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On 10/9/2020 at 6:35 PM, dman748 said:
Add Verizon FIOS to the list of cable providers all over the country that are dropping the RSNs, they dropped AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh a few days ago
https://triblive.com/sports/tv-talk-verizons-fios-tv-drops-att-sportsnet-pittsburgh/
ATTSN Pittsburgh is back on Fios as of yesterday. The sides have agreed to a "long-term deal."
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14 hours ago, dman748 said:
Meanwhile on the same day Pai announced his departure, Jessica Rosenworcel is being pursued as the top leading candidate to lead as Chairman of the FCC.
Given Rosenworcel's past comments about Sinclair's antics with the Trib deal I just.. can't imagine this being good news for Sinclair.
There are much more important things to worry about than Sinclair, net neutrality being top of the list IMO.
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11 hours ago, Yankees4life said:
TBF, the owner is a bit of a greedy idiot. Hes also in a dispute with Dish so...
I love how you just write stuff like that without anything to back it up. According to the lawsuit he filed against AT&T, DirecTV stopped paying retransmission fees as soon as Circle City bought the stations. If true, wanting to get the money the previous owner got for the same stations seems like being a good businessman to me, not "a greedy idiot."
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Jim Kambrich is retiring after 41 years in broadcasting, the last 26 years at WNYT; December 4 will be his last day at the station. His wife started a new job in NYC in July and has been going back and forth between there and the Albany area since, so they will be moving to NYC full-time.
Here's the video of his announcement via WNYT's Facebook page.
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13 minutes ago, patlovestv said:
I agree the omission of an Apple/iOS app is troubling. For what it's worth, users may not be missing much. It's been nearly a week and I have yet to find "News on Tubi" in the Roku or Google Play versions of the app. Curious if anyone has had success testing this out so far.
I also haven't seen it on Fire TV as of the last time I checked a couple days ago. It must be a slow rollout.
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How was it a "big mistake" for the Royals to re-sign with FSKC? The team still gets paid its rights fees, even when providers drop the network. It's Sinclair and the rest of the ownership group taking all the risk regarding carriage.
As for the Royals having their own RSN, been there done that. It lasted four years before going dark and signing with FSKC.
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On 1/7/2018 at 11:50 PM, hmaxhanson said:
It's Conneticuit News 30 from WVIT in 1997:
Just came across this video when going down a '90s WVIT rabbit hole on YouTube. Was going to post it here but I see I don't have to. I was shocked to see this totally random newscast today. The townhouse fire at the end of the clip was in the complex my family lived in at the time, we were two townhouses down from the one that caught fire. And that's my dad who Tom Monahan asked if the neighbor was a smoker. I remember that from when it aired back then, but I definitely wasn't expecting to see that clip on YouTube almost 23 years later. Pretty cool.
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12 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
Add Sunbeam to the list of ___ vs Dish this week. It's bound to be ugly.
That link is from last September
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On 6/15/2020 at 2:57 PM, DMA said:
It's truly insane to me (as someone who is very much on the side of COVID precautions) that WCBS has seemingly cancelled the noon under the guise of COVID restrictions. Seems like Judge Judy and Insider is here to stay. WNBC is operating normally / partially remotely, as is WABC. If they wanted to produce the noon responsibly, they could have.
If the justification is the frequent Cuomo/Murphy fireside chats, it looks like today was the first day that WABC opted not to broadcast it live, so that excuse is now out of the way.
According to Zap2it's advanced listings, the noon news is slated to return next Wednesday.
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4 hours ago, JustinH said:
If GMA3 doesn't come back, which hopefully it doesn't because it's totally un-watchable at this point, I can see ABC sliding Sara back into The View. Michael obviously still has GMA. They could make Keke an entertainment correspondent until her contract runs out. They should have left it alone when it was GMA Day. At least then it was tolerable. Bring back Good Afternoon America but make it more news focused.
3 hours ago, Breaking News said:I see them keeping it, because ABC desperately want the cache that NBC has with the Today franchise and remember is cheaper for Talk Show or Game Show in that time slot than a soap opera. I see them once again retooling it to make it a more of a carbon copy of GMA.
It doesn't look like the GMA3 brand is going away. According to TV listings, as of yesterday ABC changed the name of its 1pm ET hour from Pandemic: What You Need to Know to GMA3: What You Need to Know. It still has the same hosts as under the previous title, rather than the GMA3 crew, but it seems like ABC is keeping the GMA3 brand alive for the show's eventual return.
