patlovestv

At some point in recent days, the website has been revised with an updated launch date of April 2.

KDOC in Orange County/LA market changed hands and flipped to religious programming as of late this week.

Between this and the morning news block coming to KCAL, there seem to be a lot of displaced mid- and lower-tier syndicated shows in the area going into the new season.

I don't think this has been shared here yet. The next season of HOT BENCH will see two new judges joining Michael Corriero in the fall.

That's because Tanya Acker and Patricia DiMango have decamped for an upcoming Freevee court show produced by Judy Sheindlin and company. TRIBUNAL will pair the HB alums with Sheindlin's son Adam Levy, and see Byrd returning as bailiff.

https://deadline.com/2022/04/judy-sheindlin-panel-court-show-tribunal-amazon-freevee-judge-judy-bailiff-petri-hawkins-byrd-patricia-dimango-tanya-acker-ordered-1235011842/

CBS46 in Atlanta will not carry Dr. Oz's replacement from Sony, The Good Dish, opting instead for 3 p.m. local news (and Inside Edition). I wonder what kind of carriage The Good Dish will ultimately get, and how many other stations/groups might decline to pick it up.

What used to be the show's website now appears to be fully promoting the campaign, which seems...not ideal for station partners:

https://doctoroz.com/

Not the first time NBC has tried this out. From WSJ in 2017:

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Sometimes networks sneak in a second airing of a show and add the additional viewers to tally of the original telecast and hope no one notices.

 

NBC in 2015 persuaded almost a dozen of its local TV station affiliates to rerun "Nightly News" after 2 a.m. At the time, NBC said, it was focused "on ways to reach our audience when and how they want to be reached."

 

In Los Angeles, KABC runs ABC World News 2x in early fringe...once at 3:30 p.m. (taking the East Coast feed) and again at 6:30.

I'd go so far as to assume this kind of ratings ploy is also behind the trend of double-running syndicated shows like Disney's "Tamron Hall" and "Kelly & Ryan" during overnight hours.

On 10/2/2020 at 7:39 AM, patlovestv said:

Sinclair is staffing up for its national "headline service"-style morning show, designed to air on CW and MyNet stations beginning in 2021. It'll be led by former D.C. anchor Jan Jeffcoat and former Seattle anchor Caye Thompson.

Now we have a name and time period information for this. It'll be called THE NATIONAL DESK:

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Airing weekday mornings 6-9 a.m. ET and MT (5-8 CT, 6-8 PT), The National Desk will be available to viewers across Sinclair’s CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, as well as on all Sinclair station websites and STIRR, Sinclair’s free, over-the-top streaming platform. The National Desk will also be available on several Sinclair Fox affiliates.

On 10/8/2020 at 3:09 PM, T.L. Hughes said:

"News from Tubi" is only available on Tubi's Google Play, Roku and Amazon Fire TV apps; curiously, they didn't bother to roll it out to its other apps, most glaringly, its Apple app.

I agree the omission of an Apple/iOS app is troubling. For what it's worth, users may not be missing much. It's been nearly a week and I have yet to find "News on Tubi" in the Roku or Google Play versions of the app. Curious if anyone has had success testing this out so far.

Sinclair is staffing up for its national "headline service"-style morning show, designed to air on CW and MyNet stations beginning in 2021. It'll be led by former D.C. anchor Jan Jeffcoat and former Seattle anchor Caye Thompson.

BNC also has new distribution via Pluto TV; I believe its content can also be found via The Roku Channel.