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Scripps News Shutting Down OTA

TheBigA said:
What about NBC News Now. All three majors have digital streaming networks.
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Yes, but unless they wished to strike some kind of deal with stations that are not affiliated with those networks, those digital streaming channels would be siloed onto affiliates of their own networks.

I wouldn't mind having a network's news channel taking up one of their affiliates' subchannels, in that just about the only time I watch terrestrial television is for the news anyway.
 
JeeperOne said:
And NewsNation CERTAINLY doesn't have it

Add that to the fact that Nexstar has cannibalized their local stations by limiting their live streaming to their individual apps with NO Smart TV apps (Only mobile devices with NewsNation itself BARELY offering live streaming) & they're at AN EVEN BIGGER disadvantage

Scripps bought Newsy, which itself had established as a streaming news service akin to what you'd find on foreign broadcasts. All Scripps did was convert it into a news outlet in line with what Domestic audiences are used to seeing & attached the Scripps name

They already had some affiliates. All they had to do was get more (Which they did)

Now the affiliates will be without Scripps News, it won't be much of a surprise as to what the Scripps & Inyo Holdings stations do with the open subchannel but it will be interesting to see what others do with it though
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Nexstar is not helping itself by delaying its newscasts streams on most of its station websites by two hours. Except on KTLA, KRON, WGN and I think maybe Wpix do not delay there newscast streams.
 
IM42A said:
Yes, but unless they wished to strike some kind of deal with stations that are not affiliated with those networks, those digital streaming channels would be siloed onto affiliates of their own networks.
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They don't even do that on their O&Os, much less offer it to their affiliates.

And they do know how to do the latter, since when Cozi rolled out (would you believe it was way back in March 2009?) it was 100% O&Os and NBC affiliates carrying it.
 
Sorry to hear this. I consider Scripps to be somewhere between NewsNation and CNN. 😎

The political team (and the show The Race) in particular is top-notch--- I love correspondents Alex Miller, Adi Guajardo, and Serena Marshall! All three of them are class acts and consummate professionals. 😍..😘

So much for people claiming they want their news reported "down the middle". 😑
 
The Media Observer said:
Sorry to hear this. I consider Scripps to be somewhere between NewsNation and CNN. 😎

The political team (and the show The Race) in particular is top-notch--- I love correspondents Alex Miller, Adi Guajardo, and Serena Marshall! All three of them are class acts and consummate professionals. 😍..😘

So much for people claiming they want their news reported "down the middle". 😑
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I haven't watched The Race but do watch Scripps otherwise. My only major gripe is their cut-in and out of press conferences. They are too short to be of any significant value and the anchors do not usually offer any context prior to joining.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
That's really more about the total collapse of network prime time. You'll note only one prime time show in that top 1 listing.

The #1 network of 2003-04 (CBS) had 13.6 million average viewers in prime time. The #1 network of 2023-24 (still CBS) earned 5.6 million average viewers in prime time, a decline of 60%.
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60 Minutes is technically prime time. Prime Time on Sundays begins when 60 Minutes or AFV starts.
 
The Media Observer said:
Sorry to hear this. I consider Scripps to be somewhere between NewsNation and CNN. 😎

The political team (and the show The Race) in particular is top-notch--- I love correspondents Alex Miller, Adi Guajardo, and Serena Marshall! All three of them are class acts and consummate professionals. 😍..😘

So much for people claiming they want their news reported "down the middle". 😑
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Yes, that's a pretty good way of putting it. It becomes obvious, though, the more you watch it, that Scripps's resources are more limited than either NewsNation, or certainly CNN.

I'd like to see a full-service OTA news channel, but unless one or more of the major networks would decide to offer their news channels via an OTA subchannel, it looks like that's probably not going to happen. Back in the early days of DTV, ABC had a channel called "ABC News Now", and it was very good. But it didn't last.
 
IM42A said:
Yes, that's a pretty good way of putting it. It becomes obvious, though, the more you watch it, that Scripps's resources are more limited than either NewsNation, or certainly CNN.

