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2 hours ago, Action Newsroom said:
1) Since it's staying around, it's gonna take a while to forget that this network name was last associated with home design, cooking and DIY shows.
2) That logo looks like one of a 90s haircare brand. Considering it's new strategy, while not bad, it's a bit too on-the-nose IMO. haha
While there'll be four black oriented networks come 2024 with the launch of The365 joining Bounce, TheGrio and the new Dabl, they're at least trying to stick out by being focused on shows with female leads. So while there may not be much variety right now with a schedule of 7 shows airing 7 days a week, I'd have to imagine that by the end of 2024, they'll offer a more diverse schedule by adding dramas and reality shows keeping with the black female lead motif.
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On 12/16/2023 at 7:14 PM, HSV cheesehead said:
I dont think that 21Alive had the ABC logo since the rebrand, but I am not entirely sure, on their VUit page there's no logo present.
That's likely for use on both the ABC and NBC channels, which since the Gray buyout have both been called 21 Alive.
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15 minutes ago, sfomspphl said:
Not quite video, but we can add KPIX to the list of MCTYW stations - audio of Dec 31, 1973 'Action News'
https://californiarevealed.org/do/110a8815-26be-4a63-8d6a-860ee50c28ec
KCRA Channel 3 Reports 5pm 1983 (most...cuts to KOVR at the end) - earliest use of 'where the news comes first' theme I've come across
audio is on the 'right' audio channel - 'left' channel is another station (KXTV?). Use the balance control in your settings to hear either one.
https://californiarevealed.org/do/92b39edc-0916-4db7-9785-4690b414e89a
You mean KTVU?
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1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:
That's probably when the last vestiges of Arrow-verse era graphics will fade away, and I was expecting them to be keeping them for the long haul given they're now implementing it to their imported shows. And I guess its also proof that Nexstar won't be changing CW's name after all.
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On 12/4/2023 at 9:11 PM, tyrannical bastard said:
And here we are with the company that acquired Tribune now owning a majority stake in the network, and a large number of their once-affiliate stations that carry it.
That alone is probably going to ensure it's survival, unless it becomes such an albatross that even Nexstar shuts it down.
Nexstar could very well make The CW a major player amongst the other networks as early as tomorrow, but then all of the NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox stations Nexstar owns would be complaining that The CW is syphoning viewers away from them.
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4 hours ago, Geoffrey said:
Another update to the graphics again as of 9 a.m. Keeping the overall Licht graphics but everything is back to the Zucker placements: Show title, time, and Live.
The lower third no longer has the red transitions, and reporters' names animate in again instead of seeming to appear on "another slide." The CNN logo is back in reporters' titles (instead of just text).
Oh, and the ticker is back.
Regarding the lineup changes: Interesting that Laura Coates finally gets her evening show after it being announced and then taken away. And the return of "NewsNight"! Surprised that Alisyn seems to be lost in the shuffle. Also interesting that women lead four of the five hours from 7 to midnight.
I assume that within the next few weeks, they will be totally back to the pre-Licht graphics?
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8 minutes ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:
I believe game show hosts, news personalities, and sports anchors can continue to work. That's a different contract that is good through 2024. See this link:
https://www.vogue.com/article/sag-aftra-strike-explainer
HOWEVER...would reality shows be considered "game shows" in this case? Terry Crews may elect to walk out with SAG-AFTRA before the live shows air.
Only problem to the game show hosts thing is that now much of the new crop of hosts are A-list actors likely with SAG-AFTRA. Would that result in several shows being shelved?
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Is there any word that CW will debut a new graphics package and music to fully distance themselves from the days of airing young adult and DC Comics dramas? I'm sure the logo and name of the network itself will remain the same.
They've also branded a few of their improted shows as CW Originals. But what about the people who may have seen it before either from visits up north or from clips online. This is kinda like when NBC at the height of Must See TV marketed reruns with the tagline 'If you haven't seen it, its new to you'.
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1 hour ago, CircleSeven said:
Okay. Here's the paperwork. It includes a pre-closing LMA (which is now in effect as of June 1).
Now we wait for Nexstar to announce something like, 'This fall, Great 38 is Tampa Bay's new home of the CW!'
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32 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:
According to the FCC signal contour maps, WSNN’s signal significantly overlaps with WFLA/WTTA in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties, so turning WSNN into a repeater of either station seems to be out of the question.
There’s also significant overlap with WFLA/WTTA in terms of news programming, as WSNN competes with both stations in the same timeslots on weekdays and weekends (including the 7:00-9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. slots, where WTTA carries newscasts); the only timeslots that either has to themselves are 4:00 p.m. (WFLA) and 10:00 p.m. (WSNN) as well as certain mid-afternoon and weekend slots that WSNN exclusively programs (1:00-3:00 and 3:30-4:00 p.m. weekdays, and a few morning, midday and prime time slots on weekends).
Another open question is what happens to WSNN’s existing studios, and if Nexstar will turn them into a Sarasota bureau for WFLA, regardless of whether their news departments merge.
