jmeltonwx wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:45 am

At what point does Sinclair completely throw in the towel and just either go full TND or sign the outsourcing agreement with 5 or 12.

Personally, Sinclair would rather replace news with TND, than to outsource to one of their competitors.

That point was driven home to me in 1997 when very commercially accessible albums were released by Paul McCartney ( Flaming Pie ) and Elton John ( The Big Picture ), but got almost no airplay. In the case of Elton's "The Big Picture", track "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" would hit #1 wo...

Localnewsisdead wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:44 pm

This thread has became off topic and completely off the rails. Time to end this one. That is, of course, unless someone has anything valid to add to the actual topic of the thread.

Seconded; though it's been a while since someone contributed to the "Depository".

So bland and pathetic. A modernization of the Cox logo would have been ideal. Even the Field logo wasn't bad. Personally I would bring back the Field era logo -- apart from finagling the "TV screen" portion to look more modern, that logo looks timeless. Maybe have the "Detroit 50" logo done in the ...

edj wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:01 pm

On the fabulous Ron Cameron show today, he said something was going on with Sima, but he wouldn't elaborate. Could he be in negotiations to buy 910?

Does Detroit need another station to carry Brother Stair's old tapes 24/7?

MCelotto wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:01 pm

Probably to either 38.2 or 38.5 since they drop programming on both those channels in the last few months.

Or they could move MNTV programming to late nights after The CW finished for the evening -- all MNTV is these days is two hours of off-network reruns a night.

I noticed Azteca is gone, too. I guess the U.S. version of Azteca (which I believe only licensed the name of the Mexico-based Azteca) went belly up and ceased operation. Azteca America ended operations at the end of 2022. While it was set up to have been a competitor to Univision and Telemundo, it ...

The question I want answer is why does WTOM-TV have its tower in such a stupid location? Well, if memory serves correctly, the Black Bear (strip club) was very nearby the WTOM-TV studios back in the 60/70's... :blink I'd guess both entities no longer exist. WTOM still exists, but in the digital era...

When I lived on the south side of Ann Arbor, I could get channel 13 halfway decently with just rabbit ears. This was when they were still licensed directional. I suspect more "juice" was sent in the direction of Ann Arbor than pattern plots suggested. I had relatives who live in Chelsea, and they c...

Can someone please explain the point of dual TV IDs in Northern Michigan? IE 9&10 4&7 29&8. With digital television, the secondary ID can now be dropped as it is all virtual channels anyway. It just seems so clunky. I believe it's because they still use two transmitters covering two geographical ar...

What is now WEYI was originally WKNX-TV 57. Funny that there were two stations operating in Eastern Michigan early on, the other being WTVS 56, and they were on first adjacent channels. Maybe the tuning slugs used early on in receivers covered both channels. Considering the distance between the two...

I *think* most above 55 were largely ignored, even today. Which was why many of them would relocate to lower channels. A couple of examples included WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio, which signed on channel 70 in the 1960s, before moving to channel 57, then to 27. Another was ABC affiliate WTVQ in Le...

Does Retro TV show infomercials during late night? If so, maybe the "inappropriate commercial content" may be in the form of late night infomercials for "male enhancing" products or 1-900 dating ads (are those still around anymore?). WLLA could have done what cable systems do by running their own in...

It’s a gimmick from GM Ken. It won’t do anything to bring a single new viewer to their newscasts. Many station groups have started to play the SSB as a token of patriotic pride. But while conservatives have lauded the stations for restoring the practice, many of them play the SSB before the early m...

Speaking of educational, I always wondered why Lansing was allotted two stations for such a small market. The other was channel 69 if memory serves, I don’t think it was ever even applied for. There are very few stations on channel 69, mainly because that channel was as far as you could go on UHF i...