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The ability to be plaintiffs in lawsuits against TBN and the Professional Bull Riders, supplier contracts (including carriage deals, program rights and the uplink), the "Merit Street" and "Merit TV" trademarks, a year and a half of (dated) newscasts and commentary programs including Dr. Phil Primetime, and office space and supplies, along with the repeat farm that the channel is still operating as and its few remaining employees, along with the website and Merit+ free streaming platform.

MeTV Toons has launched on DirecTV, in the channel slot formerly occupied by Universal Kids.

To be more precise, Carr has already began the "delete, delete, delete" proceedings which could result in the removal of the 2 out of 4 and station cap rules, and he and Trusty have a working majority.

Merit Street is complaining that TBN didn't help it get on cable enough.

In Dr. Phil's filing, he claimed TBN agreed to give the must-carry rights on their O&O stations over to Merit Street (which would have been crazy to do) and then renenged, which they characterized as leaving the operation with "nowhere to send its broadcast signal and nowhere to air its programming". https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-bankruptcy-sues-trinity-1236448188/

The children's programming violations involved Hot Wheels ads airing during Team Hot Wheels on their defunct KidsClick block, so you're not likely to see something like that ever again, on any OTA station.

The Top 4 rule was written in an era before digital subchannels, and as such didn't contemplate that a station could put two major affiliations on separate subchannels. Such activity is still only owning one top 4 facility, even if having two affiliations widens the gap between given top 4 stations, and I don't believe the FCC under any partisan makeup has acted against this.

Not since Congress let the legislation authorizing such lapse in 2020. (The channels remain available to those who already had them at that time.)

To clarify things, Mid-Rivers Communications serves Glendive, but appears to have discontinued video service.

cbsatlanta dot com still redirects to atlantanewsfirst dot com at the moment.

I wonder if the affiliates will get any money...

Current NFL broadcasters NBC, ABC, and Fox/MyNetworkTV might want to expand their packages.

The ability for stations to preempt programming has always been maintained in affiliation contracts, even if they're much rarer now. There's nothing currently stopping any station from not airing tonight's After Midnight, much less this replacement.

Comics Unleashed returns to the timeslot 9/22, for the season: https://deadline.com/2025/05/comics-unleashed-with-byron-allen-cbs-late-night-2-1236411297

Especially since Fox network programs are staying on Hulu.

Hulu subscriptions that are bundled or on the same myDisney accounts as Disney+ subscriptions will result in most Hulu content being available on the Disney+ app/site. As you noted, the reverse doesn't apply for the Hulu app/site. This is also true for ESPN+. Fox's websites/apps already authenticate with cable/satellite/virtual subscriptions, and this app, which is not designed to replace those subscriptions and will not be promoted on the channels, will have exactly the same content.

I understand that Hulu will continue to carry Fox network content in addition to this.

Can't speak to the quality because I don't watch regularly/don't live there, but KLEW is the only news-producing station in the Moscow/Pullman/Lewiston/Clarkson region of eastern WA and northern ID (a region otherwise in the Spokane market). If you want local TV news about specifically about that region of the country, it's your only choice.

Gene Simmons dropped in on a weather segment Thursday: https://deadline.com/2025/03/gene-simmons-weather-forecast-los-angeles-video-1236327349/

They finally determined what the channel was.

Nexstar insists that the network will become profitable in 2026, as affiliation deals covering "more than two-thirds of The CW’s subscriber base" expire this fall: https://deadline.com/2025/02/the-cw-broadcast-tv-network-profit-2026-nexstar-sports-1236303664/

MCA Media (the Miracle Channel) is bringing what is described as "a version" (presumably including Canadian-produced shows) of the channel to Canada: https://thedesk.net/2025/02/dr-phil-ending-cbs-syndication-merit-street/

Paramount and Google have reached a new carriage deal: https://deadline.com/2025/02/paramount-youtube-tv-carriage-deal-cbs-1236288766/

Sony has just unilaterally claimed worldwide distribution rights to the series starting with the episodes scheduled to air next Monday (CBS is seeking an injuction): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-syndication-cbs-1236126022/ Update: CBS got their injunction, and will continue to distribute the programs as the legal process moves.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has asked the CEOs of NPR and PBS to testify at an upcoming House hearing on "news bias": https://deadline.com/2025/02/pbs-npr-news-bias-house-hearing-1236277262/