 10/9 shows.

Saturdays for both shows run one season back so it won't be until next year.