AmericanErrorist

I believe that is due at least in part to the fact that the Polish channel is still named SciFi because Syfy is similar to the Polish language word for syphilis.

It is my understanding that FCC rules preserve the rights of affiliates to pre-empt network programming as necessary (it was only a few years ago when most of the NBC affiliate body opted out of airing a 30 Rock upfront special that included promotions for Peacock).

I'm wondering how much of the changes here are due to cord-cutting as opposed to fluctuations in population.

CNN owner Warner Bros. Discovery and Charter reached an early renewal Thursday. Liberty Broadband, whose controlling shareholder is WBD director/significant shareholder John Malone, owns 26% of Charter. Reportedly TNT retained the same carriage rate despite potentially losing the NBA in a year. https://deadline.com/2024/09/warner-bros-discovery-charter-announce-early-carriate-renewal-1236085902/

ABC offered to run a 3-hour feed of last night's Presidential debates on the channels of the blacked-out ABC stations (and on the ABC channel space of DirecTV Stream) for free. DirecTV, knowing that ABC had already let the event simulcast on every major news-generating outlet in the country, rejected it out of hand and countered with a blanket reinstatement of all affected channels through the the end of next week's MNF game. https://deadline.com/2024/09/debate-blackout-lifted-directv-1236083661/

Skydance has promised it will “make strategic investments in the legendary newsgathering and reporting efforts of the national CBS television network and the company’s O&O local stations” in their filing to the FCC, including enhancing the online presences of the TV stations. https://deadline.com/2024/09/skydance-paramount-fcc-1236079534/

It's unclear how relevant this would be to this board because it doesn't involve any news-producing stations, but Xfinity and the Big Ten Network are in a mini-dispute involving the regions of 4 programs that the B10 raided from the Pac-12: https://www.nexttv.com/news/comcast-customers-lose-big-ten-network-access-to-pac-12-refugees

The remaining customer base of DirecTV, being a satellite company, is overwhelmingly rural and more likely to be without viable broadband service. Those streamers wouldn't do that much for them.

Disney and DirecTV are going down to the wire for a deal scheduled to lapse on Sunday, in another referendum on the state of the pay TV business: https://deadline.com/2024/08/directv-pay-tv-disney-carriage-negotiations-streaming-1236051151/

Nexstar would probably like to take WKBD and WBFS in order to shore up their scheduled-to-return CW affiliations, but they're capped right now.

Hagerstown is in the Washington, DC market, so DirecTV carried the station throughout the spot beam, essentially serving as an alternate for WRC.

They just fired almost a third of their staff. The hirings were so recent they didn't get any severance.

And presumably extended overtime shootouts?

Yes.

There is a "world feed" produced by Olympic Broadcasting Services, a subsidiary of the IOC, which is used by broadcasters without the ability to send their own camera crews (which is used by Peacock in the US for full coverage of every event beyond the programming aired on NBCU's linear networks and possibly other streamers outside the US), but the world's stronger Olympic rights holders (from the more prosperous countries) send their own camera crews.

Jeff Shell, the former NBC exec who will come aboard the post-merger entity as President, has stated that “I personally think the linear business is going to be a strong business for decades to come...” https://deadline.com/2024/07/linear-tv-cbs-broadcast-paramount-jeff-shell-bundle-1236003157/

Rusty's hunch was that the KCAL News brand would only last a few months to a year, yet here it still is 19 months later.

It's back on. A go-shop provision has also been instituted, which means that other parties can make an offer for Par.

"Deadline hears bankers are also assessing a group of non CBS-affiliated television stations that are not core to the broadcast business. Paramount owns 13 TV stations not affiliated with CBS." https://deadline.com/2024/06/paramount-asset-sales-chatter-around-sale-leaseback-hollywood-lot-1235983020/

Since the deal is dead, Mission won't be involved at all. Adell may cut an LMA with Nexstar. At that point, it will still be the worst station in Detroit, both operationally and programming-wise, but Adell will continue to do the RTC deals.

Nexstar doesn't have guarantees on Adell's loans, nor does Nexstar have a purchase option on WADL like Mission has on their stations.

The article says that Adell believes that he can still land The CW on the station (over a WDIV subchannel or The CW Plus) and is willing to cut an LMA directly with Nexstar.

I see KLEW becoming a passthrough for KREM instead KIMA/KEPR with a stronger combined Palouse bureau (though it's just as likely that there would be layoffs there), but I don't know if Tegna would be interested.

Due to the 2 of the top 4 rule, Nexstar would have to spin-off a station in Fresno and Raleigh, and the FCC just ruled that it's already over the overall cap in NYC, but there aren't any rules against buying the other stations.

It has no chance in the current Senate.