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No WDFL is a low power UHF station. They're just renting their dot 1 channel to get OTA HD capacity for ABC since 7.2 is at its limit, and small bonus being UUH and easier to pickup with antenna

Yes. Each team anchors for 1 hour then switches. It's actually nice, they can take almost a whole hour off for a nap

They probably got tired of people asking where to watch ABC Early report from a viewer says Breezline moved WPLG to ch19 and put ION on ch10. Kind of a dickish move

Ch10 logo dude looke like he's about to swing a sword at the abc

Blink and you miss it it was so short.

Could not for the life of me remember who he was or why he's part of the shindig... he was at WPLG Gio Benitez joined in on the pile on https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM5GVs6uHH4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Gray, Sinclair etc are hoping mobile operators have appetite for another spectrum auction so they can cash out. They will do the minimum viable content until then. With retrans fees going to the NFL and NBA, the NFL chief saying come 2029 he'll probably want more money for less exclusivity from broadcasters because "Amazon's NFL audience is as big as broadcast now", there's no money to risk on content that would have to be part of yet another streaming platform that has a high chance of being a failure. I'm married to someone who thinks dropping $480 for NFL Sunday Ticket is normal and (unfortunately) there are many others like him. Maybe Gen Zs being half as likely to watch live sports will turn things around some day but it's probably not soon.

And Kevin Ozebek, now at KABC https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM2vrNzR0P1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link And Dan Krauth, whose Miami followers are from the time he was at WTVJ https://www.instagram.com/p/DM0F4aXu9U7/

ok well please, clue us then... i came to America in 1995 so maybe I don't know even though I talked to a lot of these people in South Florida and beyond for 15 years. What am I missing? I was around for the TVSpy forums. PBS/NPRfolk look down on commercial local news and talent as being unsavory, low brow and not news [hello PBS Beat The Press]. As well, local newsers often think of PBS/NPR staff as the rejects who couldn't hack it at WABC, WSVN etc. or who weren't good enough to hire in the first place. That's no secret, to say otherwise is to lie. When one half of the most watched West Palm anchor duo got canned, and landed at the local PBS three years later, local TVfolk laughed, I think those comments might have survived on the sfltv database and still be visible. That's one. Also, public data from PBS/NPR shows average donor age is 69 years old! Nevermind the age, for the three South Florida PBS stations, less than 1% of the 6.5 million population is donating to "critical and important PBS and NPR." Which means, there's less than 1% chance anyone decrying the cuts is a donor, but statistically they pay $10-$20 a month just to Netflix, don't know about $10 daily lattes I'm more of a bulgarian airyan guy. Maybe it predates my landing in America but why is PBS/NPR the sacred cow that must survive at all costs and cannot have layoffs at any time ever, for any reason even if no viewers are interested? Local news, which actual people tune in droves on purpose, has been cut and bled since 2008. A lot of those laid off had to reinvent themselves to survive. I just checked on a couple of former anchors of top rated newscasts and they're between jobs again. Take Scripps and Allen stations, their employees for years have been doing the jobs of 2-3 people after mass layoffs. Anyone out there, NPR/PBS, notice and write reams of articles every day for months on end, about how impacted those people are? Nope. Or... I have no clue

we can do one more, for old times sake

feels like one of those 2am filler shows, less worse than that awful sounding True Crime News FOX wants to slap on their owned stations "showcasing local crime stories"

"wind-down of its operations" and cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September" commeuppance, as they say. PBSers snickered and thumbed their noses at local newsers losing their jobs bEcAusE tHeY d0n't d0 rEaL nEwS and serve the cuhmuneteeeh... now the chickens have come home to roost. "Much health" as we would say in Bulgaria all the people bitching about PBS/NPR could just donate, they pay $10 for tub of "latte" every day we've been lectured about how essential PBS is, if it were essential PBS now won't have to lay anyone off just like they didn't during the 2008 crash when stations like WTVJ were almost wiped off the map

their building was being shopped around for a while, we considered it for self-storage at some point but I think they were hoping to sale/lease and get cash to operate. Are Mega/SBS still on the air? Their facilities on the Palmetto were for sale until very recently after VOZ botched the MegaTV purchase

so an affiliate complained. Sounds like the house of cards is slowly collapsing on one end with cable TV losing high-value subscribers and $30-$40/monthly broadcast fee revenue per subscriber, and this new development on the other end. If stations are given their retrans fee back it will destroy the network business model for sports. Or networks will have to stop being greedy. Ads alone or Peacock can't support the $3B NFL yearly fee.

