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On 5/10/2024 at 3:17 PM, Rusty Muck said:

 

That's been an industry problem for over 35 years. Everyone has tried to be a knockoff of WSVN and local news has been stuck in the same old, same old. It's why viewership is collapsing.

It's been exactly 35 years since WSVN turned to a Fox Affiliate and made the tabloid format for the news.

On 5/10/2024 at 3:31 PM, Rusty Muck said:

It won't. While the company is looking over the Sony-Apollo bid, it is out of courtesy alone and will be rejected as soon as practicable.

 

That being said, Apollo is more likely to sell off Cox Media Group than they are going to have them buy anything. Cox Media is stagnant, faltering and running on fumes.

1.) Yes, Paramount ain't selling CBS

2.) I'm surprised that WSB didn't fall to second place behind WAGA, given the Apollo ownership. 

1 hour ago, Rusty Muck said:

It is not outside the realm of possibility that Daystar buys all the stations and flips them immediately to godcasters.

No. Daystar is not going to pull an KOCE and have too deal with the FCC criticizing them for.

17 minutes ago, Rusty Muck said:

Why? Because they actually modernized production for their newscasts and thus made themselves a target of a has-been blogger who wants things to remain stuck in 1989 even as viewing habits have collapsed across the board?

 

In the real world, the only real weak spot is the Ion stations, and that's because of the soft national ad market.

Yea, even though Scripps may not be the most excellent broadcaster, they modernized themselves heavily, but mostly, the issue is on the Ion Television stations.

1 hour ago, NowBergen said:

 

Exactly.  I doubt Sinclair will sell whichever stations they divest one by one to multiple owners.  The level of regulatory filings and lawyers fees would be significant - especially for an on the cheap broadcaster whose sports subsidiary is bleeding cash.  It will be as one group, probably effected as a spinoff or similar tactic to a private equity firm (most current broadcasters would either be over the limit or can't afford the price).  

 

As to which stations, we should probably hold back speculation because the truth is every single person on this forum that has a Sinclair station in their market or one they watch often, would want that station sold.  At some point, Sinclair may provide clarity on the criteria for disposal (there were a few hints in the report - like stand alone stations where there is no duopoly or nearby Sinclair station - islands in Sinclair's footprint) but until then, it is all speculative.

*Laughs in Kansas City*

22 minutes ago, Rusty Muck said:

I think a lot of people are going to be severly disappointed when a bottom-feeder no-budget company like INSP or Vision/Coastal winds up buying these stations instead of these pie-eyed fantasies.

 

Instead of playing speculator, let's just look at these indisputable truths. And they aren't pretty:

1. The television industry is not a buyer's market in any sense of the word and hasn't been since interest rates got raised substantially
2. The few remaining megachains—Scripps, Tegna and Gray—are either too built up or are already in many of these existing markets.
3. Hearst doesn't buy anything unless it's a gigantic waste of money like spending $200M+ for freaking WBBH in a older market in a permanently uncompetitive state politically. Great thinking there, y'all.
4. Apollo Global Management isn't buying anything and may be forced to sell off Cox Media Group if their stupid fever dream of buying Paramount actually happened.
5. Graham isn't buying anything because they just don't.
6. The networks ain't buying anything, and one of them (CBS) is in limbo right now since Shari Redstone took it off the market.
7. The FCC might just repeal the UHF Discount rule (again) just to further erase anything Pai did and not grandfather a thing
8. The continued diminishing returns of retransmission revenue is only going to get worse. Those golden geese are no longer not laying eggs, they're entering hospice care and the likes of Nexstar don't have a plan B.

So as you can clearly see... Sinclair is absolutely screwed.

 

... Here's my two cents on the matter

1) I know that Coastal Television is like the worst owner unless it's for, NewsNet programming outta Cadillac, Michigan (for example, KTWO, and the Alaska ABC (KATN, KJUD, KYUR, and KTBY) stations.)

2) I don't fully understand the hate against INSP. Like, okay, it was created from the remains of the PTL Network, and didn't have any Broadcasting station experience until 2022, but what did they somehow do to get hated upon?

