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42 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

We have yet another Tegna station dumping a traditional newscast (sigh..)

 

KTVB has officially launched "The 208" in the 5pm timeslot and it's meant to take a conversational approach to the news of the day

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/ktvb-new-show-208-brian-holmes-idaho-news-smart-honest-perspective/277-3403d71b-5f5c-4c67-8b1f-021fd2f2d750

 

I'm not entirely sure what the 208 is referred to since I'm not from the area but all I will say is it's either going to work the way KUSA's "Next" has worked or it's going to be an epic disaster.

It appears that KTVB took the title The 208 after the title 207 at News Center Maine as 207 is Maine's area code while 208 serves Idaho.

9 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

While most of his NBC efforts were his kryptonite (and not out-sucked until Jeff Zucker was in charge), he was a legend who redefined CBS and brought ABC into prominence in the 70s. 

He had a mess at NBC to clean up after some costly bombs before his tenure and losing the 1980 Summer Olympics to the US not participating.  

 

NBC got The Facts of Life out of the deal!

WTVR gets the Scripps website layout on Monday, February 3!
 

https://wtvr.com/2020/01/30/new-wtvr-cbs-6-news-website-and-apps-launch-monday/

6 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

 

My thinking is that NBC would only add that fifth hour of Today if Sony ends production of Days of Our Lives because there's no way NBC takes away the 11am or 12pm slots from the affiliates (and certainly not the 2pm or 3pm slots either)

Days of our Lives can also be banished to cable, USA, Bravo, or E!.

4 minutes ago, TheRyan said:

Hopefully KFSM was allowed to choose the least repulsive cuts of "C Clarity".   Either way, it's a sad day for the NW Arkansas DMA, especially at Channel 5.

There's still Hearst & Nexstar.

8 minutes ago, Spring Rubber said:

Wow, that's a complete shocker. Maybe they realized how boring their current graphics were for a Super Bowl.

 

Question is if the new graphics permeate into the other sports properties or if they pull an NBC/ESPN and give their NFL coverage a completely separate look from everything else.

Should these new graphics make their the other Fox Sports properties, would Fox then issue an ultimatum to Sinclair to re-brand the RSNs ASAP?

16 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:

KFSM now has the Tegna weather graphics. Not sure if they fully debut the Tegna graphics today but here it is https://twitter.com/5NEWSGarrett/status/1222234909655420934?s=20

1 hour ago, CircleSeven said:

New M&A.

 

Tegna is acquiring KTBU in Conroe, TX, from Spanish Broadcasting Systems (owners of Mega TV) for $15M.

 

Once the deal is complete, it will become the sister to KHOU.

 

We can kiss the KIAH to Tegna theory goodbye.

4 minutes ago, RGSJenkins said:

The only way they'll get the fifth hour if "Days of Our Lives" goes bye-bye.

My thoughts exactly, although, here in the Southern Plains, KFOR, KTEN, KJRH, and KXAS all have one hour midday newscasts, with that, it would be either the news goes or Days goes.

I wonder whether this makes Fox's glowing puck from the mid-1990s primitive or ahead of its time.

What they're calling player & puck tracking technology, some new graphics made a cameo during NBC's coverage of the NHL All-Star Game. I took these screenshots from the NBC Sports App.

1 minute ago, Georgie56 said:

WDJT is expanding their weekend 10pm news to one hour and adding a one hour extension of their morning news at 7am on WMLW.

Wisconsin is an all important swing state!

15 hours ago, Weeters said:

Yeah, but it's all still Tribune's in-house garbage being replaced.

 

Anyone with a former Tribune station has to do this, regardless of how old or new the facility is. The WREG engineers are probably too busy planning out installs of their own new toys to care.

 

 

I wonder how much of a mess Nexstar had to clean up at KFOR.

On 1/21/2020 at 4:09 PM, oknewsguy said:

Calling it now, Tegna will buy Cox in a 3 way merger between those 2 and Standard Media at some point either this year, next year or later on in the 2020s.

In order for a Cox-Tegna marriage to work, divestitures would be needed in Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Memphis, Seattle, and Spokane.

2 minutes ago, Pine Belt Media said:

Sounds like we can expect KFSM to debut TEGNA graphics, etc. in a week or so. They’re currently installing new systems, switchers and things at channel 5. 

The KFSM studio is less than a year old, how does that make a former Tribune, WREG, engineer feel?

11 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

So follow-up regarding the KCPM deal, which has been going on for almost two years.

 

They posted an amendment tonight and they're now in a process of filing a "failed station waiver" to acquire the station. 

 

This is because FCC ordered last month to go back enforcing the 2016 ownership rules after the Third Circuit struck down Pai's 2017 dereg order last fall.

Since this deal was announced, Raycom, WWNY, KECY, and WVIR have come and gone, among others. Should this deal not happen, my logic says that KCPM along with KXJB should go to Nexstar thus placing the KX stations back under one roof.

1 hour ago, Morphtato said:

The latest on Apollo vs. Dish:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apollo-cuts-dish-customer-access-to-local-stations-in-10-markets-court-bars-apollo-from-additional-threatened-blackouts-300989294.html

Note that this only affects the recently acquired Northwest Broadcasting stations. A temporary restraining order has been granted barring the removal of the legacy Cox stations.

I know that DISH has a new agreement with the legacy COX stations from March 2019, thus I'm leading to believe that the issue with the NWB stations either merging them into the COX agreement or making a new agreement with all the Apollo stations. I also wonder whether the prolonged NWB/AT&T dispute in 2019 resulted in a agreement that included all the Apollo stations.

1 hour ago, ns8401 said:

It’s most likely just a political ad ploy... it’s unlikely they’ll start any kind of news department at all...

Florida (29 EVs), Georgia (16), Michigan (16) can be in play this cycle as these states can very well decide the election.

2 hours ago, Samantha said:

Jude LaCava is leaving KSAZ. He'd been there since 1993.

 

This was his decision. Last day on air is April 1. Wow.

That goes back to KTSP & CBS.

8 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

KXAS still uses their own chopper, Texas Sky Ranger. While KDFW, WFAA and KTVT have a shared news chopper.

Meanwhile, 200 miles to the north, KFOR (Nexstar), KOCO (Hearst), and KWTV (Griffin) have birds.

Fox 29 "interviews" Astros' Trash Can

https://www.12up.com/posts/philly-news-station-jokingly-interviews-trash-can-in-wake-of-astros-punishment-amid-sign-stealing-scandal-video-01dyjpqzp84y/partners/40030?fbclid=IwAR06y8v1_xPU7LAzvi92bUUkws73RwXmk7OvJkRQoJiekfpJR8LuLAiXnSU

On 1/10/2020 at 12:36 PM, nomadcowatbk said:

 

would Mizzou sell KOMU?

On second thought, Mizzou has a better change of rejoining the Big 12 then selling KOMU.

1 hour ago, Journalist said:

NBC NewsChannel 10. We've come full circle.

Perhaps NBC got a letter from Sinclair (WJAR) to stop using NBC 10.

49 minutes ago, TheRob said:

Nexstar officially opened its Jefferson City bureau today. Jeff Bernthal from KTVI is staffing it for this legislative session, but they still plan to hire a permanent MMJ.

Just a thought, The University of Missouri owns KOMU should Nexstar be more interested in Central Missouri.

On 1/5/2020 at 12:12 PM, Kyle R said:

Hearst and AT&T reach agreement.

 

https://www.koco.com/article/a-message-for-directv-subscribers-2/30370617

In 2019, AT&T was in dispute with broadcasters for months on end, in 2020, they settle in a weekend.