Yankees4life

45 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

Yet another network that GOLtv, a network which pretty much carries niche Portuguese and South American soccer, has lasted longer than. They've outlived Fox Soccer, and now undoubtedly beIN.

Hehehe. The cockroach that keeps on giving

9 hours ago, Roadrunner said:

The station's actually been seeing a constant exodus since last year without many new talent coming in (like maybe two new faces).

They never did find a direct replacement for Bob Frier after he left last summer, and seem to have forced Kristin to lead the news at 4AM. 

Robert Guaderrama and Glenn Richards left in April.

Heather Gustafson left in March.

Mike Magnoli left late last year. 

Brian Scott also left last summer.

For a market like Orlando, the station seems to have quite a bit of turnover, to say the least. 

It's tough to get some eyeballs in the newscasts if people are coming in and out. I imagine Orlando news TV ratings suffers due to this craziness

1993 WRAL news open (skip to 28:54)
https://youtu.be/WQRcsgK0WwQ

1993 WRAL news open (skip to 29:53)
https://youtu.be/mEw57JJEKkI

Looks like NTV Canada is took the EWN font from WABC

1996 KDKA news open (skip to 28:48)
https://youtu.be/h894kuUgbQI

2004 WGME news open (skip to 39:11)
https://youtu.be/4TY4gHH8sPM

1993 WGME news open (skip to 52:19)
https://youtu.be/6wyJrd2kxRo

32 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

That's probably up to the board that now controls the church and WBNX (set up while Angley's health was failing). 

 

It's seems more likely now that Ernest has passed and it was the same story when Rex Humbard resigned from his own church in the 80s (moving to Florida), setting the stage for WBNX (originally owned by another related entity and purchased by Angley) and the later purchase The Cathedral of Tomorrow and related entities soon after.

 

Easy duopoly bait for Tegna, Scripps (since Inyo owns WVPX and WDLI) or Nexstar.  Or it could be sold to someone like Marquee or even Weigel to be a repository of subchannels. I doubt they'd try to keep 55.1 as an independent like they did with flagship WCIU before it picked up the CW.

I don't think they have a choice as the affiliation agreements are all tied up ATM. If Weigel owns it, you might as well call it "The X"

22 minutes ago, SoFloTVClassics said:

Now the station can be put up for sale.

It's a no brainer for Nexstar...as WBNX is on an UHF frequency. They can easily move WJW on there and place the subchannels (and the new one coming out) on their own virtual channel (55.1)...

19 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

When NBC Sports Philadelphia launched as CSN Philadelphia in 1997, they used the terrestrial infrastructure left behind by PRISM to distribute the channel keeping satellite companies from access. The FCC closed this loophole in 2010, but the issues remain.

Yep, I heard of that. It's an obvious excuse for Comcrap as they wanted the channel to remain exclusive to them so that more people can subscribe to them. Now with cordcutting becoming more popular, clearly they can't do that anymore. This model I imagine will be a win-win for both sides

2 hours ago, dman748 said:

Baltimore Sun reporting that the Maryland State AG's Office has submitted a complaint to the FCC requesting the agency to investigate WBFF for it's bias, inflammatory, slander among other things.

I doubt this will go anywhere...

3 hours ago, Wildish said:

I hate to say it, but you know who is the one free agent that would save this channel?

 

Lou Dobbs.

Maybe 15 years ago 

1 hour ago, JCB4TV said:

NBC Sports could sell its RSNs or make them available on Peacock

 

NBC was apparently ready to put NBC Sports Philadelphia on Peacock in time for the Phillies, but had to push it back.

Philadelphians would LOVE this. NBCS Philly has had a long history of distribution issues (DTV and Dish doesn't carry it still) so getting it ala carte would work instead of shifting TV providers

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

The BSNs will be offered DTC starting next year.

Looks like they got the thumbs up from the existing providers here. Gonna be interesting to see how they'll handle the extra traffic and whatnot... 

6 hours ago, dman748 said:

Follow up:

 

Standard General is now launching an independent investigation into the racism allegations, PDF of the investigation which is redacted

This is gonna be interesting 

We got a 1991 WHAS news open (skip to 28:57)
https://youtu.be/3x29wtwskwE

Three 1985 KWTV newscasts
https://youtu.be/trQrR7qJ7Wk
https://youtu.be/htT-ToUGsfw
https://youtu.be/uhfhCSfprMY

12 hours ago, Justin Hill said:

WBKB-TV 11, the CBS/Fox/ABC affiliate out of Alpena, Michigan is a textbook example of a small-market station with a low-budget setup compared to other stations in neighboring media markets...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Already covered that station a bit here. Their news opens are cringeworthy as hell. 

Roku is a repeat offender with these disputes. I have no real use for them since they keep deleting good apps. Android TV devices/FireTV are the way to go

1 hour ago, CircleSeven said:

Nexstar is launching a new diginet to complement with Antenna TV. Rewind TV debuts on September 1.

 

I don't get it but I guess they need something to fill the void that Scripps may leave their affiliates with...

11 hours ago, dman748 said:

And in an interesting twist, now MLB wants to take all of its RSNs DTC

 

This should be interesting

And I want a pony. Doesn't matter what MLB wants as the RSNs are at mercy of their current providers too and I imagine they'll all lawyer up if something like this happens

I hope we see some more movement over here in Miami. I cant imagine WSVN and WPLG being content on keeping their VHF slots ATM

3 hours ago, Chicago News Boy said:

Just goes to show how out of touch I’ve become with CBS 2’s constant musical chairs

Yeah...it's a joke. Its impossible to compete with WGN, WLS and WMAQ with nonsense decision making like this. Constantly changing your anchors is not a good idea...

2 hours ago, MartheJokester said:

 

KIMA/KEPR Action News finally switched yesterday.

They met halfway,  it looks like 

11 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

Gray is LP-picking again.

 

They're buying an unbuilt permit K31MK-D in Lawton, OK from New Media Partners LLC fo $40K.

 

Gray has also filed an app to light this LP up at a full 15kW.

Hmm...I guess this will be a KSWO/KAUZ repeater

46 minutes ago, Newsjunkie24 said:

 

That's awful. No parent should ever have to bury a child. My condolences go out to Marsh and her family.

Especially at TWO years old. His life barely began. He never had a chance

On 4/15/2021 at 5:07 PM, CircleSeven said:

 

 

Oof. That does not sound fun. I hope she gets out of those surgeries well...

17 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Mission has yet to consummate on the WNAC acquisition from Super Towers. The FCC approved the deal back in November.

 

The reasoning for filing this 2nd extension is for the seller to "resolve accounting issues related to the closing".

Or...."The left hand can't reach the right hand"