MD TV

At upfronts, they said they're looking for more sports rights, including events on Sundays when there's no LIV:

https://deadline.com/2024/05/sports-rights-the-cw-nexstar-espn-1235918874/

Official:

The first 23 minutes of coverage was just posted:

The moment it was reported from Christina Pascucci's instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zQh3cy57f/?hl=en

edit: KTLA posted the initial coverage:

35 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

ABC was interested, but Allbritton wasn't interested in making multiple deals. That said, a decade later, I don't think Disney would be interested, for modern reasons. I also doubt Sinclair would be willing to part with their largest market.

Nevermind that it's an hour or so from hq.

With all the Caitlin Clark buzz, WTHR and stations in 11 other markets (including many non-Tegna stations) will carry 17 Indiana Fever games:

https://www.tegna.com/tegna-and-indiana-fever-expand-broadcast-distribution-of-the-fevers-exciting-upcoming-season-in-11-additional-markets/

On 3/26/2024 at 6:32 PM, The Frog said:

The CW is nearing a deal with the remnants of the Pac-12.

The article is behind a paywall, but the CW gets 10 games while Fox gets 3:

1 minute ago, Big Rollo Smokes said:

WPIX was branded as "CW11" for the first two years of the CW, before going with the more-appropriate PIX 11 branding.

Also they were The WB 11 (or something similar) for the whole existence of The WB.

It was after Sam Zell bought Tribune that the CW was deemphasized on all (if not most) of its CW affiliates.

The Cox-Dish dispute is finally over:

https://www.nexttv.com/news/dish-and-cox-media-group-end-17-month-retrans-blackout

WPVI did get a new transmitter last year fwiw:

https://6abc.com/6abc-signal-transmitter-watch-antenna-in-philadelphia/13593738/

Earlier this month, KCRA chief meteorologist Mark Finan announced his retirement effective this summer:

https://www.kcra.com/article/kcra-3-chief-meterologsist-mark-finan-to-retire/60388590

And WBAL's Chelsea Ingram left the station for military wife reasons:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5YwSPQrwHY/?hl=en

Full forecast from this morning with the new graphics:

Sinclair struck a deal with the ABC O&Os to carry the Charge! network starting today:

https://sbgi.net/charge-and-abc-owned-television-stations-enter-into-new-network-affiliation-agreement/

Well here’s that 3:30AM “newscast”:

https://wgntv.com/morning-news/wgn-330-a-m-morning-show/

And finally, Margret Orr signed off from WDSU last night:

https://www.wdsu.com/article/margaret-orrs-final-farewell-wdsu-new-orleans/60346573

Among the tributes was one from NOLA native John Goodman:

Here’s the whole special on Chuck from last night:

Don Alhart is retiring on June 6th after 58 years at WHAM:

https://13wham.com/news/local/don-alhart-retiring-after-58-years-at-13wham-news#

Here it is:

Then there’s WRC in DC that has an hour-long 6pm into Nightly News. Like Atlanta, they also go up against Fox.

Story from today about Chuck commemorating today's anniversary at the Empire State Building. With a Sue Simmons cameo:

Former WNEW and WPIX anchor Bill Jorgensen dead at 96:

https://deadline.com/2024/03/bill-jorgensen-dead-tv-anchor-wnew-new-york-was-96-obituary-1235860393/

Being with WPIX he was also one of the founding anchors of the Independent Network News.

On 1/25/2023 at 7:53 PM, MD TV said:

New hire from their sister station in Fresno:

 

 

As of today she's with the station full time. That includes doing weather on weekend nights:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4bPalEPndv/

Here’s the whole noon newscast:

https://6abc.com/14517262/