Rusty Muck

Didn't Gray make an attempt once to get the 4 PSIP ID back from KRDK for KXJB-LD?

The only reason why WUAB gave up The WB was because of their contracts to run both Indians and Cavs games OTA, which reaked havoc on juggling two networks with (at the time) partial schedules. Neither of those exist now, and MyTV is so irrelevant that it can be cleared between 1am-3am and no one would know otherwise. But switching affiliations this coming Monday? The CW must know something about WBNX that we don’t if they made a switch this abrupt.

Jim Rogers saw that coming almost a decade ago and tried to make KSNV as news-heavy as an NBC affiliate could possibly get (not unlike what NBC did with KCNC prior to trading it to CBS).

WOIO tends to get a lot of attention for being an “also-ran” in the market, but WEWS has been terribly unstable WRT management since at least the early 2000s.

It was Hugh Hewitt’s 30 minute show that got canned. Apparently no one noticed until now.

The funny thing is, KMOV rolled out that same exact design for their mobile app... what... two years ago? I'm fine with a logo evolution, and that's what this is, but the glaciers retreated from the Midwest at a much faster pace than this. The new logo features the KMOV calls prominently, so why not the KMOV4 brand?

Not just "two old men," they were lifers at the station - Tom Haley and Del Donahoo. That show was the first pre-8am local newscast in the Cleveland market (NBC slapped it on in 1981) and it only stayed on the air as long as it did because it wound up attaining a loyal following.

Wow. A comedian on a morning show. Why does that sound so familiar?

Thank god WCMH's website never became WeAre614OlentangyProud.com or some variation thereof.

The same fools who are trying to restructure iHeart and Cumulus... John Malone, for one.

No, WKBW and WMYD were sold by Granite to Scripps months before the Journal merger.

KB runs a 30 minute form of The Now at 7:00, which is their de facto local newscast in a market that doesn’t have any newscasts in that time slot.

If anything, Scripps will go towards a restructuring bankruptcy, not a liquidation bankruptcy. Seriously, the company is not going to be peeled apart. WXYZ or other stations will not be sold off separately. Far more likely the company will wind up like Granite... holding on just for the sake of holding on.

Who knows at this point. Something's been amiss with Scripps in general ever since the legacy company spun off the cable network division.

Not really. The Now killed off whatever ratings momentum KSHB had, and WXYZ did all that they could to make it as close to a straight newscast as possible. WKBW has done decently with the Now at 7pm, where no other local newscast runs in that timeslot in the market (considering that KB lost Wheel and J! under the tail end of Granite mismanagement to WIVB, that isn’t saying much of anything). WEWS recently swapped PnB with Steve Harvey - moving Steve back to 3pm - in a move reminiscent of their bailing on Dr. Oz a few years ago.

Huh, it’s “The List” all over again. Shocked, surprised, etc., &c.

Shades of Joel Rose 16 years ago. Different circumstances, same result.

I can't see them selling off WXYZ/WMYD and continue to survive as a company. Unless it's a Warren Buffett-type deal a la WPLG, that would immediately be seen as waving the white flag and setting themselves up for an outright sale. So why not just unload the entire chain then?

WXYZ is still far and away the largest station in their portfolio. I would be astounded to see them unload it. If anything, WXYZ will be like WEWS, WMAR and WKBW... underperformers but still with value regardless. (Although WKBW's issues still mostly predate Scripps management.)

...nevermind that it took 18 years for the initial complaints against RKO General to actually result in damage to the company.

Who would buy those radio stations? And is Scripps going to ask for a higher price than they will really command? I mean, it took CBS ten years to unload their radio stations...

That legitimately sucks. I knew people who suffered from them and never recovered. Assuming they caught it at an early stage, he's might still have a long road ahead of him.

Thought I saw something like this before. I was right.

Doerr at least had some success at WOIO (alongside Bill Applegate) but that might not be the best comparison to make.

The issues have nothing to do with WBNX. If anything, it has been WBNX which has kept the rest of his operations afloat. And it's an ego thing. Angley coveted the construction permit for TV55 ever since Rex Humbard's ministry fell apart under oddly similar circumstances. (To wit, next to the WBNX facilities in Akron is a concrete edifice that Humbard built AS the intended tower for the station he wanted.) He'll never sell until the banks force him to. The sad thing is, Scott had an independent TV station of his own in Hartford CT, and let it decay (literally and figuratively) until he was forced to give it up in 1985.