tylerSC 61 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Disappointed Tegna NBC affiliate WCNC Charlotte has cancelled their Sunday morning political program Flashpoint. It was an informative program with newsmakers and political leaders that aired after Meet the Press, as sort of a local version. Good program, sorry to see it go. Victim of cutbacks, I suppose. They are now airing infomercials in its place. WSOC still airs its Political Beat program on Sundays on the Cox ABC affiliate in Charlotte, and the Hearst NBC affiliate WYFF in Greenville-Spartanburg still has their Sunday news and public affairs program. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-304803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2438 Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 One of the oldest OTA TV sports partnerships will continue... WKYC and the Guardians. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/wkyc-cleveland-guardians-extend-broadcast-rights-agreement/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-304896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2438 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Aaron White left the evil empire that is AMG and KIMT some time ago and has now landed in TEGNA country at WBNS 10TV. https://www.facebook.com/GarofaloWX/posts/pfbid02NijYQh1wjaCAoNa2woAXMHDo3xyb1NrVMyVTFXTjJ6VKJq3ZxsUKmE3CvANfS3myl 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-304975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2438 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 It's rare to see any kind of ratings news but I found one... WGRZ Buffalo who, according to ComScore in four different demos, is #1 in the morning, 5, 6 7, and 11pm. My guess is that Noon and 4pm went to WIVB but it's only a guess. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremysettle_teamtegna-ugcPost-7316174833556353028-wVp6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAABqGw-0BrOQ_9csrv95OAtvM37gqLkE_dSc 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD TV 261 Posted Thursday at 02:56 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:56 PM WTHR has signed a 2-year extention to continue to air Indiana Fever games. 14 games this season will air on WTHR and 4 will air on WALV: https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/wnba/indiana-fever/wthr-metv-local-tv-home-indiana-fever-2-year-deal-2025-broadcast-schedule-game-players-standings-coach-roster-caitlin-clark-aliyah-boston/531-b9654a0b-602e-4f7b-9e84-70d7f8336811 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalTVfan 15 Posted Friday at 06:30 AM Share Posted Friday at 06:30 AM TEGNA is taking a page out of the Scripps playbook now. In Spokane on KREM 2, the weeknight 11pm broadcast is now a replay of the 10pm they produce for their sister station. The main channel doesn’t even air live news at 11. No disclaimer on the TV that it isn’t live, but the app lags a few seconds behind the on-air feed and they match up word for word. Interestingly enough, the app has a “previously recorded” tag but keeps the 10pm time/temp bug. The on-air rebroadcast has the right bug. Seriously cheap as this is a mid-60s market. Is this happening elsewhere in TEGNA-land? 1 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggo 356 Posted Saturday at 02:34 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:34 PM On 4/18/2025 at 1:30 AM, norcalTVfan said: TEGNA is taking a page out of the Scripps playbook now. In Spokane on KREM 2, the weeknight 11pm broadcast is now a replay of the 10pm they produce for their sister station. The main channel doesn’t even air live news at 11. No disclaimer on the TV that it isn’t live, but the app lags a few seconds behind the on-air feed and they match up word for word. Interestingly enough, the app has a “previously recorded” tag but keeps the 10pm time/temp bug. The on-air rebroadcast has the right bug. Seriously cheap as this is a mid-60s market. Is this happening elsewhere in TEGNA-land? This is just … odd. What good does this do? They pay people for one less hour? How much does that save? It’s a piddly amount. KREM used to be strong and Tegna has destroyed it. 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 2182 Posted Saturday at 02:47 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:47 PM On 4/13/2025 at 8:51 PM, TheRolyPoly said: It's rare to see any kind of ratings news but I found one... WGRZ Buffalo who, according to ComScore in four different demos, is #1 in the morning, 5, 6 7, and 11pm. My guess is that Noon and 4pm went to WIVB but it's only a guess. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremysettle_teamtegna-ugcPost-7316174833556353028-wVp6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAABqGw-0BrOQ_9csrv95OAtvM37gqLkE_dSc why aren't local stations transparent about ratings anymore? Is it to spin the numbers in their favor to convince advertisers to agree to a certain price? 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3953 Posted Saturday at 03:41 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:41 PM 53 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said: why aren't local stations transparent about ratings anymore? Is it to spin the numbers in their favor to convince advertisers to agree to a certain price? Because ratings are even more irrelevant than ad revenue. It's all about the retransmission payments they are getting from Pay TV providers lining their pockets. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recovering Producer 219 Posted Saturday at 03:43 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:43 PM 29 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said: why aren't local stations transparent about ratings anymore? Is it to spin the numbers in their favor to convince advertisers to agree to a certain price? When the audience is a fraction of what it was a decade ago, there's no good way to spin them. Put out a press release that says "we won at 6pm with a 5 share!" means you're tacitly admitting at least 80% of people watching TV in that time slot are not watching local news over linear TV. The sales model has shifted away from selling on past show ratings to actual ad impressions which means specific newscast ratings are less relevant to the financial picture for a station and ownership group. In 2012, a manager at a station meeting said "flat is the new up" - I assume by 2025 it's now "not bleeding out viewers is the new flat" 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2438 Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM (edited) Gray usually launches 24/7 weather streams all the time (WOIO/WUAB and WLUC being two recent examples). However, I found another group that may do so as well... TEGNA and Weather Impact 24/7 streams. I found WVEC and WXIA to be the first two clients. WVEC: https://www.13newsnow.com/video/news/weather-impact-247/291-d223d83c-5a51-41d7-a209-d72fd28d6eb6 (according to this one, launched yesterday) WXIA: https://www.11alive.com/video/weather/11alive-live-weather/85-e76bbb55-2d2b-4b71-90b9-4dce96553ce5 (according to this one, launched in early March) EDIT: This is WXIA's first 24/7 weather stream in like around 5-6 years or so when they had that Weather Information Zone channel. EDIT (x2): Pictures here to prove it (apologies for the first one of the NBC peacock: its from one of my monitors.) Edited yesterday at 02:13 AM by TheRolyPoly 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatron81 262 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago WZZM has had 24/7 weather channel since 2006 it isn't on any of the Pay-TV channels anymore, I don't get why they don't move it to DT6/7 and bump the diginets nets True Crime Network to DT2 & Quest to DT3 which Charter Spectrum airs both those networks and I'm sure Comcast does the same as well in West Michigan. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2438 Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 6 hours ago, Megatron81 said: WZZM has had 24/7 weather channel since 2006 it isn't on any of the Pay-TV channels anymore, I don't get why they don't move it to DT6/7 and bump the diginets nets True Crime Network to DT2 & Quest to DT3 which Charter Spectrum airs both those networks and I'm sure Comcast does the same as well in West Michigan. Yeah, true that. It doesn't stream, though, and it hasn't in a really long time. Same with WFAA Two. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13009-tegna-broadcasting-and-digital-general-discussion/page/148/#findComment-305150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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