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On 5/27/2022 at 4:55 PM, TexasTVNews said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-calls-off-twitter-deal-amid-misconduct-allegations/ss-AAWtuEW?ocid=chromentpnews

Whew

4 hours ago, KRAP-TV said:

She’s running out of channels...

Soon, she'll join OAN

On 5/17/2022 at 12:19 PM, Action Newsroom said:

Tegna shareholders have approved the sale.

The only thing that matters is if the FCC approves it. (God, I hope not)

1 hour ago, The Frog said:

The CW essentially functions as a hybrid linear network/AVOD service. Putting a paywall on their content would be a mistake.

Yep. But with #NexstarLogic, you don't know what we'll get. I'm sure they'll be a lot of pissed off female cordcutters if they put a paywall on that site.

15 hours ago, Duc4TVNewsTalk said:

And now WTNH had got its news open.

 

That's a "y tho" from me. Breakthrough was a superior theme compared to this nonsense to

Well...why not. Might as well move one of your 100 cable networks to OTA. I wonder if the gameplan is to set up an ATSC 3.0 subscription which will give you MSNBC, CNBC, USA and Syfy

Good God. Those newscasts can't get any worse. From some of the stuff I seen from Marquee, more people will be running to WCMH to keep their sanity

On 4/8/2022 at 5:20 PM, TVNewsLover said:

So far today:

Morning: Matt & Alicia

Noon: Alicia (solo) (also said Sarah would be along later)

4pm: Matt & Alyana 

5pm: Matt & Alyana

6pm: Matt

10pm: Nydia (solo)

11pm: Matt

Poor Matt. That is overkill

3 hours ago, Samantha said:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2022/04/05/kris-pickel-fired-arizonas-family-phoenix/9478247002/

 

Kris Pickel is out at KPHO/KTVK due to a "business decision".

"Business decision" sounds like either "too old" or "too expensive"

Yeah...this newscast is brutal to watch. I don't blame Austin too much. I blame Cocola as this was his call. It might've been more worth it to renew the newsharing agreement with KFSN. This is...not working

1 hour ago, LTSC1980 said:

 

Why do they do this?

10 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

New M&A. 

 

Tegna is acquiring Yorktown, VA LP station WYSJ-CD from Jacobs Broadcasting System for $1.15M.

 

But buried in the transaction discription (p.2 on PDF) was that WVEC is planning to file a petition to move from VHF 11 to UHF 35.

 

Looks like we got a ATSC 3.0 repeater for WVEC with that purchase and WVEC itself will move to a more powerful signal

1 hour ago, CarolinaWxGuy said:

 

 KIRO 7's Claire Anderson is the new morning meteorologist at WTTG.

From Washington to Washington...

12 minutes ago, Requiere said:

West Palm Beach is getting ATSC 3.0 on March 8th. Don't really have that much info apart from the host being WWHB Azteca 48 which is kind of surprising for me.

 

WWHB Azteca 48 already has a translator on WTVX 34.2

Finally. Maybe, it'll be worth it to get a ATSC 3.0 tuner if one of those signals can reach Miami (WWHB won't but maybe some other station) instead of settling for one channel

18 hours ago, iron_lion said:

Wow that's bad! And wow that's a lot of network affiliations!

This is what happens when you have a monopoly on a market. 

17 hours ago, CarolinaWxGuy said:

 KMID got the KOIN graphics recently and that 2 logo reminds me of WBBH's or WKRN's old logo.

And they switched out Ariel!! Yes!!

That leaves WVUE, KCBD, KAUZ/KSWO, KGMB/KHNL as the remaining stations with the old Raycom graphics

11 hours ago, LTSC1980 said:

 

Yeah...that's pretty bad. They don't even know what they want to be. Fox News? Fox 59 News? 59 News? And Ariel being the theme too? Yeah...

3 hours ago, dman748 said:

Bloomberg is now reporting that Standard/Apollo are nearly a deal to buy Tegna for $24-a-share

 

What's interesting is that what's included is that the shares will increase if the regulatory approval takes a long (and I mean a long) time to approve (which is a possibility).

 

A deal could be announced as soon as later this morning.

WHOA. Didn't see Standard in the mix. Looks like Kim always get his man (or company). It's gonna be interesting to see how two hedge funds run these stations...

12 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

New M&A. Gray is getting another LP.  

 

They're getting KTEV-LD in Texarkana, AR from Buna Group, Inc. for $25K.

 

And I look at the contour and see how small it is. It doesn't even serve all of the city of Texarkana. Like central part of the city and areas north of it. Should they get the greenlight, I wouldn't be surprised if Gray replaces the antenna and have it at a greater reach in that vicinity.

Looks like that's gonna be a KSLA repeater. 

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

What about WPCH?

 

Sad to say that the station evolved from the groundbreaking WTBS into a local independent station running syndication repeats (mostly at Meredith's behest when they acquired the station from WarnerMedia).  

 

While it would nice to use that station as a launching pad for a new-generation SuperStation, it may serve the area better as a full-powered Telemundo station and use the acquired low-power station for their experimentation and content origination (to be expanded in the digital realm).

 

Plus, with their efforts in Cleveland, they can be replicated (and even refined) in Atlanta.

Unfortunately, without any sports (or significant investment into programming in general), those days are long gone...

2 hours ago, qunewsguy said:

They're in it for the affiliation not the channel position. Odds are Telemundo will wind up on one of WGCL's subchannels.

And scooping up Telemundo in a top market that has a fair share of Latinos is worth it really. 

1 hour ago, Samantha said:

I'd like to induct a new Canadian member of the Worst News Opens Club... Bad 3D, vapid music... Earl Mann's VO is the only good thing about this. What was WIC thinking!?

They spend a bit too much money on that

5 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

I mean, Sam is the former Chief Met for the top-rated station in the country and he's working early AM. I'd be thankful for him if I were ABC. Who get's someone of this caliber to do mornings? Hell, who get's someone of Lee Goldberg's and Sam Champion's caliber on the same airwaves. Nuts.

They had the Big Three one time either. Evans, Champion and Goldberg all in one station

They're a bit too late on the diginet weather channel train there.

I don't see this lasting long...