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48 minutes ago, Spring Rubber said:
Does anybody think it's a questionable decision to launch News Nation during the week before Labor Day rather than the week after Labor Day? Especially if Labor Day winds up being the safest holiday of the year due to COVID-19 case decline, I picture a lot of people being out and about and nowhere near a TV set watching WGN America. Just seems like a Tuesday 9/8 launch would be better from a ratings standpoint. I'm sure they have their reasons, though...
It might be better this way to use the week before Labor Day as sort of a "soft launch" to get some of the kinks out of the way when there is potentially a smaller audience. Chances are there will be some issues/glitches when the show first launches.
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Not just Sinclair's legal team, but also the FCC's compliance officer who is tasked with keeping Sinclair in check. That, I imagine, will be the bigger obstacle than Sinclair's own attorneys.
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WLEX meteorologist Jill Szwed's last day at the station is May 24. WTEN has hired her to be the station's new weekday morning meteorologist. She starts at the Albany station next month.
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34 minutes ago, MorningNews said:
I don’t necessarily understand why companies wouldn’t be advertising. We have seen unprecedented spikes in consumption of goods and services. Outside of public venues or the energy industry, I’m curious to understand why other industries are reducing advertising. Probably just a reaction to a global recession?
A lot of retailers and restaurants across the country are either closed or operating in a limited capacity right now. The travel and hospitality industries have virtually been shut down for the most part. Either those businesses don't see a need to advertise right now while they're not running at full capacity or they have had to cut back on their advertising budgets to help deal with less revenue coming in.
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It'll be WTTV (Indianapolis) this weekend, with Debby Knox anchoring on Saturday and Bob Donaldson Sunday.
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1 hour ago, oknewsguy said:
Somebody didn't check with their editior or somebody didn't know that the W/K originates along the Mississippi River
I'm convinced Broadcasting & Cable doesn't have any editors. They have way too many factual/spelling/grammatical errors to have editors checking stories before they're posted.
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54 minutes ago, CubsFan79 said:
DISNEY owns ESPN,ABC, and some elements of FOX(21 Century ). I am surprised they didn't get the FOX tv and regionals, now off too Sinclair.
Disney couldn't buy the Fox network. Federal regulations prevent one company from owning two of the Big 4 broadcast networks. Disney would have had to sell ABC if it wanted to acquire the Fox network. And the Fox RSNs were part of the sale to Disney, but the Department of Justice forced Disney to sell them in order to gain approval for the rest of the deal. They eventually went to an ownership group led by Sinclair.
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14 hours ago, EastTennesseeWXGeek said:
How can I join the Discord? There's something here on the TVNewsTalk website that says you can join it, but it won't let me.
12 hours ago, oknewsguy said:Here's the screenshot of what it would look like and there should be a button that looks something like that down below in this post
Not to take this thread too far off topic, but I tried to join the Discord yesterday, too, and when I clicked the Join link, I got this error message:
Quote[[Template brilliantdiscord/front/invites/accept is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]
That might be what EastTenneseeWXGeek is talking about when he says it won't let him join.
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Here's Sinclair's statement. FS West and Prime Ticket were dropped, along with YES. The other 19 FS-branded RSNs will remain on YouTube TV.
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22 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:
That article was from last week. See the links in my post above the one you quoted. YTTV dropped YES and Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket (maybe others too) overnight last night. From tweets I've seen, YTTV is dropping some of the Sinclair-owned RSNs but has not released a full list of which ones are being dropped.
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After a short-term extension, YouTube TV has dropped at least some of the Sinclair RSNs, including YES -- which tweeted a pretty angry statement, even throwing Sinclair under the bus.
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ESPN has cancelled afternoon show High Noon. It'll air through next month.
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7 minutes ago, Spintech33 said:
My guess is local at 6:30.. Hold up. KYW radio doesn't do CBS Evening News?
I know WCBS Radio which is also under the Entercom radio network does CBS Evening news with an extended version at 7PM.
According to the daily schedule on the station's site, the CBS Evening News airs from 6:30-6:45pm, then the station goes local at 6:45.
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WTEN morning forecaster Jess Briganti is leaving the Albany station when her contract ends next month. Her last day on-air will be March 11.
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On Jim's last day at WNYT, reporter Mark Mulholland confirms he will slide into Jim's chair on the 5 and 6pm newscasts. I haven't seen information about who will take over the 11.