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2023 TV Predictions

Mikey Radio said:
Elon Musk starts his own TV network. Gets sued by NBC for ripping off and paraphrasing their former slogan, labeling his new network "Musk See TV!"
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Stinky smells reportedly wafting around Twitter's SF HQ

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is disrupting the tech sector by cutting janitorial costs and making offices smell bad, according to the New York Times.
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Here's crazier drama with Elon Musk's handling of Twitter. Twitters offices could be used as like the Apprentice set the way things are going today over his leadership. Musk could have gotten the board and management to negotiate wages with Janitorial services and instead he shut that division down with crazy results. It may be Must see TV for Investors in the Bay Area and Austin not so much for staff members in Elon Musk Lead Companies.


The San Francisco offices have been slashed from four floors to two and have been without janitorial services for nearly a month, according to a new story from the New York Times about Musk's visionary tenure as Twitter CEO.


The janitors in question went on strike in early December requesting better wages, and Musk responded by getting rid of them altogether. As a result, according to the New York Times, "The office [is] in disarray. With people packed into more confined spaces, the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered on the floors, according to four current and former employees. Bathrooms have grown dirty, these people said."
The remaining workers are reportedly bringing in their own toilet paper, too, an act of insubordination that does not align with Musk's apparent vision for a stinky smelly workplace. The Times story notes that Musk's anti-hygiene stance has wafted to New York; he reportedly cut janitorial services at that Twitter office as well.
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A few predictions, I don't know how realistic they will be:

--After over a decade of prolific retail expansion throughout most of the country, Dollar General finally does their first national TV ad (or one that I ever recall). Their first ad debuts in late summer for Back to School, then follows up with Christmas-related ads at Thanksgiving and the holidays. They also announce plans to have an ad in the 2024 Super Bowl.

--This may be wishful thinking, but I'll say it until I'm blue in the face. Comcast finally starts dropping more SD duplicate feeds of non-Legacy lineup (old channels 2-99) channels in favor of moving toward both HD and X1 only. With plans for SD stragglers to either rent an HDBI to AV adapter, or to buy it.

--More markets get ATSC 3.0, including some markets not currently projected to get it soon (per https://www.watchnextgentv.com/markets/). Peoria/Bloomington, Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, and Sioux City are among those markets getting NextGen sooner than expected as Sinclair converts their former Big 4 stations that they demoted to their netlets only to ATSC 3.0 (i.e., WHOI-19 Peoria, KFXA-28 Cedar Rapids, KMEG-14 Sioux City).
 
Western Illinois University gets out of the TV business and sells their WQPT-24 Moline/Quad Cities to Iowa Public Media (as well as their Sterling, IL translator); the latter promptly moves their Quad Cities repeater from the weaker KQIN-36 to WQPT--which both transmit from Orion, IL. Iowa Public Media also applies to turn their Sterling repeater at RF 27 to a full-power station with a transmitter in western Ogle County, IL closer to the Freeport/Rockford area, in an attempt to give Rockford its first-ever in-market PBS station.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:

Here is another one other Paramount owned CBS and CW affiliates will follow a similar brand as KPIX San Francisco by calling themselves CBS News Your City Here as part of a ploy to emphasize the CBS News and Paramount+ apps for their viewers. Note this was initially going to be for CBS Detroit where their duopolies would have CBS News Detroit when their launch dates were proposed.
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KCBS-TV and KCAL Los Angeles have done the same as KPIX such as renaming their newscasts after their streaming feed on the CBS News app.
 
Here in Boston, WBZ-4 is a very iconic set of call letters.

Even though one of the newscasts on sister station WSBK-38 is branded as "CBS News Boston", I suspect that WBZ will continue to use their call letters in Channel 4's newscast branding for the reason I outlined above.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Here in Boston, WBZ-4 is a very iconic set of call letters.

Even though one of the newscasts on sister station WSBK-38 is branded as "CBS News Boston", I suspect that WBZ will continue to use their call letters in Channel 4's newscast branding for the reason I outlined above.
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WBZ-TV could simply get included as "CBS News Boston" the channel 4 part will be removed in the same way KPIX, KCBS and KCAL have done that and that WKBD and WWJ-TV's CBS News Detroit is supposed to do when they launch. It's all about all the Paramount owned CBS and CW Affiliates emphasizing the CBS News and Paramount Plus apps on their TV's.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
WBZ-TV could simply get included as "CBS News Boston" the channel 4 part will be removed in the same way KPIX, KCBS and KCAL have done that and that WKBD and WWJ-TV's CBS News Detroit is supposed to do when they launch. It's all about all the Paramount owned CBS and CW Affiliates emphasizing the CBS News and Paramount Plus apps on their TV's.
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i could see KTVT becoming known on air as "CBS Dallas-Fort Worth" while KTXA will retain the TXA branding but drop the 21 in the branding and refereed as "TXA, Texas News" or "TXA, News" like their sister station and boost up their newscast to compete with KDFW on the hours where KTVT airs network programing for CBS, with KTXA airing their own morning show up against their sister's national morning news, ABC's Good Morning America on WFAA, NBC's Today on KXAS NBC 5 and KDFW Fox 4's local "Good Day Dallas".
 
Tim from Springfield IL said:
This may be wishful thinking, but I'll say it until I'm blue in the face. Comcast finally starts dropping more SD duplicate feeds of non-Legacy lineup (old channels 2-99) channels in favor of moving toward both HD and X1 only. With plans for SD stragglers to either rent an HDBI to AV adapter, or to buy it.
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Not including the SD line up on Channels 1-99, I don’t get why most channels appear twice on the upper/higher channel numbers. Examples - KYW (CBS) on both 803 and 1103, CNN on both 817 and 1111.
 
Toei Co., Ltd. will start a diginet featuring classic and contemporary anime shows. Shows like "Grendizer," "Candy Candy," "Starzinger," "Sailor Moon," and "Pokemon," presented in their original Japanese language versions with English subtitles. There'll also be some live action "sentai ranger" shows on it. It'll probably be called Toei Corporation of America! What does everybody think of that?
 
blackgold said:
Toei Co., Ltd. will start a diginet featuring classic and contemporary anime shows. Shows like "Grendizer," "Candy Candy," "Starzinger," "Sailor Moon," and "Pokemon," presented in their original Japanese language versions with English subtitles. There'll also be some live action "sentai ranger" shows on it. It'll probably be called Toei Corporation of America! What does everybody think of that?
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Sounds good but I'm surprised that Sinclair or another owner hadn't beaten them to that idea. Perhaps in Sinclair's case, as either a possible replacement for preferably TBD (which I wouldn't shed tears if they dropped or reformatted), perhaps add some of them to TBD's schedule or a separate dignet in their stable.
 
blackgold said:
Toei Co., Ltd. will start a diginet featuring classic and contemporary anime shows. Shows like "Grendizer," "Candy Candy," "Starzinger," "Sailor Moon," and "Pokemon," presented in their original Japanese language versions with English subtitles. There'll also be some live action "sentai ranger" shows on it. It'll probably be called Toei Corporation of America! What does everybody think of that?
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My daughter has said she has found the Japanese versions of some anime shows, complete with English subtitles of the original language, on You Tube. These are uncut with more foul language and even nudity in some cases than the US versions. I also think some are probably available on DVD as well from collector's dealers.
 
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