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In Providence both Fox and the CW are blacked out on DirecTV. Saw it myself the other day. 

4 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

I was surprised no date was given when the local Nexstar TV stations go dark on Comcast guessing Jan 1 12AM in my opinion. I think Nexstar has other deals with pay-TV that ends at on Dec Charter Spectrum & Mediacom I could be wrong on that will not know unless there is a scroll on the TV.

 

Nexstar filed a lawsuit against Comcast in 2021 that could be dropped when a new deal becomes final. I think that Nexstar & Comcast dispute could be a long one in my opinion. The end of 2019 was when Comcast & Nexstar signed the 3 year deal.

Nexstar, oops Mission stations are still off Cox cable. It’s over a month now. 

29 minutes ago, The Frog said:

Layoffs have begun. Many longtime CW execs are being replaced by Nexstar staffers. 

Nexstar has been so successful with NewsNation you would think they would keep people who really know what they are doing in place. 

Just now, MisterBill said:

Nexstar and FiOS have come to an agreement and WPIX is back on the air.

I find it interesting that Nexstar/Mission want to have their cake and eat it too.  PIX 11 was blacked out on FiOS due to a retransmission consent disagreement between Nexstar and Verizon.  Meanwhile PIX 11 is blacked out on DrecTV due to Mission having a conflict with DirecTV.  DirecTV has accused Mission of just being Nexstar.  They deny this, yet with PIX 11 blacked out on FiOS, which was only a Nexstar conflict blows Mission's excuse out the window.  It is time to end the sham of the sidecar approach to skirt FDA regulations.  Mission can't choose who controls it based on circumstance.  It makes them less than credible.

2 hours ago, TVNewsLover said:

Is Adam still solo at midday and 5pm?

Yes, Adam is solo most of the time.  So is Gilma on weekend evenings.  

Didn't she move to follow her husband who got a new job in SC? 

4 minutes ago, MD TV said:

Also NBC shows SNL live in all timezones now, so showing new non-sports stuff in traditional primetime would be a problem in the western part of the country.

They have an occasional night Notre Dame game.  How do they handle that?  For all 3 networks and Fox, it seems they can only do any original Sat. night programming from January to late August.  

34 minutes ago, mre29 said:

If NBC wants to make this move work, they'll need to start putting new shows on Saturday nights again and not just use it for repeats and Dateline.

 

Sadly all the networks gave up on Saturday nights years ago.  I would not expect to ever see again a high rated night like when CBS had All in the Family, Bob Newhard Show (the original), Carol Burnett among other top rates Saturday night shows.  All the networks treat Sat nights as an afterthought for too long.

Just now, TheSpeedKing said:

Another option: let the networks jointly gobble up Tegna. That way, they can more quickly obsolete the network-affiliate model.

 When was the last time a network bought a station (not counting Telemundo)?  ABC, CBS and NBC haven't for many years.  

31 minutes ago, IceManNYR said:

Those with FIOS can still watch the PIX11 newscasts on PIX11 website and app.

They still don't have an app for TV streaming devices since the change in ownership.

 Interesting, when Tribune was in a retransmission fight with Optimum years ago, they actually blocked access from Optimum IP addresses.  You can watch CW shows on Hulu.

11 hours ago, MisterBill said:

Yes, they had issued a warning earlier in the week that their contract was running out and that Nexstar wanted too much money on the renewal. Noticed it when we went to watch the 5pm news today!

This has been covered in the retransmission consent squabbles board.  In some areas CBS, Fox and the CW are blacked out.  

11 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Fox reached a last-minute deal with Altice to avoid a blackout.

 

However, Nexstar has yanked its signals off of Fios.

The Providence Journal has an article on how to watch the Patriots game (Nexstar owns the CBS, FOX and CW affiliates).  It is of course behind a pay wall for subscribers only.  And Gatehouse Media d/b/a Gannett wonders why folks no longer subscribe to a paper that is 90% the same in every Gannett paper.

8 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

I am curious to see how a subscriber to both Optimum and NFL+ will be affected if this happens as they do provide in-market streaming.

Since NFL+ as well as Sunday Ticket are not available on Optimum I suspect there is no impact.  

As an Optimum customer, I can watch Fox entertainment shows on Hulu.  No biggie.  The only issue is Sunday NFL - typically the Giants, this week the Jets and the WS should the Yankees make it.  

