[TV orNotTV] OT: RIP Tronc

[Kevin M.]

Tronc is now Tribune Publishing.

Our long badly-named nightmare is finally over.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tronc-to-ditch-widely-ridiculed-name-in-wake-of-sale-of-la-and-san-diego-papers-report-2018-06-18
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: are some Fox stations not carrying World Cup?

[Mark Jeffries]

In Chicago, Comcast offers FS1 on all of their 100+ channel packages--ESPN,
NBCSN and NBCSN Chicago  are not on the lowest-priced "Economy" tier and
FS1 is the only sports channel on that tier.  However, I've been noticing
that stores and bars I've walked that are showing the World Cup have on
Telemundo's coverage of the Cup games that are on FS1, probably because
it's easier to remember channel 44 (Chicago TEL station WSNS--Comcast has
WSNS on channel 4) than a three-digit number (Comcast's FS1 channel number
is 408--Wiki says on DirecTV it's 209).

Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
spotligh...@gmail.com


On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:13 PM Adam Bowie  wrote:

> Not showing Germany-Mexico to a maximum audience seems like a massive
> miss! I know it'll have been on Spanish language TV, but it turned out to
> be a big upset and was an excellent game. The Brazil game later on was
> pretty good too.
>
> I'd be interested to know if FS1 is on that many cable packages. ESPN is a
> given right? But is FS1 normally in a lower tier or do you have to pay
> extra?
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:56 PM Tom Wolper  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:37 PM daniel anderson <
>> danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Kind of surprised about that some Fox stations couldn't figure out what
>>> to do about their required E/I programming, since they knew well in advance
>>> about the game schedule- i'd given FS1 the morning games, to help Fox
>>> stations with their required E/I programming.
>>>
>>
>> FOX also has the US Open golf tournament this weekend. It makes more
>> sense for them to show early games on FOX and later ones on FS1. Mexico,
>> Germany, and Brazil should be huge audience draws and yet the only OTA game
>> they showed today was Serbia-Costa Rica at 8 AM ET/5 AM PT and the
>> Germany-Mexico and Brazil-Switzerland are on cable.
>>
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[TV orNotTV] Re: are some Fox stations not carrying World Cup?

[daniel anderson]

ABC stations don't have to worry about E/I these days- almost all of their 
waivers are for college football. If the Fox stations can't figure out what 
to do with E/I, then most games should be on cable.

On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 12:14:45 PM UTC-4, daniel anderson wrote:
>
> I see some markets opting out of some games, what's going on?
>

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[TV orNotTV] Re: Member of Blues Brothers band gone

[M-D November]

For those of you familiar with the film, but not so good with names, in 
"The Blues Brothers", Matt "Guitar" Murphy's character was married to 
Aretha Franklin's soul-food proprietress. (In the unfortunate, but still 
musically sound sequel, they'd moved on up to the East Side and parlayed 
the soul food shack into a Mercedes dealership.)

On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 10:14:45 AM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote:
>
>
> Matt "Guitar" Murphy was 88... appeared on SNL and in both movies.  CNN 
> 
>  
> (link)
>
> B
>
>

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Comcast to Disney: This still ain't over

[M-D November]

I thought "War for..." finished that franchise off.  Or are they already 
planning a reboot?

On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 11:38:53 AM UTC-4, Greg Diener wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 1:06:49 PM UTC-4, M-D November wrote:
>>
>> I don't think the issue here is that the Murdochs are trying to offload 
>> the bulk of Fox (especially since the TV nets aren't included in the deal).
>>
>> As a consumer (both in the literal and figurative sense of the word), I 
>> had been looking forward to Disney closing this deal, because it would mean 
>> that all Marvel IP would finally be under one roof, and all Star Wars home 
>> video distribution issues could finally be resolved (and we might finally 
>> get the long-rumored 'theatrical cut' BDs of the original trilogy). Comcast 
>> jumping into the fray at the last minute mucks that up considerably - their 
>> only Marvel interest is the presence in Universal's Islands of Adventure in 
>> Orlando (a remnant of the Marvel early-00's IP fire sale that gives 
>> Universal exclusive theme park rights to major Marvel characters east of 
>> the Mississippi*).  Does Fox's film unit have any other major franchises 
>> left?
>>
>
> Planet of the Apes?
>
> Greg
>

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