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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.

And don't forget that there isn't as robust an observer network (or even WeatherBug) for smaller markets where you can confidently provide solid number ranges, the weather office has to cover a wider swath of geography with some variation, especially to the northwest of Marquette, and that this is usually an area that measures snow in the tens of inches rather than fractions. These broader ranges are pretty well expected and were still generally used in even middle markets up to the 2000s. Also WLUC does more detailed regional breakdowns outside the 7-day, along with with ski reports, so the finer details are in the forecast, if not in that graphic. It's certainly better to provide a range rather than what stations do with those '(station number) degree guarantee', which pointlessly forces mets to have a solid number for the next day or else (most of them contribute to charity if they hit it but like most of these gimmicks such as 'round up for the hungry', just donate the money and do promos about the big donation).

CNBC has announced a CNBC+ service today which will launch in the spring; no pricing yet, or if the existing Pro service will be discontinued, but it'll feature a full-time market feed across the world's CNBC channels.

The situation with Wisconsin has an explanation though, as WKOW's sister stations did in the past start out as semi-satellites of it (with the FCC's blessing) and over time, broke off on their own as investments were made by their owners to break off the cord, as it were, with Madison, and Shockley and Qunicy had those resources to provide that support to their stations. It seems like all that AMG has is cheap programming and no desire to expand at all, so they've contracted two generations of progress with WXOW/WQOW/WAOW to basically return them to the state they were in the 70s, but with an ugly 2020s centralcasting twist. A red flag for me with the Quincy/Gray merger was the lack of fight to keep WYOW and letting it go for a pittance to Gray; it felt very out of character and there didn't seem to be any regulatory reason to do so. WEAU and WSAW are the strength of both their markets, but I can see good reasons for WMTV doing weekend morning newscasts for them at the very least, because some markets just really don't need them to begin with, and at least with E/I being opened up to the 5am hour it's literally better than nothing. And agreed; WBAY does some Gray things, but outside certain touches they know what keeps them on top and adding new things that keep that dominance, and Gray is smart enough to leave well enough alone with them; it helps that their building and staff just plain can't support doing much more than what they do in their market outside the obvious Packers coverage lead.

This could've been a private message. The initialism is explained in the video and everyone else here keeps the video subject matter to a minimum because it's more exciting to see what's going on. If you don't like my posts, simply ignore them. No need to call me out for being vague when everyone has a certain style in this fun thread; this isn't Twitter or a competitive Reddit, and I refuse to tamp myself or my writing style down to meet a certain robotic 'standard' of posting. (mods feel free to remove this if it's distracting)

New from Cyle Dickens from KWQC, some mid-80's motion graphics to a nice period beat from a BPME videomag.

It's the only reason before RTC they could really justify one television station in the market outside of Sarkes Tarzian using it for experimental purposes.

And most of it really is security concerns because there's a certain contingent of people who would love to go on TV and suck up a week of airtime for calling something 'fake news' or attacking someone on-camera. Post 1-6, along with the morning after morning headache of security costs, it just makes more sense to just bring everything inside. Of course, CBS never justified needing 1515 at all except for the Redstone ego to get use out of a space no longer used by their dying brands (Moonves would have never agreed to a move like that), while over time GMA just got sick of the headaches that are Times Square knockoff characters and other things that make a live broadcast with an audience outside just hard to manage. And Fox is pretty well-self explanatory. Comcast has an outright lease on 30 Rock so it's private property to do what they need to for crowd control.

WFFT is the ultimate example of a news operation only existing because of network mandates; if Nexstar doesn't acquire WANE and have to sell WFFT, WLNS would've long ago been centralcasting their news. It's not competitive with WANE or WPTA, the station is still run otherwise as if it's 1990 and Fox having sports is a pipe dream, and Allen has invested nothing into the news operation outside the time they did add newscasts; I'd argue they divested resources from the station as outside their news and Fox, it's pretty much Justice Central all day on a transmitter outside the Kelly and Mark slot because WPTA's Quincy dork age had them somehow cut the show and Nexstar wasn't going to cut the WANE advertorial show. I'm shocked they didn't just go the 35 minute route with one newscast and continue to do 5pm/6pm shows. WLFI seems to be the odd one out only because they don't have any other affiliations outside The CW distracting them, and this just feels like a deck-shuffle move until the eventual Allen bankruptcy petition which asks Fox to waive their news-carriage requirements.

The move is happening unless Disney suddenly decides to talk a large loss on dumping a state-of-the-art studio facility they've been planning for over a decade, no matter the feelings of an EP or booker who just needs to adjust to a new commute and a shiny new studio and stop yapping misinformation about how mean Ginger was to her terrible co-worker to the Post.