tyrannical bastard

Agreed. Fix the "M" and I could tolerate the font. It just has that Nexstar vibe to it based on that one package (that WSPA also uses). I really wish Gray would have sprung for a better font.

WALA was an exception, since WKRG has used "First Alert" on their Doppler radar for about 20 years and their weather coverage is the "First Alert Storm Team"...WALA using "StormTracker" for about as long, going all they way back to Emmis.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2023/9/3/scripps-is-tanking It seems the changes are not having a good effect on their stock price. The way Scripps is headed, they are an oversized albatross with too many worthless (Ion) stations. They need to right-size themselves by divesting the rest of the Ion stations to Inyo (at least the licenses) so they may be a company worth investing in and potentially merging into another as a means of survival.

I have a feeling KUSI is being groomed to become San Diego's CW station, as soon as the contract expires with KFMB. Despite the slant that KUSI and McKinnnon put out for years, the news-intensive format is probably toast. The ancient graphics and set are likely toast, but if KUSI had some dominance in some ways, they'll keep the stronger parts and merge those into KSWB's operation.

With the new Big Ten deal, Columbus, Ohio's playing field may level out a little more after WSYX/WTTE has had explosive success with their coverage of the Ohio State teams. Now that NBC and CBS have games as well, it's the first time in years where 10TV has aired a Buckeyes football game (even going back to the ESPN broadcasts). And NBC4 can gain some of the action as well should they land a Buckeyes game. Newswise, 10TV and NBC4 are shells of themselves, but this may put a little more revenue and ratings in their pockets on game days....

Due to the 11th hour-nature of the pickup, it's probably going to be this way for this year. Sinclair is basically having to create a new channel to build the CW programming around. By next year, it may resemble more of a CW-like station lineup once deals are secured. I"m assuming that the ex-CW stations owned by CBS are still going to be carried by YouTube TV? They've traditionally carried their existing independents like WLNY, KCAL and WTXA. KOCB may be dropped unless Sinclair elects to keep them on. It would be their only independent station on YouTube TV. And Nexstar should be running with all of their new affiliates, sans WADL since that deal hasn't closed yet?

WEAR was probably THE very last station to do so, after WISN relented a few years back. Likely tied to their Sinclair renewal with ABC, they tweaked their logo with the latest ABC version as well. What would they have done...pulled KDNL's affiliation in retaliation?

A couple changes in Mobile/Pensacola. To replace Dr. Phil, WALA Is debuting a half hour 3:00 p.m. newscast on September 11th followed by InvestigateTV+ at 3:30. Equal Justice with Judge Ebony K. Williams will air for an hour at 1:00 p.m. Judge Mathis is still at noon and People's Court will still air at 2 as of September 11th. (See below where Judge Mathis' and Marilyn Milan's efforts will end up!) The Neighborhood will air from 10:30 to 11:30pm, followed by an hour of Mom, then Daytime Jeopardy at 12:30am, followed by a repeat of Fox 10's 9:00 p.m. newscast, both hours of Studio Ten, and InvestigateTV+ to round out the late-night into the 4:30am news. Over at WEAR, It looks like the last hour-long 10:00 p.m. newscast is done. It will now be a standard 35 minute length followed by Jimmy Kimmel "Live". They'll also replay the 10:00 p.m. at midnight following Nightline. On WJTC (WPMI's sister station), that's where Mathis Court and Justice For The People will end up. They'll air at 1:30 and 2pm and have an encore the following morning at 7:00 a.m... On WKRG, WFGX, WPMI, and WFNA, there's nothing too earth shattering, except maybe a new Byron Allen court show or two on WFNA and anything else on WFGX.... (I've honestly lost track at this point )

Well, so much for the "SuperStation" that launched basic cable ending up as a network affiliate after all of these years.

This morming, all of the Tallahassee stations are wall-to-wall. FOX 49 is carrying WCTV's coverage, while WTWC is getting weather coverage from sister station WPEC in West Palm Beach.

The Tampa/St. Petersburg/Sarasota stations are all wall-to-wall with coverage at this time. And Nexstar is streaming WFLA LIVE on WFLA.com. These Nexstar sets make for interesting use during a hurricane.... Surprisingly, up in Gainesville/Ocala, only WOGX is covering the storm (since it's 10pm and sister station WOFL is live with news anyway). The Sinclair stations are in regular programmng with weather alerts, and WCJB doesn't have a crawl or anything at this point. Up in Tallahassee, only WTXL is in wall-to-wall mode while WTWC is in regular programming, FOX 49 is airing WCTV's newscast, and WCTV has a weather alert on the screen. The storm is poised to hit the Tallahassee market, so they would be wise to go wall-to-wall soon.

