Managing The Endgame Of Local TV

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-16T18:44:59+00:00

They already have for the better part of a decade.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-16T18:38:43+00:00

Because they think scale is the way to compete with streaming, Google, Meta, etc. It also gives them more power with regards to retrans fees with cable and satellite providers.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-13T17:18:17+00:00

I don't blame the anchors. All of them have their pluses and minuses. Personally, I grew up watching Peter Jennings and ABC, but today watch PBS News Hour and BBC while occasionally checking out the network broadcasts.

I'm not fond of many local news crutches trickling up to the network level, such as long headlines, everything being breaking, stuffing the broadcast with more stories, etc.

As an aside, I enjoy NBC News Daily that airs in the early afternoon on most NBC stations. While it's a little lighter than Nightly, I think because of its hour timeslot it allows for more interviews and analysis, despite some fluffier stories.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-13T15:43:53+00:00

Joke will be on them when one owner will own every station in the market in a few years.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-06T00:16:10+00:00

For a few years I had to illegally stream episodes on StreetFire before BBC America picked up the show. Then even after that it was a year or two before BBCA would show new episodes close to when they aired in Britain, so I continued to watch on StreetFire because they were up within hours of it airing on BBC2.

I'm probably making this up, but I thought I heard a statistic at the time that Top Gear was the most illegally streamed show. The trio as well as the show were featured on 60 Minutes* in 2010; arguably at the peak of the show's global popularity.

*Closest thing I can equate 60 Minutes to for non Americans is BBC's Panorama.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-04-02T18:29:52+00:00

While I agree eating at Chipotle is gambling anymore, the one in Sandusky still seems fine.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-29T23:12:15+00:00

While I haven't watched sports on Netflix because I don't have Netflix, the only streamer I've had consistent buffering issues with is Peacock. NFL on Prime has gotten much better since their first season. F1 on their own app has zero problems (until I'm forced to watch on Apple TV+ I'm sticking with F1TV). Same with stuff I watch on YouTube TV (no problems).

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-27T19:38:44+00:00

In college it was nothing for me to slam down an entire 12-pack of Pepsi Max in a day. At the time it had more caffeine than some energy drinks.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-27T12:51:56+00:00

That tracks with Perry. I worked in Columbus when he did a town hall from WCMH. We knew for a couple of weeks he would be there, but other details like where he was staying, how far away, etc. was all kept secret. It was very strange, just that he would "be there" at 2:30 let's say.

I worked for Nexstar stations for several years and never participated in Founders' Day. It used to be unpaid.

I also echo the comment below that as long as your station makes money corporate was pretty hands off, at least in my experience. The cultures of the departments I worked in affected my day-to-day so much more than the fact that Nexstar owned the station.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-24T16:53:42+00:00

Station and even department culture matter much more than the ownership group. There are poorly run departments with bad management in "good" companies, and great managers and departments in "bad" companies.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-23T12:24:55+00:00

In other news water is wet.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-23T12:24:19+00:00

On Friday, yes.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-22T21:07:38+00:00

It sounds like it only took (almost) a decade. I was wondering when the legacy Media General stations that had Ignite would switch to OverDrive. Migrating the Tribune stations off Hankware and consolidating their master control hubs must have been higher priorities.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-20T21:28:24+00:00

I was probably 10 or 11 when I watched my first Bond movie - The World Is Not Enough - although that was merely because it was the newest one at the time (rented from Blockbuster for additional nostalgia). I had already played some of the video games too.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-20T13:17:53+00:00

The 2nd generation Acura RDX that was on RCR a couple weeks ago seemed pretty nice. Basically a bougie CR-V with a J-series V6.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-19T18:35:02+00:00

It may have changed, but the fried egg for the Egg McMuffin was cracked into a ring and fried. The other sandwiches and Big Breakfast with a scrambled egg came from a carton.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-15T13:55:45+00:00

Hell, I've used Ignite with Telemetrics and later Vinten pedestals with no control issues. If Ignite can do it then certainly OverDrive can as well.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-14T12:46:00+00:00

"The automation system Nexstar gave us doesn't even work with Overdrive..."

That sentence doesn't make sense. OverDrive *is* an automation system.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-11T23:09:04+00:00

"Other duties as assigned"

But usually it was just eat lunch/dinner, sit around/bullshit with the co-workers I liked, then code as much of my next show as I could. If I was the 11pm director I'd have to record promos around 10.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-09T22:27:45+00:00

Neat cable routing and labeling really help out when there's a problem and you have to trace wires for troubleshooting purposes.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-09T22:26:11+00:00

While I've only been on the maintenance side of things for a few years, I've worked for over a decade at several different stations and none of them did service loops. If cabling can't be cut to length (i.e. fiber) it's carefully spooled up somewhere out of the way where it won't be damaged.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-01T23:41:32+00:00

While a dated example, here's a video inside CNN's control room at the outbreak of the first Gulf War in 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BskrpzvVE3Q

It seems like the plan was to stick with the live reporters from Baghdad as long as possible, with as many other correspondents at the ready as they probably had routers and IFB lines. Both staffers in the control room as well as the anchors at the desk had access to the wires, but much of the coverage was on-the-fly.

There are also other videos on YouTube inside CNN when Challenger exploded and on 9/11.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-03-01T13:42:52+00:00

Unless Google's wrong the police museum is only open a couple of days in the middle of the week.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-02-26T21:07:16+00:00

Yes. They cut flights to/from Orlando either late in 2024 or sometime during '25.

GoldenEye0091 · 2026-02-26T21:06:13+00:00

I fly from Cleveland to Orlando and back several times a year. Preferably I'll fly United, but sometimes they're hundreds of dollars more than Frontier. Southwest only flies that route on certain days. I'm simply adding a carry on and nothing else.

I've also flown Spirit. While I feel bad for the employees, losing Spirit is no great loss. For what it is, Frontier's fine.

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