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16 hours ago, iron_lion said:

Star Jones has begun as the adjudicator on Divorce Court. She appears to be fitting into the role nicely. Judge Lynn Toler was the best, I wish Judge Mablean Ephraim could come off that low brow Byron Allen court show and return to Divorce Court. 

I liked Judge Lynn the best. I liked the Divorce Court of the 2000s and early 2010's when it was more emotional and serious compared to the later seasons where it's now more humorous. I miss the old bailiff Joe as well.

7 hours ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:

I don't watch televangelist TV. Joel Osteen doesn't need another 5 or 10 new affiliates for his megachurch sermons. HOWEVER...I believe that if a local church wants to stream their services on YT or Facebook for those who can't be there, think about the older audience who are in nursing homes/etc. who also can't make it. Thus, make it available for a 9AM Sun slot on a local TV station as well. In TX and a lot of southern states, there's at least 1-2 churches minimum that sell time on local TV. Here in eastern WA, not so much.

There's two stations in Toledo that do it on Sun. mornings.

14 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

She needed to go the moment she got there... She's been shown all over the internet for the wrong reasons... She can go anytime

Is it because of the time she interrupted the Masters for severe weather coverage?

Someone said on the Discord that Karamo is a more civil version of Maury. There are no onset security guards, at least on the first episode. 

1 hour ago, mre29 said:

 

You haven't watched the Travel Channel in a while, have you?

 

I know that's it's changed to a paranormal theme, but it still would be a shame if it were to shut down.

I don't see this happening with NBCU and WBD merging. That's almost breaking antitrust laws and would lead to several congresspeople asking the DOJ to block it. Also, what would happen to CNN and Turner Sports if this were to go through?

Losing both the Travel Channel and Animal Planet would be a travesty in my opinion as both channels have been staples for decades though.

17 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

JHud and Sherri...great shows, thank goodness. Hopefully they'll move on from 'another Wendy' talk real fast, because they're none of that.

 

The complete dud for sure this year is iCrime, which I would call yet another 'crime porn' show. I've seen a few of these internationally where there's some host (either a female host being put on contract burn-off duty, or a military-looking guy with no sense of humor who has so much testosterone and muscle in him he's banned from even semi-pro pickleball) running down whatever's been submitted to their network, or from the "new crime + country we're in + caught on camera" YouTube search, and it's nothing but an hour of dread and terror with no levity to be found and it makes you want to build a bunker and hide from the world. If you need to die inside, look up an episode of C4 en alerta.

 

This is exactly like that, and I don't know why they needed Elizabeth Vargas; they could literally pay a stripper cop to present this on his off-hours and there's no difference. It's just crime after crime after crime filled with terrible phone or security cameras, lots of bleeping and blurring, a bunch of has-been 'experts' who add nothing except crime tips you learned from SafetyPup in 1988, and occasional victim interviews. It's pretty much yet another Scott Sternberg Production done on the cheap which only exists to scare people and keep MyNet affiliates on the air for two hours a day. Plus for some reason the host segments are 'filmized', when it looks like they were filmed on a TracFone Android, and I've seen better greenscreening on Zoom calls.

 

Also God, watching Elizabeth Vargas go from the ABC anchor desk, to 20/20, then to a failed AMW reboot and now this in four years...her agent not only needs to be fired, but have their license taken away. This show makes the $7 Bellum shows that never paid anybody look network-quality in comparison.

 

We still have the Amazon infomercial Ring Nation coming, but at least they plan to have humorous segments and Wanda Sykes as a host. This has none of that to save it.

Sounds like a waste for Elizabeth. I wonder how she'd do as a CourtTV anchor?

He's probably one of the most disliked people right now in the TV News business in general.

15 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

<sportstake>I mean it's an old and outdated graphics package for an old and outdated football team .</sportstake>

 

Meanwhile I checked out the HBCUGO broadcast game tonight...I do understand they intend to be going for the entertainment part of the football game, but I think they were having problems tonight; the time, down/distance and everything including the quarter had to be mentioned audibly instead of being in the bug (I don't even know if the triangle accents are for timeouts or merely decorative) and of course, no lines (when there was a score the bar faded out, suggesting they couldn't even do that on the fly!). I hope this is fixed, because even my local high school games on public access will throw in a scoreboard shot in a picture-in-picture if all else fails.

 

Most high school games on TV can show the time left on the clock or other information.

18 hours ago, DENDude said:

NewsNation is pathetic when it comes to breaking news, hell Thursday, "NewsNet" & One America News were both covering the news out of the UK regarding the Queen.   At this point it's fair to say News Nation is simply a pass through news network focused on only domestic news and a poor one at that.   

 

NO ONE I know watches News Nation, no one I know has ever heard of News Nation. 

I'm sure over its history, NewsNation is known by most people when it had any WGN related branding. I'm sure most people outside of TV and news enthusiasts have never heard of NewsNation. I'd bet most people I know have never heard of it unless they casually scroll through the guide. I had high hopes for the network, but the constant talent and programming changes compared to other outlets doesn't help either. It seems like maybe it's time to go back to general entertainment if the incoming changes don't move the ratings. I don't think the non-Chicago version of WGN America from 2014-21 was popular either with the exception of maybe a few originals.

