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3 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

I'm saying he works there now, so would WNBC be the only station he's never been on? 

I don't think he worked for WWOR before it was bought and marginalized by Fox.

7 hours ago, Abraham J. Simpson said:

Even if SAG wasn’t on strike right now, a good number of scripted shows wouldn’t be anywhere near returning until scripts begin to get hashed out for the season, whatever shape that season ultimately takes. 

It would at least allow writers to write scripts for shows, and hopefully a framework for a deal with SAG-AFTRA.  Assuming a deal is reached tonight.  They won't negotiate tomorrow due to the holiday.

6 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

 

Sh*t about to hit the fan and he doesn't want his name on it.

Just because he is "retiring" does not allow him to avoid being held accountable. He is probably still the top shareholder still.  

2 minutes ago, TVLurker said:

better not sell to Elon Musk.

I've already seen that mentioned.  Heaven help us.

15 minutes 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.   

Does anyone know if WPIX is back on DirecTV?  I don't think it went off when the so called Mission stations did, but when the entire Nexstar group did. It seemed Nexstar was playing games here.  Hopefully now that the FCC is at full strength, they will take a look at these "sidecars" whose only purpose is to skirt ownership caps, and at the expense of viewers.  I was in RI where Nexstar controls three stations.  Only one was restored - the CBS affiliate.  The Fox and CW were still off the air (owned my Mission on paper).  

My understanding is that the Mission “owned” stations are not included. Nexstar has more work to do before claiming “mission accomplished.”

Will this include the Mission "owned" stations?  Some have been off the air longer than the Nexstar directly owned stations.

The bigger question is does anyone watch them at all?  Evidently viewership of Freeform is pretty low, one reason Disney agreed to letting Charter drop it.  Look for Comcast, Optimum and others, especially in the NY area, seek something similar.  

9 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

Ancient history, but I always wonder why they never gave Chuck's co-anchor spot to Pat Battle. She's filled in before, she's personable, and she's experienced. she's great on Saturday mornings, but that would've been a good consideration.

Perhaps it was her choice.  

1 hour ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

Hallelujah

 

Although, those big weather icons in the 7-day clash with the rest of the graphics, but I’m not complaining.

Anyone have a before and after comparison?

For most of us in NY/NJ, the events of 9/11 and the aftermath are as clear today as they were on Sept. 12 2001.  Everyone here was impacted one way or another.  If we do not know someone who died in the attack, we know someone who does.  I do not see any of the Big 3 network O&O's backing off the annual reading of the names anytime soon. Cutting in and out as you suggest, would cause a large number of complaints from survivors on why their loved one's name was not mentioned. That would be very difficult for a PR person from each station to explain, including the family of each station's engineer that died when the towers came down.  

4 hours ago, RealNews18 said:

The newscast at 9 is CBS News Now or whatever it’s called. They stopped producing the local news a while ago at 9pm. So this 8pm is technically new or a “reboot” per se. I wonder who will anchor? It would be nice to see Dick and Alice again.

Now will be gone, discontinued.  The question is do they go to a unique show with their own anchors, or resort as they did before now with a repeat (twice) of the 6 pm show?  Time will tell.  I suspect what it starts as will not be what it eventually becomes, including being a live newscast, length, and which hours, if indeed it signals an expansion. 

8 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

According to TVPassport, WCBS is adding an 8pm newscast on WLNY to replace Now News on September 1st.

And what is at 9 pm?  That is when they traditionally did a newscast that took on forms from being unique to a repeat of the 6 pm news...

16 hours ago, bgiesing said:

While the virtual 1A is a bit jank, honestly so glad they finally did this, the Saturday editions with the insanely tight shot the entire show was always horrible, it didn't look like the level of quality you would expect from a national network. They didn't necessarily need to make a full blown virtual set but the camera was always way too zoomed in and you could tell the lighting was not great.

 

The new virtual set:

Looks 100x better than the old setup:

 

Wouldn't it just be easier just to say reporting from Miami, Jose Diaz Balart?  Why the make believe he flies from Miami to NY to Miami every Saturday?  Then they don't have to do a virtual copy of 1A, or 3C in the past and any future 3X studio.

