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They're probably just testing the waters with it for now. If it does well, maybe they expand it later. No reason to go all-in right away, especially since FBN airs actual business programming from 10am-noon on Saturday and 9am-noon on Sunday.
Sure, they cold move those blocks if they wanted to but you don't want to alienate your core viewers interested in financial discussion without knowing if people will watch the weather programming.
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I was streaming the NFL games yesterday on Paramount+ via WRGB and there were no local commercials, they all just showed the CBS slate. I was wondering why that was, and this must have been why. Right around 7:30 ET in the final minutes of the DAL/NE game, it cut away from the game and went to the CBSN stream until 60 Minutes started. I thought that was a Paramount Plus issue but maybe it was also related to this (I saw people on Twitter who had the same issue with the KEYE on Paramount+ and Hulu Live).
ETA: Streaming the station now, it's CBS Mornings instead of Kelly and Ryan. Then as of 10am, just color bars with the text "NEW YORK TX" instead of Let's Make a Deal.
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13 hours ago, Kenneth Kissel said:
I don't see how this is even legal for Comcast to do. Doesn't Youtube TV have retransmission contracts with individual station owners (Nexstar,Sinclair,Tegna, Hearst, Scripps, Gray and others)? The only stations Comcast can legally take down from YoutubeTV are the NBC O&Os and Comcast cable owned channels.
Retransmission agreements for virtual MVPDs are different than with traditional MVPDs. The networks negotiate carriage on behalf of the affiliates, though not all Fox affiliates are on-board with them (at least as of this 2017 article).
But it's a moot point, for now at least, as the two sides have agreed to a short-term extension.
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WNYT/Albany has named its latest weekday morning anchor team. The station's longtime weekend sports anchor Chris Onorato will be co-anchoring with new hire Faith King, who is coming to the station from WAVE in Louisville. The new team starts September 27.
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55 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:
Not full-time. The only time they simulcasted last year was Week 2, the 50th anniversary game, and then Week 13 and 16. Starting this year their only Monday simulcast is tonight and then they will simulcast two Saturday games in the new Week 18 (the final week of the regular season).
Tonight isn't ABC's only Monday simulcast. The network is also simulcasting MNF in Weeks 14 and 15.
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Pat Sajak isn't going to host Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, so there's no point in speculating what his sign-off would be.
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I believe that YBYL special is available for all affiliates to air, not just the Fox O&Os, so keep an eye out for that in the listings for markets where an affiliate hasn't been announced yet. The air window runs from 8/27-9/19. https://syndication.extremereach.com/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/You-Bet-Your-Life-Preview-Special-HTFC.pdf
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Yesterday was the first day of taping for the new season. I'm surprised they actually went through with it as scheduled, given the controversy and possibility he'd have to step down/be fired. According to Variety, he'll continue as executive producer. I'm not sure if that's a good idea, but it is what it is.
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Rachel Tiede is the new weeknight anchor at WNYT, doing the 9pm (on WNYA) and 11pm shows. She'll also do investigative and breaking news reporting. Her tweet teases that she could do some forecasting as well, as she's completing her BS in meteorology at Mississippi State.
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1 hour ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:
Seinfeld completely done in syndication after over 25 years?
It's gone from the CW+ schedule, not from syndication.
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1 hour ago, dman748 said:
Well let's look at their peers, Nexstar isn't commanding that much, Hearst isn't commanding that much, not one single media company that owns the local stations is commanding as much as what Sinclair wants to charge Dish.
I'm sure Sinclair is factoring in the Bally RSNs to the what the fees would cost
What's your source for saying this companies aren't commanding that much? That information isn't public knowledge. Of course Sinclair is including the RSNs, that's what the dispute is about. Take those out of the ex m equation, since they cost distributors more than local stations. Is what Sinclair is asking for the locals in line with what other companies are charging? No one knows. This is all public posturing. Again, without any context we don't know if "nearly a billion dollars" (whatever that means) is easy too much to ask, including the RSNs, or not. That's my point.
