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1 hour ago, mre29 said:

 

I seem to recall that Media General was making a lot of its own mistakes pre-LIN. Would that Media General have improved Nexstar as much as MG/LIN has?

 

Did Media General make its stations use names like centralohiomatters.com or some crap like that? No they did not. Each group makes mistakes there human just like anyone of us here are, even you and I make our own mistakes too. Nobody's perfect, not even the best TV groups with well-run management are perfect either.

1 minute ago, mre29 said:

 

That doesn't mean Media General should get sole credit for the improvements to Nexstar.

 

Yes it does. Because without the Media General merger Nexstar would still be making the same mistakes they made pre-MG

16 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

Other companies like Nexstar and Tegna have no problem putting the same graphics on overlapping markets though. It sounds like a KGUN thing, not a Scripps thing.

I wonder why Scripps hasn't fired the KGUN management team? I guess the KGUN management team hasn't given Scripps a legitimate reason to fire them

23 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

You can thank Media General's merger with LIN for that. I mean, how do you think MG started getting better?

 

 

Media General decided to bring in the leadership team over from LIN (which has since carried over to Nexstar)

4 hours ago, Conrad said:

Semi-related, but how is Nexstar right now? On another thread, someone said Nexstar has gotten way, way better lately and is now better than even TEGNA and Scripps. Really? They are a huge mega group that had lots of layoffs and took away cell phones and credit cards from employees. Not to mention not-so-great looking logos that in certain cases replace superior-looking logos. They cut so costs so much that to me, at least, TEGNA and Scripps in their current forms are better. Let's not even get started on what happened at WHTM lately that made an already bad station even worse.

Here's the deal with Nexstar:

Yes the Media General merger and its influence has made an impact on Nexstar (and I fully expect the Tribune acquisition to be the same for Nexstar) and they will be better post-Tribune than they were post-Media General, now do I think Nexstar is wayyyy better? No I don't and here's why:

Nexstar is still making some of the same mistakes that they've been doing before the Media General acquisition (i.e WHTM using the old bug) but this is like that with any other group you look at. Every group you look at no matter how big or small you will find flaws in each and every broadcast group you run into.

1 hour ago, Eat News said:

I expect the FCC lawyers and the Sinclair lawyers to stipulate that Sinclair pays  a reasonable (pre-agreed ) fine ,and promise not to do it again.

 

And that's all.

No drama...no nothing.

 

Just a fine...and everyone moves on.

 

Seriously folks...

Where are the "victims" in this dastardly affair?

 

It's big business,and that's the price you pay when you play with real money ...in the real world.

I sure hope this outcome happens and quite frankly, that's all Sinclair has to do in order to get back into the good graces of the FCC. It's not that difficult whatsoever.

5 hours ago, mre29 said:

Oh, definitely option B.

 

Sadly, I can also see Sinclair going scorched earth with the affected stations, removing equipment, laying off nearly all of the employees, and generally dismantling the stations so that any potential buyers won't get much.

 

Sinclair won't likely go that far (and besides I don't think it'll sit well with the FCC)

3 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

 

 

Here's the full write up from the ALJ. 

 

A grilling could also come if they do attempt to buy or sell a TV station. Some don't want to wait next year to have the license renewal preceeding to discuss their serious character issues. That includes new FCC commissioner Geoffrey Starks,

Sinclair has two very simple choices to make:

Option A: They come to their senses, admit they did, in fact, mislead the FCC about the divestiture proceedings in the Tribune acquisition; Sinclair might be able to get back into the FCC's good graces

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Option B: Continue to claim that they "didn't" mislead the FCC, and eventually, Sinclair will have to face the possibility of either selling the stations they/'re renewing the licenses for or face possible termination of the licenses.

Just based off of the options being made (and what Sinclair continues to say regarding the failed Tribune acquisition) I think, Option B is more likely than Option A.

2 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

But they still give them a stinging rebuke. Safe to say any new Sinclair deals are still DOA and they will have a grilling when it comes time to renewing licenses.

Outside of maybe Sports but I don't think any professional sports team outside of maybe the bigger markets (i.e Chicago, NYC, LA, Boston, Miami) will be willing to deal with Sinclair's antics. On the sports-related question, do you think Disney is willing to deal with Sinclair with regards to the 21 former Fox RSNs? And how would the DOJ feel about Sinclair (potentially) purchasing those 21 FSNs?

As for the broadcast side of things, it's safe to say that Sinclair clearly wants to go down the RKO General path, and they've done a good job at it but, ultimately, that's what will lead to an eventual breakup (and knowing Sinclair's stance on the abandoned Tribune acquisition and the claims that they "did not" misled the FCC) it's not going to be a pretty one.

3 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

After a tornado hit Columbus, MS yesterday, WCBI went down - power outage. Not sure if the station had any damage.

Any further updates on the situation at WCBI?

On 2/15/2019 at 10:50 PM, rkolsen said:

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Ed Ansin put some weird thing in the Trust for WHDH/WLVI and WSVN prohibiting their station from ever affiliating with or being purchased by NBC or any form of it in the future.  You know like The 700 Club airing on ABC Family years after numerous ownership changes. 

