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TheSpeedKing

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  1. Local graphics as well. Matt Quinn and his division of Hothaus are in Cleveland, where there is a Gray station in that market (WOIO) which is how this thread started.
  2. Fair enough. About Nexstar, I personally don’t want them to be buying stations since they’re wrecking WCMH and vicinity (aka the entire country), and they won’t be buying unless they sell. Scripps can buy, they just have to unload the Ion O&Os.
  3. Don’t expect Gray to make blockbusters or anything of that sort again unless they cash out of a few markets. They simply don’t have the cap space anymore to buy full-power. (36%, for reference)
  4. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! But, we can now say goodbye to crummy news operations like KPVI’s. Though I’m still terrified because NP&G is now getting a monopoly. Here in Ohio, I think that WHIO will be one of the last stations to be cashed out.
  5. I wish there was a “disgusted” reaction on this site.
  6. Updated. I’m thinking KSWO is next.
  7. Norah O'Donnell is the master controller of the entire CBS network. Who can replace her?
  8. A graphics package definitely won't make a station, but it could make the station so much of an eyesore that the viewers associate the station with bad design. That discourages viewers from tuning in. Just look at WSB, which despite having a perfectly modern product is losing viewers at a faster than average rate.
  9. Any station using Nexstar NBC graphics is going to have their competition cream them. WJCL should've passed WSAV at this point.
  10. I'm also concerned with Nexstar's relation to NBC. It seems like WFLA and WCMH are the only Nexstar stations that seem to be caring about NBC in the slightest bit. They're also well behind their competition in terms of OTT capabilities. These stations do not need NewsNation on them at all. On an unrelated note, I've seen Nexstar leave its largest market stations alone whereas they forcefeed programming on their smaller market stations.
  11. Isn't WFXT the 5th place station in a 4-station market (WBZ, WCVB, WHDH and WGBH)? I know WGBH is noncommercial, but all four seem to do exceptionally well in some way or another, but not WFXT!
  12. Developing now: AT&T's advertising vendor, Xandr, which is the sole broker of ads for OAN, will continue to supply ads to the network.
  13. A trend for sure, but with the fact that Sinclair is broke, Nexstar is deliberately lowering the rankings of their stations, and both are over the cap, I think that their stations are ripe for divestment. 90% to the PE vultures, 10% to the networks.
  14. I don't think WCMH (which used a variation of the WFLA graphics) stood up to WBNS very well. Morris copied WCMH to complete their $50 look.
  15. Their Wikipedia pages haven't been updated, but it says both are in widescreen SD. WDSU switched to HD in August of 2020. I don't think WGNO is in HD yet, but feel free to correct me.
  16. That's a retool of their existing package with new fonts. New promo graphics generally don't mean much.
  17. Infomercials and newscasts lol. Zero originality here. That's likely to be an NBC programme, not syndicated.
  18. They couldn't just get rid of WTTV to someone who wants it? I know that Nexstar kept it and tossed WISH into the bin, but Indy could use some decent ownership.
  19. And that's why CBS is doing this. Also in every other market, CBS can create a local news monopoly at this timeslot or create competition against independents/CW affiliates airing local news.
  20. The end of Maury on WJZ? Never thought I'd see that day...
  21. I notice the News Channel Nebraska version is using more "WHDH-esque" fonts. It's already a dated look.
  22. It's not the WFLA variant. KMID has kept the package default font of Montserrat. They're keeping it as close to WKRN as they can.
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