3) Yea, some mega-chains are just too big or already in the markets (Example, Sinclair-Owned WJLA and Tegna-Owned WUSA in Washington DC whixh are the only affiliates because the other big four affiliates are owned by the network (NBC-owned WRC and Fox-owned WTTG))

4) The only reason why Hearst even acquired WBBH and WZVN, (No, not WSVN, the one you legitimately revamped on Wikipedia) is because the Waterman family wanted to sell the stations before one of the family members turned 100.

5) Well, Graham, and Legitimately the networks isn't selling/buying any stations, and why would they do so? I mean, St. Louis once had 2, KTVI from 1997-2008 and KMOV from 1950s-1987 (during the CBS ownership, Channel 4 was called KMOX-TV) (Also, Paramount and CBS is not facing an Ted Turner moment again and are going to stop Byron from owning CBS, whatever the cost.) 

6) Retransmission fees don't kinda have anything to make actual other than for revenue? Because cord-cutting, ATSC3.0, anything of those things, Hello???

7) The FCC is probably focused on WPIX and stopping Robo-calls now than on UHF Discounts (which they did on Robo-calls, thank God they did.)

2 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

I would like to see WPGH sold to Fox Television Stations, Inc. (But I doubt that's going to happen).

Nah, I think Cox Media is better owning/operating WPGH and WPNT, mostly because WPXI produces newscasts for WPGH. 

5 hours ago, atlnews2 said:

Sinclair considering selling 30% of its station portfolio plus the Tennis channel 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/09/sinclair-explores-selling-30percent-of-broadcast-stations.html

I hope KDNL gets acquired by all companies, Scripps. 

And sell of WPGH and WPNT to Cox Media, which would be somehow perfect for WPXI. 

54 minutes ago, LTSC1980 said:

In January 2024 WISN TV launched new look. and recently it has rollout in other stations.

When did WDSU update to HD?

KMBC-TV has the new graphics.

2 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

 

More stations have picked up these new opens.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KMBC-TV's looks really cool. 

Actually, the News opens looked awesome. 

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

Steve Kornacki and Willie Geist will be a part of NBC’s coverage. As will Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon and WCVB’s Naoko Funayama.

For 5 seconds, I actually thought it was Karen Kornacki from KMBC-TV, and I was like, "Did she just un-retire just for this?"

Turns out, no.

3 hours ago, DENDude said:

Okay question, what if WDIV declines to put the CW on one of it's digital sub channels?  Then what does Nexstar do?

It's complicated. 

The CW / Nexstar could ask cable companies in Detroit to put stations like WLAJ-DT2 in Lansing, Michigan, WBSF in Bay City (Michigan Thumb), or WTVG-DT2 in Toledo, Ohio. 

On-Air; Well, good luck with that. 

36 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Getting the CW in Detroit is going to be even harder than CBS had to scramble in 1994.  At least they stayed on Channel 62!  So far, CW has bounced from WKBD....to WADL....to WMYD...and who knows after that?  (WDIV as a subchannel is probably the likeliest....)

Here are the options:

Any Windsor, Ontario stations are an big NO.

WJBK is an bit of an problem, they could put the MyNet program service on 2.2 or an its main signal on late nights. 

WDIV is the most likely.

WXYZ, WKBD, WWJ, WADL, WMYD, or any other station won't be an option. 

1 hour ago, Denver Murray said:

They look REALLY good! Also, I LOVE the open for WTVG !

Not trying to be negative (sorry in advance?) but I am just keeping my fingers crossed that WOIO 19 doesn't use the WWBT red when they switch....  From past experiences, I have a bad feeling that they will. So much red.  But the other colors are great on the other stations. KBJR did a fantastic job! 

Fixed it. 

2 hours ago, Rusty Muck said:

Who really wants to see Washington State and Oregon State play each other for 13 straight weeks? Geez.

The Pacific Northwest. Everywhere else, I don't know. 

1 hour ago, Rusty Muck said:

Doesn't WPIX use the Nexstar copyright endcap for their newscasts?

Yea, it does. Just like WDAF-TV in Kansas City

16 hours ago, NowBergen said:

Here is an interesting hypothetical (or it may not be in reality) in light of the FCC ruling on WPIX.  One of their news vans struck a pedestrian adult and child this morning in NJ.  Luckily both were not severely injured.

 

If the victims decide to file a lawsuit, who would they sue?  Nexstar or Mission (or both?). If Mission said not us, that could reinforce the FCC ruling.  An interesting situation since this is not a duopoly with a Nexstar station in the market.

