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Celebrity Family Feud on ABC tonight
clemon79:
--- Quote from: PYLclark86 on September 24, 2025, 12:58:58 PM ---How much sway do the affiliates have now versus back in the day?
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Who knows. Sinclair owns entirely too many ABC stations. (Why, it's almost like there should be a law that limits the number of...wait...<checks earpiece>....oh.)
But consider Seattle: Let's say Disney could and DID pull ABC affiliation from Sinclair, just hypothetically. Who serves Seattle as the ABC affiliate now? KONG? They're Tegna-gonna-be-Nexstar, that's no better. KSTW? Uh, maybe, though as a CBS O&O that would be a little weird. KZJO is a FOX O&O so weird for the same reasons. That leaves KFFV, channel 44 (and right now you're saying "TIL channel 44 in Seattle is a thing!"), which right now is hosting seven Weigel Broadcasting digital subchannels.
Aren't duopolies fun!
clemon79:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on September 23, 2025, 12:59:47 PM ---I'm guessing it will be that "National News Desk" MAGA-circle-jerk thing that pops up after NXT over on the CW station.
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Called it with an asterisk: they let the 11:00P news show run over and THEN switched to Plastic MAGA News.
Fortunately Jimmy's first two segments (his extended monologue) were on teh YouTubes and are very much worth your time if you didn't or were unable to see them.
PYLclark86:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on September 24, 2025, 03:04:58 PM ---(Why, it's almost like there should be a law that limits the number of...wait...<checks earpiece>....oh.)
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The great thing about growing up with a dad who worked in radio is I got to learn all about the Telecommunications Act of 1996. What a great piece of legislature that was.
steveleb:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on September 24, 2025, 03:04:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: PYLclark86 on September 24, 2025, 12:58:58 PM ---How much sway do the affiliates have now versus back in the day?
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Who knows. Sinclair owns entirely too many ABC stations. (Why, it's almost like there should be a law that limits the number of...wait...<checks earpiece>....oh.)
But consider Seattle: Let's say Disney could and DID pull ABC affiliation from Sinclair, just hypothetically. Who serves Seattle as the ABC affiliate now? KONG? They're Tegna-gonna-be-Nexstar, that's no better. KSTW? Uh, maybe, though as a CBS O&O that would be a little weird. KZJO is a FOX O&O so weird for the same reasons. That leaves KFFV, channel 44 (and right now you're saying "TIL channel 44 in Seattle is a thing!"), which right now is hosting seven Weigel Broadcasting digital subchannels.
Aren't duopolies fun!
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Doesn’t Fox still also have Q13 as well as 22? Duopoly there as well.
Your mention of KFFV brings to mind what cbs did in Detroit and what nbc did in Boston years ago. Find some obscure signal and start from scratch. Always the possibility of what abc just did in Miami with a d-2 on the Fox station.
Technology levels the playing field now more than ever. And no audience is all that huge any more. The question is more how low is down versus how high is up.
I love Seattle quite a bit myself. Thank goodness baseball and football are doing well for distractions
rebelwrest:
--- Quote from: steveleb on September 24, 2025, 08:42:57 PM ---I love Seattle quite a bit myself. Thank goodness baseball and football are doing well for distractions
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Wait? the Mariners are good again!?!?!?
I guess in a couple of years, they will be crap for another 20 years. I learned all that from this:
/The best sports documentary of 2020.
//Yes, I will fight you on that.
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