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On 6/25/2025 at 11:00 PM, appleachian said:

WRAL has a store in the Raleigh-Durham airport.  It’s just a market with supplies for travelers.  I assume its real purpose is just like any other form of advertising.  It exposes newcomers and visitors to the WRAL brand. 
 

https://www.rdu.com/wral-travel-store/

WXIA had (has?? Not sure if still there) the same thing at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta…it was funny that they continued to use the 90s era 11Alive logo and never updated the signage to the current red logo 

A reminder for folks when it comes to cbs buying stations. 
 

1. their finances aren’t exactly in the best shape right now. Buying a non appreciating asset like a broadcast station would not be a smart move financially 

2. The current administration has a vendetta against Paramount. Even if cbs wanted to it’s likely to be held up by regulators for petty reasons 

Yeah. CBS is going to do the same thing in Seattle and Tampa. They could in theory but Kiro since Cox is for sale, but I doubt CBS would be willing to spend the money to buy it. 

Keep in mind Apollo wants someone to buy the entire thing, not a piecemeal sale…that means the buyer will need to be willing to take the radio stations as well 

2 hours ago, TVLurker said:

FOX used to be equivalent to a big 3 before they sold off the movie studio. Now it's more like The CW except they put more effort into programming original animation, reality and sports.

 

The sports is the only thing keeping FOX afloat IMO.

the NFL is the only think keeping Fox in “big 4” status. They’ve really deemphasized scripted programming in recent years to the point where they’re not really trying anymore 

20 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

I remember the last major breaking news story WSVN carried... they used CNN, *NOT* FOX. The station is more allegiant towards CNN Newsource than FOX NewsEdge.

I can remember a time when there was a breaking news story in south Florida (think is was the parkland shooting) Fox News decided to jump in and carry WSVN’s coverage…and a minute after than WSVN decided to listen in on CNN’s coverage, causing FNC to quickly switch away. 

Gray has conflicts in Atlanta and charlotte. Nexstar conflict in Dayton 

Any chance Hearst jumps on this? Good chance to get some pretty good assets…conflicts in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Orlando would need to be divested, but that should be easy. 

8 hours ago, Jase said:

 

WSVN and FOX have a 30 plus-year relationship and have described each other as 'perfect partners.' FOX went as far as to say, when they renewed the affiliation last year, that their 'relationship with Ed and the Sunbeam team is one of our longest and strongest affiliate partnerships.'  That doesn't sound like either party is unhappy.

 

wccb and Fox had a great long standing relationship until they didn’t. Things can change 

They’ll probably have to lay off staff regardless as ad rates and retrans fees are likely to decline without ABC programming 

2 minutes ago, nickp said:

WPLG said they made a generous offer to ABC and if they had to pay more than that it would risk laying off staff

That is so similar to what they currently have it could be that “they’re the same picture” meme from The Office 

Maddow made her thoughts on all this tonight, saying canceling Joy’s show was a mistake 

I mean Lester is 65 so he’s at about retirement age. Could be his way of slowing down while still being active 

12 minutes ago, JTT said:

I'm surprised.   Is he being forced to retire from Nightly News?  Reassigned to Dateline. 

 

Like Norah O Donnell?  She was reassigned to 60 minutes & other projects.  

1 hour ago, newsteam13 said:

Nobody comes home to watch the news anymore. Not even the local news at 5pm, 6pm and 11pm (10pm on central/mountain). Certainly not the network evening newscasts. More people are streaming nowadays, not to mention getting their news on the internet.

 

CBS News's YouTube channel offers full-length episodes of the CBS Evening News. After they broadcast on their local affiliates, CBS News uploads that night's newscast like 4 hours later, so people who prefer online can watch on YouTube at their own convenience. ABC News YouTube channel, same deal with World News Tonight uploaded like 4 hours after they broadcast on ABC affiliates. NBC News YouTube Channel uploading the NBC Nightly News the same night. Talk about ease of access!

 

Why aren't local stations following suit with the networks? That is, uploading the local newscast on their stations YouTube channel the same night after they aired it live? 

KSAT posts full newscasts on their YouTube page after they air. WDIV posts the A block of their newscasts on their YouTube page. I’m not aware of other stations that do this 

16 minutes ago, Dave Lampstein said:

Not sure if I missed it in this thread but Marquee is picking up two of their markets already - Eureka and Medford

https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/marquee-broadcasting-buys-4-imagicomm-stations/

well that was quick. Guess they’re ok selling piecemeal instead of “all or nothing “ 

So they’re keeping Bravo, which they see as important programming aspect of peacock, but will dump everything else. 

I see this being extremely complicated from an operations perspective.

MSNBC, CNBC, and NBC News are all tightly interconnected when it comes to programming and news gathering. USA Network is tightly connected with NBC Sports for sports programming. Then there’s the olympics, where NBC uses its cable channels (USA, E!, CNBC, and golf channel) to air coverage. 
 

If you separate NBC Sports from USA and NBC News from CNBC and MSNBC you’re severely impacting both the “strong” NBC operation and the “weak” cable operation

Chris Wallace will leave cnn 

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/chris-wallace-exit-cnn-1236207062/

Bally Sports could still sign new deals with MLB teams, the teams will just have to accept less money (and they’ll have to be comfortable being in business with Bally Sports going forward) 

And with that the Raycom package is no more. 
 

Sinclair considering selling 30% of its station portfolio plus the Tennis channel 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/09/sinclair-explores-selling-30percent-of-broadcast-stations.html

Launching a new RSN in 2024 - this can only go poorly 

On 4/29/2024 at 2:26 PM, MD TV said:

The Cox-Dish dispute is finally over:

 

https://www.nexttv.com/news/dish-and-cox-media-group-end-17-month-retrans-blackout

Only took a year and a half to be resolved. 

6 hours ago, tjt24 said:

Well at least now we know how they'll make the open work with MCTYW lol. And it looks good.

was there ever any doubt? 

New cnn boss looking to cut anchor salaries as part of savings 

https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-looks-to-slash-budgets-star-salaries-as-mark-thompson-digs-in/

47 minutes ago, Geoffrey said:

 

I'm not entirely sure that would have worked. Robin's show did not have the political and international focus that the main network has. While it might have been refreshing to see CNN getting back to reporting more than three or four topics an hour, I don't think they would do that. 

I do see your point. However I would argue that CNN has failed in the mornings for 20 years and so maybe the lighter flair of Robin would have led to something more successful than what CNN has been doing. I’m sure robin could be serious if the situation called for it. 

They could have saved so much headache if they just moved Robin Meade to CNN instead of letting her go.