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This feels like what will happen; Gray still holds the domain until January 19 right now, so when they are at the point of renewing, they will transfer it to CBS with compensation to keep registration continuity. What may happen is once CBS goes dark, it either goes to an FAQ about the switchover, or a 'CBS has moved to channel 69, (pagelink)' statement. You have to assume since this switchover was more expected, that Gray and CBS agreed to a proper handover as part of their new affiliation agreement without Atlanta and there won't be the 'New York ivory tower' attitude you heard from WPLG their first day, which is just not the 'Gray style'.

Kelly Clarkson recently cancelled her latest residency dates because of her ex-husband's ill health (which was not the narrative ET and other gossip sites had been trying to push so God, they're horrible); he passed away this morning. I'm so devastated for her and her children, and will completely understand if she will not be back on the show in September, much less November.

No cited numbers (of course), but WPLG is spinning that they won most timeslots against 7.2 on the 4th (of course it's easy with J! And Wheel to still win 7 p.m.).

Hulu + Live TV will actually be subsumed into Fubo if they get fed approval to merge that in.

Must be an even swap, because WITI is getting the Dateline repeats they previously aired (probably for the 1pm slot vacated by Pictionary).

The package is of the networks which have cable/satellite coverage (except Fox Soccer); frankly it should be a subchannel network and I don't know why they've never pulled the trigger on putting on the O&Os, but they seem happy distributing Sinclair and Weigel's channels. But they have wide FAST coverage anyways outside Tubi and FoxLocal.

It's available as a $5 add-on, and I should note that all MVPD/cable subscribers will get access to it for no cost, so thankfully they don't have to pay for it.

Peacock at $16 for plenty of sports and originals is justifiable, but just the same Fox content you can get anywhere else with nothing else? For $20 a month? It's a hard pass; you have to be one of those 'I will only watch something if Rupert is behind it' fundamentalists to really be attracted to this offer, and they're only going to get subscribers by bundling it with Hulu or HBO Max like they intend. It's just a terrible price otherwise and more than just subscribing to HBO alone when FoxLocal, LiveNOW and Fox Weather are free and YouTube has FNC clips up within hours.

Just unveiled it and it's a larger version of the usual SInclair set, and Aerial remains, though the main desk background is an incredibly blurry GB skyline shot that looks terrible onscreen.

Sadly, ABC didn't get so petty on this morning's Kelly and Ryan that they drew a Miami resident to do travel trivia so WPLG had to advertise their competitor on day one; just some gal from Michigan.

It feels almost appropriate that WPLG's last ABC prime time will be ending with the 2003 Freaky Friday since them and 7.2 will be 'switching bodies' as it were, except it's permanent.

It was nice to have syndication not have all these lousy cop shows for a few years (this was syndicated as Police Patrol in 2019-20), but I'm not shocked the backsliding resulted in the return of the format (all the bad crime reenactment shows and "True Crime Daily" bombing didn't help at all).

I do forsee they'll be a little more okay than most of these situations since the WDRB facility is much larger and newer (so I don't see how WAVE just doesn't move in there), but there will be some attrition for sure if the deal does get approved. I can see WBKI going the owners of WMYO-CD as far as the license and then getting Spirited away for sure to take care of that discrepancy as Block and them have been cooperative for years. But in another way this does show that Block's fights against their newspaper staffs in Pittsburgh and Toledo are taking their toll if they're ready to cash out.

Marquette in the 80s and 90s with WLUC and WJMN bouncing between NBC, CBS, ABC was also a dizzying amount of switches; CBS buying WJMN and WBUP's launch thankfully ended that ping-pong.

Watching dayside NewsNation and it's getting to be very clear that they barely ever need the studio or even a mic, because their anchors never get to appear on screen unless they're just handing off to the pundit to blather on, and usually it's in a quad box to add insult to injury while the same video loops over and over for ten minutes. It's absurd; LiveNow and Local News Now do a much better job showing off their talent during their shows, and I couldn't name one of those folks in a lineup.They'll only show the talent on this channel that they overpaid for to get ratings that are much worse than the edited movies WGN America they showed in primetime a decade back. Sorry Markie, Marnie and Nichole (not sorry to any of the talent that saw the writing on the wall two years back and fled). This network outside of primetime can literally be handled by their local stations, and it's no wonder to see why cable providers really don't want to have to carry it in order to carry a local Nexstar station. They'd be better off just airing various WGN, WPIX and KTLA newscasts and probably get better ratings for it to boot.