I don't know if it was an accident but that might be confusing...

Probably Nexstar?

1 hour ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

WJHG is not on the short list. WTVM is though. There will be two stations this Monday that will debut.

Oh okay. 

3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Good for WTVY.  As long as the "colony collapse" makes it to WJHG, WTVM, and any other of the "honeycomb" stations still out there...

WJHG is already prepared for that already... logo-wise. 

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Talk about full circle.  It was WGN and Tribune that held out 8 years ago sending The CW on a soul-searching journey in Chicagoland through WPWR and WCIU, and now with Nexstar in charge and in control of the CW, it's back on WGN.

 

As long as they don't rebrand WGN as CW9.  I don't think the folks at WGN could ever live it down.

 

I wonder now what WCIU will do with their  current "U" subchannel?  Change it to U-too?

1. I don't think it's going to be rebranded as CW9, it's stayin' as WGN.

2. The U is probably gonna move to 26.1. 

3. Yes, full circle. 

44 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I would imagine a subchannel.  They would be foolish to send Fox packing to Scripps and WGNT, or worse, Sinclair and WTVZ.

Yea, there are gonna put it on an Subchannel. I mean why would Sinclair or Scripps aquire the Fox affiliation. 

4 minutes ago, Megatron81 said:

Not surprised after 8 years that The CW is coming home to WGN since they don't have the Cubs, White Sox, Bulls, or Blackhawks anymore that was the reason they went back to being independent. 

Since WGN-TV, Channel 9 doesn't have live Local sports telecasts, they can afford to grab The CW from WCIU and Weigel's probably gonna put The U back on 26.1.

And it'll 8 years since they removed the CW from WGN in 2016, which putted it on Fox-Owned MyNetworkTV O&O WPWR-TV Channel 50 because... the Sports and stuff back when WGN was ending the Ownership by Tribune Broadcasting/Media and an year before Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to aquire Tribune Media which failed so hard that Sinclair lost almost all of its reputation JUST in 2017-2018.

48 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

As we all expected, WGN will reunite with The CW in September.

It took 8 years for WGN to gain the CW again. 

On 4/25/2024 at 6:51 PM, JCB4TV said:

In Seattle, the Kraken have signed a deal to move to KING/KONG/Prime Video!

Not just on KONG-TV, KGW also now has the Seattle Krakens.

On 4/27/2024 at 4:17 PM, appleachian said:

Going to start calling duopolies "Soup Olives" now.  That's an amazing autocorrect.

 

WRDC is the ATSC3.0 lighthouse for Raleigh.  Sinclair only has one ATSC1.0 station, WLFL.

Soup Olives sounds like an great name for duopolies. 

On 4/27/2024 at 11:09 AM, AmericanErrorist said:

Can more power actually overcome the fact that antennas have to be positioned separately between low-band VHF and high-band VHF/UHF?

It doesn't even add to the fact that bigger effective radiated power doesn't mean the issues about the antennas in Philly had to be. The better answer they should've done is to make an translator, and/or put an simulcast on an full-power station. 

1 hour ago, lanman said:

They're working for me, including my hometown WTAE:

https://www.facebook.com/koco5

https://www.facebook.com/ketv7

https://www.facebook.com/wtae4

KMBC's Facebook page is also working.

8 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

Not anymore, since WBBM upgraded their signal.

Huh, I didn't know that. I guess I was off.

Update: The WMEU-CD  simulcast is still there.

37 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:

The only reason they put WLS on UHF (their only one there outside KFSN) was because Chicago is truly OTA heavy and they had to do anything to do so because they were in the same boat as WBBM, and at least as a very last resort you can get WABC/KABC waivered on satellite.

In Chicago, WMEU-CD has an UHF simulcast of WBBM because of the fact CBS knows that some areas of Chicago wasn't able to get the VHF signal. 

17 hours ago, GraphicsMan said:

 

They’ve lost their minds at Sinclair.

Yea, how much times will they have to mess up their TV stations before the FCC catches the idea? I mean, ending news departments, making KTUL and KOKH's newscast basically almost the same thing. Yet 'PIX is the problem? 

The Federal Communications Commission, they JUST DELETED LOCAL NEWS at WNWO in Toledo and STILL did nothing about KDNL, is you not understanding what's going on?