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22 minutes ago, MD TV said:
Especially since much of NYC is served by Spectrum, so if it wasn't resolved those customers couldn't even watch it on WABC-TV if they wanted to.
WKBW-TV is in Spectrum territory also, and they should be lucky they aren't an ABC O&O.
But this is/was all about making sure the game wasn't blacked out in Market No. 1.
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15 minutes ago, Megatron81 said:
Aaron Rodgers locked the door and only unlocked it when a deal was reached LOL
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Legend has it that Pete Rozelle did it a few times when he was NFL commissioner.
Maybe Aaron shared some of his magic mushrooms with the negotiators and they "saw the light".
11 minutes ago, nomadcowatbk said:wouldn't be surprised if they 700 Club got the most viewers on Freeform, and they probably aren't even the target audience
One has to wonder what the CBN braintrust is contemplating right now in their Virginia Beach bunker. Gordon Robertson will definitely have something to say about this.
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The real question is who blinked first, Disney or Charter.
And yes, I absolutely believe Monday Night Football–on ESPN and ABC–and featuring the New York Jets–had everything to do with it.
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On 1/6/2023 at 4:45 PM, news2me said:
Just pure curiousity on my part...
If KCAL9 has higher ratings/profile... why not move the CBS affiliation from Channel 2 to 9?
If I remember correctly, didn't FOX do something similar in Minneapolis, moving their network from Channel 29 to 9 because KMSP had a higher ratings and better news legacy as an UPN affiliate.
Much different situation.
KMSP-TV was a top-rated VHF independent when it joined Fox as a charter affiliate in '86. But the station (and its then sister KPTV in Portland OR) voluntarily left the network in '88 because Fox's Saturday night schedule drew far fewer viewers than what KMSP programmed independently pre-Fox. Fox was forced to move to a UHF, KITN-TV.
Fast-forward to 2001. Fox purchases KMSP and KPTV's parent Chris-Craft/United. Both are now UPN stations with strong news departments. Fox waited until fall '02 to make the logical move and bring KMSP and KPTV back into the fold. Pre-digital transition, but still working with the New World mentality–better to be on VHF in a major market.
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52 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:
Also pictured: George Stephanopoulos slowly dying on the inside
This should last about as long as "Dandy", the New York Yankees' attempt at employing a mascot from over 40 years ago.
Remember this? I didn't think so. Not that a team like the Yankees needed a mascot to begin with...
But Good Morning America has done something like this before. I recall when they started using "You Gotta Be", the song by one-hit wonder Des'ree as an unofficial theme. I don't think that lasted very long either.
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More sad news from New York City...
NY1 anchor/reporter Ruschell Boone has lost a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. She passed Sunday (9/3) at age 48.
This on the heels of the passing on Saturday (9/2) of Dr. Max Gomez, former medical correspondent for several stations in NYC and Philadelphia.
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On 9/3/2023 at 4:06 AM, justin2kx said:
WWOR: Encore run of Divorce Court at 8:30a while a previous run of Dish Nation at 6:30p (replacing BBT) after their new one for one week only on 9/4, both serves as placeholders.
Effective 9/11: a People's Court run moves up a hour to 12p, Divorce Court (2x) moves up to 1pm. Maury (1x) moves to 2p, Jennifer Hudson encore moves up at 4p. Another Feud run at 5p, Who the Bleep is that? at 5:30p, People Puzzler debuts at 6p, pushing new Dish Nation back to 6:30p. TMZ Live encore moves up at 11p (from 12:30a) replacing that feud 2x run that'll transfer to WNYW in same timeframe. People Puzzler (2nd run) at 12a + Person, place or Thing (2nd run) at 12:30a, pushing Pictionary (2nd run) to 1a.
Observations: My9 has been the Feud station for a while + this only cements it. Currently, 7-8p, 10-11p + 11:30p (not to mention 6:30p on FOX 5, which will also add 11p-12a runs on 9/11, latter half transferred from My9) Add in extra 5p run, it's 4 hrs. combined of Feud runs from the duop. Not to mention how WWOR hasn't only been a shell of itself, it became a 'parking lot'. 9 Broadcast Plaza is all but gone. But I'll digress.
