NWA_TV_guy 156 Posted October 29, 2016 Posted October 29, 2016 WABG (ABC & FOX), WNBD-LD (NBC) and WXVT (CBS), all either owned and/or operated by Northwest Broadcasting, have consolidated under one branding (The Delta News) and, at this time, it seems that WXVT's news department is the only one of the group that's producing newscasts. The group's website, www.yourdeltanews.com, only displays a message that says the site is "under construction." Don't expect big things to happen with this change in this market. This seems solely to be a move to cut expenses and, unfortunately, staff. WIKIPEDIA: "Commonwealth Broadcasting Group agreed to sell WABG-TV, WNBD-LD, and WFXW-LD to Cala Broadcast Partners for $11.7 million on October 30, 2015. Cala is jointly owned by Brian Brady (who owns several other television stations, mostly under the Northwest Broadcasting name) and Jason Wolff (who owns radio and television stations through Frontier Radio Management).[6] Concurrently with this acquisition, Cala agreed to purchase WXVT from H3 Communications; a month later, it assigned its right to purchase that station to John Wagner.[7] The sale was completed on August 1, 2016."
TheRolyPoly 2546 Posted October 29, 2016 Posted October 29, 2016 This is their newscast schedule if your interested: Weekdays: 5:30-6:00am on WXVT 6:00-7:00am on WXVT and WABG 5:00-5:30pm on WXVT, WABG and WNBD 6:00-6:30pm on WXVT and WABG Daily: 10:00-10:35pm on WXVT, WABG and WNBD
Samantha 2898 Posted October 29, 2016 Posted October 29, 2016 Surprised there's no 9pm show on the Fox affiliate.
TheRolyPoly 2546 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 Surprised there's no 9pm show on the Fox affiliate. It seems like on the FOX affiliate... WABG 6.2 / FOX 10 Delta... the only newscast that's aired there is a repeat of the 5:00pm news at 5:30pm.
Samantha 2898 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 It seems like on the FOX affiliate... WABG 6.2 / FOX 10 Delta... the only newscast that's aired there is a repeat of the 5:00pm news at 5:30pm. That's kind of lame. Can't even pre-tape a 9pm show sometime during the evening?
Weeters 1969 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 That's kind of lame. Can't even pre-tape a 9pm show sometime during the evening? Why? We're talking market 193 here... There's probably no demand for more news.
tyrannical bastard 4018 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 There come a point when it would just be better to just pipe in another market's station(s). Greenwood-Greenville has reached that point. I remember when FOXNET shut down a decade ago. That was the ONLY reason WABG started their FOX station.
Samantha 2898 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 Why? We're talking market 193 here... There's probably no demand for more news. Well, even a 6pm repeat at 9pm might look good.
Brain 81 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 Hey, look! FOX in DMA 193 stole the O&O-style logo from it's top 30 DMA counterpart. Weird./
NWA_TV_guy 156 Posted October 30, 2016 Author Posted October 30, 2016 If I lived in that market I would watch a Memphis, Tupelo/Columbus or Jackson station via livestream before I would one of those newscasts in 193.
NWA_TV_guy 156 Posted October 30, 2016 Author Posted October 30, 2016 Why? We're talking market 193 here... There's probably no demand for more news. And they do well enough to gather enough content for a newscast as it is! It is bad.
NEOMatrix 1305 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 Wait! Why is WXVT producing the news? I thought WABG was the dominant station in the TV market.
tw-804 193 Posted October 30, 2016 Posted October 30, 2016 Didn't know WXVT is producing the newscasts now. Speaking of WXVT, I'm surprised that no one here or Wikipedia mentioned Breaking Greenville, TruTV's Making News-ish show (took place at both 'XVT and 'ABG) that aired last year.
tyrannical bastard 4018 Posted November 1, 2016 Posted November 1, 2016 ...could be a reason to blow up the market now that the show took place... Anyone still there who was on the show?
tw-804 193 Posted November 1, 2016 Posted November 1, 2016 ...could be a reason to blow up the market now that the show took place... Anyone still there who was on the show? Last year, I posted in the Out and About thread that WABG's Justin Moore joined Buffalo's WKBW. He's now an MMJ there.
GoldenShine9 1514 Posted November 1, 2016 Posted November 1, 2016 ...could be a reason to blow up the market now that the show took place... Anyone still there who was on the show? If the market was blown up, where would be the best fit - Jackson, Memphis or Tupelo/Columbus?
TennTV1983 806 Posted November 2, 2016 Posted November 2, 2016 If the market was blown up, where would be the best fit - Jackson, Memphis or Tupelo/Columbus? The Greenwood-Greenville market would probably wind up being split between the adjacent markets with Jackson getting the southern half and Memphis getting most of the northern half (including Cleveland, MS) with Tupelo/Columbus likely to pick up one or two counties in the process.
Eat News 4745 Posted November 2, 2016 Posted November 2, 2016 Didn't know WXVT is producing the newscasts now. Speaking of WXVT, I'm surprised that no one here or Wikipedia mentioned Breaking Greenville, TruTV's Making News-ish show (took place at both 'XVT and 'ABG) that aired last year. I wonder how bad of a boy Steve Shill had to be to end up on that show...Shill was a WX guy at KNTV in the 80's and early 90's. From watching the show I get the feeling that Steve is growing pot and running a whisky still in his spare bedroom.
CircleSeven 1960 Posted November 2, 2016 Posted November 2, 2016 I wonder how bad of a boy Steve Shill had to be to end up on that show...Shill was a WX guy at KNTV in the 80's and early 90's. From watching the show I get the feeling that Steve is growing pot and running a whisky still in his spare bedroom. I missed Schill from the days he was at WFLD. Those were the good ol' days at 32.
NWA_TV_guy 156 Posted November 4, 2016 Author Posted November 4, 2016 I wonder how bad of a boy Steve Shill had to be to end up on that show...Shill was a WX guy at KNTV in the 80's and early 90's. From watching the show I get the feeling that Steve is growing pot and running a whisky still in his spare bedroom. He is now at WCBI now as an anchor/reporter.
Eat News 4745 Posted November 4, 2016 Posted November 4, 2016 He is now at WCBI now as an anchor/reporter. There has got to be a pretty good back story for this guy.... Anyone?
jerseyfla 207 Posted November 8, 2016 Posted November 8, 2016 When I watched Breaking Greenville, I laughed my ass off when WABG's morbidly obese news director Pam Chatman called herself the "Oprah of the South". "Uh, who are you?!!" I guess this chick has never met Monica Kaufman-Pearson, she's the Oprah of the South. Chatman loves touting how she was the first black female news director in the state of Mississippi. Way to narrow down your barrier breaking Pam! I can't wait to see the first Hispanic male news director in the state of Mississippi. (It has probably happened already)
johnnya2k6 171 Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 Oprah is the Oprah of the south. Right, because she was born in a small Mississippi town. And by the way...Monica Pearson beat Oprah -- and Jane Pauley -- for the WSB anchor job in 1975!
Eat News 4745 Posted November 20, 2016 Posted November 20, 2016 Right, because she was born in a small Mississippi town. And by the way...Monica Pearson beat Oprah -- and Jane Pauley -- for the WSB anchor job in 1975! That makes Oprah the Monica of the south...which places Jane just north of that.
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