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The FCC has opened up the WTXF license hearings, giving them permit-but-disclose status:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/petition-to-deny-fox-tv-license-over-false-election-info-gains-steam-at-fcc

The company reported an 8% revenue drop for Q2 this year over last, with non-political ad revenue down 3%:

https://deadline.com/2023/08/sinclair-inc-results-slip-in-q2-company-reorganizes-operations-1235453538/

The Media and Democracy Project has filed a petition against WTXF's license renewal, citing Fox News Channel's settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over lies made by FNC hosts about Dominion's operations, as well as the cable channel's coverage of the 1/6/21 riots. Featuring testimony from former FBC executive Preston Padden, the petition impugns Fox Corporation's appropriateness to hold broadcast licenses and takes issue with Fox News-produced national footage that has aired on the station, but it does not bring up any material produced in Philadelphia. It is implied that the group will file other petitions against the rest of FTS as their renewals come up.

16 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

They have part of it already (the NFL Films content), they just need the hosts to wrap around it. This I can't criticize them for outside if they don't get a good panel of hosts (shh don't tell Antonio Brown).

I actually wonder if they can get good hosts, as a considerable body of NFL analysts are already under contract to the various sports media groups.

23 minutes ago, MD TV said:

The CW picked up Inside the NFL:

 

 

They're going to try to build an NFL studio program from scratch.

5 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

And now, it's come to this.   Diamond has been ordered to cough up the rest of the money it owes to the affected baseball teams, or they must forfeit the rights to carry them.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37776665/diamond-sports-group-ordered-fully-pay-twins-guardians-diamondbacks-rangers%3fplatform=amp

 

So basically Diamond Sports is getting no relief whatsoever from the bankruptcy they filed? Ouch!

Only the Twins, Guardians, Diamondbacks, and Rangers are part of the ruling in the article.

14 hours ago, mre29 said:

 

Heck, PBS imports British shows all the time. Masterpiece is one giant umbrella for dramas from over there.

 

Those shows have very high production values. The CW's crop doesn't.

43 minutes ago, kfc513 said:

**Are those Canadian/British imports already available on streaming here in the states?

One of them, Children Ruin Everything, is a "Roku Original" in the US.

The network's first upfront under the new ownership took place on Thursday, and here is an interview with the programming chiefs.

1 hour ago, The Frog said:

LIV On CW: Behind Nexstar’s Drive To Secure TV Stations For Controversial Golf League

The article said that CW stations are only contractually required to air primetime programming, so the CBS and Tegna-owned stations' affiliations are safe.

On 1/29/2023 at 1:08 PM, DirtyHarry said:

I was watching Bounce last night and just curious about the logistics. Right on the money, "WSFJ-TV, LONDON, OHIO" appears at the top of the hour. I'm assuming that it is hubbed somewhere? Do they hub it here in Ohio or with the other ION stations?

 

First of all, why isn't anybody smart enough to type "LONDON - COLUMBUS" into the computer?

 

Second, I'm curious why they picked London as their city of license. It was Newark before, and that's about 50 miles away on the other side of Columbus.

 

Also, they channel-share with an LPTV station. That adds another link in the chain that could possibly break. Who monitors that?

 

Do they have to have a local presence anymore? Like an office or a studio somewhere in town?

 

Do they have local public service requirements they have to meet anymore?

 

And if they were smart, just as a marketing gimmick, they would bring back the WLWC call letters. I'm sure they'll just keep running this on autopilot, but if they ever do want to turn this into a real TV station, you might be able to get noticed in the market that way (like WWJ). WSFJ stands for "Winning Souls for Jesus." I wonder if anybody at Scripps even realizes that.

The Main Studio Rule was abolished in 2019, and every ION station office closed up soon after. An hour of public service programs on weekday mornings produced by those stations were accordingly canceled, according to Wikipedia

2 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

As per the CW website, it appears that the CW stations owned by CBS and Tegna are the one's not airing LIV Golf, they've posted a list of alternate stations.