3 hours ago, SS8609 said:

The way I see this, I think NBC would be wise to make this move partially, especially given the leverage Dick Wolf has now with two of his three signature franchises (Chicago and Law & Order; FBI is on CBS) buoying much of NBC's serial street cred and filling three hours each night. If NBC does go through with this, I see this happening:

• Friday and Saturday nights for sure will be truncated to two hours, especially given what little leverage the affiliates have now to broadcast local news especially due to Saturday Night Live and the impending college football deals (likely ACC and Big Ten with the existing Notre Dame a potential fold into the latter given the allure of an annual rivalry with Northwestern). NBC could then use Friday to program Dateline and movies or specials when live sports (college football, NASCAR, Olympic trials, etc.) is not a factor. It would also give the local affiliates more carte blanche to resolve whatever local news challenges they may have (at least compared to CBS and especially Fox affiliates). For example, KPRC in Houston airs a high school football program in between 15-20 minutes of the 10pm news and The Tonight Show, and with NBC dropping one hour of primetime, it would most likely expand the high school football program to a full half-hour at 10 p.m. with KPRC airing a full 9 p.m. newscast - all while keeping The Tonight Show to air on time at 10:30 p.m CT.
• Emphasis on Saturday nights, I shall mention that newscasts on this night are usually the least important. Borrowing a quote from @mrschimpf on the TEGNA thread, "governments are closed, the crime roll is shorter, and it's packed with stories where you basically have to get people out to go to festivals and funruns, and network/corporate must-runs, along with weekday junk you want to burn off ahoy". Though I do have to disagree with @mrschimpfabout Houston (where crime seems to make a bigger percentage of the A-block on weekends, if not for the historical role Houston's Fox O&O (KRIV) indirectly played in launching COPS for Fox). While I would expect more of the same (as in TWICE if not THREE times the amount of filler content), it would still be better than doing what KPRC has been doing for the most part in Saturday prime access which has usually been to air an infomercial or real estate presentation show usually associated with weekend mornings (though their post-SNL block of Texas Music Scene and Texas Eats is legit). A Saturday night interview program would work wonders, though, as would a sort of local version of SNL possibly involving local college students. And that's another thing - if KING wanted to bring back Almost Live! (sensing that midnight in Houston when SNL signs off is 10pm in Seattle), this would be almost the perfect opportunity to do so.
• If Dick Wolf wants to play hardball, the network should simply give him Wednesdays and either Tuesdays or Thursdays for his franchises. That leaves (assuming they do get renewed) La Brea, Quantum Leap and New Amsterdam for serials. Monday may be too important of a day to lighten up, so I'm guessing Tuesdays will be the day to shed an hour along with Friday and Saturday since three days without 10/9 programming may be too much for NBC's own liking if they were to go the partial route. If Tuesdays are shed to two hours, Law & Order can air on either Mondays or Thursdays, and La Brea and Quantum Leap can go to Tuesdays. New Amsterdam can air at 10pm in whichever weekday three-hour block does not get eaten by Wolf. Whatever remnants of NBC's non-SNL comedy offerings do exist can go in the spare three-hour block, perhaps for both hours before New Amsterdam (or the first hour with a new serial or unscripted program not named Dateline filling the second hour). Either way, whatever comedies do get greenlit will have to compete with Chuck Lorre's comedy empire at CBS - Bob Hearts Abishola on Mondays, Young Sheldon on Thursdays.
• As for unscripted shows, just like non-sports Saturdays can be used to air game shows in the same way ABC does on Sunday nights during the summer, NBC can use the post-Sunday Night Football period on Sunday nights to carry The Voice and America's Got Talent, provided those don't go the way of Dancing With the Stars (in other words, moving to Peacock like what just happened to Days of our Lives and eventually Late Night with Seth Meyers).

If NBC does go through with two hours across the board save for live sports on the weekends, Dick Wolf's franchises will have to be spread across three nights, most likely with the Chicago franchise taking turns to fill 36 weeks and crossover specials being limited to Sunday Big Events not unlike what NBC used to air in the halcyon "Loud as a Peacock" days under Fred Silverman, and also perhaps with Law & Order: SVU being moved to Fridays and paired with Dateline that would give the "Friday night death slot" a whole new meaning - as in a sort of scripted/unscripted, female-oriented true crime escapism that would compete with CBS's older-skewing Friday night serial block. Also, New Amsterdam would likely be headed for the chopping block if not Peacock, since NBC will want to debut at least one if not two new hours of programming every year as opposed to eventually ending up with a stale programming block.

 

The big wild card in all this is the Capital One College Bowl, which usually airs around this time. More than likely, should NBC go forward with it after this year assuming it too doesn't end up on Peacock, this program would remain on Fridays before Dateline during the period between August and October, with NBC likely airing either an expanded Dateline or a serial such as the aforementioned Law & Order: SVU in the 8/7 slot.

You do realize New Amsterdam is on its final season?

Dick Wolf would never agree to airing either Chicago PD or L&O:OC on Tuesdays opposite his own shows on CBS. 

10 minutes ago, Gavin M. said:

Why would PIX carry it? Maybe Nexstar will start a Cut-in or news service for affiliates where they provide special reports for affiliates kinda like FOX does. Why would FOX 5 carry it either. FOX 5 kinda has a right-wing scant to it. Some of the stories and questions they have sound right-wing.

Fox5 has not carried any hearings which is no surprise despite other Fox O&Os doing so. Just a confirmatory statement.  If Nexstar is serious about being in the news and network business, then I would expect them to allow their owned or operated stations to carry it.

1 hour ago, MD TV said:

For today's coverage, locally WDCA is carrying it instead of WTTG.

And once again, both WNYW Fox 5 and WWOR My9 in DMA 1 are NOT carrying the hearing.  Nor is Nexstar, oops I mean Mission's PIX11.

