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Noticed this on KITV's updated website today. WEWS called. They want their logo back. Haha. Also to keep it with the thread, new abc logo added for tax.

This begs the question of what happens to Dr. Oz in Youngstown, Buffalo, Binghamton, Elmira and Wheeling. The stations carrying the program in Youngstown, Buffalo and Elmira (WKBN, WNLO and WYDC/WJKP) are based in markets with at least one Pennsylvania county in the DMA (Mercer County in the Youngstown DMA, McKean and Potter Counties in the Buffalo DMA, and Tioga County in the Elmira DMA); in the other two cases where the station’s home market doesn’t legally include any Pennsylvania counties, WTRF’s OTA signal (as well as WTOV’s) reaches as far into the state as Pittsburgh proper and WBGH (mainly via the WIVT simulcast, considerably less so with the main LD signal) spills over into much of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market. (Incidentally, all of those stations, except for WYDC/WJKP, are owned by Nexstar, which pulled Dr. Oz from WJW mainly because of its significantly viewed status via cable in northwestern PA.) Secondly, would the equal time rules or, moreso, the perception that adding the show would be seen as a(n indirect) violation of said rules dissuade the Pennsylvania and PA-spillover stations from carrying The Good Dish, since Daphne Oz will be the host and it would be used as filler for the timeslots intended for her dad’s talk show per Sony’s current distribution contract for the latter? As an aside, WBRE has replaced Dr. Oz with Access Daily at 3:00 p.m., so it appears that only the rural Pennsylvania counties based in DMAs originating in surrounding states and D.C. can still watch Oz… for now.

Yikes. You never see that show on a Big Three station.

As expected for now.

WLS, Chicago, 10 p.m. (rebroadcast), complete, 1992:

KTRK Eyewitness News Tonight (August 9, 1996)