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his short tenure at KOVR was fraught with hasty management and talent departures... wonder if he's being sent around to clean house...

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The big problem with subchannel news is three things; people who shun you because you aren't airing what's on nationally at that time (probably one reason Hearst can't make their MeTV shows work), lack of promotion, and horrid advertising. WITI couldn't sell an ad to save its life on Antenna TV when they had to shift the regular shows there during the World Cup, so it was a continuous loop of PSAs and the occasional national class action ad. And most of the time whenever you try to market a network the way it wants to be (Justice Network wants you to air local pieces, the long-dead TheCoolTV wants local artists to submit videos), nobody cares. They just see it as another place to watch reruns of a certain genre or don't even think of it as an OTA subchannel, especially on cable.

 

Now you wonder why Hearst has been buying up the duopoly bait stations as of late

 

WBAL seems to make it work on MeTV enough to do a 10PM newscast 7 Days a week. They’ve done weekday 10PM newscasts since March 2012 and on weekends going back to at least March 2016. They did do a 7AM newscast in 2011 that lasted until 2015 when it was exchanged in favor of a 4:30AM newscast on the main channel - from what I understood the cancellation may have been contractual (the success of the 7AM show led them to create the 10pm). They also heavily promote the 10PM newscast in their 5PM show and in ads through out the day.

 

From what I understand the 10PM is very competitive with WBFF’s 10PM newscast.

 

Also it helps that atleast in 2016 that WBAL was the highest rated MeTV affiliate.

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WBAL seems to make it work on MeTV enough to do a 10PM newscast 7 Days a week. They’ve done weekday 10PM newscasts since March 2012 and on weekends going back to at least March 2016. They did do a 7AM newscast in 2011 that lasted until 2015 when it was exchanged in favor of a 4:30AM newscast on the main channel - from what I understood the cancellation may have been contractual (the success of the 7AM show led them to create the 10pm). They also heavily promote the 10PM newscast in their 5PM show and in ads through out the day.

 

From what I understand the 10PM is very competitive with WBFF’s 10PM newscast.

 

Also it helps that at least in 2016 that WBAL was the highest rated MeTV affiliate.

 

If they started it out early enough, then they definitely did so at the right time where people in Baltimore didn't care about the 10pm shows and that it was always there. Me now helps by airing Hogan's Heroes in that slot, which many people can take or leave. It also helps that they definitely use it for an NBC backup in the right way, where programming airs day/date/time rather than 'after the 4th hour of Today repeat' at 3 in the morning.

 

And yes...WBFF being the Sinclair Death Star in the market helps with alternatives.

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Any reason why tho?

 

$$$$$$$

 

My guess is, not enough people wanted to buy ad time during the news. Simple as that.

 

The ad rates on these subchannels are ridiculously low most of the time. Even more so if it's a less mainstream network like Bounce. Eventually, it just isn't worth even trying to sell all the ad time local news gives you, if nobody's buying it.

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Is there any website that keeps track of local network tv ratings?

 

One website? I've not seen or heard of one before. You get scattered reports from industry mags, local papers, and blogs, but it's very likely that's as much as you can hope for, for now. Especially since a certain firm named Nielsen likes to be tight-fisted with their data.

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Two things...

  • KSAT 12 is doing the following...
    • It will add a half-hour weeknight 9:00 p.m. newscast on Me-TV San Antonio as well as KSAT TV (its OTT channel) in the Fall.
    • It will trade its hour-long format from weeknights (current) to weekends (future) starting the week of January 1st, 2019.
    • Jimmy Kimmel Live and Nightline will air in pattern for the first time since 2011 (even though it will be the first time since 2013 that KSAT will air Jimmy Kimmel Live in its current 10:35 p.m. pattern).
    • Instant Replay is expanding to a full hour on Sundays from 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/ksat-about-to-make-plenty-of-news-changes/

  • KUTV 2 is doing the following...
    • Moving its long-time 7:00 a.m. hour from KUTV to KJZZ due to CBS' obligations involving its new 10-year affiliation agreement. KJZZ will be the exclusive home to KUTV 2 News This Morning at 7:00 a.m. starting September 3rd, as its already exclusive to the 8:00 a.m. hour.
    • Add two half-hours of local news at 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. on KUTV, also starting September 3rd.

https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/kutv-forced-to-make-changes-in-morning-thanks-cbs-also-bring-back-400-pm-news/

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Two things...

  • KSAT 12 is doing the following...
    • It will add a half-hour weeknight 9:00 p.m. newscast on Me-TV San Antonio as well as KSAT TV (its OTT channel) in the Fall.
    • It will trade its hour-long format from weeknights (current) to weekends (future) starting the week of January 1st, 2019.
    • Jimmy Kimmel Live and Nightline will air in pattern for the first time since 2011 (even though it will be the first time since 2013 that KSAT will air Jimmy Kimmel Live in its current 10:35 p.m. pattern).
    • Instant Replay is expanding to a full hour on Sundays from 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/ksat-about-to-make-plenty-of-news-changes/

  • KUTV 2 is doing the following...
    • Moving its long-time 7:00 a.m. hour from KUTV to KJZZ due to CBS' obligations involving its new 10-year affiliation agreement. KJZZ will be the exclusive home to KUTV 2 News This Morning at 7:00 a.m. starting September 3rd, as its already exclusive to the 8:00 a.m. hour.
    • Add two half-hours of local news at 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. on KUTV, also starting September 3rd.

https://changingnewscasts.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/kutv-forced-to-make-changes-in-morning-thanks-cbs-also-bring-back-400-pm-news/

 

This isn't going to end well for KUTV. Just look at what happened to the ratings for WWL's morning news when they were forced to move it over to WUPL to make room for "CBS This Morning."

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This isn't going to end well for KUTV. Just look at what happened to the ratings for WWL's morning news when they were forced to move it over to WUPL to make room for "CBS This Morning."

 

Well, this was CBS’s call, not Sinclair’s, so blame them.

 

I suspect KOTV will get their’s soon.

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Speaking of 7-9am news, apparently KXAN canceled that portion of their morning show on KNVA. That came unannounced.

 

The 9pm news is still intact.

 

They're going to replace it with a 2-hour version of their lifestyle show, 'Studio 512,' starting in October. Reruns of 'Studio 512' are airing till then. They didn't really give viewers much warning and folks on social are mad -- even though if you look at the ratings, that newscasts never really got more than a .3 or .4 .

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Rick Folbaum has apparently left WFOR in Miami after 4 years from Fox News. So Elliott Rodriguez has took his place alongside Rudabeh Shahbazi on the 5, 6, 7 and 11 pm newscasts.

 

And Rudabeh is still hot. <3 Sorry for going off-topic. I only watch WFOR for her.

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