Nexstar will likely use it as the new home of WTTA's 8pm news, as its very likely they will join CW come this fall.
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Will Jeopardy even be able to keep going during a prolonged strike? Or will Season 40 have to be delayed till its over? I can see 4 weeks of reruns being filled by half-hour repeats of the Jeopardy Masters games, like how they reran the Greatest of All Time shows during the height of COVID.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-jeopardy-mayim-bialik-1235359858/
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2 hours ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:
For nearly 15 years now. The growth in Tri is crazy, from both westsiders (i.e. Seattle area) and from out-of-state. New housing developments popping up weekly. Not necessarily $300-400K budget homes either. Plenty of McMansions up on the hill, too. The area saw a 21% increase in population between 2010 and 2020, while Yakima only gained 6%. Nearby Hermiston, OR is jumping in population too (nearly 20,000 live there).
KNDO's studios shut down around the same time as KAPP. They had dueling studios on S 24th Ave, near the airport. They sent everyone to Tri-Cities except for a multimedia journalist at a tiny downtown sales office for each station. This would have been during the recession (2008, 2009). That's when KAPP dropped to the 2.5 minute newscast that is seen at 11PM.
Interesting. I think the only way Morgan Murphy could reinstate 35 minute 11pm newscasts for KVEW & KAPP would be if Sinclair pulled KEPR & KIMAs in favor of National Desk.
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53 minutes ago, TVLurker said:
is Gutfeld gonna make all the late night shows obsolete by taking advantage of that? lord forbid.
I would assume that some of the people starving for Late Night comedy will turn to that. Back when the 1988 writers strike put the Tonight Show and Late Night into reruns, Fox's Late Show stayed on air, with freelance comics Jeff Joseph and Jordan Mulrooney writing:
Quick question, did the Joan Rivers and Arsenio Hall eras of the Late Show have WGA writers?
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I'm taking it upon myself to create the forum's official thread for discussion of the programming decisions affected by the 2023 Writers Strike, whether it be a few days or a few months.
As expected, all late night shows will be airing reruns for an indefinite period of time, whether or not they can soon return without writers like in 2008 remains to be seen.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-late-night-shows-to-shut-down-immediately-1235352054/
And in a move that was probably in the works before the strike, Dancing With the Stars is returning to ABC.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/dancing-with-the-stars-moving-back-to-abc-1235353662/
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2 hours ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:
KDRV and KOBI are celebrating. A lot of channel 10 viewers will come back to them.
The walls are closing in on KIMA, I'm sure. I've said it for years, eventually that tired, old building will be demolished, everyone will move to KEPR, and local Yakima news will cease to exist. The must-runs and out-of-market stories are destroying this station from the inside, while KVEW and KND...ahem! NonStop Local, continues to improve.
If that happens, Jake Taylor could just join Scott Stovall at the anchor desk in Pasco. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the factor keeping 29 on the air *IS* Alan Sillence...a nearly 30-year career on sports and still going strong with his coverage of local high school teams. The other stations don't come close. KVEW doesn't even do sports for the most part. NonStop Local combines Tri-Cities and Yakima, so on a busy fall Friday night, there's not as much video from HSFB games in our area (but tons from the Richland/Kennewick/Pasco area teams).
I'm surprised that the Tri-Cities stations have replaced Yakima ones as the originators of newscasts, instead of the other way around. How long has that been the case?
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I've gone through all of the Sinclair stations they own and found the stations that I most believe are on the bubble for being shut down in favor of syndie shows and The National Desk.
KIMA & KEPR: The fact that Yakima was able to handle three newscasts for over 50 years is surprising, but surely Sinclair will think that makes the two stations expendable. A full shutdown of KIMA & KEPR's news could also allow KAPP & KVEW to expand their 11pm news back to 35 minutes. But at best, Sinclair could just end all of KEPR's stand alone newscasts and fully simulcast KIMA.
KLEW: A real anamoly, as they're Lewiston & Clarkston's only commercial TV station. If there's not enough support from th viewers in those cities, it could be on the bubble.
WGFL: Sure, this is done out of WPEC, but still, this is a good choice to quietly shut down considering WCJB owns the market, and to a lesser extent, WUFT. All they have is a 6 and 11pm newscast, which can easily be replaced by an extra Judge Judy rerun or Daytime Jeopardy, and The National Desk.
KRCG: They may have a purpose, given how they're licensed to Jefferson City and provide a mostly Jefferson City focused newscast, but still, KOMU is the big leader here, with KMIZ likely second.
KHGI: Yes, I find the venerable NTV as a station who's news is probably on the bubble, since most of their news goes out to rural towns and cities. A shutdown of KHGI for TND would also mean that KFXL's news would end up going to TND, and then Lincoln would have no 9pm newscast unless KOLN starts one for their CW channel.
KTXS: Somehow, Abilene has 4 TV news operations, since Nexstar has run KRBC & KTAB as seperate stations. This would be a easy cut for that reason, along with the fact they have no midday newscast unlike KRBC & KTAB. Incidentally, their CW channel is already carrying the morning and primetime National Desk broadcasts.
