Newsjunkie24
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3 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
New open for Nightly.
Not too bad.
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19 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Bottom line is, you've seen one Nexstar station, you've seen them all.
They have gotten quite good at bicycling stories between adjacent markets. And then there's NewsNation.
That can be said with radio and TV. So much homogenisation.
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This is going to be very bad if NexStar channels are all gone on DISH.
I know DISH brings up WGN America being minimally-watched. The problem is that they have an identity crisis and the schedule's a complete trainwreck. They should decide whether to be a news channel or be a channel of syndicated reruns.
I'm not sure who to blame with this dispute.
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1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:
I could remotely understand this for out-of-town viewers, but at least make it free for people who live inside the market, for pete's sake!
On the other hand, they have the NewsNation debacle and have done little to make WGN America available outside of cable and satellite.
What a seriously misguided strategy they have.
Maybe for Out-of Town viewers. I know newspapers have been under paywalls for quite a few years now and some are free but require you to create an account.
The fact that WGN America is not available on any streaming platform in 2020 is absurd. Cable and Satellite will continue to decline in popularity. Wonder if NewsNation would be more popular if it was on any streaming platform ?
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2 hours ago, CircleSeven said:
That's a damn shame. But I cannot be surprised.
Before the M&A craze, Nexstar didn't even live stream their newscasts online. To this day, most of the pre-2011 Nexstar stations still don't live stream.
This latest move is just a stark contrast (a complete 180°) to what the other groups are doing. Scripps, Gray, Cox, even the O&Os, have gone all-in on streaming (especially on platforms (ie Roku & FireTV)). Where's Nexstar on any of this?
And what's worse about it, as many folks are cutting the cord like crazy, how about when the power goes out, and they can't watch the broadcast without authentication? You might as well call this a paywall. It's not like they're streaming the entire linear station online.
I don't know why most companies nowadays still don't put streaming services on TV Everywhere paywalls. It's 2020 and traditional pay TV is declining every year.
This is a bad move by them and possibly a safety risk. Will they do this during severe weather events?
I swear these station owners are not evolving with the times.
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19 hours ago, detroiter313 said:
Jeff Zucker will go down in infamy as one of the ultimate worst programming executives in history (broadcast or cable).
Strongly agree with that!
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11 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
After 8 years anchoring together at DC's #1 station (WRC) for the area's #1 morning newscast (News4 Today), Aaron Gilchrist and Eun Yang will be split up.
Aaron will be heading national full-time as anchor and correspondent for NBC News Now; he's occasionally subbed-in for MSNBC before so this won't be entirely new to him.
Eun will now be joined by Jummy Olabanji, who was originally the "live desk" anchor for the morning news but has since taken on a more significant role as morning co-anchor weeks at a time since the pandemic has caused the station's anchor lineup to rotate in and out of studio. The changes are expected to take place in January 2021.
[Source]
When was Aaron on MSNBC?
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1 hour ago, jrogo said:
“I think a lot of people will be devastated if he does leave the network, and are concerned that you won’t be able to find someone with his leadership style to fill that role.”
Exactly what style of "leadership" does he provide? Outside of NYC what employees will be sad to see him go? If CNN returns to news after the mess he's created, that will be a welcomed change.
I just don't see any CNN employees liking his style. I'd be embarrassed to work under a guy like him.
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3 hours ago, Spring Rubber said:
Wow, that's ridiculous. Honestly, sports betting is a huge turn off for me. When SportsCenter started running full segments based around betting a few years ago, I tuned out.
Watch ESPN News and most of the screen is covered with sports betting info. The main program is in a box to the right.
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10 hours ago, RGSJenkins said:
WBBH/WZVN's Jenny Lenzini who joined in July this year was killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning, she was 26.
https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2020/11/15/waterman-broadcasting-loses-family-member-in-weekend-crash/
Very sad! May she R.I.P.
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I thought David was a decent journalist too. Hope he lands on his feet somewhere soon.
