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WGN America begins the transition to 24/7 News.
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You mean Nexstar airing their content over on Twitch??
I wonder would they have been better going the Discovery/A&E/National Geographic route of airing more cheaply produced 'reality' series/documentary series? WGN America had an original series featuring Dog the Bounty Hunter a year or two ago. If news doesn't work like it is now ratings wise do you think they will close it entirely or go a different route with it?
KRON Launches 24/7 News App
Nexstar’s Bay Area MNT affiliate debuted KRON-ON, a new 24/7 digital news subscription service for mobile, desktop, tablet and OTT platforms, including Apple TV and Amazon Fire.
tvnewscheck.com
I can see NewsNation being shut down and Nexstar reallocating the dollars to Streaming News outlets with their local brandings in the big markets such as KRON-ON in San Francisco, KTLA+ in Los Angeles, WPIX and WGN at some point putting their local editions.
with cable TV on the decline, i can see WGN America/News Nation shut down as a linear cable channel and switch to streaming full time.
Yes national geographic channel was airing the episodes of lockup and lockup raw on fridays. After msnbc dropped it but after the death of george floyd they seemed to dissapear from the national geographic channel as well sadly. When they play re runs of shows do they just pay for the rights to air them for a certain period of time or can they buy the rights to air the show outright indefinitely?
If News Nation fails I'd like to see Nexstar move Antenna TV to being a full cable channel, and I know they would have to change the name, but that's probably wishful thinking.
I think the general consensus here is news on WGN America will likely be gone before years end. On the other hand, if they are hell bent on making it work then all bets are off. But as someone said on some post somewhere newscasts are expensive if done well.
Generally, there are number of runs over a specific period conditions in the deal. Syndicators want options for future media that we don't even have now. And they want tomorrow's payments in tomorrow's dollars.
But a cable channel could try to permanently negotiate if they wanted to try.
I don't see any right-wing slant to News Nation I see it down the middle and neutral.
I see it as being canceled. Just a waste of resources in the end.
NewsNation Names Allison Harrison Washington Correspondent
Comes to cable net from Dallas TV
www.nexttv.com
so that's why she left KDFW Fox 4.NewsNation Names Allison Harrison Washington Correspondent
Comes to cable net from Dallas TV
Nexstar's Perry Sook on the Future of News, TV Station Business, NFL and NewsNation
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook explains why WGN America was converted to NewsNation, shares news of Nexstar's plans and discusses the impact of OTT on TV station ratings with Jack Myers.
The LA Times does an analysis on Nexstar's News Nation:
www.latimes.com
NewsNation promised an 'unbiased' alternative to Fox, CNN. What went wrong?
Cable channel NewsNation, launched last year, is searching for a lane in the highly polarized news landscape but has struggled to gain traction.
www.latimes.com
Exclusive: Former Fox News Anchor Leland Vittert Joins NewsNation
Fox News anchor Leland Vittert, who parted ways with the network last week after months off the air, has landed at the new cable network NewsNation. "It's been in the works for a while," Vittert said of his talks with the network in an interview with Mediaite Tuesday night. "They came to me late...
www.mediaite.com
Former Fox News talent Leland Vittert joins News Nation.
Not much has changed in their ratings. They are getting an average of 121K viewers a week. That's the population of Yakima, Selah, and Ellensburg combined. MAJOR FAIL! Even Tom Skilling and the WGN News at Nine would get 100K more viewers.
ctv.kwayisi.org
Meanwhile, the same site shows Fox News still on top with 1.21 million average viewers and 2.26 million primetime viewers. CNN has gained in primetime but MSNBC has not. Anderson Cooper is up 44% and Lawrence O'Donnell is down 12%...
NewsNation Ratings
Latest NewsNation (WGN) TV Channel Nielsen ratings on U.S. cable television.
Meanwhile, the same site shows Fox News still on top with 1.21 million average viewers and 2.26 million primetime viewers. CNN has gained in primetime but MSNBC has not. Anderson Cooper is up 44% and Lawrence O'Donnell is down 12%...
Could it be possible that News Nation gets canceled before it goes to 24/7? It seems like even going back to WGN America would be better.
I can see news nation channel itself cancelled by cable but they could be repurposed as a national desk providing national news segments for Nexstar owned stations such as KTLA, KRON, WGN, WPIX for their local streaming operations such as KRON-ON and KTLA+.Not much has changed in their ratings. They are getting an average of 121K viewers a week. That's the population of Yakima, Selah, and Ellensburg combined. MAJOR FAIL! Even Tom Skilling and the WGN News at Nine would get 100K more viewers.
NewsNation Ratings
Latest NewsNation (WGN) TV Channel Nielsen ratings on U.S. cable television.
Meanwhile, the same site shows Fox News still on top with 1.21 million average viewers and 2.26 million primetime viewers. CNN has gained in primetime but MSNBC has not. Anderson Cooper is up 44% and Lawrence O'Donnell is down 12%...
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