And let's not leave out The 700 Club, which continues to pollute the WWOR airwaves at 9:00a. But I guess that's the only thing better than infomercials or another double-run of Steve Harvey's Family Feud in that hour slot.
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4 hours ago, RaleighTVBOI1 said:
How do you find these websites?
That can be found on the FCC's database.
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24 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:
This is from Radio Insight and reposted from the TNC Discord server...
These are the new registered domains for the yet-to-be-announced brands for its independent stations.We know WUPA will be Atlanta 69, WKBD as Detroit 50, and WPSG as Philly 57. But this is what the domain websites will be for the others, which could give us an indication as to what CBS is thinking with future brandings for their stations...
- KMAX - Sacramento31.com
- KSTW - Seattle11.com
- WTOG - Tampa44.com
- KCAL - LosAngeles9.com
- WBFS - Florida33.com (this one makes no sense to me)
- WLNY - NewYork55.com
- WSBK - Boston38.com (getting away from TV38?!?!)
- KTXA - Texas21TV.com
New York 55 ("NY55") was a branding used by WLNY in its pre-CBS days, so that's going back in time.
But why not keep TV38, TXA21 and K-CAL9?
And Seattle 11, Tampa 44 and the rest (except the heritage Philly 57)? Is that the best CBS can do with these generic, cookie-cutter names?
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On 7/14/2023 at 12:36 PM, mrschimpf said:
The inevitable has happened; RNN Associates, which turned several major market stations into zombies carrying ShopHQ programming, has purchased ShopHQ's parent company out of (duh) Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Not anymore. The sale to RNN is off. ShopHQ's new white knight is a company owned by the founder of 5-Hour Energy. More from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
And this guy is just getting started. It looks like he's looking to be a major-minor player in broadcast media.
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12 minutes ago, TheRob said:
I only saw this today, but the article is from two weeks ago.
The link is broken.
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9 hours ago, kdex86 said:
Boston is an unusual TV market where you have five local news stations...
For purposes of clarification:
Not news stations, but local TV stations with news departments. Don't confuse them with all-news cable channels.
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1 hour ago, Megatron81 said:
WXSP aired ACC football in the finals years before they went to Fox Sports/Bally Sports in 2019. Also aired The Big10 Football/Men's Basketball from 2004/07 before Big10 Network. Before that WXMI Fox17 aired syndication Big10 Football/Men's Basketball for 9 years 95-04.
And...what does this have to do with the national scene?
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3 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:
Yeah my bad but how many times did you need to quote me?
My bad, that was a glitch on my phone. The submit button didn't take me back to the main thread page.
2 hours ago, Nelson R. said:CW to WNCN 11.2 if Sinclair mass disaffiliates with the CW?
But what happens to WLFL/WRDC? I suppose WNCN 11.2 could take some of their programming inventory. And WLFL gets MyNet. But Sinclair wouldn’t need both stations.
But we’re getting too far into Speculatron territory.
One more: WNCN is 17, WTVD is 11.
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6 hours ago, Nelson R. said:
WTTA has an 8pm news produced by WALA and Spanish programming from 9-10...
Don't you mean WFLA-TV?
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14 hours ago, NowBergen said:
I would assume if they could they would have already. With Robertson now gone, maybe CBN will be more receptive.
I would hope so, but Gordon Robertson doesn't seem all that much different from his father in that regard.
But couldn't Disney simply sunset Freeform as a linear channel and convert it into a streaming-only service? That could be a way to get CBN out of their hair once and for all.
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10 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Pat Robertson, the founder of CBN has passed away at age 93.
Take this as you will, just so everyone sees this as they see fit, may he RIH.
Anyone wanna take bets on which "H" he's headed to? (Both of which are non-existant, but that's my opinion and Schwarzenegger's.)
But aside from the polarizing aspects of his political activism and religious mission, Pat Robertson should be remembered as a pioneer of religious television. CBN started with WYAH-TV (WGNT) in Hampton Roads, in 1961. WYAH was all-religious at the outset, though it evolved into a general-entertainment independent with a jones for censorship. The other three CBN TV stations–Robertson launched WHAE-TV (WANF) in Atlanta in 1971; bought KXTX-TV in Dallas in '73, and signed-on WXNE-TV (WFXT) in Boston in '77–followed that model until CBN broke up the group in the 1980s.