hardly. NBC demands to negotiate retrans on behalf of affiliates in exchange for a contract. You can make an argument stations don't have to agree but the network makes demands like branding must include NBC in the name, promoting programming, etc that ties up the affiliate to the network, robbing it of its own identity, and making it harder to leave. And let's not forget what they did to WHDH, to show what they're willing do to other affiliates who think of saying no. After Ansin told them no NBC returned with an offer - lose the affiliation or sell us WHDH facilities for ~$70 million and shut down the business. Not sell us the station, sell us the facilites, when as a whole WHDH was worth $400-$700 million. That's about as unprecedented as ABC landing on 7.2 in Miami. NBC wanted to crush discent and decided to do it to one of their top rated affiliates. Newsmax are on the record as being against any further consolidation, they appear to want the opposite - hard ownership caps with no wiggle room. Sinclair wants unlimited station ownership. They've been harping on this for almost a decade ie merging itself with Tegna, Nexstar, Gray to own as many stations as they want, forcing ATSC 3.0 on everyone with channel encryption - afterall their big brains thought up that standard - and "compete" against streaming becase scale or something...

They aren't that cash poor. Yet. But that's one benefit of having scale, if ownership had to, and it was worth it, they'll throw money at the problem because other stations are cash flowing. WANF is in the black more than likely, they're just handing over less of the profit to the mothership

It didn't, however WHDH spent 25 years doing heavy brand building. And WJXT became independent in 2002 , a much different world than today where this summer for the first time ever 18% of linear viewership was broadcast. 15 years ago when linear TV was all the rage, AlJazeera America spent (or is that wasted?) $500 million and failed spectacularly.

WCCB is down the road from me, it looks like a ghost station even at high noon when we drive by. I don't see how they expand news. Beverly Bahakel had to borrow $60 mil 3 years go to roll debt over and have money to operate. She spent the change on new-ish morning set and they still have the same the guy doing 5am and 10pm weather

it appears YoutubeTV and Hulu don't want to carry independents. Or at least not pay at all or as much as these stations are asking for retrans. No network = no leverage / no appeal for service retention for the provider

FCC can't trash a whole lot. The top 4 rule was made up by the FCC in 2002 under Bush. The way it was instituted had so many holes that never got taken care of. Then congress in 2004 put the 39% cap in place and took FCC's authority away from being able to modify it. Congress will have to go back and rescind that, the FCC is stuck with it. FWIW Newsmax came out against any loosening of the rules that allows concentration of station ownership, and sounds like they'd even like a return to the old 25% hard cap and no UHF discount which would cause Nexstar and others to have to divest 20-40% of their portfolio

so much for cable having another 20-30 years of life left. E! sort of died with Joan Rivers

WBD will pay off the debt before transferring the stations, but also tied SkyTV in content agreement worth $20 mil a year for the next 5 years I think. So really a $100 mil transaction

fwiw AI built for lawyers gave this summary: "Hedge fund investors, private equity, and media conglomerates like Nexstar should reevaluate their portfolios and may undertake a divestiture of small-market assets [...] and target the most valuable pairs, a #1 and #2 station in a larger market would obtain a significant market share without triggering antitrust... small market stations, below even market 70?... are probably toast-ed

Ch10 will have to be in dire straits to put these two on. They aren't into low brow shows. Many over there (still?) think WSVN is low brow news if that says anything

Safe and generic. On air it looks like they're in a basement. Bonus points for no annoying echo ala WPTV