WGTA is technically a Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville station, since it's still located (and licensed to) Toccoa in Stephens County. Still, it serves as Atlanta's MeTV affiliate (via a leased space on WUPA (along with their H&I subchannel. Past ties to Athens and UGA have still kept it officially out of the Atlanta market. Even it's past CBS affiliate status (as a semi-satellite of WSPA in Spartanburg) made it more of a convenience for eastern Georgia viewers who lost CBS when it went from WAGA to channel 46. If things get really desperate, Nexstar could simply start up a new CW affiliate and lease a channel on one of the Atlanta full-powered stations. No matter who owns it. All it takes is a willing station to lease a subchannel to and to collect lease payments from. No license to deal with, just a jukebox and a satellite somewhere to beam the "channel" to. The irony would be if it's WUPA that agrees to it!

A legend for sure. Spent many mornings during the summer, before college classes, even during work watching TPIR during the Barker era (He was still hosting during one of my old TV jobs). This brings back the memory of 10TV's premiere of NightBeat. More infamously known for the surprise appearance of wanted fugitive Donna Osborne who later turned herself into authorities after appearing on the show, Rod Roddy's passing was the same night and can be seen in the headlines pre-open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyS9ouDaO0o

Good point. I forgot about WANF's news on WPCH.

WATL getting the CW would bring an end to its WXIA primetime newscasts from 8-11, while WUPA is not set up to do a similar thing, much like their other sister stations are gearing up to do. Atlanta will be an interesting market to watch, for sure. CBS still owning a station with little means of expansion while still keeping an affiliation with WANF and losing an equivalent news effort IF WATL goes CW.

Back in the analog era, strong affiliates that served adjacent markets had a lot more ability to muscle out local competition. It wasn't until the digital era when stations could sign on a second network via a subchannel or duopoly/SSA/JSA partner. It set a lot more boundaries with the DMAs and markets were able to fill out their choices to satisfy market exclusivity for cable, satellite and streaming services. Also, some of the old analog stations lost a lot of their excess reach having to convert to digital (usually from VHF to UHF) so their signals became more confined with their home market.

Piping in an adjacent affiliate would be the ultimate irony for Nexstar, given their retrans-heavy model. The last thing they would want to seemingly do is pipe in another market's station in a market they can't land a new affiliate in... In the small chance that Cox secures a deal to put the CW on one of their subchannels, that would give WSB and WPXI outlets for a 10pm newscast ....and in Pittsburgh, to bring their existing one in-house away from WPGH, leaving Sinclair in the dust to fill it with TND or something like that...

WCJB's original reason for going with ABC was because of their contract with the Florida Gators at the time. With ESPN planning on going DTC at some point in the future, would this be a boon or a bust to their SEC coverage? Alabama would be a key test for this, since many of the CBS affiliates have dominated the ratings there, usually due to their SEC coverage on Saturdays. Would the prospect of sacrificing an arm and a leg to watch SEC football be detrimental to their fanbase, and the stations that used to carry the games?

That's gotta be great news for all of the Nexstar stations roped into promoting this garbage during their local news breaks. At least the AT&T/DirecTV viewers didn't see it since all of their Nexstar channels are blacked out!

This one's gonna be interesting, since it's a rare pacific storm to hit the continental United States. TWC is focusing their attention on it at this moment, but the local stations aren't quite in "Hurricane Mode" like an Atlantic or Gulf station would be....yet.

Could some of these late additions be due to the ongoing strikes?

This may be a one-off, but the Chiefs-Saints game (New Orleans Saints network) is running on WKRG 5.3 (MeTV) in SD. Usually, these games run on the main WKRG feed. Is Nexstar so beholden to CBS that they can't pre-empt the Big 3 basketball game going on at the same time? WFNA has LIV golf as well, as well as being home to the Bucs network. WLOX is airing it on 13.1 (ABC) and it's airing on their flagship station, WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans. On the Saints website, it has Gray as their TV partner, but WALA is not carrying it. They still may be under contract to WKRG, and once that lapses, the games will likely move to WALA.

Sinclair slacking off here in Pittsburgh with WPGH is about to hit them once again. KDKA has handily won the race with their 10pm show on WPCW and Sinclair has no inkling to compete at a local level in one off their larger and older markets.

Good to see that they didn't get sucked into the Byron Allen void of daytime TV.

Seeing as how WLUC is the absolutely dominant station in the area by a longshot, there's little incentive to change.