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It isn't; the daytime schedule is just all repeats of their primetime reality dreck and some of their international shows, which could all just be a Peacock vertical.

Or just air NBC News Now; we're literally talking about thousands of viewers with channels like CNBC, FBN, Bloomberg and Cheddar. I have never understood the obsession with keeping primetime audiences when said audience is gone now. After hours trading is just all meme stock crypto bros no advertiser wants anyways. And the reason it's still in SD, even on the app is to drive people to the $30/month Pro app like it's still 2005 and nobody is streaming regularly.

Norah's at 1515 tonight.

I feel like Oxygen's move to OTA, it's more likely to move there down the line with it or as a rebranding of an existing OTA subchannel. I can't see Universal Kids continuing outside a Peacock vertical for sure once the next RTC cycle ends.

Writing on the wall for EAM, I suppose; they're realizing the overhead for a web presence is much less than that of a television station, and I assume the proceeds will only help the ministry. Gotta be a bit shocked they went to Nexstar when VCY America and TCT still in an acquiring mood; they could've easily $1-and-debt'ed the operation out to another godcaster, but they found a good commercial offer. And it also gives Nexstar a chance to see if moving around channel numbers to use WJW's 8 on UHF works, and just have everything hosted off the 55 transmitter, sacrificing VHF 8 to 3.0 lighthouse duty.

Yeah, but I'd like to know if stuff like this was factored into their current affiliation agreement, and that they can still opt out of CW programming out of spite. You don't really see this with many of the Big Four stations and it would be get the attention/letter from affiliate relations.

WBAY will be pushing ET to late night next week for extended hour-long 6pm shows through the election, and likely quite a few other stations throughout Gray; kinda a shock that WANF doesn't have have anything at 7:30 and has TBBT reruns instead.

The National News Desk is going primetime on their CW affiliates on Election Night it looks like, in order to pre-empt the network's own NewsNation simulcast (or push it off to air to nobody on Charge/Comet subs).

WBAY has GrayOne promos but a lot of their graphics systems have been down lately (their traffic information for instance) so it looks like they're still on some Media General-era (and even Young) systems actively being upgraded.

That is...really stupid. The CW/WB took advantage (outside the big markets) of the fact that it had entertainment that night and was the only place viewers could go for something new. In many markets, NN is right next to the local CW station as a legacy of its WGN carriage (a station that's sending that simulcast right to the .3, just like KTLA and WPIX), so the simulcast is nigh pointless for anyone outside the Nexstar boardroom. You also know that the Sinclair stations are out at 10 for NND, so why even try to go to midnight outside the main CW base? ETA - Yeah, Sinclair's definitely not simulcasting News Nation on their CW affiliates on the 5th; extended primetime NND that night. Wonder if Gray's will air Local News live instead then.

Snuck in very quietly into this profile of Wheel EP Bellamie Blackstone from Deadline is a mention that the show (and likely Jeopardy!, though not mentioned) will soon be shopped for day-of or day-after streaming of new episodes (don't know if it's SPT direct or through CBSMV). It's been a whisper for awhile, but seems the process is now starting.

They literally just changed the logo and mic flags going by tonight's Lightning simulcast on NHL Network. That's it. No new graphics, same music. I have secondhand embarrassment for the teams and the broadcast employees who still have to deal with these clowns.

Another conservative group that doesn't understand that TV stations, even the network flagship, don't control their network's content, filed an FCC complaint to have WCBS's licensed pulled because of editing in the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. They'd be better off making up an EAS tone mis-use or that the E/I Lucky Dog sold t-shirts with the show's logo in an ad on accident since that's all the FCC takes action on TV-wise these days.

The number of MNTV stations on this list outside the OKC, SAT and HOU territories confirms this as another last gasp for our favorite 'programming service'. An entire state starved of the network makes me think once baseball season hits we'll see even more de facto drops into the 3-5am timeslot across the country (or like in Green Bay, filling empty time on sub services like 365).

It's an option, I'll say that. Not sure it could be a good option if its production resembles a sub-150 Nexstar station, but it will be an option.

Even more confusing because the former TVG is now FanDuel TV, so it's almost like a bizarre return to the Fox Sports Net structure, except there's a 'niche' channel as the national one. And just noticing the abbreviation for FDS...I (and them) will probably grow tired of the references to this consumer product over the next few weeks. Maybe there will even be a lawsuit!

All the other situations don't have an entire state congressional delegation ready to declare 'an abandonment of New Jersey' if they even hinted at doing so. Fox isn't going to make any rebranding decision outside of dropping the "My" from My9 here or even mentioning 5 (notice how their TV listings don't mention Fox 5 at all with moved-over newscasts), especially when they have WTXF's headache still going on. At this point their NY cluster's best move has been to say nothing, and they'll continue to do so.

With the launch of Fox Local, most Fox-owned stations in the CTZ and ETZ now record their newscasts at 10 or 11 for live streaming on Fox Local, then airing OTA after sports (unless breaking news or weather tracking is happening of course). After so many 1am NASCAR-delayed newscasts I'm sure the Fox O&O folks are happy this is an option now. In this case though, that it's simulcast on WWOR is probably the last thing on their minds and their focus is fully on the Fox Local and after-game audiences; the My9 audience is not the focus here. Probably would be the same if WDCA was airing WTTG's 11pm. It's a corporate mandate more than it is a local decision.

In a move shocking absolutely nobody but the most fervent Pat Sajak stans who refuse to watch Seacrest WoF and wanted to see him on CWoF, ABC will now carry Monday Night Football for the rest of the season.

WMOR has now shifted to a WBBH simulcast; their Very Local channel is doing the same since that cluster's VL presence has not launched yet.

Don't forget that Orlando has stations with sister stations that they can overflow to (Fox had enough time to get the DVR recordings moved from WOFL to WRBW for one, WFTV shifted to WRBQ and WESH and WBBH already pushed their schedules to their .2s). There's no point to exhaust staff until the last possible moment and outside WFLA's Nexstar trash IT having to work around Perry's 2 hour delay, all of them have robust streaming presences to push coverage to for now.

All the teams involved have pretty much confirmed the same; the Brewers had press availability about it. Thankfully outside obvious graphical changes, most of these teams long ago switched to employing their on-air staff directly, so there should be no changes in personnel beyond the usual post-season moves of individual talent. And cable carriage should be easy for the most part, as most providers never filled the space left by NBCSN, or will quietly plan to stick the coverage in the RSN+ slot until the Cavs, Wolves and Bucks end their seasons, then move it to the main channel. It'll be nice now to not have to worry about Bally RTC negotiations any longer and now VPNs won't be needed for local teams just to sync the radio call with the TV video.

Launching a newscast at 4pm ET on a sports channel where it's ALWAYS going to be pre-empted by European soccer is just suicidal. I give it one month at minimum before it's quietly off the air once Rachel whines about soccer Twitter calling her various names and Fox Sports notices their ratings for their afternoon shows plunge (they have a live football show from Spain that's like PTI on steroids that's their baby at 6 ET).

A good look at the new board for NBC Sports Philadelphia as the Sixers give the traditional international preseason exhibition shellacking to New Zealand;

WDJT is doing this against WITI (noticed earlier in thread).