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NBC 24 Ending News Operations

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Behind a paywall. How does NBC feeli about this. I thought they wanted their affiliates to run news.
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So the only news now will be the NBC nightly news and Sunday shows. Just wondering, what other markets have a station with a major Network affiliation that doesn't have any sort of local News presence? ( Fox, CBS,NBC,ABC). Not talking independent stations.
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I've been told repeatedly by millennials and younger that 'cable' is not of interest to them, and I assume much less is OTA TV.

I even got into a rather pointless discussion with a young friend who decried the need for cable since "we just stream over wifi". She was not able to understand that her "wifi' got to her home via cable. She was too busy ignoring my points since I have grey hair.

Anyway, onto the point:

I'm barely interested in local news, and I had it all my life. It's often a repeat of a national perspective, sometimes has a slant, has too many 'feel good' bits, and has WAY too many spots to make it worthwhile. The spots oftentimes just irritate me, driving gender and racial target points rather than selling beer and cars.

Frankly, I'm find with Frndly and YouTube. Does everything I need.

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edj wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:51 pm Behind a paywall.
The Flint / Tri Cities board has the complete article.
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Riff Raff wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:29 pm So the only news now will be the NBC nightly news and Sunday shows. Just wondering, what other markets have a station with a major Network affiliation that doesn't have any sort of local News presence? ( Fox, CBS,NBC,ABC). Not talking independent stations.
They're supposed to be running something called "The National Desk" news in the former local news slots according to the article. Which I'm sure will be Orwellian MAGA propaganda like "Spotlight on America" and the rest of Sinclair's "news" shows. Or the "Terrorism Alert Desk" they'd forced into the "local" news for years.

It's not THAT big of a deal IMO, they really haven't been local since 2017. Just something for channel 13 and the Blade to blow their horns about when they're both nearly as shitty as Sinclair themselves.

And if NBC cared about the Toledo market they'd have ended their affiliation with 24 years ago.
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Just a prediction ..but I'm seeing a reuniting [ albeit on a sub channel ] NBC ON TVG
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Plate Cap wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:44 pm I even got into a rather pointless discussion with a young friend who decried the need for cable since "we just stream over wifi". She was not able to understand that her "wifi' got to her home via cable.
That's all a bit more confusing now, with T-Mobile's home service, basically a "hot spot" which picks up internet services through their 5G data network (instead via cable) and then redistributes it in your home as conventional wi-fi. I know folks to whom "wireless" of any kind, even on their phone, is always just "wi-fi."
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SBaxley wrote: Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:33 pm Just a prediction ..but I'm seeing a reuniting [ albeit on a sub channel ] NBC ON TVG
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Riff Raff I’m sure there’s other stations that are part of the big four networks that don’t have local news, only one I can think off the top of my head is the ABC 30 in St. Louis.
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Toledo Radio Died wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 10:15 am Riff Raff I’m sure there’s other stations that are part of the big four networks that don’t have local news, only one I can think off the top of my head is the ABC 30 in St. Louis.
...owned by Sinclair, which made no attempts to program news since folding its news department in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, it presented a news / commentary program, "The Allman Report" with conservative talker Jamie Allman -- that ended in 2018 following outcry over Allman's unsavory comments about the Parkland shooting. They still have no local news today -- not even The National Desk.

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDNL-TV
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MWmetalhead wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 6:24 pm FOX has great sports programming (especially in Big Ten country) but has been a distant also-ran to CBS and NBC in primetime for years...

Therefore, if I were WUPW, I might be tempted to try to pry NBC from WNWO.

Of note, beginning this fall, FOX's share of Big Ten telecasts will be diminished as NBC and CBS will each begin airing some Big Ten product.

I wonder who bills more - WUPW or WNWO?
As Fox is the primary carrier of Detroit Lions games, the other question would be: What would matter more -- the NFL or the Big Ten?
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In Toledo, my guess is the Big Ten. Lions obviously have their share of fans in the market, or some of it anyway, but this is also ground zero for OSU-Michigan. Those fan bases combined across the DMA have to dwarf that of the Lions.
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