2 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

New retrans scuffle. Nexstar & Verizon Fios.

 

Blackouts could happen on Friday.

 

In Rhode Island that would include CBS, FOX and the CW. No college football on Saturday, no NFL including he home team Patriots on Sundays during the afternoon.  

WABC has named a new news director.

https://www.nexttv.com/news/cnn-cnbc-vet-scott-matthews-named-news-director-at-wabc-tv

4 hours ago, C Block said:

 

This doesn't read as any new information, but rather just analysis of the original story that the WSJ broke several weeks ago.

 

I do agree though that it seems more than likely that the 10pm hour goes away and will probably be replaced by more local news in most places, especially the small markets. For local stations, that's probably the best bang for their buck – no extra costs ("you've been producing half an hour, so we'll promote you to doing 90 minutes!") and a lot more ad inventory and therefore more revenue potential for the stations.

 

I doubt we'll see a late national newscast as so many have speculated in here. If NBC is going to give back the hour to affiliates, then they're going to give back the hour. I suppose some stations on the east coast could take the west coast edition of Nightly on a tape delay if they really wanted to, but that sounds kind of lame. At the most, maybe NBC would offer the option for stations to carry that Tom Llamas show or whatever else is on late on NBC News Now at that hour.

 

One idea I haven't seen brought up is whether the stations in the Central and Mountain time zones would be able to shift primetime to 8-10 and basically expand prime access to the 7pm hour and also still have a decent lead-in to the 10pm newscasts. If so, that would make programming neatly uniform nationwide with prime access until 8pm, primetime 8-10, and then local news at 10. If so, then this move would really work out well for the stations in the middle part of the country.

 

I would love to see some stations take this opportunity to do their own local late night talk shows. That would be fascinating, and perhaps some big market stations could pull it off. But I bet the cost-benefit analysis on that doesn't even get close to penciling out.

The TVNewsCheck article was an opinion/analysis piece.  The only public statement made by NBCUni was earlier in the week, during an investment conference, where they said it and other options are under evaluation. It would give back the hour to local stations.  That means no national newscast.  It means any station can do what they want (except broadcast a competing network's 10 pm show) - a syndicated talk show, more of the ubiquitous Family Feud, or other game show,  off net reruns or expansion of local news etc.

27 minutes ago, noggi said:

This would be an awesome chance for some great local prime time programming. But I’m sure we will just see a ton of very mediocre local newscasts. 

Some of us are old enough to remember when the networks gave up the 7:30 pm time slot to local stations.  Look what we got instead!  I imagine the hour will be filled with some news and Extra/Access and other type of shows.

15 minutes ago, Daybreak said:

Is this actually happening or there’s still speculation? 

The statement NBCU/Comcast said in a presentation this week was that is it under evaluation.  Lot's of "done deal" speculation is out there.  I would imagine it gets complicated as they have to deal with the producers of 10 pm shows, especially Dick Wolf who would lose two hours of content.  Would it mean Saturday becomes appointment TV like it was in the days of All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Burnett?  That ship sank decades ago.

6 hours ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:

This is likely some speculatron stuff but I could see Fox being uncomfortable with Nexstar owning the majority of the CW for some reason. Especially if Nexstar actually believed that it could land major sports rights, which I'm not at all saying they will. 

 

I'm certainly not speaking for the other networks though. 

So they are afraid of the competition?  I would think Fox first concern that Nexstar controls many of their stations, being a competitor. 

20 minutes ago, The Frog said:

THR article on how the network is shaping up under Nexstar.

 

Sook and Miller are said to be fans of Walker, Superman & Lois and Kung Fu. Everything else appears to be on the chopping block.

 

They're looking to reduce the licensing fees that CW is spending on their current lineup. Walker reportedly costs $3 million an episode, which is already on the lower end of broadcast budgets.

 

Miller is keen on delivering multicam sitcoms and more unscripted fare.

 

 

The last line in the article sums it up.  Just look at the lack of success at NewsNation. 

1 hour ago, TheRob said:

 

From where is she coming from?  I'm sure I'm not the only one not familiar with her name.

15 hours ago, Gavin M. said:

It would be Al rolling in his grave if KYW dumps Eyewitness News at least CBS let them keep the it and incorporated in to it.  “CBS Eyewitness News Philadelphia” or at least have reporters announce it at the end of live shots. This is so sad and it’s an blasphemy station are dumping it. Especially legendary Fox stations FOX5 Atlanta or Fox 2 Detroit. Since it started at CBS. And perfected in ABC.

Wasn't KYW a NBC station back then?  It was the old Group W stations that carried the Eyewitness News moniker.  Once Westinghouse bought CBS, all their NBC stations switched affiliations.

20 minutes ago, LTSC1980 said:

Why did CBS owned WBFS & WSBK dropped MyNetworkTV?

Does MyNetwork provide any value to any station group outside of Fox Owned?  It's pretty useless with repeats you can find elsewhere. Have to admit, I never watch Ch 9 WWOR here. No one I know does.