I'd like to see a full-service OTA news channel, but unless one or more of the major networks would decide to offer their news channels via an OTA subchannel, it looks like that's probably not going to happen. Back in the early days of DTV, ABC had a channel called "ABC News Now", and it was very good. But it didn't last.
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Agreed. :(
 
Following the election, there's a view we have seen the death of traditional news:


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After the Trump Bump, There’s Now the Bezos Ditch

Should the press panic at the prospect of Trump’s return?
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“If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of his media, and we’ve lost this audience completely,” the executive said. “A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form. And the question is what does it look like after.”
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Jeff Bezos wrote an opinion piece on Monday evening titled “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media,” in which he defended his decision. “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election” and only “create a perception of bias” and “non-independence,” he wrote. “We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.”
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The TitanTV listings now have "off air" listed for Scripps News after it ends its run early Saturday morning. This is the case in two markets I have checked (Scripps/ION O&O's) so I don't believe that they have announced the programming for any of the former Scripps News subchannels.
 
valvashon said:
The TitanTV listings now have "off air" listed for Scripps News after it ends its run early Saturday morning. This is the case in two markets I have checked (Scripps/ION O&O's) so I don't believe that they have announced the programming for any of the former Scripps News subchannels.
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TitanTV shows for KPPX 51.4 in Phoenix "Off air" on Saturday and "To Be Announced" starting on Sunday.
 
TheBigA said:
What about NBC News Now. All three majors have digital streaming networks.
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Except none are OTA though. NBC News Now is a streaming service found on freebie services like Amazon Freevie & PlutoTV & Smart TV services like The Roku Channel & Amazon Fire TV as well as pay streaming services like YouTube TV

Big difference between that & what Scripps News did & (for A LONG while WAS
 
KeithE4 said:
Zap2it shows Scripps News regular programming on KPPX/51.4 for the next week. They must not have gotten the memo. :rolleyes:
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I also checked the Gracenote/Zap2it listings and found what you found. But the ION station I work for (and probably all of them) get their guide info from TitanTV so I figured that would be the most accurate.
 
valvashon said:
I also checked the Gracenote/Zap2it listings and found what you found. But the ION station I work for (and probably all of them) get their guide info from TitanTV so I figured that would be the most accurate.
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Since TitanTV has been mentioned more than once now, anyone who noticed its recent overhaul and happens to prefer its classic interface may be interested in knowing it can still be accessed at https://legacy.titantv.com/

I don't know why modern webmasters have gone this route, but today's web designs are so reliant on bloated JavaScript libraries like Angular that whenever a popular site gets a makeover, it invariably becomes RAM hungry and drags like a ball and chain in your browser if you're on less than bleeding edge hardware. (That and many new designs tend to be visually over-simplified, looking sterile and colorless in lockstep with the Windows 10 and iPhone era.)

There's also https://old.reddit.com/ for any retro HTML lovers out there who may use that site as well.
 
Update (according to OnTVTonight):

KILM will air Laff
WCLJ will air Court TV
WDLI will air Grit

All of it will happen on early Saturday morning (11/16). No word on WRPX, WFPX and WSFJ yet.
 
DavinaR said:
Nexstar is not helping itself by delaying its newscasts streams on most of its station websites by two hours. Except on KTLA, KRON, WGN and I think maybe Wpix do not delay there newscast streams.
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Nor are they helping themselves by not having a prescence on the FREEBIE streaming services either. I mean if FOX NEWS can bring itself to the idea of it (They have Fox Local (The app that combines all the Fox O&O's), Live Now From Fox (Which mostly covers breaking news from Fox O&O's but will also provide coverage from non-O&O's too as needed & offer it's own national coverage) & Fox Nation (Basically Fox News shows) as well as Fox Weather (Self-expalinatory) & CNN with its Headline service which it had back in the old HLN days before it morphed into a True Crime network (Which became VERY popular with viewers) can bring themselves to do streaming then Nexstar should be able to do the same thing with NewsNation
 
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