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9 hours ago, dman748 said:
What's really bad if you're on Sinclair's side is this:
Asking for nearly half a billion in fees
That's clearly wayyyyyyyyyy too much
How do you know that's "clearly way too much?" It's impossible to make that determination without any context. How long of a time period? How does it compare to similar deals Sinclair has with other distributors? All of these quotes are just public posturing to get the public to pick a side. For all we know, "nearly a billion in fees" may be what other distributors are paying Sinclair. If they are, then it's clearly NOT way too much.
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The latest move at WNYT sees Subrina Dhammi leaving the morning show after nearly a decade to take Benita Zahn's former anchor slots at 4pm and 6pm. The station is looking at internal and external candidates to replace Dhammi on the morning shift.
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26 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:
Discovery has a lot of sports rights in Eurasia (including B-rights for the Olympics across Europe and Eurosport) that most of North America has never heard about, so the deal is more natural than you'd think, especially for TNT's golf rights for their GolfTV service.
I don't think TNT has any more golf (outside of those made-for-TV The Match events). The PGA Championship moved to ESPN last year, and I think that was Turner's last golf tournament. And even if Turner did still have golf, wouldn't it be US-only? Probably didn't have any international rights that would have helped GolfTV since it's not available in the US.
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5 hours ago, LoadStar said:
I understood the Discovery/Scripps Networks Interactive merger, because there was strong affinity between their families of networks.
In contrast, there's really no affinity between WarnerMedia and Discovery, and as a result, I'm a little puzzled by this.
Discovery is trying to diversify its portfolio. It doesn't have any scripted/entertainment cable networks in the US, which makes its streaming service pretty niche. But buying/merging with Warner, Discovery can reach a more mainstream audience than it does now and it'll make Discovery+ more appealing to more people.
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2 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:
I haven't been following the business side of streaming. What happens if the streaming bubble collapses? Where does the business model go if that happens, if both cable and streaming collapse?
Streaming isn't going to collapse, it's going to consolidate. Some of the smaller/niche services will shut down or be acquired by the big companies, but it's not going to collapse. It's only going to get stronger as cord-cutting continues and content continues moving from TV/movie theaters to streaming. Cable is going to collapse, not streaming and certainly not both.
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1 hour ago, east-tx-tv said:
KFDA weatherman Cameron Venable has announced his departure from the station. He'll be moving to Wichita, where he will get in some storm chasing. He didn't mention what station he'd end up at.
He tweeted he'll be the weekend morning meteorologist and storm chaser at KAKE.
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Having the generic open for all teams seems to be part of Sinclair's strategy to homogenize the RSNs.
QuoteIn some ways, Sinclair plans to nationalize its RSN operations. “We are a company of scale. In the past, these have been treated as one-offs. We look at it as a whole ecosystem,” Weisbord said.
The article also mentions the possibility of adding national programming to the RSNs.
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7 hours ago, atlnews2 said:
Spurs open is the exact same as the Heat open. Again giving more credence to my suspicion that this is going to be the generic open for all sports coverage regardless of team and sport
Because Bally wants its brand to be the center of attention. It doesn't want to be overshadowed by the team. This is what happens when a company sells the naming rights to the network.
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The latest departure from WNYT is part-time meteorologist Allison Finch. Her last day was Sunday; she landed a full-time met gig at a station in Springfield, Mass.
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Other FSNs are sharing similar videos to the one that Georgie linked to yesterday. FSN North also has a FAQ page up. It doesn't really have new information other than confirming that the Fox Sports Go app will update/rebrand as Bally Sports on the 31st, so people who use it shouldn't have to download a new app (though you'll probably have to ensure you update it from whichever app store). The FAQ also confirms "new graphics, music and more" as we knew would happen and is starting to trickle out on broadcasts.
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According to this Variety article, at a staff meeting yesterday Sook said the plan is "to build out NewsNation as an all-news, talk and opinion outlet by 2023." Will it really take that long to complete the transition?
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WNYT has announced Paulina Bucka is the new co-anchor with Subrina Dhammi on the station's morning show, replacing Asa Stackel.
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George got a contract extension, pay raise and production company out of the deal. I'm sure he knew this was coming but complained about it as a negotiating tactic, knowing ABC wanted him to stay, and he seems to have made out pretty well.
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Bob Kovachick announced on WNYT's 4:30pm newscast today that he is retiring. October 3 is the last day.
He's been at the station since 1988 and has spent more than 40 years as a meteorologist.