It's not the size, but the brightness. WBBH was able to compensate, but it looks more like a moon than a sun, so they just need to find a proper icon.

Spectrum did light up LLT yesterday, though you wouldn't know it's called LLT as there are no promos or bugs calling it such; it's basically the main Local News Live feed as a regular old 1080i cable channel. Commerical breaks are a DRTV/PSA/Gray promo black hole rather than local ads on the web/Zeam feeds. Hopefully they do a lot better to adjust the channel to being a cable channel in the next few weeks, because my first impression is that they need to adjust a bit as far as presentation.

NBC is beyond the most reasonable RTC'ers and hasn't revoked an affiliation outside the WHDH situation, and this is stupid. NBC was proactive in equal time by bringing him an equivalent audience to the Kamala appearance.They resolved the dispute right away, and yet he's still going after them. Crossing my fingers that they do fight and this doesn't get stupider; you know advertiser refusal for something idiotic (bad BBB record/account in arrears but is 'oppressed by The Man') is going to be next.

With the way the CW's sports pre-emptions feel poorly communicated and thought out on the weekends (for instance a polka show on WVTV in Milwaukee has to constantly update viewers on when they air because they scheduled their show after CW prime thinking that it would be a rerun dead zone pre-Nexstar), this is only a positive for WCCB because the CW has no real identity outside 'Cancon shows, pointless NewsNation simulcasts occasionally, and leftover sports' any longer. Scheduling instability is a terrible problem to have for any station with a news operation, which will never be a problem for WMYT, which I will be honest, I forgot all about because it's just another channel among others on WJZY's spectrum and has long suffered from 'reheated stepchild' syndrome, even with Fox AND Capitol. WCCB probably has planned this since Nexstar took over the CW and purchased WJZY, just as Gray has prepared WUAB post-CW with WBNX taking over. And I don't feel like these will be the last channel changes this year for CW stations as other Nexstar stations take over affiliations in other markets.

It looks like they'll have the Litton block until at least September then (syndicated separately from ABC)...a bit of a surprise, but not entirely unexpected.

That MyNetworkTV was barely ever a thought...they did not even want to entertain the idea of My Local 10, even as late night filler.

Why does Sinclair always seem to get in a snit fit with this one provider? They're literally in the eighth subbasement of ratings in that market and the only valuable thing (it ain't The National Desk) they provide is NBC programming, which...Buckeye can just direct them to Peacock these days and they'd probably be more reliable there. This isn't 2013 and viewers have choices now. SBG should just take whatever they can get and fight battles in markets where their ratings can be tabulated.

It was actually off the air for the year after the pandemic botched their plan to move the operation to New York so NBC could attempt to have an ABC-like appearance lineup where someone could do GMA, Live, and The View in a matter of hours, just with Today and I guess Kelly Clarkson...forgetting that E! is a cable network and a few celebrities would rather appear on a Midwestern morning zoo than be stuck on that channel. Frankly, the end of the entertainment news show being a thing with Extra being a shambling shell of its former self and ET's decline where stations don't even need a proper reason to pre-empt any longer, the entire form is dead. Social media brings all the entertainment news first and without the lameness of editing around corporate sensitivities.

I expect no changes at all to occur with WVTV (they're running a promo with SBG congratulating a long time employee for being enshrined in the Wisconsin Broadcaster's Hall of Fame even now), and they share programming with WLUK/WCWF and hub with WUCW. It's very clear the owner may have changed, but Hunt Valley still runs everything.

Sad news out of Charleston/Huntington, as Tom McGee, a longtime anchor considered equivalent to Ron Burgundy in the area has died in hospice at 78.