TennTV1983 811 Posted January 18 Posted January 18 On 1/16/2025 at 9:31 AM, tyrannical bastard said: Once the subchannel affiliation rule is revoked (allowing a station to take another network on a .2), some of these could be toast, as there are more capable stations in these markets that can serve their area better than Sinclair. Something Nexstar would probably consider doing as a workaround to having actual duopolies in some markets. 2 1
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 It looks like Sinclair is turning the keys over in Albany, Georgia with WFXL. According to FCC filings, they have established a JSA with Marquee Broadcasting (owners of WSWG and WSST) and their "main studio/control point" is now at the same address as WSWG's studios in Albany. This was one of the stations decimated in the 2023 layoffs. It was already being run largely out of WGXA in Macon which itself was decimated as well. These cuts left it without any local newscasts of any kind, aside from The National Desk. Sinciair looks like they will still own the station, Marquee will likely be doing the legwork with it.
ColtFromGulfcoast 739 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: It looks like Sinclair is turning the keys over in Albany, Georgia with WFXL. According to FCC filings, they have established a JSA with Marquee Broadcasting (owners of WSWG and WSST) and their "main studio/control point" is now at the same address as WSWG's studios in Albany. This was one of the stations decimated in the 2023 layoffs. It was already being run largely out of WGXA in Macon which itself was decimated as well. These cuts left it without any local newscasts of any kind, aside from The National Desk. Sinciair looks like they will still own the station, Marquee will likely be doing the legwork with it. I have been predicting this since WSWG got sold to Marquee. And this won't be the last one either. 2 1
Megatron81 289 Posted February 24 Posted February 24 Seems to me that The National Desk doesn't have many ads seems to be a lot of promos at least the weekend edition of TND as I don't watch the weekday or weeknight of the show largely in the background for the last 10 to 15 minutes of the show as I like the crime show they air on ARC-WMI on Saturday Night at 11:30PM. 1
mre29 1576 Posted February 25 Posted February 25 I have a friend in Amarillo who mentioned that the Sinclair station there (KVII) has "reportedly ditched all local news people other than the weather team". That's the ARC thing, right? 1
ScottSchell 372 Posted February 26 Posted February 26 1 hour ago, mre29 said: I have a friend in Amarillo who mentioned that the Sinclair station there (KVII) has "reportedly ditched all local news people other than the weather team". That's the ARC thing, right? More the national desk or taped news like they did to NTV. 2
mre29 1576 Posted February 26 Posted February 26 1 hour ago, ScottSchell said: More the national desk or taped news like they did to NTV. Aha. Thanks. 1
MD TV 287 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On April 28th, TBD will be rebranded as Roar: https://sbgi.net/tbd-tv-network-to-rebrand-as-roar/ As in the comedy that makes up that network these days and not Katy Perry. 3 2
Megatron81 289 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 Better name than TBD never liked that name for a diginet in my opinion. Anything was going to be a better name than TBD thou. 3
nathannah 2529 Posted March 4 Posted March 4 You could say they finally transitioned to who they were meant to; a fine comedy channel. It always seemed to be trending that way even early on with the other Sinclair networks stuck on drama thanks to Me and Antenna/Rewind and Laff getting most of the sitcoms. 1
TheRob 940 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 KTVO, KHQA, WICS/WICD, WVTV: $29.4 million https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/assignmentDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff39568c87a01956d9bae8f05b7&id=25076ff39568c87a01956d9bae8f05b7&goBack=N 1
TheRolyPoly 2642 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) So they're finally selling some stations huh? Why couldn't they do this earlier? Regardless, this is something Scripps should be doing too considering their financial situation. EDIT: I wonder what will happen to the news on WRSP/WCCU if they won't sell those stations. Edited March 11 by TheRolyPoly 2
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) Looks like the buyer is Rincon Broadcasting, and Todd Parkin is listed as the Principal Owner. If the name sounds familiar, it's the same Parkin behind Parkin Broadcasting that bought WYTV in Youngstown and eventually SSAed them to WKBN back in 2007. Sinclair will likely still be in the picture, but made some cash selling some licenses... Either they're trying to slowly slide out of the business under the eyes of the FCC, or are slowly trying to generate cap space for...future expansion? Edited March 11 by tyrannical bastard 1
ColtFromGulfcoast 739 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Sinclair will likely still be in the picture, but made some cash selling some licenses... What makes you say this? Just curious. 3
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) 47 minutes ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said: What makes you say this? Just curious. Sinclair gets to run a station without having to deal with the FCC. That's the new owner's problem. Not to mention getting some cold hard cash they may need... Plus, it frees up more opportunities to buy stations even though this new FCC could give them a free pass to go nuts. Edited March 11 by tyrannical bastard 4
EVVTV12 150 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 9 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said: I wonder what will happen to the news on WRSP/WCCU if they won't sell those stations. WRSP (Fox, Springfield), WCCU (Fox, Urbana), and WBUI (CW, Decatur) are all owned by GOCOM Media with an JSA/SSA by Sinclair. Unless that gets tossed out, not much will happen. 1 2
nathannah 2529 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) WVTV is very likely going to be the lighthouse 3.0 station for Milwaukee by default (they stepped on a rake selling WCGV for the Sinclair/Tribune deal that failed and the only other station, WMLW, is sharing with low-power WBME-CD), so in technicality Sinclair is just waiting to make all the deals to get their subchannels on other stations and Rincon is de facto just holding a license and submitting FCC paperwork for the station's issues. Edited March 11 by nathannah 3
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 (edited) 3 hours ago, EVVTV12 said: WRSP (Fox, Springfield), WCCU (Fox, Urbana), and WBUI (CW, Decatur) are all owned by GOCOM Media with an JSA/SSA by Sinclair. Unless that gets tossed out, not much will happen. I wonder how this GOCOM ties into the GOCOM that eventually became Piedmont Television. Because in Youngstown in 2007, GOCOM sold WKBN to New Vision Television while WYTV was sold by Chelsey Television (post-Benedek instead of Gray) to Parkin Media. Seems more like a shell game to me... Edited March 11 by tyrannical bastard 5
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted March 13 Posted March 13 Todd Parkin was also a sales executive for Bally Sports... https://thedesk.net/2025/03/sinclair-sells-tv-stations-rincon/ 2
ColtFromGulfcoast 739 Posted March 14 Posted March 14 It was mentioned in the FCC filings that the agreements concerning WRSP, WCCU and WBUI are also going to be transferred to Rincon as well. That personally doesn't surprise me. 1
TheRolyPoly 2642 Posted March 25 Posted March 25 Oh great. The Scrippscast method that Sinclair adopted has since spread to KTXS/KTXE. 1 1
TheRolyPoly 2642 Posted March 31 Posted March 31 The Seattle Storm now has an OTA TV home with KOMO and KUNS. Out of 47 games in total, 33 of them are on KUNS, 13 are on KOMO, and there's only one national game this season, but also on KOMO. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/seattle-storm-sets-komo-kuns-as-exclusive-broadcast-tv-partners/ 2
tyrannical bastard 4068 Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Well, Sinciair not only wants the FCC to abolish the current ownership rules, but end ATSC 1.0 as we know it.... https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/sinclair-urges-fcc-to-abolish-station-ownership-rules-sunset-atsc-1-0 I sort-of agree that 3.0 is a superior standard. But if only Sinclair is behind it and other broadcasters are using it as a way to restrict viewership (through encoding and datacasting), then it sort of defeats the purpose of broadcasting as we know it. Streaming has proven to be a method where they hold the control. It's there one day and could be gone the next. If broadcasters have the same control, then consumers lose out as well. 1 5
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