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On 1/8/2022 at 7:57 PM, GoldenShine9 said:

Does Nexstar produce any shows? That would give them a big opening there.

Nexstar produces whatever is on NewsNation as well as The Hill's morning show.

On 2/17/2021 at 5:31 PM, CLETVFan said:

WOIO seems to be in the ratings basement.  Outside of CBS lead-ins, they are dead last.  Overall, they are doing horribly.  WJW is tops and WEWS is doing well and much better than before.  WKYC keeps dropping as a lot of people are not responding to its current approach.

Isn't WKYC #1 at 11pm? But anyways, WEWS is a very stable station and I wouldn't mind CBS moving there, causing WOIO to become an independent. 

1 hour ago, mrschimpf said:

It does make me wonder if Gray is doing the same; buying up these stations to be extended nodes in an ad-hoc DTT network to move those no-hope licenses (usually from Edge Spectrum, ARK, and HC2) and eventually super-serve a larger market

This also makes me wonder about W30EY-D. Gray appears to want to relay WXIX closer to Dayton. While not a larger market, part of me wonders if Gray wants to cover the entire nation with full-power "hubs" and fill in other markets using LPs (albeit with syndication blackouts) so they don't have to worry about broadcast range. In Ohio, Gray could relay WTVG in Lima and WOIO in Columbus with LPs. 

8 hours ago, newsteam13 said:

Will the CW have itself a news division by way of NewsNation?

That will probably happen. NewsNation can put a seperate 6-7pm news magazine without ads similar to PBS NewsHour, and that could lure some viewers away to The CW.

9 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

And if CBS decides to dump them from their owned stations,  Nexstar would benefit from getting them, especially in Philadelphia (WPHL), San Francisco (KRON) and Tampa (WTTA).

I don't think CBS will get rid of ALL of their CW O&Os, just some. 

1 hour ago, CircleSeven said:

So follow up. Weigel has now completed the WJLP deal, as of today (1/7). 

Good. I'm hoping Weigel axes the more...questionable subchannels, as well has audio simulcasts that are just consuming bandwidth. 

1 hour ago, The Frog said:

“I think you’ll see us do more content acquisitions and less technical acquisitions or the actual plumbing,” said Thomas Carter, Nexstar’s president and chief operating officer, during the company’s third-quarter earnings call with investors in November

Nexstar has basically implied that they are content with the number of full power TV stations they have, and will not acquire any more besides any potential sale of the smaller market CW O&Os. 

12 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Oddly enough, WAVE competitor WHAS used a similiar logo for years, until the end of the Belo era when the "11" was taken out of the circle.

If Tegna ever rebooted one of their old logos, this one might look good on them now.

 

Probably with some new graphics (Tegna ABC perhaps?) and replacing C Clarity with production music.

4 hours ago, iron_lion said:

I would like to see this old/new blend trend happen! Wish stations could add their own spin on the corporate graphics to add a nice balance between uniqueness and uniformity.

WAVE fixed up its own in-house take on LIM4.1. They don't like Gray's "corporate graphics", a hodgepodge of garbage looks here and there, replaced frequently. New look?

20 minutes ago, Wildish said:

It’s not really speculation, it’s an actual news story. I’d argue it belongs here.

Yeah. you have a point, but let's not speculate here.

New graphics as well? 2019-2020 look refreshed for VizRT? Either way, this is shaping up to be a great rebrand.

1 minute ago, noggi said:

That will look amazing on some big tacky 3D poorly textured random shapes with some lens flares. 

The WAVE logo is usually applied to flat elements only-don't be concerned about that. Also, have you seen their previous graphics? (Videos are in this thread)

44 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

 

No one should be really surprised. For the last several years it seems that the network's goal is for the affiliate to air their daytime show on its recommended timeslot. Look at all of those stations that use to carry Y&R at 4pm prior to a few years ago (i.e. KMOV, WAFB).

I'm not concerned about WNCN moving Y&R to the recommended time slot, but I'm more concerned about what they are replacing it in that timeslot.

14 minutes ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

Talk about going Retro! Looks like WAVE will be getting a new logo this year to commemorate their 75th Anniversary. From what I've been told, it'll debut on air early this year.

Finally! This is what I’ve been hoping for all these years. Modernity has been something WAVE pushed really hard as of late. So a “fresh” logo design was in order.

19 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

Yep, it's official.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/cbs-17-adds-4-p-m-newscast-young-restless-to-air-earlier/

Why? Just why?

3 hours ago, phillynewslover said:

TV Passport is listing a 4p newscast starting January 17.

Yikes. One more reason to recommend that station broadcasting on Channel 17, WNCN's namesake. You know the callsign.

1 hour ago, Nelson R. said:

WRAL started the practice  and WNCN continued it in 2016. Thought WNCN would move it when it got the affiliation. My Carolina Talk moves up to 9am. I imagine they will start a 4pm news.

 Nexstar couldn't be that shortsighted. This is not Lexington, KY where you have a low-quality competitor (cough, WTVQ). In the Triangle, your competitors are some of the best stations in the entire country. There will be no way WNCN can poach viewers away unless Nexstar does something different, and launching another newscast is not the solution.

On 12/27/2021 at 6:04 PM, CLETVFan said:

WOHZ and is showing CBS Lima

Quick reminder: The CBS affiliate in Lima is WOHL-CD, owned by the owners of WDRB (Block Communications).

14 minutes ago, Yankees4life said:

new music as well as they switch out Inergy for The Rock

The Rock is garbage IMO. I would've preferred NBC to sell back the O&O package to SAM for syndication rather than keeping The Rock. CBS Local *might* have been another option if they wanted to pull a WVIT and use the Enforcer logo.

1 hour ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

Hilton Howell highly prefers that all stations use Gray graphics.

Like WOIO's? Graphics implemented during Gray ownership are considered Gray graphics in my books. Howell probably does not care where those graphics came from. So, they're going out-of-house. 

25 minutes ago, pinghawi said:

Does anyone know if and/or when the Quincy Media acquired stations owned by Gray Media will update/refresh the current graphics?

We don't know what's happening with Gray graphics at this point. The Meredith hub's fate is unknown, so before any of the ex-Quincy stations get new graphics, Gray must decide whether to shift these stations to the Meredith hub or to shut the Meredith hub down and go out-of-house (a la Page 1 of this thread).

KNSD has the new bug as of today.

5 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

The CSD is clueless. An L3 with 5 different colors is too damn busy!

I mean...the CSD's work here is very childish, like a lot of Nexstar stations' in-house work. New watchers (important for the marketers) will not be captivated if your graphics are garbage. Nexstar, please hire CSDs that know today's design languages.

1 hour ago, LexTVandRadio said:

We've had some severe weather today (again) here in Kentucky. 

 

They broke into programming.

 

 

I'm still not convinced that WDKY had a reason (besides network affiliation) to not use the KOIN package. As for the logo, it's basically a coloured version of the generic Tegna Fox affiliate logos.

As for WDKY, the rebrand took place as scheduled. New Nexstar website as well. IMO, the new logo reminds me of KGO-TV. I'm not aware of any airchecks yet, so I don't know if the ticker was removed (Good for them if they did!).

28 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Why keep the Fox 46 branding? With everything that Fox did there, maybe they community soured the name.

 I like WOIO's non-newscast branding (Cleveland's CBS 19). In addition, this is only applicable to non-newscast branding. The news department (which most people see) can keep their own branding.