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2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:
If Trump is convicted and imprisoned from his tax scandals from SDNY or the New York AG, his trial will garner nationwide (and possibly worldwide) attention. Cable news' ratings will rise from that.
I'm sure it's going to be on all channels every single day if it happens, just like O.J.'s trial.
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1 hour ago, mountainave said:
Brooke Baldwin is back on the air.
So she came back right after the election was over. Wonder why she wasn't on for the last couple months?
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3 hours ago, MorningNews said:
GMA3: What You Need to Know is performing stronger than I would have imagined. They averaged nearly 2 million viewers during election week and have been averaging around 1.7 million viewers regularly according to ABC.
This show might last for a few years if the ratings remain good.
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I'm sure if she was up to it, she would have been on ABC at midnight on New Year's Day this year to say "This is 2020".
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Hope Al will be okay and his surgery goes well.
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2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:
Well, since it is 2020, could Comcast/Xfinity have a retransmission consent issue with (gasp) itself?!?!?!??!?!?
Looking at the list, Weigel and others are up in October and Hearst, Cox, Capitol/WRAL, Hubbard and NBC/Comcast are up in December.
I refuse to believe that there'd be a dispute with the channels that the company actually owns. A deal should be reached before the channels are dropped.
What's next, a dispute with AT&T owned channels and Directv/Uverse?
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1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:
This is big.
I hope he leaves, but even better, he retires and never runs another media corporation ever again. I'm sure anyone can run CNN better. I hope the new CNN president fixes everything that Zucker messed up.
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12 hours ago, Liugrad2020 said:
Apparently they want to act like Matt no longer exists. I can’t blame them.
I agree.
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20 hours ago, jase said:
Not sure how you thought Craig was Matt, but I have a 2nd pair of glasses you can borrow if you need them!!
I can actually see why as their heads are somewhat similar. I'm sure NBC doesn't want any references to Matt anymore.
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Very cool! The top promo was funny! One of the reasons why Peter was one of the best!
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35 minutes ago, jrogo said:
I honestly love Wolf and Anderson but I really wonder if they would be able to breakaway from the yelling panels, return to real news and drop the politics. Erin is/was better at business news. And let's be honest, Chris wouldn't have been moved to primetime if trump didn't win, he's good at arguing, yelling and hyping things up but that's what CNN wanted to increase ratings. I really like the people you mentioned but I don't know if they'll be able to return to real news.
Zucker's got to go, the sports division is big money, only a matter of time before he ruins that.
Maybe if Zucker leaves, maybe the new CEO will fix all the problems he created.
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5 hours ago, CLETVFan said:
WOIO/WUAB has been a mess for quite some time now. The revolving door is the worst, especially with on-air talent. Any of the attempts to replace some of the longtime personnel has not worked out too well, and some new hires have come and gone. One reporter from Detroit was let go after only two months. Another from Florida left after nine months. The weather and sports teams have been a lot more stable than the news anchor and reporting teams.
What is funny is that the management behind the "Cleveland 19" fiasco wanted Jeff Tanchak gone, but gave up on that idea when got out on that plan and his fans got upset. Yet, that didn't stop others like David Wittman, Denise Dufala, Catherine Bosley, Beth McLeod and many more from leaving after that (botched) makeover was launched, which ended up not working (along with the Romona Robinson-Mark Nolan reunion). Plus, some of the hires during that period didn't pan out and that management ended up getting the boot.
Now, the stations are trying to go back to the "Action News" glory days with actually using that name, but only portions of it and some of the talent from that period.
WTOL, which used to be a sister to WOIO under Raycom, is the same way with anchors and reporters leaving after a short time. Their main competitor, WTVG, doesn't really have this problem.
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it looks like ESPN may possibly have more layoffs (possibly up to 700). You may remember ESPN's layoffs from 2017 caused longtime on-air employees to lose their jobs.
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/further-espn-layoffs-coming.html
Nexstar...again
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I agree with that. But anything available free OTA, especially newscasts shouldn't be locked up behind a paywall.