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18 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

What happened at WWJ?

Essentially what @scrabbleship is saying, is that WTTV would virtually not have a news department (except for maybe news simulcasts with WXIN but that'd be it) otherwise they'd be just like WWJ

4 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

Read today's article at FTV, NEXSTAR CONTINUES TO CUT PEOPLE.... MERRY CHRISTMAS, Mr. Jones mistakenly refers to KFOR as Miami's CO&O WFOR.

As always it's a typo error on the part of Mr. Jones

11 hours ago, TheRyan said:

It looks to me like a typo on FTVlive's part.  Hopefully FTVlive gets that typo fixed asap.

Just checked the article and Scott Jones fixed that typo

Assuming that this is true and everything else, Sinclair at least in Oklahoma City (and potentially the state of Oklahoma itself) may very well be in even more hot water than what they already are with the whole lack of candor stuff because for one they don't own KFOR/KAUT and two, they DIRECTLY compete against KFOR/KAUT (via KOKH/KOCB)

Wouldn't be surprised to see lawsuits and investigations come from this IF this is accurate (and I generally take Scott's reports with a grain of salt)

This may be one of the big stories as we head into 2020 and IF true this won't be the end of the whole Sinclair/Nexstar monkey business in Oklahoma City.

Also FTVLive noted that Nexstar also yesterday, gave the axe at WGHP in the Triad and the Denver duopoly of KDVR and KWGN respectively.

Now that I think about it when I reread the article clearly it was a typo on Scott Jones' part (as usual), THIS is why whenever Scott reports on anything until reliable, credible sources confirms the story with substance, it must be taken with a grain of salt

I'd be very interested to see how Hemmer does in that hour, I do wonder if he'll lead the Special Reports and Breaking News coverage for Fox or will that go to somebody else?

30 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

This article confirms that CBS ordered WFMY to start CTM at 7am. Andy Griffith is now on weekends.

Exactly what I figured to be the case.

At least WFMY has gotten creative to make up for losing the 7am hour of the Good Morning Show

5 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

KICU's hourly 7pm show says hi. 

I consider the Bay Area to be a seperate region from the rest of Northern California, yes KTXL won't be the only ones with 7pm news but as far as the entire Northern California region not named the Bay Area yes they will be the only ones with 7pm news

Nexstar is at it again with these newscast expansions.

This time it's in California with KTXL launching a 7pm newscast and according to TV News Check, they will be the only ones with 7pm news in Northern California not named the Bay Area https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/241812/ktxl-sacramento-expands-its-local-news/

9 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

I'm not sure how they're gonna pull that off considering that Estrella TV's local news windows for affiliates are at 5:00 and 11:00 p.m., not 10:00 p.m. IIRC.

They'll just simply simulcast the newscast with WKCF, it's not like they're launching a newscast specifically for Estella TV.

1 minute ago, TheRyan said:

 

Very interesting.  I wonder if they have spanish subtitles (or spanish closed-caption) on the simulcast.

Probably a few at first.

2 minutes ago, TheRyan said:

 

And I would say that is highly likely.  Especially true for WGHP, imo.

WXII has put in a lot of effort into the newscasts on WCWG so they might have something to say.

Either way this is a big blow to WFMY losing the 7am hour but I'd be curious about how well the Good Morning Show was doing in the 7am hour especially against the likes of WGHP and WCWG (via WXII)

4 minutes ago, bhratbrat said:

Well if they bring back ole Andy Griffin then they might have ratings jump through the roof. That used to be their lead in

I wouldn't be surprised to see more viewers flip over to WXII and WGHP going forward especially with the loss of both the 7am newscast and Andy Griffith

13 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

I would suspect many would think moving the Ellen to 3pm would be a better option. But I guess they probably want to clear Daily Blast Live since it probably don't have an earlier feed.

 

I feel like moving the 7am newscast to 9am would've been the better option, move Daytime Jeopardy to an overnight slot air DBL at 12 (I think they do provide a feed for that slot) and just bump Ellen to 3.

Because the way I view their new schedule now, the Four 2 Five is not going to get very good ratings because their lead-in is not that good.

2 minutes ago, TheRyan said:

 

But since WFMY already produces the 7am hour (which ends after tomorrow), I don't see why they couldn't opt out of programing on one of those sub-channels and carry it as an extension of the morning show.

 

I would think these discussions have already happened (or are taking place) behind closed doors at WFMY/Tegna.  So I'm thinking this is not likely to happen, but it would make sense to me to keep the hour via a subchannel.

That too would be an option.

