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Sunbeam were talking with ABC since late last year. It's only new to us. Extra is the glue that holds Deco that holds time to allegedly put Live in that slot next year there are no original ideas over there. They're copying WHDH and hope it sticks. also, WPLG said streaming ate up exclusivity and why they said no to ABC. Welp, Jeopardy! and Wheel are going to Hulu, Peacock and Disney+with current episodes plus the entire library going back 42 seasons, in September, so all the fans can play it all day long on demand.

billboards going up around town. I wonder if they were smart enough to buy social ads against WPLG's FB profile and followers https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/7/21/ba-bye-local-10

not unusual at all, they used to run lower thirds during Deco and daytime programming for upcoming FOX shows. The 10pm newscast teasers that run between 8-10pm also mention the network and the shows. And the 6-6:30pm newscast often features previews for upcoming shows. American Idol was really the big one they pumped constantly

Not - "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!" What does Cronkite have to do with the Late Show? Nothing. At least that awful, hateful creature Ellen is gone finally. Now the three windbags will be gone. All through their own doing. Losing 80% of viewers handed to them by Jay Leno and David Letterman, losing $40 mil a year in revenue, all while making $15 million a year is reason enough. Anybody else would've been fired long ago. There's nothing to salvage from Johnny Carson's legacy anyway.

well, there goes my excitement for the day

They really shoved GMA3 to 1pm for Deco reruns Sunbeam doing Sunbeam things

When ESPN hit $7 per sub per month and Les Moonves went around complaining CBS and his stations weren't getting that, but they should get that much, and more, because sports and ratings. Then NBC under Valary got the genius idea - twist affiliates' arms into letting the network negotiate retrans fee with cable on their behalf, give some of that cash money up to NBC, in exchange for a tiered affiliate agreement based on how obedient the affiliate is - bronze with 3yr affiliate agreement if you're being a peasant, gold tier with 5 years if you didn't fight NBC's demands. Couple with forced channel bundling and there you go. Btw Peacock monthly fee is going up by $3 on Wednesday, because sports.

eh. We thought linear cable was a sacred cow and Comcast just purged that out of its system like it was nothing. Discovery, the must have at one time even 10 years ago, would now get rid of cable nets and shove almost their debt onto them. The sacred cow is sports. The entire business model is now built on it. Everything that gets in the way of that will be excised - ABC didn't flinch when they had to cut WPLG to get more retrans cash money. It's said ABC wanted more money for retrans and considered tieing up with WSFL, which is almost as good as dead air, but WSVN apparently was the better offer.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/media/cbs-ending-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-is-more-than-just-a-financial-loss/ $40-$50 milllion loss because it couldn't get advertisers Brutal It had 239K demo viewers in January, and 194K for June 2025 750K in 2018 692K in 2019 373K in 2022 280K in 2023 281K in 2024 219K in 2025 so far Basically an irrelevant "show" a cheesy Scrippscast has younger audience that this mess. And he allegedly asked for $25 million... . Colbert isn't quite Ellen toxic but up there "The plan is to enhance CBS Sports" as much money to sports, what's left goes to filler like 3D sets to avoid dead air. maybe they can try iPad giveaways

Not far off. Current NFL broadcast contracts run out 2034 with 2029 optout. The NBA got $76 billion recently, and Goodell had a cow over it. He keeps yelling about the deals being severly undervalued and renegotiations in '29. He seems to think YoutubeTV and Netflix will play ball and pay for it

Short answer: seriously doubt it. Streaming lets viewers direct their attention to what they want, and forces them to prioritise time. Long answer: The rise in streaming is part of nature. It was inevitable. But it's also the result of many proverbial chickens that came home to roost rather quickly. Ignoring YouTube, Tv show streaming started largely as a response to rampant bittorrent piracy of the mid 2000s. They were terified, shaking, of having to deal with another Napster when broadband started to take off. That's why NBC and NewsCorp created Hulu in 2008. And they did try and force us to watch TV. Sued Sony way back when because the VCR recorded broadcasts. Sued DVR maker ReplayTV circa 2001 for having an ad skip built into the software. Screamed and hollered about ad skipping. Forced cable channel bundling. Remember CableCard? Or TVAnywhere - hey, you could stream your favorite show online!!! But... only if you log in with your CableTV user/password AND paid for the right TV package. It was obvious when NBC and NewsCorp launched Hulu that broadcast TV stations are a middleman nobody needs, and will be screwed if streaming ever became popular. A lot of journos would literally utter words, describing how they are irreplaceable, that people will keep watching. People love the weather forecast on TV, all the viewer panels prove that's why they watch. Hazel and Fanny In The Morning (who hate each other's guts during the commercial breaks) are so relateable people just adore them. Forgot: a lot of the current decisions are almost always made taking into account linear/broadcast and especially affiliates, who would understanably revolt since they're the ones shouldering the NFL/NBA expense handing over their retrans. Syphoning retrans also didn't help local stations, which already lacked creativity how tackle streaming, or outright thought they're above it