Using a virtual set for the Saturday night show, which is typically broadcast from Miami where Jose Diaz Balart is located is not new.  He does not seem to come to NY often to broadcast from 30 Rock.  Makes sense with his other duties.

Adding more fuel to the question if the Murdoch family and Fox Corp are fit to have public television licenses, are two events from yesterday.  One is the defamation suit by Ray Epps, a private citizen who took part in the 1/6 insurrection at the US Capitol, who Fox News & Tucker Carlson have continuously brandished as a FBI plant.  He is not, nor ever an employee or associate of the FBI.   He points out Fox's disinformation and impact on 1/6.

The second is this opinion by those who were with Rupert Murdoch from the beginning of establishing Fox as a fourth TV network, and their current feelings.  It makes for interesting reading.  The issue is not how the local stations operate, it is whether ownership is a fit license holder.  

https://boulderpreston.com/2023/07/12/how-our-efforts-to-bring-competition-to-television-unknowingly-helped-create-the-fox-disinformation-machine/

12 hours ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

I can get behind that, but only if this group shows specific evidence that Fox has neglected/mismanaged their local TV stations. Mismanagement at Fox News still doesn’t equal mismanagement at the stations, and I really don’t think this public posturing serves the public interest at all.

Did RKO General mismanage WNAC (Boston) and other stations they owned?  No.  They lost their licenses for the misdeeds of the parent corporation. And that is the basic question, from the defamation suits, the admission of broadcasting false claims, to the culture of abuse and more, does Fox meet the requirements as a responsible TV license holder, irregardless of how the individual stations are run.  The question is worth being asked and debated by the FCC.

The question is the same British regulators looked at.  In light of all the revelations- is Fox worthy of holding broadcast licenses of its stations and duopolies?  Despite being locally run they take direction and are owned by Fox. Their role in broadcasting false information and more begs the question. 

22 hours ago, AmericanErrorist said:

The Media and Democracy Project has filed a petition against WTXF's license renewal, citing Fox News Channel's settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over lies made by FNC hosts about Dominion's operations, as well as the cable channel's coverage of the 1/6/21 riots. Featuring testimony from former FBC executive Preston Padden, the petition impugns Fox Corporation's appropriateness to hold broadcast licenses and takes issue with Fox News-produced national footage that has aired on the station, but it does not bring up any material produced in Philadelphia. It is implied that the group will file other petitions against the rest of FTS as their renewals come up.

Hopefully the first of several, including forcing to sell duopolies like what was once WWOR, now, not worth anything.

It shows what a scam Nexstar and Mission are.  In some areas the Mission stations were off of Dish, but now that Nexstar is off DirecTV, they are too.  Which is it?   They want their cake and eat it too.   What a scam.

Hmm. WNBC uses the same L3s as in all other newscasts. 

Oops.  Yup.  Went back to the old days when News4 used 2 sets in 6B.  

While channel surfing I’ve seen him on there before doing weekday weather reports.  They promote one weather team between the two stations.  You may see more of that, including consumer reports once they are co-located in 3B. 

6 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

More likely, those stations just affiliate with MyNetworkTV or become independent and fill the gaps with extra syndie shows. As for The National Desk, only Pacific and Mountain time zone stations have the option of airing it in prime time by taking the “live” East feed of the show; I don’t doubt Sinclair might attempt to expand the program earlier to act as a optional gap-filler.

Does MNTV have any value to any non Fox owned station? 

1 hour ago, 24994J said:

Studio 1A, as always. No reference was made that they'd be leaving for tonight's relaunch.

 

 

As others have stated,  they do not have a studio to move to if that is a decision to be made.  3A is for MSNBC, 3B is being reconstructed for WNBC and WNJU, 3C is MSNBC and 3K is the current WNBC studio.  4E is MSNBC and NBC News Now, 6A is being reconstructed for Kelly Clarkson, 6B is for Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show, 8G for Late Night with Seth Meyers and 8H for SNL.  Once WNBC moves sometime this year, then they can redo 3K if they decide to move Nightly back in.