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Also to note that Tamron moves off WSFL to ABC 18 with no timeslot change, with JHud moving an hour back on WSFL, so we may be seeing some more schedule horse-trading through the next two months. But for a channel put together with only a few weeks notice, WSVN hasn't done too bad outside Extra being dead time spackle in the morning and evening, but you're going to just have those spots where you just need to keep the lights on. I just don't understand moving Live up an hour on WPLG at all, where you could just air it live at 9 rather than keep the news going until 11, but I suppose they want to try to counterprogram The View. Miami is basically New York South so I don't think that makes any sense, but People Puzzler being the Family Feud prime time substitute here works well enough.

Hell has frozen over..WFRV has finally joined this entire 'cyberspace revolution' and has a 'WFRV+' TV app...while somehow doing absolutely nothing with the 2013-vintage iOS app that is under the same code . At least now I finally can stop having to spoof Paramount+ into thinking I have a cabin in Valders just to watch their newscasts. That it took Nexstar this long to livestream newscasts seamlessly is unacceptable.

Yes, it's the Post, but they're making the same point I did, that late night's advertising base has declined and you're apt to see a Bulbhead as seen on TV product these days more than you will something like a high-income earner product like perfume, or a lot of prescription drug ads (I feel like half their breaks feature at least one PrEP ad). That might be fine for an MTV2 Wayans Bros. repeat or Perry Mason on MeTV (which you can argue the retro networks do take a major bite out of late night's HUT audience for politically-exhausted viewers). It certainly isn't for a late night show, but it's across every network, including Comedy Central and has nothing to do with politics, but more that audiences are exhausted with advertising in everything they watch. There was the bite earlier this week where Jon Stewart admits that without him and South Park, Comedy Central is a shell of a network, and we're starting to see the underinvestment in cable now bleed into broadcast. It's been that way even before COVID, and that momentum the form had is gone.

The swap was mainly because WSJV is the ATSC 3.0 lighthouse in South Bend (their pet project, of course, with their 1.0 subs spread across WSBT, WHME and even WNIT) and they transmit from the WSBT tower, so they pulled the swap since SInclair doesn't have a sister station in Peoria and FAIAP WEEK had been controlling WHOI anyways. I was surprised when I read it myself a few weeks back. And WSJV does carry SBT2/Fox in 3.0 format so you are correct in a roundabout way that it did come back home. ----- Meanwhile an update on the WTMJ meteorologist situation; Tyler Moore posted that he is leaving the industry because of exhaustion (on a self-described in-market 'dream job', so you have to wonder how much pressure Scripps/station management puts on their young hires); And because of that, Michael Fish is back on a freelance basis.

Reading that, it makes sense now why Seth's Tuesday show is more 'evergreen' with no new "A Closer Look", with it taping two shows on Monday; I was curious as to why they upload the full A-block on that day and not other days to YouTube. (Yes, I'm part of the problem in that I consume the show there rather than on DVR, but I also hope that Peacock eventually fulfills their promise to have NBC's late night at 9pm ET, which they got talked out of by people who don't look so smart five years later) It also helps that NBC owns 30 Rock and knows every part of the building inside and out, while the Sullivan, despite all the work done over the years, is still an old adapted theater building that needs constant upkeep, along with a full office building above it that isn't much better. I've also noticed many fewer musical guests on late night, and many more of them have adapted the COVID era allowance of taping them elsewhere on location just because that reduces a lot of union expense to set up the stage for one performance (CBS used to do "Live on Letterman" extended performances, but that died with his version). Really, The Talk cancellation was the first sign of distress for CBS; they could've easily just added even more sponsored content to keep the show profitable but knew it would turn off viewers, and by the end its guest base was pretty much down to whoever they could get from CBS prime time on a taping dark day. And there was no way The Gates would work being taped in California thanks to Georgia's tax credits alone. If we're just looking at CBS's real estate, they have by far the oldest and most depreciated portfolio of studios and facilities; 30 Rock may be old, but it has a solid foundation and walls to work around, and the Iger building is basically a reset and clean slate for ABC. Even with the cost savings of switching every light to LED, that building still has an old fridge of an AC and is expensive to heat and cool, and despite the timing of the announcement, I think they just knew the economics of the show just can't work any more when you've gone from cars, P&G and films as your biggest advertisers to...Prevagen, Iberogast, and other various snake oil, along with legit prescription drug ads that will make anyone under 40 flee for YouTube and Netflix.

Watch as they replace it with Funny You Should Ask reruns (and that is actually believable for this regime, sadly). I really haven't watched Colbert as much because it's day after day of political jokes and his guest base has deteriorated that way too (it doesn't help that Paramount somehow has film franchises and stars that will not do press), but it's still an awful loss. But like everything Paramount has been selling real estate-wise, they probably want to sell off the Sullivan like they did Television City, and you're not going to get Colbert in a Last Week Tonight-esque space at the Television Center, so they just decided to cut it off entirely. At least the Sullivan will have a glowing Broadway future in new hands. I'm starting to fear that CBS will no longer be what it was by 2029 and that we'll be seeing the new management either go full in on the NFL, or just give up and run procedurals and reality into the ground, and they're the answer to the question 'which network dies first'.

