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WPBF is in 720p, WPTV is 1080i; probably more for the visual picture quality than anything (and there are some oddball cases like WBAY, where some syndicated programming seems to have this weird picture effect that resembles that awful 'filmize' effect awards shows have tried here and there).

They already do with their summer 'pilot season' where the dud shows are replaced with pilot runs that become full-season shows like Wendy, DIsh Nation and The Real did. Unlike the chains though, Fox seems to set them up for national success so other Fox/CW affiliates can take them, rather than being only stuck on Fox and languishing (Top 30 seems to be one of their very few duds from the effort).

If you go to KDNL's Twitter account, they had to completely purge it because it was so linked to the Allman Report that it was basically a duplicate account. That's not good social media acumen, to say the least.

Along with KTVI's "Bommarito SkyFOX Helicopter". Why they didn't pull that graphic during their Ferguson coverage remains painful.

KNLC got MeTV in February. I would not be shocked to read a ratings report and see that Carol Burnett & Friends reruns on that station cleaned Allman's clock (and ABC must seethe seeing their 9pm lead-in just plunge at 10:00:00 exactly every night). And with Weigel having good relations by maintaining WBND in South Bend, ABC affiliating with KNLC (and a move of Me to DT3 with a state-of-the-art multiplexer) is a possibility too; despite Weigel's many issues, they have built out from scratch no-wave news departments before, and they'd do it again in St. Louis in a heartbeat.

Not to be a SBG apologist, but at least they made it much easier on themselves by basically leasing the timeslot and Allman having to arrange his own facilities to tape. Easy to cut everything off right away. On the other hand, whoever is the web person there is being easy on him; content for the show is still not pulled from the website. And according to tweets from viewers, the show still aired tonight at 10! Who announces a firing and then decides 'well he has one more show in the can' rather than cutting ties and grabbing the nearest Gimme A Break! rerun?

It made complete sense to do it (and they had lots of requests for it once the spectrum merge happened). I always wondered why they didn't make it part of the loop in the first place when they switched to the Local AccuWeather software with non-com tweaks.

For the vast majority of them the call letter domains are also reserved by Nexstar to redirects, so just a matter of re-pointing the domains.

Big problem is the Facebook and Twitter dependence on the 'longregionname.com' domains and that you might break links in the archives to them; I still remember a few years ago that WFRV's Twitter account was taunted by the lucky person that got the @WFRV handle before they could get to it (they have to use @WFRVnews) and was offering them a ransom to get it. You probably have a lot of Nexstar stations that have that situation because of the web side stubbornly sticking to the 'ohmyfingershurttypingoutthislongregionname.com' naming strategy. The majority at least have their call letters .com name reserved and redirecting to the main domain, but the web side just doesn't want to do the legwork to make that the main domain. That, and you have situations like Arkansas and Little Rock where 'go to kark.com' won't work because of how complicated that state network they have is.

Checked in with both WTMJ and WGBA and their "Now" treatment; it looks like WGBA is playing it straight with some local content where it's fit in naturally, while WTMJ is giving it a more selective treatment as if it's a wire service, though today was an unusual edition due to Jordy Nelson's release from the Packers and the wait for a news conference with the team (which thank goodness started after primetime and both stations sanely decided to give it the 'more at 10' treatment rather than pre-empt The Voice for it). Oddly, WTMJ isn't using the custom time/temp bug any longer.

Still remember Saturday mornings when WISN carried his show (and so did Nick Jr. before they decided marketing was better than educational value). Great guy with a big heart, and Pittsburgh had a deep tradition of great children's shows. He'll definitely be missed.

For WTMJ and WGBA, it literally is filler outside of Packers season. In the fall they only have to produce two shows (they cut the three Facebook-only shows on Packers programming nights once they realized nobody was watching). Ten years later and 'TMJ is probably still feeling stupid about letting the Sony game shows go to WDJT. If not for the national CMT deal it probably wouldn't even have that second season.

