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    Retransmission Consent squabbles

    in General TV

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    5 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

    The only reason WISH ended up with CW in the first place was because Tribune had too much on their plate at the time when they stole CBS from WISH and LIN/Media General.  Now that Nexstar took over WISH and they ended up being spun off to DuJuan McCoy when Nexstar traded up to WTTV/WXIN, it's basically a news-intensive independent station.  The gravy train may never come and the best option may be to opt for must-carry status to get themselves back on satellite.

    Yep. I highly doubt that CW saw that Tribune-Nexstar deal coming.

     

    Either way, it's gonna be an interesting relationship as the affiliation deal rolls on IMO

    Retransmission Consent squabbles

    in General TV

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Benny Vandergast said:

    A big showdown is brewing between DISH and Nexstar. Both sides are already in full PR campaign mode. Here's the DISH press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexstar-media-group-threatens-largest-local-station-blackout-in-tv-history-according-to-dish-301181053.html

    Cheap Charlie is running wild again. Hopefully, more and more people get off of that wild ride

    19 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

    WISH is also not available on YouTubeTV or Hulu Live.  It seems that the cable companies are the only ones carrying DuJuan McCoy's stations.

     

    It seems the smaller owners are just as bad than the mega-ones with the blackouts, but they have to deal with the mega-companies since they have little to no clout to negotiate on a larger scale.

    I do wonder if CW is pondering trying to get out of the affiliation deal. Disputes like these affect ratings and Indy is a relatively big market and is not worth keeping the CW affiliation if the owner is having a go with all of the TV providers bar cable

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted · Edited by Yankees4life

    14 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

    WPGA lives on, even after the original owners filed for bankruptcy in 2015.  The Debtors-in-possession sold the station to Marquee, and now it's a repository of subchannels, with MeTV on the primary feed. 

     

    It's probably the best outcome of all, even though it's likely trounced by WMAZ, but could be nipping at the heels of WGXA and WMGT, given their efforts to begin with🤣.

    I was talking about the ownership group but ok

    Out & About

    in General TV

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    1 hour ago, timanny said:

    KUSI is like a mom-and-pop local version of Fox News to a degree. It's more Fox News than Fox 5. Remember, this is the station that let John Coleman go off about global warming. They clearly have a slant. Then again, that is their audience.

    Yep. Their owner is a conservative so that makes sense...

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted · Edited by Yankees4life

    14 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

    Agreed on WMGT.  And to think that the WGXA situation was all because WPGA dropped ABC over "moral" issues, and that was a trainwreck of its own.  I'm sure that Macon doing newscasts for Albany's WFXL stretches them even thinner.   It's the darkside of Sinclair few talk about, especially in this part of the country where they literally stretch themselves thin just to put enough on the air for them to offer the illusion of doing newscasts.

     

    WBIR, although it's full on Tegna, still has a lot of the "folksy-ness" features that make it unique.   And their WTNZ newscasts do not use the C-Clarity theme, but use Arnold's Canvas instead.  I wonder if Lockwood has a hand in this?

    Those old WPGA owners wished they didn't drop ABC 🤣😂

     

    They don't even exist anymore!

    WNYW - FOX5 News

    in Station Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Yankees4life

    16 hours ago, NYNews said:

    Just saw a commercial for Lori Stokes indicating to watch her on GDNY and now the 6pm as well. 

    Well...damn. Lori Stokes jumped ship to FOX 5? 😳

     

    I must've missed this. 

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