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by rugratsonline
Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair buying newspapers
Replies: 8
Views: 1968

Re: Sinclair buying newspapers

Are they even allowed to co-own newspapers with broadcasting properties these days, except where grandfathered?
by rugratsonline
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:54 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sam Ali getting some Uni-Watch love
Replies: 13
Views: 2568

Re: Sam Ali getting some Uni-Watch love

The Super Bowl wouldn’t be on NBC — it’s on CBS (WNEM). Why would WEYI promote the game on CBS? They wouldn't necessarily promote the game, but rather the Lions. If your home team makes it all the way, no doubt every station in the state would promote the Lions, even if their network wasn't coverin...
by rugratsonline
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: 9&10 is such a mess right now
Replies: 73
Views: 11066

Re: 9&10 is such a mess right now

BirdieKingBobo wrote:
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:36 pm
So the studios on 8th and Union is basically empty??? Nice job... Comma.
Maybe "coma" would be a better nickname for them?
by rugratsonline
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sam Ali getting some Uni-Watch love
Replies: 13
Views: 2568

Re: Sam Ali getting some Uni-Watch love

MasterB wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:51 pm
In other words Sinclair will not be sending Sam to The Super Bowl if the Lions make it in about a months time.
If the Lions make it to Vegas, I envision WEYI / WSMH farming its coverage out to WWMT, or even to Las Vegas sister station KSNV.
by rugratsonline
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.
Replies: 30
Views: 6074

Re: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.

ConstipatedListener wrote:
Sun Jan 14, 2024 6:40 pm
i'm watching NBC NiCollector'sghtlyCallNews right now. What a mess.
If they can't fix this and still insist on doing things like this, they should add a disclaimer when they make these announcements that the viewing of the moved show in its entirety is not guaranteed.
by rugratsonline
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WDIV Is Unwatchable
Replies: 6
Views: 1562

Re: WDIV Is Unwatchable

ProducerXM - trust me when I say it's not quite as awful as NBC's scheduled programming for 7PM (which is airing on MeTV 4.3). Deal or No Deal Island is in the running for worst new television series this season, in my book. I saw the ad for that last night… it looked rather odd… The way their MeTV...
by rugratsonline
Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.
Replies: 30
Views: 6074

Re: WTF?> WDIV F*cks up NBC news feed on 4.3, again.

Why bother carrying Nightly News on a subchannel at all if this always happens? If they decide to preempt it, they shouldn't bother carrying it at all.
by rugratsonline
Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: 5's New Logo
Replies: 16
Views: 5092

Re: 5's New Logo

Does anyone know the official reason why the CBS logo was dropped from most of the on screen logos? It just doesn't look good without it. I don't know, but it's a goddamn travesty. My guess had to do with network negotiations with CBS, or perhaps, another network. Most of Gray's NBC affiliates have...
by rugratsonline
Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Audacy files Chapter 11
Replies: 26
Views: 3339

Re: Audacy files Chapter 11

Partly, I was trying to get some of you riled up, like you're always trying to do to me, by suggesting that it should go to religion or foreign language. Foreign language programming would probably be the best use of 1270, in my opinion. A downright shame, considering that it was a legacy station t...
by rugratsonline
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: WANE 15 5PM News Then Inside Edition
Replies: 3
Views: 872

Re: WANE 15 5PM News Then Inside Edition

Was not uncommon in the late 1980s and 1990s for a station to have 5PM news, then a syndicated program, then 6PM news.
by rugratsonline
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:55 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: FCC Ownership Rules
Replies: 7
Views: 1820

Re: FCC Ownership Rules

sinklair wrote:
Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:43 pm
Good catch on Alpena. Forget that it’s an actual TV market with one single owner.
And technically, one commercial TV station, with a major network on each of its subchannels -- though just enough to claim a "monopoly" on TV media.
by rugratsonline
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:52 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Facebook Live Weather Convo
Replies: 4
Views: 1394

Re: Facebook Live Weather Convo

Realist wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:20 pm
If they’re going to be so damn half assed about running the station and their news operation, then just sell the damn station to someone who gives 2 shits about news.
Knowing Sinclair, they would rather just keep the station and replace the news department with The National Desk.
by rugratsonline
Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:08 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WJBK/Fox 2 75th anniversary special
Replies: 19
Views: 3364

Re: WJBK/Fox 2 75th anniversary special

I've heard WKBD planned a show with WKNR's Gary Stevens, but Gary left for New York shortly after WKBD signed on in early 1965, so the show may not have made it to air. The only dance program in the Kaiser / Field chain that I knew of was Hy Lit's show from WKBS Philadelphia -- I imagine for some s...
by rugratsonline
Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:03 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WJBK/Fox 2 75th anniversary special
Replies: 19
Views: 3364

Re: WJBK/Fox 2 75th anniversary special

MWmetalhead wrote:
Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:31 am
All I know is Power 96 seems like a much more fun radio station than the present day WDVD (whose calls perhaps mean "We're Detroit's Venereal Disease")!
When I think of "DVD", I think more of those movies on small discs the size of CDs.
by rugratsonline
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:03 am
Forum: Central/Western Upper Michigan
Topic: No Packers on FOX UP....
Replies: 7
Views: 1995

Re: No Packers on FOX UP....

I remember the short life of WMQF-19 too. They showed Lions games and half the time they couldn't get the network feed of the game to work. They had NO local presence whatsoever. Which was typical of stations owned by Equity Media Holdings, in which everything ran out of Little Rock and transmitted...