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How were they able to hide that from DirecTV for two and a half years? Did they just send a dummy WHAG feed with NBC programming still on it from master control for their eyes only, or was DirecTV just that in the dark; you'd think engineering or an angry call center viewer from the area would've told them 'yeah, they aren't carrying NBC any longer we might need to check into this'.

On top of the self-inflicted NBA nightmare, WBD has now lost their previously-held Spanish rights to MLB to Univision, which will now air games (including the ALDS and ALCS) on Vix, Univision, TUDN and UniMas.The NL side for the playoffs remains with Fox Deportes this go-around. It'll also simulcast Game 1 of the World Series with Fox Deportes. If you recall from previous years they used CNN en Espanol and TruTV to do so with no adjustment of graphics into Spanish and their 'promotion' of the game availability was limited to the perfunctory 'Spanish presentation on (network)' mention at the start. So even if UNI just uses the default MLBN package it'll already be at a Fox Deportes level of presentation compared to TNT Sports' brush-off.

We're about to see Audacy sold for parts, this is so tragic. Their stations are now centralcast to a degree that makes Alpha jealous (Bru is beyond the worst voicetracker in the industry and his lack of show prep shows fully on air), their RDS info now only displays the show or a Top Dog ad and not the actual track playing, and it feels like everything and everyone is going through the motions. I figured it was coming with the move of WINS to AM, but I expected it to be Relavented or some other Godcaster. It still may be in the future, but GKB doesn't focus on ratings numbers so they'll get bad numbers, but thankfully not KABC bad for sports talk. Bizarre though that Audacy will technically run the physical plant of their main competitor.

I hope week two has spell check...pass interFEARance.

A little bit far off, but it's been confirmed it'll be CBS Sports producing the Christmas games for Netflix. Likely we'll get both games locally in-market on the CBS-owned stations (including WJZ and KDKA). CBS talent is yet to be confirmed to be used. And no changes to the Packers package this year; still in house with the same look and CBS production.

Going by their Eiffel Tower and IBC studio spaces it just might be smaller and have to be used for more things rather than when they shipped out the portable Today set-in-a-box, which really isn't practical for this Paris go-around. I suspect they'll have a lot more room in 2028 when they can do something like use the IBC (based at Universal Studios), use their studio 1 for a large set since Kelly is now New York-based, or even sub-lease space from the NFL in Inglewood.

It was truly the most pointless of the Bally channels outside of when FSN had the Carolinas channel around the Bobcats/Hornets. That team HAD the best arrangement by having their games fill time on News 14 (now Spectrum News), but of course RSN greed had to get in the game. And it was likely in that Cox-dominated market that the Pels saw the writing on the wall and that Bally had much less leverage with Cox.

Marks sold off to Morgan Murphy and they have subcontracts now; Alpena has 7&4/Sinclair in Traverse City do it now (along with most of the newscast), while Marquette I think has WISC or other MMM stations produce updates when needed, or they draw from WJMN's own staff.

There's a paywalled story about the closure on Crain's Detroit Business; 80 laid off, and he cited low viewership for the closure; oddly the story cites that he bought all these properties because the costs of advertising 5-Hour were getting higher on regular TV, which...is confusing? How does buying a low-viewed network and physical TV stations reduce costs? Italics need to have a clear purpose, and italicizing near all the text just wears the viewers' eyes down.

Twitter and Facebook are frozen on the last jobs report so it might be on the morning video loop with no one minding the store. Twitter/Facebook is frozen on the monthly jobs report. Stick a fork in it; it's done. Seems like the folks who have been financing the Five Hour Energy guy's spare parts media empire are done with him too; I saw an absolutely long and long-winded 'buy 2 get one free' offer on cases of the stuff last night scanning by FNC which means their longtime agency also was done with them. Next spoke to watch will be ShopHQ, which turned down an all-but-done deal with RNN to become a part of Indian-American Byron Allen's company; and we'll have to see what happens to Coastal's own news ops.

I know it's not going to happen, but it would be so amusing if Fox tells them 'yeah, we're giving you a new studio, but you still have to use the old set'. But jokes aside, it's about time they get an up-to-date building with plenty of parking, though I'm sure WNYW is now feeling like the MSG of FTS (as in building age).

I still remember when the independent Wazoo Sports Network in Kentucky existed and how that seemed creative back in the late 2000s...but sadly the low-effort Luken networks at the time made subchannel sports coverage seem like a money pit, so they went bankrupt I do like this though, especially as public access stations begin to wind down operations as cable moves to IP-based distribution, and it's become a maze of other online networks and high school YouTube feeds to find games, and as Awful Announcing has cataloged, some of those online networks have personnel with few background checks that seem to hate the teams, sports, or women's sports they're assigned to cover and disregard 'the mic is always hot' liberally. Allowing local sports teams who know broadcasting inside and out and the teams to carry those broadcasts just makes more sense overall. South Carolina is a good high school sports market, so this will work naturally and it's one less repeat feed to have to pay revenue to.

