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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.
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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.
I wonder whether Scripps will eventually launch newscasts on the Ion station in Tampa, Las Vegas, Tulsa, Nashville, Utah, and Milwaukee.
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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.
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Now, Sinclair can go try, in vain, to get their RSNs back on the platforms that've dropped them recently.
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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.
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12 minutes ago, WAVY 10 Fan said:
55 years going from a local anchor in Los Angeles to the White House, Today, NBC Nightly News and even his post-NN roles as substitute host on Meet the Press when Tim Russert passed away to his current special correspondent (effectively an emeritus position); Tom's left some massive marks in the history of television news.
Mr. Brokaw started at KTIV, the NBC station in Sioux City while attending the University of South Dakota, thus Tom has spent he entire career at NBC.
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1 hour ago, Adam MadMan said:
I've heard rumors that Inyo or Scripps may end up returning the licenses for the Ion Plus affiliates to the FCC, so I think that may be what happens. If not, then I can see Scripps moving Court TV to those channels, since they've been pushing the name for a while.
My big question is how this will affect WIFS in Madison. They've been running Ion Plus on their main signal, and actually added Qubo recently - just in time to have Scripps yank it away from them. At this point, I think WIFS will probably move Ion to the main signal. No idea what'll replace the other signals, if they even do replace them.
Suggestion: One of the Ion Plus licenses I'd like to see sold would be the WDPX, PSIP 58, license in Boston to NBCU which will finally give WBTS a full power home and the must carry privileges that come with it.
Here's how I see it working:
Scripps sells the WDPX license to NBCU who, in turn, change the callsign to WBTS and move it to WNEU's spectrum, RF29.
NBCU either sells, cancels, or donates, to WGBH, the current WBTS-CD license.
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2 hours ago, CircleSeven said:
It's going to be a long wait before we see those Katz Nets to the Ion spectrum.
The Univision carriage deal of the nets doesn't end until 2024.
I wonder whether Univision would be willing to end the deal early in several markets. One market I see would be Washington, DC where Univision hosts Nexstar on RF15 as potentially clearing Grit and Bounce could make room for WDVM move into DC. Also, the other Scripps subnets air in DC on WRZB-LD and should move to WPXW in the spring.
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3 hours ago, Jakob said:
We have a date! Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop will be going away on February 28.
Will the Inyo stations be obligated to take the Katz subnets, or will they be free to add new subnets on their spectrum?
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58 minutes ago, mvcg66b3r said:
In the article it mentions KPTH in Sioux City IA - that's FOX; CBS is KMEG, owned by Waitt Broadcasting and run by Sinclair. You think Sinclair might move CBS to a KPTH subchannel like it's done in other markets?
Just by reading the article, it appears that CBS is destined for 44.2 in Sioux City.
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10 minutes ago, Adam MadMan said:
Scripps had a webcast this morning about how they'll be operating going forward.
The only real revelation of the webcast was their rather casual dismissal of Qubo and Ion Plus. Adam Symson said that the services weren't "mature" compared to the Katz networks, and confirmed that the company will go Old Yeller on them so they can use their space for the Katz networks as planned. Basically, he brushed them off as worthless wastes of spectrum to be thrown away (and I guess they don't want their channels on their pre-existing spectrum either). Not what he actually said obviously, but that's what I got out of it.
Will Qubo & Ion Plus be closed or converted into digital services?
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1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Definitely 3.0 related especially if 28.1 remains as the PSIP assignment.
Columbus could be all hands on deck since Sinclair, Nexstar and Tegna are all part of the same partnership. The question is, which station will be the 3.0?
In wonder whether Portland, Maine is also an all hands on deck market with Hearst in the market along with Tegna and Sinclair along with the possibility that FOX moves from WPFO to WGME?
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2 hours ago, Weeters said:
There's nothing anywhere that says the copyright needs to reflect station ownership. It's a Nexstar-produced newscast, featuring people paid by Nexstar, airing on a station that Nexstar has a contract with to provide services for. There's not much difference between this and a news share agreement where one station provides news for another owned by a different party.
I believe that only the GM, Sales Mgr, and the Engineer are the only Mission employees at WPIX.
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I found a new potential factor in the future of NBCSN, Comcast is looking to relaunch G4 in 2021, with that, they may need NBCSN's transponder space in order to make this happen and possibly justifying NBCSN's current programming moving to USA, CNBC, or Peacock.
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1 hour ago, mightynine said:
First off, let’s pump the brakes a bit about NBCSN closing - the article cited is making predictions for 2021, it’s not a guarantee. The reasons given for closing it down makes sense, but it’s an informed opinion more so than a lock.
As for why business networks were used for overflow sports programming, that’s simple - they had greater penetration, especially CNBC.I believe the only reason NBCSN would close would be in the even they lose NHL and/or EPL.
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5 minutes ago, lugnuts6 said:
Uh, for those talking about "PARAMOUNT NETWORK" remember THAT will be rebranded as Paramount Movie Network in 2021,
oh and EL REY Network signs off on dec. 31st
I took that into consideration when I thought of places where CBS can place their sports content should they decide to close CBSSN. In addition, Nickelodeon can pick up the slack, they're simulcasting one NFL playoff game. From my prospective, none of the Viacom networks are branded to televise live sports on a regular basis, with that, it may be more difficult for CBS to justify closing CBSSN unless they plan to move most of the content to Paramount+, the rebranded CBS All Access. Can America see MTV celebrating their 40th anniversary by showing sports?
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Charlie Ergen must have been visited by those 4 Christmas Ghosts!
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5 hours ago, Newsjunkie24 said:
Now there's a rumor out that NBCSN may be gone as a whole at the end of next year. Apparently NBC might move certain sports events to their other cable channels or Peacock.
I don't know if this is a good idea or not. It might be bad for smaller sports.
I personally could only see NBCSN go should they not be able to renew with EPL or the NHL, yet I can also see many of NBCSN's offerings moving to Peacock, USA, or CNBC.
I can see CBSSN closing with many of their programs moving to Paramount+, or MTV.
Many FS2 programs can potentially move to FBN.
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Retransmission disputes with Dish are not short.
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Remember, all the sports teams need as many eyeballs as possible watching their games on television until fans are allowed to returns to arenas.
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16 hours ago, mrschimpf said:
The Brewers current FSN deal apparently just ran out, but they're in a rock and a hard place (Sinclair also owns the WVTV CW/MyNet feeds, and Weigel's WMLW is on a low-power stick). Their literal only other move would be to the local Spectrum News 1, so I would expect the deal to be renewed by default. But since the team's major sponsor is an area Native American casino and there's no sports betting in the state, they will push back hard against branding with some out-of-state entity Wisconsinites still associate more with pinball and fitness centers in the past than gambling.
It's not just the Brewers who are stuck, many of the other Sinclair RSN teams are stuck as well as the only options they have are the expense of starting their own RSN, migrating to D2C streaming, or signing with an OTA station. The only teams I can see moving to another RSN are the LA teams who can possibly move to Spectrum SportsNet or SportsNet LA, and the Texas and Oklahoma teams moving to AT&T Sports Net SW.
As for the Brewers, they can also try WPXE, who'll most likely be a Scripps station by the time the 2021 season starts, while WMLW should move to the WDJT stick.
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Would it be easier for Gray to move the KCBD NBC feed to the KLCW spectrum they just acquired?