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Scripps News Shutting Down OTA

Also according to ONTVTonight
In Minneapolis KPXM will be showing Court TV (already on KARE-DT2) replacing Scripps News also on early Saturday Morning (11/16)
 
I have the whole list but I will just share that KWPX will be getting Mystery. That will duplicate what is on 13.3. ION seems to be going all in on the ION brand. I'll contact the one person at KCPQ who will still speak with me to see if the programming on 13.3 is changing.
 
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JeeperOne said:
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
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And that's what I'm saying. There doesn't seem to me to be any intrinsic reason that any of those networks couldn't be transmitted OTA.
 
JeeperOne said:
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
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IM42A said:
And that's what I'm saying. There doesn't seem to me to be any intrinsic reason that any of those networks couldn't be transmitted OTA.
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Nor any intrinsic incentive either

Besides, Comcast/NBC makes enough channels avaiable as Diginets as well as on streaming (The latest of which being NBC American Crimes (Which was the old NBC LX Home (Such as it was as it was DEAD a "Home" channel because its programming wasn't ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE to that) & the even older LGBTQIA+ oriented NBC LX (Which had more staying power & appealed to a niche audience even though the network had to generate its own programming)

NBC News Now doesn't need to enter the Diginet arena (Live Now From Fox BARELY exists there as it is & only on the Fox O&O's) & CBS & ABC don't offer a Diginet news prescence AT ALL
 
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JeeperOne said:
Nor any intrinsic incentive either

Besides, Comcast/NBC makes enough channels avaiable as Diginets as well as on streaming (The latest of which being NBC American Crimes (Which was the old NBC LX Home (Such as it was as it was DEAD a "Home" channel because its programming wasn't ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE to that) & the even older LGBTQIA+ oriented NBC LX (Which had more staying power & appealed to a niche audience even though the network had to generate its own programming)

NBC News Now doesn't need to enter the Diginet arena (Live Now From Fox BARELY exists there as it is & only on the Fox O&O's) & CBS & ABC don't offer a Diginet news prescence AT ALL
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What about ABC News Live and CBS News 24/7? I'd think those could easily exist as OTA subchannels, in addition to their online presence (I get both on Roku).

But, no, there's probably no real incentive, no real money in it, and that would be asking affiliates to give up a subchannel that they could use as a revenue stream.
 
IM42A said:
What about ABC News Live and CBS News 24/7? I'd think those could easily exist as OTA subchannels, in addition to their online presence (I get both on Roku).

But, no, there's probably no real incentive, no real money in it, and that would be asking affiliates to give up a subchannel that they could use as a revenue stream.
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Ohh for crying out loud :rolleyes:

What part of what I just said (Quoted below) do you NOT understand??

JeeperOne said:
Nor any intrinsic incentive either

Besides, Comcast/NBC makes enough channels avaiable as Diginets as well as on streaming (The latest of which being NBC American Crimes (Which was the old NBC LX Home (Such as it was as it was DEAD a "Home" channel because its programming wasn't ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE to that) & the even older LGBTQIA+ oriented NBC LX (Which had more staying power & appealed to a niche audience even though the network had to generate its own programming)

NBC News Now doesn't need to enter the Diginet arena (Live Now From Fox BARELY exists there as it is & only on the Fox O&O's) & CBS & ABC don't offer a Diginet news prescence AT ALL
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TRANSLATION - They are intended to be STREAMING CHANNELS. Nothing more. Nothing less

If the networks wanted to make them Diginets, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO BY NOW
 
Scripps News is now off the air, at least in Phoenix. KPPX/51.4 is now airing Laff, which is already on KNXV/15.3. Waste of a subchannel, if you ask me.
 
In Memphis, it was on WPXX 50.5 and has now been replaced by Laff which is also on WATN 24.5. I get the feeling Laff will leave 24.5 and they will replace it with something else. I hope it’s Dabl or Catchy.
 
JeeperOne said:
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
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I just noticed NBC News Now (and a bunch of other streaming channels, some owned by NBC Universal) are part of the channel lineup on my Comcast cable system.
 
JeeperOne said:
Ohh for crying out loud :rolleyes:

What part of what I just said (Quoted below) do you NOT understand??



TRANSLATION - They are intended to be STREAMING CHANNELS. Nothing more. Nothing less

If the networks wanted to make them Diginets, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO BY NOW
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I guess I just have tunnel vision, then, in that news is about the only thing I watch on television, whether OTA or streaming. If there's low demand for OTA 24/7 news, then so be it. At the end of the day, I don't care how news channels are delivered, just so long as I can get them in some fashion.
 
radiofan2023 said:
Scripps was/is promoting Scripps News on the stations they own during local newscasts commercial breaks, and it still hasn’t moved the needle.
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The company's strategy for Scripps News was disjointed.

On WXYZ here in Detroit, they didn't event start promoting the network until maybe August of this year even though it launched many months earlier. The OTA broadcast wasn't even placed on a multicast channel of WXYZ or its reasonably well known sister station, WMYD, but instead, placed on WPXD 31.5 in glorious standard definition.

Scripps does not know how to execute local news all that well, either. WXYZ is a shadow of its former self, basement-dwelling WRTV in Indianapolis failed to capitalize one iota on WISH-TV losing its CBS affiliation, WMAR in Baltimore has been a dumpster fire forever, and WCPO in Cincinnati is now a distant third or fourth after spending many years in first or second place in local news ratings.

Gold standard for local news belongs to the ABC O&Os, in my opinion. Runner-up is Hearst. Third place goes to the NBC O&Os, although I will say NBC 5 in Chicago is not as good as it once was, and I think launching NBC 10 in Beantown was a mistake. Fourth place is a coin flip between Cox and Graham Media.

I do miss Tribune Media Company.
 
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