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Those poor people. Time to dust off the résumé

KGNS

If I had to bet Gray wanted more money because now KTVK carries Suns games

DirecTV is warning cnn that cnn max is risks violating their carriage agreement https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/business/media/directv-cnn-streaming-service-deal.html

And sadly with bean counter Zaslov in charge it’s highly unlikely that CNNi will be able to recapture any of its former glory the gutting of HLN is the most bizarre to me as you could easily make a low cost operation with repeated or repeating news on rotation. Total failure of corporate leadership and lack of vision. Sometimes I really wonder how different things would be of Ted had never sold to TimeWarner

Once they got wpga in Macon (a stand alone metv station with no other purpose) it was clear they were launching some kind of statewide project

Wtoc in action. They’ve appeared to have dropped “live local now” and brought back their old slogan “the southeast news leader” in the open

KTRK has the new graphics https://youtu.be/6zF3AnfFThM?si=XiKVcfXEMtA3Se_I

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 ?

So much better than the old package

1980 behind the scenes special of action news at WSB