CBN also owned five Christian FM outlets, in Hampton Roads and a four-station network in upstate New York.
And of course, there is the cable channel now known as Freeform, which much to ours and Disney's chagrin will be forced to carry Robertson's legacy, The 700 Club from now until the "Second Coming".
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7 minutes ago, SFTV said:
FTVLive, SFGate and of course that “blog” is reporting ex KTVU anchor Frank Somerville arrested again on suspicion of Battery at his parents home in Berkeley.
FTV Live says it was his brother's home.
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1 minute ago, TheRob said:
Behind a paywall.
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5 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:
Sinclair always had a fetish for leveraging content. It makes sense if they use three stations' resources to do something one station couldn't do on its own, but if you're going to take the same cheap product and just eliminate duplication by doing it once, I don't know if that benefits you much.
Here's an example of something from the 1980s when they tried to do a kids show called "Take 1" for all three stations they owned.
I remember that and the "Fox 28 Kids Club" well during my summers in Columbus. (At least Yolanda Harris made out well for herself. But what happened to Suzy?
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Back to topic: yes, Stadium is like the Wish version of ESPN 8: THE OCHO if that were a real thing. But it's obvious what Reinsdorf is going to do. The White Sox/Bulls (and maybe the Blackhawks) will be on their own network in '25 and Comcast can wind down NBC Sports Chicago (though I'm sure some would prefer the return of those teams to WGN-TV).
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Not directly related to Tegna/Standard General, but Soo Kim has a lot of irons in various fires.
He appeared on Spectrum News NY1 here in NYC last night (5/17) talking about his interest in getting a license from New York State to build a casino on the site of the Trump Links Golf Course in the Bronx. For those who know the area, the course is at the foot of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, and between a municipal park and a cemetery.
Folks around this way would love to see Trump Links go away. For Kim, the odds are better to land the license for the casino than they are to get the Tegna deal approved. And even a Bronx casino is a longshot by itself.
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On 5/4/2023 at 7:17 PM, bmasters1 said:
Game 3 of the 1981 NLCS between the L.A. Dodgers and the former Montreal Expos, from the former Olympic Stadium in Montreal (NBC broadcast, rerun on RDS, with French-language announcers)...
What, the actual French TV broadcast wasn't available?
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13 hours ago, Megatron81 said:
I'm surprised they couldn't get WNYW weather met to fill-in on the weekends or someone from Philly. Why hasn't Fox used NYC for Fox Weather aren't they in the same building? Fox use the NYC O&O from time to time.
The Fox Television Center in NYC, where WNYW and WWOR-TV are based, is on the border of the Yorkville and the Upper East Side neighborhoods.
Fox Weather is headquartered with the rest of the Fox News Channel division in the News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue, near Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.
Remember, the O&Os belong to a unit of Fox Corp. which is separate from Fox News.
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15 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:
They don't have to ignore politics or Trump, BUT Kimmel --and Colbert--making Trump the focus of 85% their monolouge every night for the last 8 years even after the Donald left office is excessive and obsessive. There has to be a source of material other than one man on planet earth. Plus there are several world leaders and organizations doing harm in addition to Trump, that don't get as much coverage/ridicule.
Name one...the UK's reigning monarch or prime minister? The present dictator of North Korea? The present dictators...er, democratically-elected presidents of Russia and China? The president of Ukraine, who is an international hero?
American media, in its very parochial worldview, doesn't spend a great deal of time covering other individuals and entities outside of those whom I mentioned above. Maybe the PM of Canada gets coverage every now and then, the president of Mexico even less. The former president of Brasil, who styled himself after the Great Orange Stain, was lucky to get any airtime up here.
I also doubt that most of the target demo for any of the late night shows get their news from non-U.S. sources like CBC, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera or Reuters, or even the extreme left-wing Democracy Now! So, Orange Man it is until he goes away completely.
(But the public disappearance of Melania, former First Lady of the Night, should be mined to the fullest.)
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2023-24 Syndication News
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Late Show with David Letterman ended in 2015, as did Worldwide Pants' interest in Late Late Show after Craig Ferguson departed.