WDJT and the HTF do an on-air Thanksgiving give-a-thon...I wonder how that may go this year (they just did a March Madness-themed food drive but Michelle didn't appear there). Hopefully by then everything will be bygones between everyone.

Agreed. It's a Sunday newscast, which is usually just all whip-around wire regurgitation stories and 'here's what you missed on the Sunday talk shows, if you care' on most weeks. A weekday, that would have been reason to be concerned. Unless big breaking news occurred on Sunday, there's no reason to worry, and they probably had a backup crew in New York ready to go if they had to go into serious mode.

Seems more like the sad thing that's claiming all the other ministries on radio and television unless they aren't prefixed by 'mega-'; budgets, an ignored kind message, and no real successor to those who pass on. That's how the Green Bay Sunday Mass on WBAY ended up going away; the media person in the local diocese passed away and the church didn't have anyone else to do it (WBAY was originally owned by the St. Norbert's order), so they went with a generic brokered national mass. And thanks to infomercials and house-flippers, the time is easier to sell to them than precious studio time with staff on hand. It probably would have been gone with Hearst, Sinclair, Ion or any other station group.

That would be W16DO, part of the old CAT network that was done in with spectrum cash-ins.

It's a good buy and will definitely easily get a failing station waiver; the former ownership literally kept it on the air with duct tape and dental floss and put zero effort into tech and station presentation (and it's mostly been playing FCC keep-away with long silent periods). The sale shouldn't have even been needed in the first place though; remember, they had KXJB but the then-strict FCC then had them sell it off to become a subchannel machine under other ownership. But in any case, Retro TV is dead in North Dakota the moment Gray takes over.

They confirmed it today on their Facebook; totally bright idea as they got negative feedback about it, definitely.

Another article mentioned that AZA moved back to their previous WPMF-CD in November 2017. WSVN apparently stopped airing Estrella back in July on their subchannel (it's on a light bulb with the calls WVFW-CD right now), but nobody actually noticed until just now they carry Light TV. Which just shows how these new subchannel networks carrying the same six MGM shows are getting no buzz to speak of.

It's what used to be FamilyNet (the 'barely alive' Retro TV of the pre-digital era when it was owned by the Southern Baptists); Sony tried to make it a MeTV killer under a lease from the new owners Rural Media Group (RFD TV) for a couple of years, but it didn't move the needle that much, so Rural took control back in July and put on their rodeo/western sports archive, along with westerns and such. On another note, Sony's Get TV has basically become the home of old Sony sitcoms after their Antenna TV agreement expired at the end of 2017. It's definitely not an equivalent for Encore Westerns by any means.

Bah, force of habit. I moved all the MPTV things on Wikipedia to Milwaukee PBS and I still call it MPTV sometimes.

As a television station they probably didn't subscribe to Arbitron (I know WITI promoted their 87.7 availability but they never showed up in a radio ratings rundown). I know WRME-LP in Chicago does to Nielsen Audio so it's possible, but until the 2000's it was just considered a radio dial quirk and not a viable business plan.

MPTV/Milwaukee really needs to license this system. They're still on the Accuweather platform that's aged horribly as time has gone on. TCT has always done an incredible job with their weather coverage, be it as a part-day KTCI service or as a full-scale channel.

Bloomberg is free on anything that has a functioning web connection at this point (though without the sidebar GFX). They probably figured that into why not to carry it. TWC you can excuse as dumb, but Bloomberg has just as much blame here for their looseness with how you can watch their channel.

Another thing I've noticed with Nexstar is they've decided to not renew the '.biz' spin-off sites they launched to try to snap on the Groupon 'local daily deal' craze from years back. WFRV's 'wearegreenbay.biz' and KARK's 'arkansasmatters.biz' both 404. That, or someone in Nexstar IT dropped a note to Perry that nothing on the '.biz' domain is trusted by anyone.