KEYE: Be honest, can Austin really handle 4 news operations, especially in the midst of a Fox O&O in KTBC? To add to this, they don't have a noon or 4pm newscast, unlike KTBC and KXAN. And said noon slot is occupied by reruns of Modern Family. KEYE does have the city's only 6:30pm newscast, but that can't be doing well against ET, TMZ and WoF.
KMTR: I'm surprised that Sinclair didn't fully merge KMTR and KVAL's newscasts after Newport sold KMTR off in 2012 to Fisher, and then bought the two. Their newscasts however have been produced out of the KMTR studios since 2020, so in my eyes it seems expendable.
In addition, I can see Sinclair blowing up the outsourced newscasts on WMSN, KDSM and KRXI in favor of TND, as well as the newscasts on KCVU, KJZZ, WCWN, and WTVX, as well KBOI, WHP, WWMT and KIMA's CW channels. I also think that WJLA 24/7 will close down as well, spelling the end of the network that was once NewsChannel 8.
If I missed any other markets or you have a differing opinion on my choices, let me know!
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On 4/17/2023 at 1:34 PM, tyrannical bastard said:
Steve Harvey: Name a show that's replacing NBC 15 News at Noon and Gulf Coast Today.
The National Desk!
(Nope, another hour of Family Feud on top of the hour at 4: 00pm AND the 6:30 airing on WEAR!)
No surprise, as I believe Sinclair is one of the biggest supporters of Steve's Feud, and their stations were key in its rising ratings. But still, it shows how limited syndication choices thanks to newscast overload. Its kinda too late for Sinclair to turn back the clock in terms of giving a varied schedule of offerings, but hey, kudos on them for leading the way in a potential (and in some eyes much needed) local news crash.
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54 minutes ago, KS-IL-IA said:
Wonder if NBCU will keep distributing the best-of episodes of the talk and judge shows.
It was revealed that Jerry died of cancer, it couldve been one of the factors that sent Judge Jerry into reruns back in September.
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On 1/18/2023 at 6:52 PM, gsrecaps said:
First post here. Apparently there's this company called LDS Affiliate US that blocked a video of mine over using a Sticklets ad from 1986. This might affect the VHS community in a way since I've seen a lot of users have that ad in one of their tapes.
If you're not in the US, the video with the ad in it is blocked for you.
NorthernIndianaTVArchives has closed his two YT accounts and is uploading only on Internet Achive in protest of the LDS copyright claims he's been given.
My guess is that your claim came from someone involved in the production of the commercial, and used the LDS as a way to stake a copyright claim while remaining anonymous. Back in 2013, a number of commercial videos were claimed by people using that method, and the sidecar used in much of the claims? WWE!
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2 hours ago, Glimmer said:
First tidbits of the CNN layoffs are out and it’s a major destruction of the already destroyed HLN. Morning Express is being cancelled and replaced by a simulcast of CNN This Morning, and its remaining true crime original programming is being moved under the oversight of Investigation Discovery
I assume this means RIP Original News Programming on HLN, January 1, 1982-December 4?, 2022
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On 11/9/2022 at 12:38 PM, MD TV said:
And it is a runoff indeed.
Titan TV is showing that the WSB 3pm newscast is sticking around for now.
My hunch is that rating are well enough that it becomes permanent even after December.
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5 hours ago, cg41386 said:
Possible Philly/KYW clues?
Looks like the Eyewitness News name is staying, and it looks pretty good in the CBS font.
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1 hour ago, patlovestv said:
KDOC in Orange County/LA market changed hands and flipped to religious programming as of late this week.
Between this and the morning news block coming to KCAL, there seem to be a lot of displaced mid- and lower-tier syndicated shows in the area going into the new season.
Seinfeld reruns already jumped ship to KCOP, which I assume will pick up more KDOC shows in the fall. You know things are bad for your channel when you've turned over 4 hours of your programming in the afternoon to simulcast Decades!
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12 hours ago, NYPhillynews said:
NewsNation could’ve easily simulcasted WGN’s live coverage. WGN is one of the top news stations in the country, why not tap into that resource?
MSNBC and NBC news now utilized WMAQ (NBC5) effectively. ABC News Had WLS’ (ABC7) coverage. CBS had WBBM (CBS2)
Where was NN????
Granted it was July 4th & we realize that staffing numbers were low, but This story literally is in your backyard!! and you are still MIA as far as news coverage!
NN the writing is on the wall…
Didn't want to give up the cushy 100,000+ extra viewers Blue Blood delivers!
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Nexstar...again
in Corporate Chat
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Checked the schedule, and its just 90 minutes of news, 6:30am, 6pm and 11pm. I'd assume its the bare minimum ABC asked the station for to remain an affiliate, but its the same ammount WNWO did before Sinclair did a mercy killing for the National Desk, back when they did news from WSBT's spare studios.