SDHIll1980

LMAO I'm not going to take the bait...you'll would love for me to flip-out on you again. You're only talking high-and-mighty because you have your moderator buddies here to protect you. Trust me, I was a member on this board for a number of years before I rejoined more recently, and way before you came along. This is my last response to you...you can put me on ignore or whatever, but keep my name out of your mouth. Just watch yourself, Rusty...Myron...Nathan, or whatever your name is.

Good lord, you're a condescending know-it-all. I honestly wouldn't give a rat's ass what they call MSNBC once Versant is officially its own company...it can be the Furry Network for all I care. I just merely offered an idea, and that's it. Save your hostile attitude for someone else.

That's cute /sarcasm Nice little snide-ass comment you made

Figures you would say something stupid...so tell me, genius, what's a better name than "USA News" or "MS Now"? And yes, USA Network is the flagship brand of Versant.

While I agree that "MS Now" isn't a great name by any means, Versant should have gone with "USA News Network", since USA Network is going to be the flagship brand of this new company.

Sinclair is off-loading the NewsOn app to Zeam... https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/ https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/zeam-acquires-newson-from-sinclair/

So much so, that InDemand (the pay-per-view supplier to traditional cable companies) is shutting down its operations at the end of this year... https://www.nexttv.com/news/in-demand-to-shut-down-at-end-of-2025 Surely with the end of InDemand, this may have played a role in UFC deciding to go exclusively with Paramount+ with PPV distribution of their events. However, in the article I posted, it was noted that the three key owners in InDemand (Cox, Spectrum, Comcast) will each individually handle their own pay-per-view offerings going forward. That said, with the major sports leagues having their own streaming seasonal packages on their own apps, plus a few of them also using distribution through Prime Video, we'll see how much longer the traditional TV providers keep utilizing the pay-per-view model.

Outside of the areas adjacent to bordering states such as Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama, a good chunk of Mississippi (including the Jackson metro area) will shut be out of NPR/PBS programming. Like Mississippi, three of those four also have statewide NPR and PBS networks. The state of Tennessee government had a hand in launching public television stations across the rest of the state (except Memphis and Nashville), but they all are individual operations. We'll see where the next shoe drops, as far as what individual, regional, or statewide public broadcasting operation drops NPR and/or PBS next. Surely, there will be some consolidation of individual NPR/PBS operations in the same geographic region, possibly forming regional or statewide networks.

I thought about posting this in the Sports Section, but this may get more traction here--the NFL is also acquiring a stake in another broadcaster, this time CBS, according to Yahoo Sports (via the Wall Street Journal)... The actual information is in WSJ's story regarding the ESPN-NFL transaction (in the fourth paragraph)...

CBS has their game and announcer assignments set for the first three weeks of the season... https://x.com/CBSSportsGang/status/1953140132703252581

The three other Black cable networks--TV One, its sister Cleo TV, and Bryon Allen's TheGrio--are all pretty much rerun farms, although TV One also delves into true crime and cooking shows. TV One use to have more variety in their programming, showing more movies (including original ones) and their Unsung series was always well-done.

I'm not sure about ranking his popularity amongst the local news anchors here in Los Angeles, but he was trusted enough to host a weekly political show that has aired on Friday nights for the last eight years ("The Issue Is"), and it's syndicated to many stations throughout California (including some non-Fox affiliated stations). He's also moderated several local and state electoral candidate debates. And yes, he was at KABC previously prior to joining KTTV in 2017, and before that he was at XETV in San Diego. His last day at KTTV is Friday, August 15, and he posted a message on X...

Not the first time these two had a squabble over retransmission fees. Back in December 2013, Buckeye dropped WNWO from its lineups, and the stalemate lasted seven months.

Not just the elder statesman of late-night, but if you exclude Nightline, Kimmel is long and by-far ABC's longest-running late night entertainment program. Like with CBS back in the day, ABC had multiple attempts to compete with Johnny Carson by copying the same formula as the Eye--depending on the year, it was either reruns of their primetime shows (and in some cases reruns from other networks), movies, sketch comedy (Fridays), or talk shows that didn't last (Joey Bishop, Dick Cavett, and Rick Dees in the early '90s). Their In Concert series on Friday nights (and sometimes Saturdays) was fairly successful, but even that eventually gave way once some more music concert shows (like MTV's Unplugged) started migrating more to cable. Then, of course it was ABC's cancellation of Politically Incorrect in 2002 that paved the way for Jimmy Kimmel Live in the first place, after Bill Maher made controversial comments about the George W. Bush administration's handling of the military after the 9/11 attacks. PI lost sponsors and some ABC affiliates after the comments, and its declining ratings contributed to its eventual cancellation. In a roundabout way, Jimmy Kimmel owes his late night career to his former Comedy Central colleague Bill Maher.

Either this... or the time is going back to the stations. If you're old enough to remember CBS Late Night/Late Movie before Dave Letterman came (or hell, before Pat Sajak and his ill-fated talker), if you know, you know. And that's if your local CBS station aired the network late-night block way back when.

Over at Fox Sports, its FS1 cancelled three of its daytime talk shows--Breakfast Ball, The Facility, and Speak, and also Speak's lead host Joy Taylor is no longer with the network. All three shows were the brainchild of now-recently axed content executive Charlie Dixon, who was at the center of a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed against him, the network, Skip Bayless, and Taylor. https://awfulannouncing.com/fox/joy-taylor-out-fs1-breakfast-ball-speak-facility-canceled.html

Hey, if Kelly Clarkson truly decides that she's done doing her daytime show, ol' Phil can weasel his way in as her replacement LOL.

I read the story, but I wonder who Phil is going to con into distributing this new venture? This could have a shorter shelf life than Merit Street.

Looks like TBN is cutting ties with this clown and the waste of bandwidth that is Merit Street. I'm sure that some third-rate media platform will save (don't call him Dr.) Phil McGraw's vanity project, otherwise it could be on its last legs. If he loses the TBN distribution, I give Merit Street before New Year's until its forced to shut down operations, again unless some desperate platform needing content takes mercy on this shitshow of a channel.

An absolute fucking shakedown, point-blank period. Even if the cult leader of MAGA is only getting a fraction of what was originally filed, it's still criminal that Paramount/CBS has to give him anything.

Sister KPNX in Phoenix has a store at Sky Harbor Airport, although the airport website erroneously labeled the shop as "CNBC 12 News". https://www.skyharbor.com/at-the-airport/shops/cnbc-12-news-680/

Nice bowing down to the Convict-in-chief, ABC. This just put the rest of the news division and the O&Os on notice about criticizing this petulant man-child and the cult members in his administration.

I don't necessarily want to see this either, but with this current administration in DC, I see the Feds passing this merger through. If this goes through, I can also see some divestures of service territories, although it'll only really be one suitor--Xfinity. As I mentioned before, the Cox-Spectrum merger gives a nice cluster in the Southwest (SoCal [Bakersfield and Santa Barbara on south to the Mexican border], most of Arizona, and Southern Nevada), plus a good chunk of the central portion of this country (Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, most of Oklahoma, parts of Texas [DFW, central, southern TX], and Louisiana). Most everywhere around the country, Xfinity is the dominant MVPD.

good to know.

Not that I would watch either show, but neither one of these shows airs here in Los Angeles (it hasn't in the last couple of years), as KTLA's continual news expansion and the late-night lineup of sitcoms, not to mention KDOC going all-religious, displaced Wilkos and Karmano locally. NBCU is better off shopping to the shows to other stations, namely either KCOP or KCAL+.