Eitther way I don't see an end of The Good Morning Show in the 7am hour, I think Tegna should recognize that this is a piece of history in the Piedmont Triad

1 minute ago, TheRyan said:

 

I checked Wikipedia and it turns out that WFMY has actually 3 sub-channels: Justice Network, WeatherNation TV, and Quest.    Probably not likely, but I wonder if WFMY could consider running the 7am hour on one of those channels.  At least WFMY wouldn't lose that hour of morning news that has really become important TV history, certainly for that market.

They could certainly do that or once CBS starts rolling out the localized versions of CBSN beyond the O&Os, WFMY restores the 7am hour at that point when they launch their own version of CBSN.

I know CBS hasn't said they'll roll out the localized CBSN's to groups like Tegna but it would make sense for CBS to do that.

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

 

If they do, they'll always have KQCW to continue post-7am news. I think CBS may force them to air it in-pattern in the near future, if trends are any indication.

 

I remember when CBS mandated all affiliates to air both hours of the Early Show, KOTV compromised by starting it at 8am and moving the last hour of their morning show to KQCW. They used to air it 5-9am on KOTV.

 

And see that's where the bad part comes in for WFMY, they don't have a duopoly partner to be able to continue the 7am newscast and I think this is where WFMY will likely lose some of the viewers in the morning to stations like WGHP and WXII/WCWG

This one here is as @TheRolyPoly described it on his blog is historic a quote from the article 

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So why is this historic you might ask? Because this new program will lead to program changes that’ll see the end of an original. WFMY’s The Good Morning Show started in 1957 and is the longest-running local morning newscast in the United States. One of its hours includes the original 7:00 a.m. hour when the program debuted.

So this is significant in a sense that this will now leave Griffin's KOTV as the only CBS affiliate in the country to run CBS This Morning out of pattern.

I imagine this has to have been part of the new affiliation agreement between CBS and Tegna and apparently like what CBS did to Gray's WTOC, essentially told WFMY to run CTM in pattern, which is a shame.

Meanwhile in Orlando, WESH 2 is going to start doing a simulcast of the 10pm newscast on Estella TV Orlando, and they already simulcast the 5pm newscast with WESH itself. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv-guy/os-et-wesh-10-pm-news-estrella-simulcast-20191126-exocykg6tvhdzgawqaixvkljda-story.html#nt=oft-Triple Chain~Feed-Driven Flex Feature~section-a~story-b~~1~yes-art~automated~curatedpage

1 hour ago, Info Junkie said:

KWTV had really slick graphics, that’s for sure.

Absolutely and somewhat to this day they still do with it's newer graphics package that has since carried over to KOTV as well

38 minutes ago, hmaxhanson said:

Some new OKC stuff from Chris Sloan......

 

KWTV in the later days of Newsline 9:

KFOR with their Vance/EGAD look:

KOCO with the current logo but still under Gannett ownership:

 

I'm gonna say the template KFOR had in the old building for their set may have lasted for nearly THREE decades AND it survived 4 different ownerships (Palmer, New York Times, Local TV, Tribune) among other things. Oh and it survived through 2 tornadoes (June 1998, May 2003)

1 minute ago, Greggo said:

Big news out of Atlanta: Tegna's WXIA will start running 3 hours of primetime news weeknights on sister station WATL beginning Monday. New shows at 8p and 9p will join the existing 10p newscast. At 8p, they'll be the only option for news. At, 9p they'll be up against WPCH. And at 10p, they'll face off against powerhouse WAGA.

 

https://www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtalk/11alive-going-all-news-watl-from-starting-december/uJiK9aPqgUTZUWRzlHFrWM/

 

I'd have to read the article but if I had to take an educated guess it looks as if WATL is shifting MyNetworkTV programming to 11pm-1am

4 hours ago, HearstArgyleFan90 said:

There was one KCCI newscast from 2002 where Image News was used in the open, but the rest of the broadcast (commercial outros, talent opens, and the close) used the B Package.

Actually there is two of them that use Image News not only was that used for the Noon newscast but it was also used for their morning newscast as seen here 

Sorry if I bump a stagnant thread but..

As promised by Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley during the last earnings call, John Wall Street repoted on Friday that Sinclair is indeed going to increase it's stake in Stadium.

Right now details at this point are limited as far as how much stake Sinclair will have in Stadium but this has to be a HUGE boost for not just Sinclair and Stadium itself but for the RSNs as well which makes sense given that Ripley has hinted about leveraging more Stadium content on the RSNs outside of the pre and post game shows.

The announcement on those should come within the next week or so (possibly either the day after thanksgiving or next week) stay tuned.

KOCO (June 1994) featuring the Gannett Deathstar from the 5 News era

I think we might need to speculate over in the speculatron thread because I have a bunch of questions related to this

12 minutes ago, Samantha said:

Yep. Page 69, 2018 10-K:

Sounds similar to the arraingement Local TV and Tribune had only on an even smaller scale