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tyrannical bastard

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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...
  4. 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?
  5. 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!
  6. 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.
  7. Could some of these late additions be due to the ongoing strikes?
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Good to see that they didn't get sucked into the Byron Allen void of daytime TV.
  11. Seeing as how WLUC is the absolutely dominant station in the area by a longshot, there's little incentive to change.
  12. The GrayOne package looks nice and all, but I still hate the main font. I thought I read somewhere it was chosen because it was "easy on the eyes?" And the fact that Nexstar has a package that uses it in many markets....
  13. Back in the day, KDKA's viewing area was referred to as "KD Country". It probably has some casual mentions now and then, but it's likely been shelved by all of the CBS mandates over the years...
  14. Apologies for the bump, But NewsNation has been obsessed with UFOs lately. How long before before they hire Giorgio A. Tsoukalos as an on-air personality?
  15. Former longtime WALA chief meteorologist John Edd Thompson was attacked at a gas station this past Tuesday. https://www.fox10tv.com/2023/07/28/retired-fox10-chief-meteorologist-john-edd-thompson-attacked-81st-birthday/ Thankfully, he is ok. Why someone would do this to an 81 year old man, even one that is considered legendary in the Mobile area is absolutely sickening.
  16. I've said it before, but Jeff Zucker should never be entrusted with anything, ever again. The fact he's trying to have the article retracted is proof he's the Svengali behind the Orange one and all of his illusions and distortions of the truth....
  17. Yes they did. After the repack forced them off of 50, they went back to "4".
  18. And then there's Sinclair....case in point WPMI. Had a long-standing morning news program that even pre-dated their switch from FOX to NBC. Over the years, it expanded to 2 hours, and under Sinclair, even expanded to 4:30am. Because of their arrangement with Deerfield and cross-ownership of WEAR, they had to cancel the 4:30am due to going over the 15% programming limit that an operator can produce on a JSA/SSA station. The competition responded by expanding to 4:30am since they were freely able to. Fast forward to Sinclair creating The National Desk, their hot, new national broadcast that's sweeping the nation! This past April, bye-bye went the local news in the morning, and was replaced by TND. In the carnage, other Sinclair markets were severely cut back, and even had local newscasts eliminated altogether, replaced largely by TND. Now with Scripps cutting back at their stations, nationalization of local newscasts could slowly be turning into a thing....
  19. Perfect idea for a filler on CBS.....6o Minutes II... oh wait...
  20. It just goes to show how these other means of delivery eclipse the network that started it all. Look at how NBC has repurposed "NBC News Daily" and "Top Story with Tom Llamas" on the network. Now that the network needs content to fill, digital is where it's likely going to come from.
  21. It wouldn't surprise me to see a primetime newscast or magazine extension (cough cough dateline, 2020, 48 hours mystery) fill some holes in the schedule as well.
  22. It could be worse, like a religious network masquerading as a news network....or vice versa.... But maybe it's time to revisit the must-carry rules, since 99.9% of the stations that opt for them are worthless garbage programming of little benefit to the local viewer....
  23. Pittsburgh has neither Gray nor Nexstar as owners...while Atlanta has WPCH that could align with the CW. The overlap that Wheeling-Steubenville had in the old analog days could have come in handy here...
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