After what all Ansin went through with NBC nearly 30 years apart, I actually can't blame him for doing something like that. We'll probably never know what the Ansin's did to the management at NBC that caused the network to turn their backs on the Ansin's in both Miami and Boston but as we've seen with WSVN and now with WHDH they have survived not being affiliated with one of the big three networks and will continue to do so in the years to come

19 hours ago, 24994J said:

Hey, let's see what legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf is up to in retirement...oh.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/sportscaster-warner-wolf-arrested-allegedly-removing-word-plantation-sign-n969556

Clearly, Warner Wolf is up to no good

3 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

KCDO (K3 Sterling - Denver) has just started to repeat some of KMGH's newscasts, most notable the weekday 6:00 (at 9:00 a.m.), 11:00 a.m. (at 1:00 p.m.), one of the weekend morning hours (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Saturdays and 10:00-11:00 a.m. Sundays), weekend 5:00 p.m. (at 7:00 p.m.) and nightly 10:00 p.m. (at 11:00 p.m.).

mhmmm... Something tells me that Scripps is seriously looking at forming a duopoly in Denver with KMGH and KCDO

KCCI News Open with.... you guessed it, Image News

1 hour ago, TexasTVNews said:

Everyone, I'm going to be on WFAA News 8 tomorrow night at 10pm. I've was interviewed by Kevin Reece all afternoon today about my autism, my love to local TV news, etc. So, if you're in the DFW area, please be sure to tune in tomorrow on The Update at 10pm.

If they do upload it onto their YouTube channel please post it on here if at all possible. I have autism myself and as Georgie said Aspies does rule

16 minutes ago, TheRob said:

 

So he's heading up US-169 to join WDAF. Wishing him nothing but the best of luck in his future endevors

4 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

KDKA has sacked one of their producers for airing an L3 that read 

 

Tom Brady

Known Cheater

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2019/01/30/super-bowl-2019-tom-brady-graphic-pittsburgh-tv-station/2720352002/

 

Here’s Deadspin’s interview with the producer:

 

https://deadspin.com/an-interview-with-the-local-tv-producer-fired-for-a-gra-1832202041

Obviously, KDKA does NOT like the Patriots

18 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

The fourth girl in the front is covering it with her hand... it's just the big 8 with woodtv.com in white on the corners... Very similar to sister station WLNS.. theirs is a big 6 with wlns.com in white in the corners

That's rather interesting, even though I don't live stream newscasts. Still, that's rather interesting

3 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

I see many outdated logos... more noticeably right off bat KFLY's old 10 logo.. and yes there is the CBS North Carolina one there (to the left of WISH's 8 ) also WHTM's old 27 is there... WOOD-tv does not use the 24-hour news 8 mic flags anymore either

What kind of mic flags is WOOD using?

On 10/15/2018 at 4:09 AM, John2016 said:

Since Comcast bought NBC back in 2010-11, they had several opportunities to get college sports as some of the contracts were up at the time until present day. They didn't get the rights to those conferences since they did not want to spend the kind of money that the other networks were offering. The same was true when the baseball contract was up back in 2011, & NBA contract in 2014. Even the ivy league football conference were up earlier this year and ESPN was able to get a contract to air the games instead of NBCSN.

 

My question is, if they did not want to spend the money on these sporting events at the times when the contracts were up, why would they be willing to spend the money in the future?

 

If they are interested in niche sporting events, why even have a sports network. They can spread the niche sporting events across their other cable networks: CNBC, USA Network, Bravo, Oxygen Network, & etc. Hockey, Nascar, Soccer and Cycling can be on CNBC and USA network, while figure skating, gymnastics, tennis, rugby, and other niche / smaller sporting events can be on Bravo & Oxygen Networks.

 

My point is, if they are not going to invest in more popular sporting events, they don't need the NBCSN channel.

That's a huge concern if I were in charge of the Peacock network moving forward when the NFL and NHL contracts come up for renewal within the next few years, and if they were to lose out on the NFL and NHL I wouldn't be surprised and I wouldn't be surprised if they kept the NFL/NHL either. Still, it's a huge concern without question.

15 hours ago, 24994J said:

NBCSN refreshed their ticker, adding banners promptly upcoming programming on the right side. Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from? 

 

They got that from ESPN; that layout doesn't match with the current ticker layout, just my opinion

13 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

The Weekend is here, AFC/NFC Championship this Sunday, enjoy it all. Have a good weekend, good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy!

There's also some good College Basketball and NBA action going on this MLK weekend too

1 minute ago, Info Junkie said:

I actually might... I’m targeting Atlanta as well...

 

 

I hope to see some more never-seen-before KCNC opens from around the NBC-to-CBS transition to the present. What Trevor Trail was able to pull off from the 80s to 1994 is amazing

7 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

This is an utter gold mine. I’ve always loved KCNC’s opens, especially all the opens that showed shots of Denver with the “Image” package playing... Newsmusic Central’s work at KCNC is so underrated.

 

And wow, Carlos Amezcua worked there?

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I hope you get to do an update the KCNC News Opens compilations T.L Hughes made soon

Also, did Bob Palmer stopped anchoring the 10pm news sometime in Early 1993? I noticed that he and Bill Stuart was anchoring coverage of the 1992 Presidential Election about 9 minutes into the video

2 hours ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

New KCNC opens, some you've Never Seen before.

 

https://youtu.be/tYxh_SwLU6o

I can hear the Announcers of KCNC during the late 80s and even through around the time Bob Palmer retired saying these lines right now:

"From KCNC-TV, Colorado's News Channel"

"It's time for News 4, and you're with Colorado's News Channel." 

And even towards the last day as the NBC affiliate and during the Early-CBS years "You're on News 4, Colorado's News Channel"

10 minutes ago, Weeters said:

 

You should just be able to link them. I linked mine and didn’t have to leave the Discord. Could you show me a screenshot of what’s going on?

 

 

I'll private message you the screenshot of the issue