No. It is said that viewers hated Dan Rather's Texas vernacular and his signoff but not enough to tune out. He was #1 from 81-89 I believe. Then ABC brought Peter Jenings and he took the lead, #1 from 1989 until '96 when Brokaw started placing first. Whatever issues legacy media has are all self-inflicted. I'm a bit of a Maurice DuBois fanboy but I find the new format appealing. He and John Dickerson come off solid. Hasn't made me watch because I no longer care but what little I've seen, I liked. It didn't make me want to tune out

In 1948. PBS does nothing that people care about. Here in North Carolina PBS has ~90,000 donors 90,000 ... across 12 broadcast stations, out of 11,000,000 population! A literal statistical insignificance. Goofy UFO podcasts have more supporters than that. South Florida PBS barely over 40,000 donors. In area where the average dinner for two can run $200+ People do not care. They say they care because Trump is slipping through their Xanax half-life and they want more social likes but they really don't. They care in the same way Baptists insist they absolutely, unequivically go to church every Sunday. Which is to say they lie. Besides, the local retirement community now has Netflix and BritBox.

Im old enough to remember the TvSpy watercolor and how CNNers, and local newsers talked about PBS/NPR - mockery and disdain. Especially during the 2008 layoffs. They'd rather go be PR than take a job there. After WPTV, Laurel Sauer landed at PBS and she was mocked by industry people for it

This was signaled by CBS 5 years ago. Colbert got signed for a 5-year deal. In 2020 they extended him for 3 years. And again in 2023 for another three. Compare to Jimmy Fallon started off with a 6-year deal, another 6-year deal in 2021 that got bumped to 2028. Jimmy Kimmel was similarly given 3 year bumps. Last one in 2022 and he's already hinted it would probably be his last. Late Show, and the format, is a dying horse. Late had 2.8 million viewers in 2015, 3.2 million in 2017, latest Q22025 is 2.3 million. That's 11 years of not only no growth at all, but ageing audience and loss of viewers. For $20 mil a year and staff who put and remove his mic on his lapel for 6-figures a year. Streaming can't and won't support that with Paramount+ suffering as it is. Not when they have to pay billions for the NFL. touche. And the podcasts don't have $70,000,000 to $100,000,000 budgets these shows are boomer advertising slop wrapped in a "show" format. Everyone who comes on for a scripted chat is there to sell something and go home

nah. The old guard just didn't have socials so the only way you'd know someone on TV had disordered personality would be to work with them or somehow interact. God forbid if they're the ND's or GM's favorite... newsies can tell stories. Just recently we learned about Barbara Walters, although discerning people would've picked up on what she's really like just by watching her interviews. The late Ike Seamans from WTVJ said this in the late 2000s too - most new talent coming in wants to see themselves on TV, not do journalism. The socials made this even more apparent and now they get to feed off it twice - TV *and* socials. All that's much harder to hide nowadays probably why you're noticing it and think there's more of it. It's always been there. Come to think of it the news business, from my interactions with people within it for 25 years, tends to attract a lot of unsavory people, narcissists primarily, who can feed off small things like saying they work at so and so station up to the fact they're on air and known. This especially true of the big-name stations. Which isn't to say there are no nice, normal people. I don't think you should let the messyness stop of you from trying out a career you might enjoy. I believe there's a video of Marilyn Mitzell, who used to work at WSVN, on Youtube where she specifically tells people - keep your head down, stay away from office drama - simple yet 90% effective imo. And if you land at a shop whose management does not suffer employee drama it very likely would end up being a very fulfilling career.

