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  1. Does Sinclair even try to promote their ARC branding? Or is it just a name for their stripped CW affiliates? The name and what they say it stands for is just a byproduct of soulless committee thinking. It doesn't help that there are still many ARC community organizations across the country (still known as such) that deal with the developmentally disabled. (the "R" referring to an obsolete term for these individuals, their acronym still exists though.)
  2. Lead anchor Byron Day is out at Fox 10 in Mobile. Their GM confirmed that he is no longer at the station. https://www.lagniappemobile.com/news/byron-day-no-longer-with-fox10-gm-says/article_5a653196-e21e-11ee-897f-c7ecd96a25c6.html (pay walled)
  3. So does KNOP have any local North Platte newscasts left? Since Glendive hasn't done any local news for years, this could be the smallest market that produces a local newscast of any kind. Alpena's WBKB only does a 6:30 morning show and newscasts at 6:00 and 11:00. They reintroduced local weather but relied on NewsNet for a while (probably due to staffing shortages).
  4. In Cleveland, this has WBNX written all over it. I can't see it ending up on WUAB unless it's after 9am.
  5. That's a shame, since Meredith basically decimated their creative service departments before their sale, and Gray had to literally re-staff them all over again. Then again, KCTV has been a dumpster fire for quite some time. Under Meredith, it was a great place for people to fall "upward".
  6. The only way Mission is going to buy that station is if Kevin Adell is out of the picture. He alone screwed the pooch on that sale.
  7. Dammit. The Bally Sports dumpster fire gets a new source of kindling.... https://awfulannouncing.com/sinclair/against-all-odds-diamond-sports-group-looks-set-to-rise-from-the-ashes.html
  8. Missed this one from Biloxi.... Longtime Chief Meteorologist Carrie Duncan retired from WLOX in January to take a new position doing PR for Ingalls Shipbuilding in nearby Pascagoula. https://www.wlox.com/2024/01/11/wlox-chief-meteorologist-carrie-duncan-announces-retirement-television/ Eric Jeansonne was named as the new chief meteorologist and morning met Wesley Williams was named as "Senior Meteorologist" https://www.wlox.com/video/2024/02/22/wlox-announces-new-chief-meteorologist-senior-meteorologist/
  9. If Scripps does decide to sell, who in their right mind would buy them with what they've done to their stations? It would have to be some kind of private equity deal to keep things running, but if that ever happens, what's left to cut to make a profit on their investment?
  10. O&O wise, CBS lags in the largest markets while ABC dominates. NBC varies, but seems to be in the middle. Of the top 5 markets, Chicago is where Fox gets their clock cleaned by WGN on a consistent basis while NY & LA seem to be doing better, WNYW does way better than WPIX and what's left of WWOR (but does KCAL and KTLA outrank KTTV?) Generally, ABC has held up the best as the network owners have "borged" their stations. CBS took a hit in the 80s from the Tisch era and Jeff "Zucked" the NBC stations during his disastrous tenure.
  11. At least it looks better with the new package then it did with the other one. And the team colors are also used by the Pirates and the Penguins, so they do transcend beyond the Steelers to being more of a "Pittsburgh" thing. I like Pittsburgh, But being from Northeast Ohio, you get the idea .
  12. How is Pittsburgh doing these days? Even though the newscast is pumping out the same garbage that all the other CBS markets are, they're allowed to use the ugly black and yellow to cater to the "Stillers" fans, and probably get a lot more traction by doing so!
  13. Imagine that.... Garbage out (more Scrippscasts).... Garbage in (lower revenue).... https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/scripps-q4-station-revenue-drops-12/
  14. Way back in the 80s and 90s, the networks were ceding their time left and right as the game shows that filled that time were going away one by one. Of course, that was a different era when the networks PAID stations to air their content....but local ad dollars were more enticing.... Flash forward to today, and you can't pry away network time from their "cold dead hands". And they replace shows with new ones just because they have the "time" to do so. All the while reverse compensation is alive and well and is keeping the whole shebang afloat (for now). The last ceding of time I can recall is "Later" going away on NBC, but even that is filled by a repeat of Nightly News for any affiliate that doesn't want to (or can't) replay their late news.
  15. Given the questionable status of Alabama (and other SEC schools), and the dominance of Michigan (and potentially Ohio State), this change of CBS from SEC to Big 10 may help in more important places as opposed to the CBS stations taking a dive without SEC football. I don't think that it's going to lead to any affiliation switches, unless one of the big owners really drops the ball with Paramount and they go elsewhere....
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