Scripps - General Discussion

[Yankees4life 603]

Well...I hope they have more worthy programming for both channels over here. The Cats will only cover the winter. They need a bit more than that to justify their existence here...

[TheRolyPoly 3561]

We got another new Spot... WXMI Channel 17.2, replacing Antenna TV with The Spot - Grand Rapids 17.

 

This is me thinking that this is a result of Scripps getting rights the Pistons for WMYD and therefore, spreading it to West Michigan on a new indie sub.

[Yankees4life 603]

11 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

We got another new Spot... WXMI Channel 17.2, replacing Antenna TV with The Spot - Grand Rapids 17.

 

This is me thinking that this is a result of Scripps getting rights the Pistons for WMYD and therefore, spreading it to West Michigan on a new indie sub.

That makes sense since West Michigan is in-market for the Pistons

[Archiva 20]

11 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

We got another new Spot... WXMI Channel 17.2, replacing Antenna TV with The Spot - Grand Rapids 17.

Funny enough, WTVR also dropped Antenna TV on Tuesday. No Spot branding here yet, but CBS6XTRA was moved to 6.2.

[Megatron81 344]

On 7/1/2026 at 9:29 AM, Yankees4life said:

Well...I hope they have more worthy programming for both channels over here. The Cats will only cover the winter. They need a bit more than that to justify their existence here...

 

Same here for 17.2 not much outside The Pistons maybe they'll get AC Grand Rapids when they debut next year. Programming is all over the place as well just threw whatever could stick. Since there isn't much syndication Scripps could've maybe put second hours of GMFB, ICrime, I think Dateline & 48 Hours not sure if that was only for 1 hour per-day or if they had second hours, I thought they did.

 

Outside of Byron Allen's dreck that Sinclair dropped from ARC-WMI this past fall & Funny You Should Ask wasn't much they could get for syndication. Scripps News has all morning 6AM to 12PM M-F.