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6 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

Nexstar would be in hot water if they tried to get a deal with Mission with DIRECTV as even know that it is a shell company Mission has to get a deal with Pay-TV on their own. Seems that smaller companies take forever to get done with DIRECTV, Dish with Mission almost a year it has been off both Sat TV. I was without Wood TV for year when Suckyvision oh I mean Cablevision in Kazoo couldn't agree with them in 97 but Cablevision always got Wood TV back on just in time for Super Bowls 28, 30 & 32. I didn't have Cablevision for Super Bowls 28 & 30 although Cablevision found a loop pole in 96 Wood TV returned after a week or 10 days.

 

When there wasn't a deal ever reached why it was off for a year before 2 days before Super Bowl 32 and at the time it wasn't even about retrans it was to get a local weather channel on basic cable which Cablevision refused which became WXSP in Aug of 99 as a general entertainment channel and UPN station. Wasn't until Charter bought Suckyvision in Kazoo when WXSP was in the lineup May of 2001.   

 The Cox stations are still not on Dish, it’s been a year so far. dish really drags things out in their negotiations 

42 minutes ago, bostonmediaguy said:

I don't know that there's anything we didn't already know, but here's a release detailing the transition: https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and-stations/releases/?view=108406-cbs-to-transition-eight-company-owned-stations-from-affiliates-of-the-cw-to-independents-on-friday-sept-1

 What I find interesting is that there will be no prime time news on KTSW, WTOG, or WKBD

yet there will be 8pm news on WUPA 

5 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Not to mention, sports.

 

Also, WPCH is technically still a superstation in Canada, which poses an interesting situation given that The CW is now running Canadian imports like Son of a Critch and Children Ruin Everything, likely subjecting them to simsubbing over WPCH’s signal on cable and satellite providers there (since they are originals on domestic networks like CTV), like the network’s American-produced originals have been.

I’d be really interested to know what kind of viewership WPCH gets in Canada….I doubt it significant. 

Probably the end of production for those local shows that WPCH was airing at 8pm 

If watl’ prime time news block is broken up for CW then I could see WPCH adding an hour at 8pm to take advantage of having no competition. 

Graphics are a downgrade from what they had. They're all over the place and look dated (which is saying something, since the previous package was a decade old). Glad they got to keep their longtime news theme!

Any word on if CBS will make a play for local sports rights for their newly independent stations? 
 

3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I'm amazed that Raycom Sports (now part of Gray) will be producing the games.

 

Nexstar and Gray, while two big broadcast companies, are about as far apart as can be when it comes to things like cable, digital and OTT...

Raycom was producing the ACC games that aired on Bally, they just used Bally’s onscreen graphics for presentation purposes 

Interesting that 2 ACC homes markets (Pittsburgh and atlanta) don’t currently have a CW affiliate….Nexstar better start making some calls 

4 people fired over pride memo at WOOD-tv 

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2023/06/30/wood-tv-grand-rapids-pride-month-memo/70373754007/

the 2 people that produced the memo and 2 people how spoke out against it 

KAPP/KVEW now has a unified brand: Apple valley new now 

https://www.applevalleynewsnow.com/features/kapp-kvew-unifies-brand-now-known-as-apple-valley-news-now/article_a074d780-1457-11ee-b5b4-2fc19b1c4ccc.html

An anatomy of eyewitness news - 1969 WABC special showing behind the scenes look at newscast production 

1 hour ago, TheRob said:

For Atlantic subscribers, there's a long article on Chris Licht today.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/06/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-trump/674255/

boy, Chris doesn’t come across good in this price. Seemingly has no idea what the hell he’s doing 

WAGA investigative reporter Dale Russell retired this week after 38 years at the station.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dale-russell-senior-i-team-reporter-retires

Wabi has the new gray graphics, also ditched  their custom news theme 

Nice set 

20 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Not to mention the article’s reference to CBSNS entertaining offering sports on the stations indicates it’s looking to poach some major professional sports teams from Bally Sports and AT&T SportsNet. Half of the affected markets have teams carried by networks owned by either group (Bally in three markets, AT&T in one), meaning Paramount is likely to scout for teams in Tampa, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Detroit.

 

Seattle, Philly, Sacramento and San Francisco are served by Root Sports Northwest and the NBC Sports Philadelphia, California and Bay Area channels, respectively. Though its less likely that WPSG can take the 76ers, Flyers and Phillies, KMAX can take the Kings, and KBCW can take the Giants, As, Sharks and Warriors for now, and the prospects of getting the Mariners and Kraken to be able to move to KSTW are unclear; NBCUniversal doesn’t seem to be getting out of the RSN business just yet and Root Sports’ status is questionable as while minority partner Warner Bros. Discovery is getting out of the RSN business, the Seattle Mariners majority own the network.

 Root Sports in Seattle is majority owned by the Mariners. I think the most likely outcome there is the Kraken buying WBD’s share and having a NESN joint ownership situation. 

KRON has a 3 hour prime time News block from 8 to 11. 

KONG has a 2 hour news block at 9pm 

WPCH has a 2 hour news block at 9pm 

WATL has a 3 hour News block at 8pm 

WTTA has a 2 hour block of news at 8pm

The question these stations need to ask is if low rated CW programming is more profitable that what they are already doing. With the election next year and the political spending going to be really high having complete ownership of your advertising is very significant (especially for the Atlanta stations considering Georgias swing state status). 
 

Personally I could only see KRON and WTTA adding CW, and that’s simply because nexstar will make them 

What in the world is going on in Alaska ? 
 

shame WVIR couldn't have gone to Hearst too. Probably too small of a market for Hearst to care about

Not bad

5 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

WCAX has the GrayONE pack.

 

 

So much better than the old package 

1980 behind the scenes special of action news at WSB 

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

If AT&T and Bally disappear, other than NBC Sports, who's left?

spectrum w/the LA networks, plus team owned networks MASN, marquee, MSG, Altitude, YES, SNY, and NESN 

No one wants these RSNs. They’re an albatross that NBC, Sinclair, and WBD are stuck with and can’t get rid of. 

53 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

New M&A. Looks like Gray and Marquee are swapping.

 

From TVNewsCheck, Gray is selling its Boise, Idaho Fox affiliate KNIN to Marquee Broadcasting. Upon the closing of the KNIN deal, Gray will then acquire Macon, Georgia's MeTV outlet WPGA.

interesting. What use do they have for a metv station in Macon?