I found the WDJT one had that mischievous Weigel spirit behind it; you can tell that love was put into that graphic, even if management never wants to see it on air and would work in analog just as well. Otherwise, you can definitely tell the KX4 graphic was made pre-merge into KVLY, and I like that WREG planned out a good promo as a technical difficulty loop (that they didn't have to air forever thankfully).

A new channel popped onto my Spectrum lineup today, and I was confused because I had never heard of this network before...but the logo style seemed very familiar. Looked it up, and Gray holds the trademark to the name "Local Look Today", and it seems like it's going to launch throughout the month, with it launching tomorrow as part of Gray's new RTC cycle with Spectrum. It's in the exact same slot Circle was in the past. Is this intended to be complementary (carrying station features and weather), or a replacement for Local News Live? There's little about the channel I can find outside trademark registrations and provider notices, so I guess we'll likely find out together, and you'll certainly see their stations promoting it.

Thanks, David. Glad to know that. I agree that is breaking news.

The All-Star Game was last night and the entire lineup outside of Colbert was repeats, so it's probably just more of a 'nobody really noticed' kind of story, or they're waiting for word from CBS about what actually happened is more likely.

I didn't mean to offend at all; just making an observation that the regulars need time off and they turn to others on the bench, and she is in her 70s.

Exactly this. He tried to expand from an hour talk show and apparently nobody wanted to subscribe to his channel (or give out their email address to stream it on the TBN website). If someone wants to be the fool to part with their money to keep Dr. Phil afloat, they know exactly what they're doing at this point and that like most investments, it will likely turn out badly. We haven't heard the side of the creditors yet, and I'm sure they're not going to encourage people to trust him again.

On again tonight. Martha is entering the golden years so they kicked her over a couple weekend nights and gave Linsey and Witt a well-deserved weekend off.

Also thinking of clinics and hospitals that have to do the same with their lineups; I've been in the hospital a couple times this year and those lineup cards are a low priority to update, and sometimes they don't perform a rescan (they are locked down heavily so even if you bring a remote of your own, you're not able to do anything outside the regular remote), so some channels are completely missing (or like MTVU, somehow still carried even though no provider in 2025 has them in a current consumer plan, along with mini guide channels showing listings for a group of channels). Thankfully it's less of a concern in Atlanta where nothing will change between WANF and WUPA channel-wise, but WANF is also losing that YTTV and Hulu etc. coverage, and Zeam is still awful to navigate (their channel list is alphabetical and there's no option to just have the calls K and W on top, you either have to go into the app options to enable closed captioning, or enable it on first tune or it'll never appear again during that session). I was at the Red Roof Inn in Hoffmann Estates in September and they have Dish, but the channels are mapped in a bizarre QAM map that makes no sense (they had Roku TVs so they put priority on Roku Channel stuff), and WPWR and WCIU, along with MeTV were not options at all. Oddest hotel stay I ever had (had to deal with someone transmitted in a vestibule kiosk at 1am in the morning because my key went dead and they do not staff the lobby at all).

I can only assume they'll try to go the FAST direction or go heavy on promoting streaming through Local 10+/YouTube Live since they're ramping up the news schedule and there's no point in having that carriage when right now they only have three hours of syndicated programming on weekdays and by September, that will all be streaming next day itself (Live with Kelly is on Hulu, J!/WoF on Hulu/Peacock, The First 48 is on anything with an A&E library deal). It'll just simplify their digital reach overall. I wish them luck, but not being on those platforms will likely backfire and be reeled back if they decide to go for pro rights.

As a number of them were part of and still employed after the first Dr. Phil HR scandal and followed him to the Metroplex away from the security of LA and CBS, some of them knew why they were signing up for.

A relief when Gannett or Alden could've done much worse.

A video is up now on the subpage showing that WSVN is going full in on the 18 position, including a 'circle 18' logo (and a 7.2 logo) that reminds me of ABC's advertising 'bullets' in the TV Guide days.

The application says it will be converted to a non-commercial license, but of course a channel sharing agreement with the translator can be made to round that little obstacle.

Free TV Networks has finally realized that their coverage for Defy outside Gray is absolutely terrible (not a single full-powered station in California for either network outside KRON!), so they put their tail between their legs and Scripps (which killed it for Ion Plus last year, with FTVN getting the name and branding rights literally last minute for their male A&E rerun farm) is now carrying Defy again on some of their stations. Some contract expirations on Gray stations allowed the expansion of 365BLK and Defy to more markets.

And as for the PBR, there's a happy ending for them; Fox Nation (who is doing much better and can pay for the rights) will pick up their weekly events.

I think in this case he had good reason to walk; whatever they offered beyond 20/20, it's all a downgrade.

Flew under the radar and found out about it when it was added to the 'junk drawer' tier of my Spectrum system; apparently Herring and Spectrum came to an agreement to add both OAN and AWE to their systems in May, and they're starting to add it now. Not questioning Spectrum because I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank with whatever little viewership OAN/AWE will provide to make that carriage deal (or maybe Herring finally realized overpricing his channels as 'premuim' was stupid in the long run).

Hopefully the show is restructured around her, because IE has needed a solid refresh for over a decade.

WTMJ taking it on the chin and letting so many go. Now Tom Durian is done at the end of July to move on to KVVU, Henderson...and Las Vegas, as evening anchor, since Steve Chamraz is entrenched. KTNV must be livid.