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Is there a difference between co-anchor and news anchor on Today?

Also, DirecTV subscribers will get all 3 of Disney’s direct to consumer streaming services (Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+) included in certain TV packages. This is better than the deal Spectrum got, since their subscribers only get Disney+ and ESPN+, still having to pay full price for Hulu. Thank you for not caving, DirecTV!

For DTV Stream subscribers in Atlanta and Orlando, this is the 2nd time this calendar year they have lost local ABC. The first time was in January when DirecTV had a dispute with Cox Media. So apparently local stations on DTV Stream require TWO contracts? One with the station’s parent company and one with the parent company of the affiliate? That’s not good. It’ll result in just more blackouts in the future. Also, this is the 5th dispute resulting in a blackout going back to October 2022. One of them (Mission Broadcasting) is still ongoing. Providence and Albany are still without local Fox. The Patriots have 6 Fox games, and the Giants have 8 Fox games. Seeing how most sports bars use DirecTV as their provider, this will hurt businesses in those DMAs.

So have some of the main news anchors at ABC, NBC, and CBS been forced to cut their weekends short 2 weekends in a row now? I hope they got overtime pay - I know I wouldn't want to have to work two 6-day weeks in a row...

For example, on WCVB in Boston, Mon-Fri have white headers but Sat-Sun have gold headers. And on WPRI in Providence, Mon-Fri have white headers but Sat-Sun have red headers. Why is this?

I live in southeast MA. I get both WCVB and WLNE over the air. WLNE airs World News Tonight at 6:00 PM ET on Sundays while WCVB airs it at 6:30 PM. I tuned into WLNE at 6 and got the Rachel Scott version. I'm guessing WCVB got David. Is there a reason why Sunday editions of ABC World News Tonight are not consistently at 6:30 PM across all Eastern time zone markets?

In Boston, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh, a CBS O&O competes with a Hearst owned station. Boston and Pittsburgh are unique in the fact that both markets have CBS O&O's, Hearst owned ABC stations, and a Big 4 station owned by Cox Media Group. WBZ has actually fared well in Boston TV news ratings. I haven't seen any official press releases for Boston station ratings in recent years, but they've consistently been #2 behind WCVB, sometimes winning a timeslot here and there. The fact that WBZ has been around since 1948 also helps it be a strong station in the market.

Cindy, Mike, Kelly Ann, AJ, and David all appear in the station's on-air weather promos. Michael does not, and Harvey retired in 2022.

I find them annoying AF. Is there any way I can get them nuked into oblivion?

Isn't WBZ a CBS owned-and-operated station? Why would they air Saturday morning editions of "CBS Mornings" at 9 AM Eastern, when its larger-market siblings in NYC and Philadelphia (WCBS and KYW) air the program at 7 AM?

For some inexplicable reason, at least 4 of the 5 Boston local news stations play musical chimes whenever the "7-day" weather graphic appears. WBZ, Boston (plays a "DUN! Da-dun-DA-dun" sound. Didn't do this annoying thing until 2022, when they started branding their weather forecasts as "Next" weather): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aLpr5HCjwg&t=180s WCVB, Boston (plays a "dah-duh-DA-duh" sound): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_bmPxJ8Ao&t=188s WBTS, Boston (not as intrusive, but plays a 3-note, "dun-DUN-dun" sound): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVBqyCZfbSY&t=178s WFXT, Boston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBi6i9bAC0&t=208s I could not find any recent weather clips from WHDH on YouTube. Last time I watched that station (probably when it was still NBC, it wasn't playing any stupid musical chime). But WHY do the stations play them? It's SO annoying and unnecessary!

First it was Nexstar. Then is was Tegna. Now Cox Media is the next station group to potentially have a dispute with DirecTV. Source: https://www.nexttv.com/news/directv-and-cox-media-look-set-for-another-retrans-standoff-as-station-group-accuses-pay-tv-operator-of-attacking-local-journalism WFXT was running a ticker during syndicated programming alerting viewers of a potential blackout:

I tuned into the Today show this morning for the first time in quite a while. I have some questions: Why is there both a “cold open” AND a “warm open” at the very start of the broadcast at 7:00 AM Eastern? It seems rather redundant. From 8:00 AM to the first commercial break, all of the news headlines are accompanied by a graphic that reads “the news at 8”. Why is this? Doesn’t the viewer know it’s 8 AM? It seems kinda tacky to me.

I'm sorry, but this is "one step forward, two steps back" for Nexstar and DirecTV. The "Mission Broadcasting owned" stations have been dark on DirecTV (satellite and stream) for almost a year now, when it's obvious that Nexstar "operates" these stations. Nexstar is clearly double-dipping with TV providers when it comes to retransmission fees, and the FCC should really do something about it.

Now WFXT is starting their weekday morning news at 4:30 AM again. Boston is an unusual TV market where you have five local news stations, when some markets ahead of them (in terms of DMA rank) have no more than four. All five local news stations were airing live local news at 4:30 AM, until a few months ago, when WHDH decided to move their morning news start time back to 5 AM.