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Nothing's official, even if Bill Simmons says that it's a done deal. I've been listening to many of his podcasts since his ESPN days, and sometimes he's been wrong about plenty of stuff. I'm not calling him a liar, but some of his thoughts comes from a "Bawwston" homer way of thinking. That said, if NBC does indeed take the Turner portion of the package, I hope they can find a way for the Inside the NBA crew to stay together... whether it be them or Amazon using them for pre- and post-game coverage. Meanwhile, ESPN will go through their usual shuffling of hosts and desk analysts, although their current lineup of Malika Andrews, Stephen A., Mike Wilbon, Kendrick Perkins and/or Bob Myers is actually a pretty good group compared to others from years past. Although, I would say that Myers doesn't have a lot of on-camera charisma (oddly enough, similar to Simmons, IMO), and Perkins can sometimes go off on some nonsensical tangents, but otherwise this group works well together.

Made official today--Red Sox vs. Cardinals, this coming Sunday (5/19) at 1:05pm Eastern; Chip Caray (Cards TV play-by-play), Will Middlebrooks (Red Sox color analyst), and Alexa Datt (Cards dugout/field reporter) will be on the call for this Sunday's game. It'll be the first of 18 telecasts, and all for free. Pregame shows will start 15 minutes prior to first pitch, and postgame coverage will be roughly the same length.

I'm watching KTLA as I write this...very shocking and sad. Condolences to his and the KTLA family.

KTLA still does live streaming, as does as KRON in San Francisco. The rest of Nexstar's news-producing stations stream their newscasts on delay. As for Sook not seeing the value in streaming overall is such ass-backwards thinking.

It's a certainty that GMFB will be on the MyNetworkTV O&Os and KICU in the Bay Area. In Fox's "single" markets (Atlanta, Tampa, Austin, Detroit, Philadelphia), I can't see those stations cramming in GMFB alongside their "Good Day Wherever" newscasts and their usual daytime block of talk, TMZ, more news, and game shows.

The article above mentioned possible over-the-air coverage, as well as cable and streaming, although it doesn't get into specifics. I wonder if that means either a package of games will be sublicensed to one of the local outlets, or the entire network itself operates as an over-the-air station? Sounds like Reinsdorf, the Wirtz family, and Standard Media may be shopping around for a local outlet, although there aren't too many available other than maybe WJYS...everything else commercially in Chicagoland are either network O&Os (and I'm including WGN in that), the Weigel suite of stations, or a bunch of low-powers.

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.

I agree...if Turner loses the NBA, I could see a scenario where they'll loan Ernie Johnson to whomever (Amazon, or NBC or even ESPN) just for Inside the NBA (or whatever title they would use the Association left Turner), I believe so long as Ernie wants to go that route. He's given years of service to Turner, so IMO he's the earned the right to his dictate his own terms. It's not unprecedented that sportscasters and analysts work for more than one entity concurrently...it's too many countless examples through the years. If they can find a way to keep Ernie, Shaq, Kenny, and Charles together, they will.

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.