3 hours ago, jd285 said:

Not only were NEWSnet covering the Queen’s death, they actually have someone stationed outside Buckingham Palace to cover the death.

Had no idea Newsnet had a European correspondent.

8 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

To be fair FNC was showing boring live coverage of a dull border apprehension at the US/Mexico border (aka them doing their job) with a whining pundit about the 'southern border crisis' as the other news channels switched to coverage before the death was announced, so they were doing worse.

 

Much worse is BBC America, which had...nothing. Not even a 'important news story, go to BBC World News for more information' ticker.

 

And honestly, this was more an international story than the domestic stuff that's NN's forte, so I can't be mad, or disappointed in them. Dan Abrahms is absolutely useless here and they don't have a big international bureau or 'royal expert', and you don't need one of their opinion folks leading coverage.

BBC World News is carrying it, but it's a channel that tends to be available only in higher tier packages. They've now started a ticker telling viewers to go to BBC World News or BBC'S website.

17 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

 

Tom Hanson.

I know of him from his time on Channel One News back in the early 2010's.

1 hour ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

Omar Sachedina began his run at CTV National News this past Monday. At the end of the broadcast, he addressed Lisa LaFlamme’s departure. Reaction has been mixed; some viewers acknowledge that Sachedina was put in a tough spot, while others think that he is simply towing the corporate line.

Sachedina is in an impossible position. He is more than likely a decent man and a good journalist, and he certainly had nothing to do with LaFlamme’s ouster. That said, his initial response to the firing was extremely tone deaf. That alone made him an even bigger punching bag than he already would’ve been (which is likely what the Bell suits want to deflect the attention from them).

You can tell he feels very sorry for Lisa and everything that's happened over the past month, but I feel that he's in a very tough situation. I believe he's the first Muslim to anchor a Canadian newscast which would've been talked about all over the country, but it won't because people are obviously very upset over the treatment of Lisa. I feel very sorry for Omar for becoming the new anchor under these circumstances. 

I actually have liked John on everything he's done and think he's a great politics reporter. Hope he does well on this new program.

Who does have CBS News have for a younger and vibrant personality? 

4 minutes ago, kfc513 said:

 

CMSD on CW43 - CW 43

 

 

And it's followed by Steve Wilkos. Interesting. Never seen school districts or schools put their classes on OTA TV. I've only seen it for churches during their Sunday services.

20 hours ago, CLETVFan said:

Dateline is leaving WBNX for WUAB and will air at 9am starting on September 19 replacing the Cleveland Metropolitan School District virtual classes hour.

WUAB aired virtual classes from Cleveland's school district? 

On 9/1/2022 at 11:55 AM, jase said:

‘Sports on tubi’ offers 10 (or so) live Sports Channels (Fox Sports, MLB network, etc…). Now I don’t believe they air a direct simulcast of FS1, the ‘possibility’ does exist.

The FOX Sports channel on Tubi and other services is just a "Best of" of their programming.

So this marks the 2nd return of the '87 theme, the first during Scott Pelley's run from 2011 to 2016.

8 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Jennifer Hudson's station/airtime list is out. (h/t @sanewsguy)

Going to WNWO to where Ellen is now at 4, just as I predicted.

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Jim Mueller, a WJ(K)W and WKYC sportscaster and Cleveland Browns color analyst from 1975-95 has passed away.

He was also a longtime spokesperson for (Ed) Mullinax Ford and Pat O'Brien Chevrolet.  I'm sure anyone growing up in Northeast Ohio remembers the jingle.

I don't see anything except for a few tweets.

He was also the PA Announcer at Browns games, but I know him best as the PA Announcer at ISC-owned tracks. Heard his voice numerous times at Michigan International Speedway. He was the pre-race track host and did things like announce the driver introductions. May he R.I.P.

17 hours ago, detroiter313 said:

Let us hope that Don Lemon and Oliver Darcy would be next to get the sack.....but, then again, I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.

On the TVNT Discord, there was a post shared from TheWrap that Lemon and Jim Acosta are staying put, for now. 

2 hours ago, CLETVFan said:

Chris Licht is obviously cleaning house.  It is not a surprise that Brian wasn't going to last under new management.

 

Here's more on the departure and cancellation: https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-brian-stelter-jim-acosta-don-lemon/

Paywalled. Have a summary?

3 hours ago, Nelson R. said:

Pictionary Station List. This can’t be complete. Lots of missing markets. It takes both of YBYL’s time slots here on WJZY. 11:30am and 12:30am. So likely either 25 Words or Less or YBYL moves to 1pm or WMYT, with the other airing at 11am, or maybe WJZY creates a 2 hour game show block and Rachael Ray moves to 1pm. Of course this could turn out to be wrong, as I learned with Young Sheldon and Nick Cannon last year. 

Nothing in Toledo yet, but WXYZ in Detroit gets a dreaded 1:30 AM slot.

Karamo is going to WUPW at 4, per a promo I saw during the Field of Dreams game.

Just saw a promo for Sherri. Going to WUPW at 2 in the slot where Maury is now.