I was going to say, after checking her socials, she's got an awul lot of time off to froclick around the world for a tertiary employee. Her socials are giving 'influenza' vibes and I thought FTVlive will end up roasting her but I see she already got in Scott's crosshairs https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/10/27/gold-digger she's actually not half bad on air. Rather smooth, and comes off competent Well I for one cannot wait to hear the stories

Ay! Betty and Julie finally have someone else to fight with

now they're doing mashups of old footage so they can, repeatedly, slap their sponsor on it https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=706801362064463&__cft__[0]=AZXpm9HTX2yeRNtztTYGzNJpR0DHpitDjBD_8zUtjnX_XsDYaaNIQNYiSoVcE8L0dpuS_wECrAuoyD3KRIyJN4vTf7FJr_HszwOMZ4bhYcTmqLDhdciOsRgd1AXvn1OsWAy3sIZHhRK3w7kwd7XixqlXeZqCgE5-xvhd7l1d4MmB8YqORwdQrsuWmoaFMt9_A2JTi7Q-o4OmMGucoARbZJ0j&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R WHDH, which WPLG are copying, is not on YoutubeTV, Hulu or Fubo for whatever that's worth. But 8%-9% loss of viewers would be quite the drop in eyeballs considering (unless they changed their mind) WPLG sell their commercial airtime based on impressions - that could be worth $6-$7 million in ad revenue going by their 2023 revenue estimates of $73mil. And then add the drop of advertising cost, plusl the people who aren't going through the friction of surfing here and clicking there for WPLG's app.

6 months of WCBS not having to pay someone a 6-figure salary

arrested on unrelated charges: https://www.news9.com/story/686c1415dfc52927077f9d5c/vandal-disables-power-to-lifesaving-news-9-weather-radar Guy's got good head of hair and his willy survived getting caught on the wire also, he's part from some anti-government militia that claimed him https://www.news9.com/story/686f05493c7e238539083cd0/anti-government-miltia-group-claims-responsibility-for-vandalism-to-news-9-radar. Someone should tell them the UAE does weather mods over Dubai using airplanes and not weather radars

Spectrum, at most, will get ad inserts in the ad breaks that they can sell. The "rumor" is they get around $0.14 per sub per month, so at 35 mil homes Herring is snapping $5 mil per month for retrans. They had ~14K viewers in any given minute during a Nielsen test in 2019 but they aren't paying to track them.

Ed Ansin did not want to redevelop WSVN property. One of my sources at the time explained in detail back in 2008, when one day Ed Ansin showed up at WTVJ to tour the building after WPLG announced they are buying the station, but I can't find the emails. What kept Sunbeam from getting the WIOD site was the old man refusing to pay $1.5 mil for it in 2002. I know from someone who was involved the old man balked at the price being too high. He was offered first dibs, even with his son Andrew pushing hard for the performance Ed said no. Then the owner sold to a local developer for $1.3 mil and announced condos. But Ed Ansin told him (and used WSVN to bludgeon him publicly) that he can't build anything on the lot without his permission because he had an agreement with the previous owner that requires his consent first, a condo building would be disruptive to WSVN and that is that. Turned out the developer offered to accommodate, including I believe a parking carve out for the station that can fit the ENG trucks, at his expense. Ed still said no. After the WSVN story aired and made him look bad, the developer decided to spite - he forbade WSVN staff to park on his property, majority of parking for WSVN staff was on it. That's why Sunbeam owns that building across the road. Employees parked there, and had to cross heavy traffic til 2021.The developer also removed the guard at the entrance and one of the billboards. Later, he announced hell make a strip club on the WOID site. A nod to sexed up female anchors at the station. Which caused old Ed to get North Bay Village mayor involved, used WSVN, Belkys Nerey and other female anchors as hammers to nip that plan, and it worked. After suing the developer, around 2008-2009, Ed bought the note on the property from the lender and tried to foreclose but I think failed. After Ed died 7/2020 one of the first things Andrew did after inheriting, is buy the lot from the developer... for $29 million in March 2021 And here we are.

A little birdie told me uncle Warren said no to a sale - if he sold it would have tax implications given how he acquired wplg. I still think Fox will buy 10, and that the ABC deal was a hedge by wsvn management since Their fox affiliation expires 2026 so...

That one is replacing the building across from the studios. Plex will get demolished closer to ~2030 They were supposed to have broken ground by now, this story says 2027. Wsvn new building in Miramar is scheduled to start construction end of 2025 or early 2026 to coincide with their 70th year but not necessarily with a July debut