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4 minutes ago, dman748 said:

You're on the right track. The read I'm interpreting it its sort of a mix between the games being broadcasted in markets in which the teams are represented (OTA) and on cable/apps for those outside of the market.

 

In other words those within the Minneapolis-St. Paul DMA will see whatever games go on the Extra channel shown on WUCW, while those outside of WUCW's coverage area will have games exclusively carried on either DirecTV, certain cable providers and/or exclusively on the Bally Sports app.

It'll get even more interesting on April 17 with MLS, which Sinclair holds local rights to several teams, starts their season.

19 minutes ago, Yankees4life said:

I imagine Nexstar will reinstate the CBS affiliation on KGBT as they used their sidecar to buy it instead of them proper...

KGBT 4.1 has apparently been off the air since CBS moved the KVEO's spectrum, with that, I can see that both KGBT & KVEO return to their pre-2020 arrangements once Mission takes control.

Did anyone see that Lester hosted the Tuesday, March 23 edition from Los Angeles.

2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

We have a launch date: March 31.

 

 

I called it, my prediction was April 1, MLB Opening Day!

For the Record, here's the Bally Sports lineup for March 31:

NBA

Trail Blazers at Pistons (Detroit)

Heat (Sun) at Pacers (Indiana)

Mavericks (SW) at Celtics

Jazz at Grizzlies (South)

Knicks at Timberwolves (North)

Raptors at Thunder (OK)

Kings at Spurs (SW)

Bucks (WI) at Lakers

Bulls at Suns (AZ)

NHL

Coyotes (AZ) at Avalanche

Wild (North) at Sharks

3 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

 

Don't they have a 10pm show on Fox or something? In any event, that station would have to pretape as well.

Yes, WYDO, yet aren't most of these hubbed newscasts pretaped anyway? Besides, the next closest Sinclair stations are WLOS & WJLA.

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

And the hits just keep coming for "KBTV" and KFDM......

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2021/3/15/sinclair-to-hub-news-in-texas

 

They would have to start pre-taping WXLV's newscasts or drop them again, unless they have another station to do them out of...

 

Not good news for a market with essentially two stations doing news for 4 channels, and now two of them potentially getting hubbed away....

 

The WXLV newscast should be moved to WCTI.

6 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

The Portland Trail Blazers are moving from NBC Sports Northwest to Root Sports NW, effective next season.

 

 

It's now only a matter of time as to when NBC Sports Group formally announces the closure of NBCSNW as it was originally formed to broadcast Trail Blazers games in the first place. As for ROOT Sports NW, they'll now have all the NW teams with the exception of the Sounders.

I wonder whether this will lead to more Sinclair newscasts being centralized.

WPIX's website has been converted to the Nexstar layout.

30 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I wonder how much longer Lockwood is going to keep the old Gray looks around.  It's like they're still owned by them.

WCAV has the WBTV package, and KAKE still has the look about to be dumped by WSAZ and WTVY.

 

WFXG still has the old Raycom look to them, and the other Raycom castoffs are letting Nexstar (Dothan and Panama City) and Tegna (Knoxville) do their news their way.  KTEN is really the only one doing something different, and it's sort of the Bayou City look that Meredith used to use before they got their own centralized package based off WSMV's look.

Of all the Lockwood stations you listed, KTEN is the only one that isn't a former Gray station.

3 hours ago, LexTVandRadio said:

Anyone heard anything on the graphics for KRIS, KATC, WLEX or KERO? 

KERO is a legacy, pre Cordillera, thus we should wonder what the hold up is there.

KRIS is rebuilding their destroyed stick while moving to UHF, thus the graphics are not a priority until the tower is fixed

No telling what's causing the holdup at KATC or WLEX.

9 hours ago, RGSJenkins said:

An update on this: Both WBRE/WYOU and WTNH have removed the restrictions and now you can view their newscasts without to login.

Nexstar probably either realized that this was a bad idea, or they received too many viewer complaints.

11 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

It will likely replace Court TV on WCNC, as it is the only WCNC diginet not owned by Tegna, unless they add a .5.

Upon review of Charlotte's spectrum, WCNC will probably have to add 36.5 as there's limited bandwidth, and no presence by Scripps.

6 hours ago, ScottJ said:

Tegna is launching new female-focused diginet Twist this spring. The network, which features reality and lifestyle programming, will cover about 70% of households at launch. In addition to Tegna stations in 41 markets, the network will be available on Univision-owned stations in 11 markets -- including NYC, L.A., Chicago, and Philadelphia -- and HC2-owned stations in 31 markets. Tegna expects to have additional distribution lined up by the summer.

I can see Twist replacing subchannel space on stations losing a Katz subnet to an Ion spectrum, or Antenna TV to a Nexstar spectrum.

I took a look at this issue, and it appears that all the RSNs can place their teams on OTT with existing infrastructure.

• We all know that Sinclair plans on launching OTT for Bally's Sports
• NBC has NBC Sports Gold & Peacock
• AT&T has BR Live
• The Independent RSNs can possibly add a standalone option to their existing TVE platforms.

8 hours ago, LoadStar said:

Did the Brewers really have a viable option other than Sinclair/Bally Sports?

 

The only OTA broadcaster who I think might have been interested would have been Weigel (they probably would have been thrilled to put the Brewers on WMLW), but I don't think they had the money to outbid Sinclair, nor the resources to actually produce Brewers games on an ongoing basis.

 

As far as cable channels, there isn't really an alternative to the RSNs, and Bally Sports is the only one in this area.

I believe that no team has an alternative to their current RSN and may sign as more of necessity, not by choice.

From Wichita Falls:

Power outage knocks KFDX off the air

I wonder whether NBC will change their graphics package as the current look, except NFL and EPL, is six years old.

20 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

New PRM today.

 

KCBD wants to vacate VHF 11 for UHF 36.

Would it be easier for Gray to move the KCBD NBC feed to the KLCW spectrum they just acquired?

2 hours ago, memnews said:

 

This was already the case with Suddenlink cable for the past three weeks. The stations were pulled January 8 and only returned four days ago.

What's going on with Cox, they need to hire a new negotiator.

19 minutes ago, C Block said:

When did KMGH start producing 8pm news on KCDO? Also, they now do 7-9am and 1pm on KCDO?? I see there's also news at 11pm, but I'm going to guess that's a 10pm repeat.

 

Denver is approaching LA levels in terms of how much news is available around the clock.

 

 

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/kcdo-now-local3-new-shows-entertainment-and-expanded-colorado-news-from-denver7

I wonder whether Scripps will eventually launch newscasts on the Ion station in Tampa, Las Vegas, Tulsa, Nashville, Utah, and Milwaukee.

7 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

 

 

The best they could do in the short-term is come to a one-day truce for the Super Bowl like DirecTV and Sunbeam in 2012.

That truce could only apply to KIRO, WHIO, KYMA, KVIQ, and WXVT

Here we go again:

DirecTV and AT&T TV Could Lose Cox-Owned Locals Next Week

Although the article lists the legacy Cox stations, it also appears that the former NWB stations could be yanked as well. As you remember, NWB was in a prolonged fight with AT&T in 2019 just before the Cox merger.

Now, Sinclair can go try, in vain, to get their RSNs back on the platforms that've dropped them recently.

On 1/13/2021 at 3:17 PM, JCB4TV said:

Just by reading the article, it appears that CBS is destined for 44.2 in Sioux City.

CBS will be moving to 44.3 on February 4, just in time for the Super Bowl.