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Well, after AT&T, Verizon and numerous other pay TV providers dropped the One America "News" network, it looks to be seeking the free-tv route.... https://www.nexttv.com/news/misinformation-finds-a-way-oan-goes-ota-re-invents-itself-as-broadcast-subchannel The good news about this is, the low-powered stations that this network will land on should be easily picked up by the tinfoil hats of their average viewer.....

The current KWTV facilities will not be torn down. In fact Griffin Media is donating EVERYTHING in the current building to Langston University with Langston set to move it's Journalism Program to the Kelley Ave Studios in January

They'll learn their lesson soon enough, if they keep up their current antics.

Hoda & Jenna's show can go as well. As others have been mentioning, my concern with the elimination of the 10/9c hour (which I support) is the dissolution of show blocks like Dick Wolf's dramas. A negative is that the successful One Chicago Wednesday and Law and Order Thursday blocks would be split up. A positive is that strong shows would be spread out over several nights rather than just two watchable nights on NBC. Plausible split compromise: (NBC) Tue: Chicago Med and Law & Order Wed: Chicago Fire and Law & Order: SVU Thu: Chicago PD and Law & Order: Organized Crime CBS (if it cut 10 pm; placed in ways that don't compete with Wolf's NBC dramas). Sunday: FBI & (whatever else, East NY perhaps) Mon: FBI International & FBI Most Wanted

Per her Instagram she started at FOX5 today.. I guess there’s rehearsals and stuff first

CBS says try pry it out of our cold dead fingers. https://deadline.com/2022/10/goodbye-10-pm-hour-network-primetime-cbs-abc-nbc-local-stations-1235149601/ https://www.avclub.com/cbs-says-you-can-pry-its-10-p-m-programming-block-out-1849679906

Neville Miller is moving to weekdays at KMBC-TV. Opinion only, but a Busby retirement is probably close.

KJAC 1981/2 Newscasts

WBRZ TV-2 Eyewitness News at 6:00pm (October 3, 1981)

I can't see any of the Big station TV groups carrying OAN Sinclair, Nexstar is out since they have NewsNation, Scripps since they have Newsy soon to be Scripps News, TEGNA, Hearst, etc. Who is going to carry OAN other than the small low power TV stations that no one has ever heard of.

How is this not really a list thread, anyway?

To answer the first question, Newsmax didn’t seem to care when it initially went on air. At no point did a producer/director decide to pull the plug and go to break when Logan brought up the topic of a “global cabal.” On the contrary, Bolling appeared to encourage her ramblings, and even articulated the sentiments behind the “Great Replacement” theory. The whole segment was nothing but a series of conspiratorial (and arguably overtly racist) claims. Even the lower third graphics seemed to encourage Logan’s BS (ex: “Logan: It’s Good vs. Evil” when she was going on about the End Times). I get the feeling that Newsmax is only now condemning her statements because they gave the game away and got caught. As for what happened to Lara, I’ve wondered the same about many of my friends and relatives who’ve found sanctuary in the far right/far left (though the far right seems to have received more mainstream acceptance in the GOP than the far left has received among Democrats). I can name people in my own personal life who were otherwise good, decent, and rational, but even they have been seduced into becoming fanatics with a hunger for political violence. They didn’t become like that overnight; it happened over several years. The quote about fascism coming to America “wrapped in the Flag and carrying the Cross” comes to mind. It’s not because patriotism and religion are always inherently fascist (they aren’t). Rather, it’s that extreme ideologies become palatable and popular by dressing themselves in respectable clothing. They attract people with the familiar, and slowly but surely drag those people towards extremism. I know that sounds overtly political, but I can’t think of another way to explain why so many respectable people have gone off the deep end. The only other answer is that they’re human, and humans are capable of these things. That answer scares the daylights out of me.

WWJ (WDIV) The channel 4 News 1969

They'll be out of business soon anyways. No big media entity would want to invest in that dumpster fire.

Launching a barebones local tv news operation in an already heavily oversaturated market and producing an out-of-home marketing campaign featuring a bunch of nameless stranger's faces and giving people absolutely no idea what or where your "new local news" product even is... not sure if the question is if they've found an audience but can the audience even find them?

I don’t foresee NBC going “halfway” and cutting sone nights but not all. Do you know how confusing they would be to the viewer? It’s all or nothing.

If NBC really wants to cut an hour, do we really need FOUR hours of Today? Yes, it's news and in the morning, but i'm sure the affiliates wouldn't mind getting an hour or two back in the AM. Maybe ditch the 9am hour and make Hoda & Jenna it's own show. Megyn Kelly should have spelled the end of that timeslot.

OAN is poison outside of the MAGA base now that we know who they are and that they always push conspiracies. No legitimate journalism entity would touch them with a 10-foot pole. They make Fox News look like the AP.

Doesn't seem like a very smart move to move from 'do anything you want except libel' cable/internet-only distribution to a broadcast model with FCC restrictions.

Sounds like an act of desperation on Herring's part. Also, I believe OAN Plus has been carried OTA as well.

I really thought they would've at least kept some reference to CBS 46 outside of newscasts. ANF gives off a NY 1 type 24/7 cable network vibe. I suppose it works being that the station barely has a daytime lineup outside of news. Even though the importance of channel dials are going down with the Internet, will layman viewers know this is channel 46? This feels like a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it as the CBS 46 branding in recent years was perfectly fine. Hopefully it all works out. Let's see how we go from here.

We're probably getting off topic here, but I've been waiting for the contracting of linear cable television and the shedding of channels that aren't being watched, particularly among the multiplexers (HBO, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, etc.) that have multiple flavors of themselves. I mean, do we really need several versions of MTV when there's often not enough new content to justify more than two?

As a 90s kid - and more specifically a 90s Nickelodeon kid - this is definitely lazy. Though the week after with iCarly and America's Funniest Home Videos seems somewhat better. But if Paramount is just going to go waste on TeenNick, might as well do what NBC just did and free up the linear space for something more useful. Also, look at the TV listings for Nicktoons - almost nothing but SpongeBob. The Nicktoons creative crew has fallen a long way from the days of Doug Funnie and a bunch of "dumb babies"...which may very well accurately describe Viacom's Paramount's cable management. Just like MTV2 is nothing more than "all Snooki, all Farrah Abraham, all the time" now. So much for the secondhand communications facility in Hauppauge that HBO handed down to them when HBO moved to Atlanta...

From my comment-conversations with the YT uploaders of those "sizzle reels", it seems it's pretty much that "I got this from a guy who got it from a guy who says another guy leaked it to him..." In other words, take it for what it's worth. Actually, when you think about it, while those of us who follow this are tired of the 2016 O&O graphics and have been hearing about an update so long... what might we expect in the way of an overhaul? ...the current look isn't necessarily dinosaur tracks; the L3s and most everything else are in the same default TT Norms Pro with the CBS soft blue; some of the over-the-shoulders and sidebars and weather graphics have been spruced up a bit; the streaming versions of the newscasts have all the latest CBS touches ; the stations seem to have a lot of latitude with promos and branding, back and forth with channel number and CBS News identity. And for other Los Angeles-station viewers, I believe KABC's graphics date to October 2015 and KTLA's are exactly six years old, though a new set in the making could bring a new look.