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On 9/10/2020 at 3:20 PM, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

Hearing from friends at non-affiliated Nexstar stations (particularly WDVM) as well as some at Nexstar fox stations that the whole “no more CNN video” thing is an absolute shit show, as one could expect. They are literally having to take full screen video from tweets from reporters in other cities in some cases, since they have no VO for national stories.

I wonder how FOX & FOX NEWS EDGE will retaliate against this when contracts come up for Nexstar FOX stations?    That will be interesting to see. I'll also be curious to see how much the national news picture will change on Nexstar stations now that they won't have access to FOX NEWS EDGE, NBC NEWS CHANNEL , ABC NEWS 1, CBS NEWS PATH, & CNN NEWS SOURCE--I'm guessing the viewers will eventually notice. 

BNC launched this morning 8/31/20 at 9AM Eastern time on DirecTV.       It's on DirecTV channel #342.    

KCDO re-added NewsNet at 12:01 AM Friday 8/28/20 in doing so they dropped Buzzer & the Liquidation Channel on 3.3. 

19 hours ago, MarkBRollins88_v2 said:

Can you explain?

 

 

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Also... here’s WRTV’s open...

 

 

That looks like the social media name for that reporter on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & other social media platforms, a lot of stations do that now.

It sounds as if KYES is going to simulcast KTVA for a while until they get things up and going, then GCI will determine who to sell the KTVA non license assets to. 

KMGH & KOAA to be removed from DISH around 5pm MDT Today. 

I think this new program will do very well.  It will be nice to see CNBC balance out coverage from MSNBC in the evening.

That must be a first, a reporter with a newsnet mic flag..  Never seen that on there before.

I Have watched news net now enough to know 2 things.  1) They don't update there "news wheel" and  website nearly enough & 2)  Remington has a hard time articulating his sentences.  

7 hours ago, TSSZNews said:

So WTSP's new look, retro logo and all, was farmed out to an ad agency, per FTVLive.

They also did WXIA.

I Wonder if they will end up doing, the other Tegna stations in the future??     I Think WTSP has a good look with that teal color.

It's amazing to me that they wouldn't have a backup plan for something like this

Gee didn't catch the whole broadcast on KCNC but the last 10 mins had audio issues, very low volume and a persistent buzz.

KUSA Rolled out the new website format this afternoon. KTVD has not switched.

On 4/8/2020 at 2:25 PM, channel2 said:

I'm not clamoring for a sale. I just worry about what it would mean for the likes of KUSA if TEGNA ended up being sold to private equity and, likely, sold for parts. I am worried about TEGNA's direction as a whole, given that they seem to have no broader strategy than "not being bought out." I don't like standardization either, and I love Troika but find their TEGNA look to be a little bland and inflexible. But I have no idea who might do a better job running the group than the current TEGNA management. Sure as hell not private equity firms or hedge fund guys.

I'd love to see KUSA as an NBC O&O, not that I'm a fan of Comcast by any means. But maybe NBC would force KUSA to do more hard news instead of the  "Story Tellers" & "Spangler Science" series stuff they currently do.     I'd like to see KUSA replicate what KCNC did in the early 90s with all of the news broadcasts they used to have outside of network programing.

I Think Disney made a big mistake a few years ago in not sticking with "ABC NEWS NOW" and turning that into a cable channel.  I think that could have been a cash cow for Disney, but here we are.

NewsNet is carrying a white house presser LIVE, this is the first time I have ever seen NewsNet carry anything live before--they are slowing coming up in the world.     I'm watching the stream on there website.

On 3/30/2020 at 9:06 AM, RJP said:

Tegna-itis has well and truly reached WTHR:

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/3/26/getting-out-of-traffic

 

WTHR said it will no longer have a dedicated person covering traffic. “The traditional traffic reporter will not exist in this new model,” WTHR General Manager and President Michael Brouder said. “The role will be shared among weather, a social reporter and, if warranted, an anchor. [It] all depends on the story of traffic on the particular day.”

I don't think any station needs traffic reports anyway, traffic reports are only useful if your listening to the radio in your car.   The fact more stations haven't dumped them yet is odd to me, especially considering google maps & bing maps will alert you if there is a slowdown right on your cell phone.

Curious as to why, maybe WJZ or WBZ isn't taking over WCBS's news broadcasts they are closer to New York.   Is it because KCBS is a bigger news operation?

Interesting, I wonder how Gray would run 9NEWS & Channel 20 (KTVD) ?     It might be a good change for the two stations.    They would gain new sister stations, KKCO (11 NEWS), KJCT-LP (NEWS 8 ) In Grand Junction & KKTV in Colorado Springs/Pueblo. 

2 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

I think I'll skip that, thanks.

I Was going to not re scann and skip this, but I have had a terrible picture on 2.2 Court TV and on 2.3 Comet TV since Monday. And then this morning I had no picture at all on 9.1, 9.2, 9.4 & 20.1 so I re scanned. 

1 hour ago, channel2 said:

I did notice that KCNC wasn't going to carry Circle in the run-up to its launch...

 

I take it CBS is another station group that's stingy about subchannels? The diginets they own or have a stake in get the plum CBS O&O positions and everything else gets shuffled off to a duopoly partner if they have one (which KCNC doesn't)?

No CBS O&O with CBS as it's main channel is carrying this.  CBS Television Stations, Inc has it on CW or My Network TV stations.

KUSA Launched Circle TV this morning, so everyone in Denver needs to Re-Scan there tv's.    Circle TV is a Country network, KUSA has it on 9.6 over the air.

https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/television/circle-9news/73-1826f44b-2084-42bf-9358-0de2f95ac4e0

There website still just has pictures of the studio, no news articles or bios or anything.  Unless they have a website i don't know about.

Here in Denver I have noticed in the past 2 weeks, that the TODAY show doesn't begin airing until 7:01AM because of commercials and with it's long into now it doesn't technically start until 7:02.  Anyone else notice this slight delay? 

2 hours ago, hankthetank23 said:

Still no update on the former Dispatch stations? Someone said that they’d be getting the graphics in March, but why wait so long?

Could it have something to do with computer systems & master control systems?

Look at what nexstar is dealing with in terms of former tribune stations..