Then again they have access to the NHL and various Olympic sports to draw on.
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2019 Television Predictions
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Then again they have access to the NHL and various Olympic sports to draw on.
Then again, when Notre Dame isn't scheduled for Saturday night, NBC might just be happy to be the network programming against all that college football on the other networks. Don't forget that college football in the heavily populated Northeast, especially in New York and Boston, is not the obsession it is in other sections of the country. Sports fans there are heavily pro-oriented and couldn't give a rat's patootie about teams from "hick towns" like Tuscaloosa. (The Notre Dame games are different, The Northeast is heavily Catholic and ND has always had many "subway alumni" who follow the football team from afar.) So why not go after non-fans instead of trying to make a deal with some other conference just to say you have a game every Saturday night?
It's also the 25th anniversary of the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, "the whack heard 'round the world." I am hoping that the media lets that anniversary pass unnoticed. But I am guessing that we will find out this weekend.
Here locally, in Nashville, February marks the 25th anniversary of the ice storm. I'm sure that local media will do features on that, despite almost no reporters still here in the market who were working here at the time. (That became obvious with 20th anniversary coverage of our tornado last year.)
It is also the 20th anniversary of J.F.K., Jr.'s plane crash. I have already seen stories about that tragedy, and ABC (I think) is already getting ready to air something about it this week.
Or some ABC stations will go back to signing off every night.
Ahem ... infomercials.
I remember the year CBS didn't have the NFL. They programmed Lifetime-style "women's movies" to counter-program.
Yes it is ABC. Tomorrow night it will be on.
Well I see Disney Owned stations like KGO, WABC, KABC and WLS could consider pushing a 3am newscast but that's too risky for now.
And unfortunately that's the case. I'd love to hear 'This concludes our broadcast day' on my ABC station (KAPP), but if anything, they will simulcast MeTV all night. They do that on Saturday and Sunday nights after 1AM. Prior to 2012, they were signing off, 7 nights a week.
We already have that show. It is called Access Hollywood. All Meghan Markle, all the time!
Yes, I have since seen a(nother) promo for it since posting the above message.
ET and Extra are just about as obsessed over her too. In fact, ET has taken their celebrity wedding/baby obsession to a whole new level. With easy online information access, is there really a need for these gossip shows anymore?
You should include E! News in this; no wonder why after the departures of Maria Menounos (due to her brain tumor) and Catt Sadler (equal pay issues), Giuliana Rancic returned in 2018.
As for straightforward entertainment news (which ET also used to cover)...we go to The Wrap, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard for those now.
As for straightforward entertainment news (which ET also used to cover)...we go to The Wrap, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard for those now.
One prediction I can think of:
The new OTA news channel NewsNet will gradually add more major markets in the next few months, as well as carriage on DirecTV, Dish, and various cable outlets nationwide.
The new OTA news channel NewsNet will gradually add more major markets in the next few months, as well as carriage on DirecTV, Dish, and various cable outlets nationwide.
WGN America has been trying their hand at original series; case in point: Underground. In addition, they were the U.S. home for the CBC drama Bellevue, starring Anna Paquin (years before, it was CTV’s Corner Gas).
But growing up in Fairbanks in the ‘80s (when we still had only two commercial stations in KATN and KTVF), WGN was our only outlet for Soul Train, Star Search, Geraldo, Puttin’ On The Hits, Joan Rivers, the syndicated movie packages from Universal and MGM, Tales From The Darkside, At The Movies (before Siskel and Ebert left for Disney), This Week In Baseball, and even Fun House!
Man, you're like psychic!! Oh wait, Alex already mentioned his retirement last August: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634492322/alex-trebek-suggests-retirement[/ur
There have been mentions of WGN America on this thread. I noticed today that my local Spectrum system is now running a repeated disclaimer on the WGN America channel...
"Tribune has removed their programing from this channel"..."tribune is demanding a ridiculous increase"..."tribune is seeking excessive fees for its broadcast station"..."as well as their WGN network which very few watch"..."driven by greed"...etc. etc.
As I posted earlier, no big loss for this viewer.
"Tribune has removed their programing from this channel"..."tribune is demanding a ridiculous increase"..."tribune is seeking excessive fees for its broadcast station"..."as well as their WGN network which very few watch"..."driven by greed"...etc. etc.
As I posted earlier, no big loss for this viewer.
Not quite LOLing, but chuckling heartily at the idea of a cable company accusing another business of being "driven by greed."
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