Our long nati--onal nightmare is partly over, as West Coast Jimmy is back on Sinclair's ABC stations as of tonight's rerun---however, Nexstar is hanging in there, as they want the FCC to approve that merger with Tegna and get the waiver that would have them owning stations in approximately twice as many cities as anybody else:
https://www.thewrap.com/sinclair-jimmy-kimmel-abc-affiliate-stations-restored/ Which leads me to something I'd been meaning to post but haven't gotten around to--in the last six weeks two long-standing network affiliates--Warren Buffet's WPLG in Miami (67 years with ABC) and Gray's WANF in Atlanta (30 years with CBS)--dropped their network affiliations for status as indies with a schedule predominately of local news (WANF's calls stand for "Atlanta News First"). WPLG came out and said that they made the move because they did not like having to share ABC shows with streaming (yet their biggest syndicated shows, "Live!," "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune," are all streaming same-day or next-day) and they are promoting the world newscast they are running in the time slot where David Muir used to be "news from people you know without New York bias." ABC and CBS found replacements in these cities, but I'm wondering if there is going to be other network affiliates who think they might be able to make more money and not compete with streaming with mostly local news. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/05143c62-40c6-40b9-93b1-1e7d80465ddbn%40googlegroups.com.