Lol "WQCA"

KSKN. the CW in Spokane owned by Tegna, is listed as carrying it. Is that a mistake?

15 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

The article’s wording is obviously misleading, considering this confirms that the CBSNS-owned CW affiliates won’t carry LIV tournament coverage, and the Nexstar stations summarized to have cleared the tournaments aren’t the CW affiliates in those referenced markets (and of those referenced, only WGN has previously been a CW affiliate). So really, LIV has been cleared on (maybe) 85-90% of CW affiliates, and received time-buy clearances on Nexstar-owned MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations in about 10-15% of the remaining markets.

That makes more since because if you take that article at face value, it implies that WGN and WCIU were simulcasting.

Nexstar has announced that LIV Golf has cleared 100% of CW stations, "as well as Nexstar owned and operated stations in key markets including Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Tampa and Hartford":

https://deadline.com/2023/02/liv-golf-tour-clears-100-percent-of-cw-stations-1235259435/

Here a more sober outlook at the difficulties of broadcast TV from the business end:

https://deadline.com/2022/12/broadcast-networks-death-declining-ratings-streamers-1235203489/

On 12/3/2022 at 11:59 AM, mrschimpf said:

This was exclusively Fox Television Stations thankfully (also lol MyNet is a complete afterthought). Also note that FNC and Fox Business are under a different agreement, so they were never in danger.

The disputed involved the entire affiliate body on DirecTV Stream, for however many people actually use that.

2 hours ago, appleachian said:

Only the eight O&O markets are affected as far as ABC. 

The Rams-49ers Monday Night Football game will air tomorrow on KABC and KGO, two of the stations that are part of this.

As the day begins in Britain, BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, 2, and 6 have begun somber music attuned to their existing formats.

BBC Radio 3 is now playing somber music in line with its established format, while the other national BBC music stations are still running the special coverage.

4 hours ago, TresGriffin said:

This is why I wish Disney would just go ahead and buy Cox's "big" ABC stations, but with Bob Chapek in charge, that seems to be even more of a remote possibility.  It'd be a win for them in all 4 markets.

WSB: Top station in the Atlanta/North Georgia Market and Cox's flagship. Isn't this ABC's #1 top-rated affiliate in the country?

WSOC: Once the top station in Charlotte, now a respectable 2nd.  Could form synergy with WTVD in Raleigh.

WFTV: They'll own a station in the area that serves Walt Disney World's location, further boosting their investment in Central Florida.

WFAA: Every other network station in the Dallas/Fort Worth market is an O&O, so ABC might as well join the party and also form synergy with KTRK down in Houston.

I'm not sure Disney is committed to over-the-air broadcasting beyond it being a pass-through for programming from their television divisions. They could make the network cable-exclusive if worst comes to worst anywhere.

If I had DISH I would not have half of my market's big four stations (and The CW) right now. (I could still get CBS in SD from Pullman's KLEW as DISH and Sinclair continue talks.)

A right-wing YouTuber issued a racist diatribe on KPIX' Betty Yu, and the station manager and CBSTVS comes out in her defence:

https://deadline.com/2021/10/steven-crowder-racist-remarks-condemn-betty-yu-cbs-in-and-out-burger-1234859549/

2 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

If they go by date of closing (June 27, 2016)...it's possible that KYES was ahead of KTBY, when Fox is in repeats and its sports output was limited to Saturday MLB games. Remember the attempted WPLG/WTVJ merger where they tried to justify that WTVJ was sixth in the market due to Univision and Telemundo, likely picking out a time where the latter two's soccer schedule was strong and just before or after the 2008 Beijing Olympics where WTVJ was at a ratings nadir.

Is there a rule that states how long a station has to be out of or in the top 4?

On 8/10/2021 at 10:02 AM, CircleSeven said:

So Gray has filed an appeal, asking the agency to cancel the $500k+ fine.

Gray's argument is that KYES was already a top 4 station on the strength of the MNT programming. Using that logic, they broke the top 4 rule when they bought KYES back in 2016.