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mre29

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  1. Just what is Nexstar's current coverage percentage, anyway?
  2. How many stations would Nexstar have to sell to get back under the cap?
  3. Of course, this does bring up one good question: Where the heck is Al Jazeera English? It's already free, so...
  4. YES! I've been hoping this would happen for a while now -- either this or more cable providers grouping BBC News with the other news channels. (You shouldn't have to pay extra for one news channel when you're already get three or more as part of basic cable.) Because the BBC has been missing from the FAST news channels space for far too long. Besides the American news-focused channels (ABC News Live, CBS News, NBC News Now, and LiveNOW from Fox), BBC News's direct competitor, Sky News, has been there for years, and there's also Euronews and other channels.
  5. Meanwhile, elsewhere in WBDland.... Warner Bros. Discovery to Overhaul TruTV With Sports; Sets Nightly Block for Games and More TruTV isn't the only "zombie" WBD needs to deal with...
  6. Aside from the WBD connection, why not post this in the International News forum and then link to it here?
  7. Or the stations could be sold to multiple owners who are established broadcasting companies.
  8. So, how are local newscasts on various CBS affiliates (not the O&Os), anyway? How are the newscasts on Hearst's KCCI and WLKY? What about Graham's WKMG? Scripps's WTKR, WTVR, WTVF, and MTN stations? Tegna's WBNS, KHOU, KFMB, etc? Weigel's WDJT? The many affiliates owned by Sinclair, Nexstar, and Gray? (I'm particularly interested in Gray's WFSB and Sinclair's WGME.)
  9. So, is everyone only interested in talking about the CBS-owned stations? The original poster never specified that...
  10. Five weeks and a day is a notable shift. I guess they didn't have enough content ready to merit sticking to the original date.
  11. So, basically, Morning Express was meant to compete more with Today and Good Morning America than with Morning Joe and Fox & Friends?
  12. If I remember correctly, Morning Express was often beating New Day in the ratings. Too bad Licht was focused on cloning CBS This Morning. What's Meade doing these days, anyway? Maybe she's available... From the Variety article: This would be a damn good time to finish killing off HLN.
  13. Could KSL go independent or even merge with BYUtv? Remember, KSL is owned indirectly (via Bonneville) by the LDS church, while the latter is owned by an LDS-affiliated university and includes a broadcast channel (KBYU). They're like corporate cousins.
  14. The only message that likely sends is "We don't want local fans to be interested in our [race/game]."
  15. Maybe they should also add a disclosure notice to all of their newscasts.
  16. And then WTHR shows the race during primetime while the rest of the country gets the primetime lineup?
  17. Oh, what would we do without our daily dose of 48 Hours?!?
  18. Prior to Nexstar buying a majority stake in the CW, I'd have said the easiest solution would be to take ABC for KPLR and send the CW to KDNL, but that's not likely now that Nexstar has a good reason to keep the CW affiliation. Maybe Weigel could be convinced to make room for it on KNLC or Scripps could take it for WRBU.
  19. Could the networks threaten to pull affiliation to get Sinclair to invest in their stations? Or require certain affiliates to be sold to new owners? I'm thinking of KDNL in particular.
  20. Or a certain orange-skinned individual. This would be a very good time for Sinclair to sell some of their stations, and not just small ones, either. But something tells me the company's response to that would basically be, "If we can't control those stations, NO ONE CAN!"
  21. Or under the weight of the giant bird he's wrapped around his neck...
  22. Leave it to Nexstar to lay off individual words.
  23. I didn't think HBO had that few. This is why I'm waiting for the inevitable mass-culling of cable channels. There are so many channels that aren't pulling their own weight and are still around only because they're bundled with their more popular siblings. At some point, one of the parent companies -- Disney, Comcast/NBCU, WBD, Paramount, etc. -- needs to say, "Yeah, this isn't working out anymore." and start winding channels down. But which company is going to blink first?
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