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NFL Network is in cost-cutting mode, as they're laying-off some staff, including many on-air personalities, plus cancelling Total Access. If ESPN takes over NFL Media, then more than likely NFL Live will take over as the Shield's "show of record". Also, because NFL Media is now currently based across the driveway from SoFi Stadium, it would also potentially give ESPN a second Los Angeles-area studio facility to operate from, if necessary. This has been rumored for years.

It'll be the first time since the demise of Qubo in 2021 that we've had a over-the-air digital network largely dedicated to cartoons. However, the only difference is that MeTV Toons will feature shows that many of us of a certain age remember fondly, as opposed to a channel that featured mainly Canadian content and cheaply-produced domestic animation. Also because Warner Bros. Discovery is also involved, this new network will access to a lot of content, between the original Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera studios.

Scripps does already have Fox affiliations in Salt Lake City (KSTU), Fort Myers (WFTX), Boise (KNIN), Lansing (WSYM), Grand Rapids (WXMI), and it manages WFLX in West Palm Beach on behalf of Gray Television.

Miami is going to be the most interesting market to watch where The CW goes. The only realistic places I could see are as either a WSVN or WPLG subchannel. In Tucson, KTTU could be an option, or if all else fails, it could be a KVOA, KMSB, or KOLD subchannel.

I'm in the Los Angeles area myself, and there are at least a couple of factors as to why you'll have duplicate feeds of MeTV, H&I, and Catchy locally. One of which are signal contours...when Weigel finalized the purchase of KAZA-TV, it was about a year later that it began channel-sharing with KHTV-CD, one of three low-powered signals also currently owned by Weigel. However, when the channel-sharing arrangement was made with KAZA and KHTV, there were areas in the Los Angeles basin that couldn't pick the OTA signal. There was a signal boost not long after, and now both stations cover most of L.A. and Orange Counties, as well as the western edge of the Inland Empire. The secondary affiliations with KDOC (MeTV), KCOP (H&I), and KTTV (Catchy) fills-in those gaps over-the-air where KAZA and its low-power siblings have signal issues. Which goes to the second point, at least with the Fox stations group, they have contractual agreements to carry some or all of the Weigel digital networks on their subchannels (except in Chicago, Weigel's home base), and KDOC's contract with MeTV pre-dates Weigel's purchase of KAZA. On Spectrum cable, MeTV (KAZA 54-1), MeTV+ (KHTV 6-1), H&I (KSFV 27-2), Catchy (KPOM 14-1), and Story TV (KAZA 54-2) are all available there, and in 720p picture quality. A long-winded explanation, I'm sure, but that's the gist as far as the situation in Los Angeles.