Nowhere, likely just the usual; 480i widescreen CW+ on 12.3 to replace Laff (or 12.4 because 12.1 is SD for some reason), HD on cable/IPTV.

Here had to be Nexstar; they didn't want another mid-January surprise for CBS to pull WJMN's affiliation and look where that station is now, and both had priorities; CBS to keep their coverage, Nexstar to not have The CW end up on an HC2 station (or even worse, cable-only or ATSC 3.0-exclusive). Perry learned his lesson from the affiliates; play chicken all you want with the sidecars and cablecos, but when it comes to the networks you will not have a happy new year if they're having to throw Grit on a main channel and lose event revenue because of egos in Irving. Because of that, the alleged 'worst' station in the market in WZMQ was giddy to grab CBS and suck all the oxygen out of their competitor's news division to have it sold for a pittance to Morgan Murphy.

At this point it's believable outside of cable ratings that Ion is the 5th network, with MeTV easily 6th (not going to argue about major because that Wikipedia fight wore me out).

Yup, three-hour block of news. WITI bumped their 10pm to an hour at the start of July.

This channel just Will. Not. Die.

When Tribune acquired them they were a #5 CW affiliate and they switched to CBS, so it's allowed to stand with no issue. Most of the Big Four combos were allowed when the Fox affiliate had a sudden bad month against the WB because the FCC uses Nielsen market rank at the time of proposal to determine if a non-failed station waiver merger could go further or not; remember the attempted WTVJ sale to Post-Newsweek that didn't go through because Uni and Telemundo ranked higher than them before it died due to inaction.

WITI already switched their 10pm news to an hour a couple weeks back, which lost Seinfeld its second run and pushed everything further a half-hour back.

Scripps is getting out some new opens and re-orchestrated music for the Olympics; WTMJ started rolling them out on their 5pm today.

I still remember the story about how WTMJ Radio in Milwaukee lost the rights to produce Badgers content to Learfield because someone at Journal submitted the paperwork late, being overconfident because before the 90s, the UW programs were a national joke and they figured 'we have a long relationship, they'll understand' (the UW Regents did not). They still carried the radio broadcasts, but it was one of the balls that started the inevitable roll towards Learfield/IMG producing anything college and after Journal/Scripps decided not to move the Packers to FM, the team did it for them with iHeart. WBD had two years to seal this up, and I think the dumping of the Turner Sports brand for that awful long WBD Sports monicker was the start of their doom; they quickly adjusted to TNT Sports, but it isn't Turner Sports. Really, I think it was lost the moment they decided to start throwing game simulcasts on TruTV surrounded by gambling and sports talk dreck; you've got Inside the NBA and Kevin Harlan?! Nobody gives a crap about some random multicast only out there for degenerates and to satisfy 'new content' checkoffs in provider agreements because you can't keep running Impractical Jokers all day and all night. The ESPN multicasts make sense to someone, but the TruTV content never will.

Calendars have been this way since the 1800s; red indicates weekends and holidays, white or black weekdays. Some stations may differ in color, but weekends are always demarcated by a different color than the weekdays.

Besides the website archives being dumped for the cable channels it sounds like corporate is about to start another slow-roll cull of big name talent via early retirement (just like the New York and LA offices are heavily filled with Robert Half contractors)...this can only end badly and I feel like Skydance/Son of Oracle is about to give us an even uglier replay of the Tisch era for CBS.

WBAY has slowly been integrating the new typefaces and graphical style into their promos but haven't made the switch yet for the actual newscasts or weather (or my beloved, the weather subchannel)...which makes the rebranding of their formerly unbranded seven-day weather planner into the SUPER 7 DAY® with the current package very surprising. ETA - They've adopted the 'weather in 7' format seen on other Gray stations. 1BF19E26-DFC1-4AA1-AA26-E8CC7B201FCF.MOV 1BF19E26-DFC1-4AA1-AA26-E8CC7B201FCF.MOV

A lot of stations get a clean feed, and since it was during local time (Deco Drive), WSVN preferred to do that and stick with it rather than an awkward rejoin of the network at 8. In network time, stations can do what they want, and it wasn't a 'red alert' event requiring taking the network feed. I've seen a lot of stations do it before because they prefer both to make their own calls and not to be left in the lurch if the network doesn't cover it.