I am a proud Trump supporter, but the Dems at the FCC are right on this one.

What has the broadcast industry done to evolve with the changing times? Very little. You can have all the outstanding journalism on TV you want. But that doesn’t matter if nobody bothers to watch TV. Digital news and streaming video are the future. But the broadcast industry is hesitant to plan for the future because it is too focused on short-term profits that won’t last.

That’s the broadcast industry’s fault, not the FCC’s.

Broadcasting companies are focused on short-term profits and not long-term vision. Why else did companies like Nexstar buy so many TV stations over the past decade? To serve the public interest? Of course not! They wanted more leverage in order to squeeze more retransmission fees out of cable and satellite TV companies. Cord cutters have put that very revenue model in jeopardy. Even some smaller cable television companies are getting out of the business.

What’s going to happen when the retransmission fees dry up? I don’t think the broadcasting industry has an answer. I think the current industry executives are happy to keep kicking the can until they exit the business with a golden parachute and make the issue someone else’s problem. The result is an industry that is stuck to its old ways while everyone else is zipping off to the future. Broadcasters failed to innovate and remain relevant in a digital age. That’s not the FCC’s fault.

I’m not looking forward to local TV’s demise either. It’s already happening! Blame whatever and whoever you want for it. What’s clear is fewer people are watching local TV news because they no longer see it as relevant. Especially younger viewers who get their news from their smartphones and see no reason to watch TV news.

For all of the hand wringing I hear on here about the FCC, I don’t hear anyone point out that billion-dollar broadcasting corporations are just as much, if not more, to blame for the industry’s state of affairs. These corporations bought up local TV stations in a frenzy and ran the stations with an emphasis on revenue and profit, NOT public service. Now that the advertising revenue is starting to dry up, these corporations are feasting on retransmission fees charged to cable and satellite companies that are likewise losing subscribers and are likewise hesitating to pay. It’s a risky business model!

And what happens then when that tornado hits a community? People go to their TV and realize their cable company doesn’t carry that important local channel anymore. Why? Because [FILL IN THE BLANK BROADCASTER] wanted even more money from [FILL IN THE BLANK CABLE/SATELLITE COMPANY]? Goodness, you mean to tell me a broadcast company that made billions in revenue put business ahead of a public service?

As for being “prematurely retired?” Well, that’s you making assumptions. I chose to leave the business. I work fewer hours and earn a much-better salary as a result. Thanks for asking!

The days of local broadcasting, with the emphasis on local, are done! Most of the TV stations in the United States are owned or controlled by Nexstar, Sinclair, and Gray. Each company is homogenizing local news to various levels, and in some cases, are eliminating local news altogether because it is no longer profitable. What do you think will happen in those news markets when a disaster hits and in the days and weeks afterward? Don’t forget that private equity companies like Apollo Global Management slid into the local news business because profit must be made!

Do you honestly think these companies are truly interested in the public interest? I say no! They’ll pay lip service to the idea but pay more attention to bringing in the profits for shareholders. But when those dang ol’ FCC regulations get in the way of those unmitigated efforts to bring in money? Oh boy, that’s when these companies howl and scream about how unfair it is to play by the rules of the very game they chose to play.

Never mind the fact that broadcasters are required, by federal law, to operate in the public interest.

Never mind the fact that large broadcasters gobbled up stations, not to serve the public interest, but to have more leverage in renegotiating retransmission fees.

Never mind the fact that large broadcasters already have and currently use loopholes that allow them to control more TV stations through what are effectively shell companies (Nexstar and Mission, Sinclair and Deerfield and Cunningham, etc.).

In case I haven’t made it clear, I don’t sympathize with the broadcast industry here. Broadcasters ignored the possibilities of digital and streaming news as far back as the 1990s. Broadcasters effectively ignored their duty to operate in the public interest in favor of operating in the shareholders’ interest. Yet, they signed up to play this game when they sought and received FCC licenses to broadcast on the public airwaves. How surprising that they must play by the rules of the very game they signed up to play.

Or, to quote a line from the 1980 comedy classic Airplane…

“They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ‘em crash!”

Jeff Chardell

ATSC 3.0 is supposed to be robust. This Box was better than ATSC 1.0, but the picture still fluttered with airplanes and wind gusts. Even in times of calm, sound and picture often lost sync.

Channel numbers were too small and incredibly hard to read, so viewers had to rise from their chairs and approach the monitor. The remote required a lot of scrolling up and down unless bookmarks were used. Even getting to the bookmarked channels required heavy scrolling. Scrolling was never rapid – just one channel at a time. Bookmarked channels were given a tiny bit of color that disappeared – unless the viewer rose and approached the monitor. There was an onscreen keypad to manually switch channels, but the effort to select it and then use the navigation buttons negated its usefulness. There was a feature to manually add individual channels, but users were required to know the channel’s MHz. Most of the buttons were the same black plastic as the case, so they were invisible when viewers turned down the lights. Every software update reassigned button functions, so the user constantly had to relearn the remote. The back of the remote consisted of three or more different curves, making it strangely unstable. It tended to fall to the floor unless it was placed face down. Because of some electronic issues, ADTH Support recommended I try their beta. Beta locked up my system and I had to rescan.

Remote controls were invented to make TV viewing easier. This remote was constant work and frustration. It was exhausting.

For NextGenTV to succeed, they need to give consumers something they want. Right now, all broadcaster’s offer that has any value whatsoever is local news, which can be had with ATSC 1.0. Even the value of those have come into question.

The NextGenTV consortium needs to ask themselves what they are selling that consumers want? Everything depends on consumers buying and caring about the product you are offering. Currently, nobody has asked our company to develop an ATSC 3.0 tuner for our fitness product. Not one person. So we won’t be integrating the technology in the foreseeable future. You know what we just implemented in our product due to multiple requests? PlutoTV. That reality should speak volumes.

FInd something that moves the needle. And do it yesterday. Or the NextGenTV ship is sunk.

Hint: 4k isn’t enough anymore. People have bought their cheap 4k TV’s only to have the prevailing ‘non-4k’ content upscaled so the content they consume looks like junk. Consumers have tuned-out the ‘benefits’ of 4k argument, probably for good. And for good reason.

Hint #2: It needs to be something that moves the needle. Like HDR 4k NFL football, that will demonstrate the advantages in large numbers.

The last time I’m updating it.

Sherri 9AM to 10AM also 2PM on Wood TV,
The Jennifer Hudson Show 10AM to 11AM also 5PM on WXSP,
Who The Bleep Is That yes that is a title for a game show 3:30PM to 4PM,
Pawn Stars gets a full hour 2PM to 3PM never got a full hour when it was 5 days a week in 2016 to 2018 on WXSP been on the weekend since 2018 where 5AM, 6AM, 7AM, 11:30PM on Sat, this year 6AM on Sun,
Extra gets access prime been a decade since it has been on in access prime 7PM to 7:30PM WOTV 1AM to 1:30AM,
TMZ will get 3 airings 7:30PM to 8PM, 10:30PM to 11PM on WXSP, 1:30AM to 2AM on Wood TV,
TMZ Live will also get 3 airings as well 3PM to 4PM on Wood TV, 3AM to 4AM on WXSP, CW6 4AM to 5AM which will be M-F which Mon will be from Fri.

I’m calling it CW6 since that is where WOTV DT2 is at since 2 or 3 weeks ago when channel 6 was added was deleted 9 years ago was either QVC or HSN on channel 6. On Charter Spectrum be different from other pay-TV.

WWE is Sports & Entertainment yes I know that winners are already determined before the match and wrestlers can get injured in the square circle/ring, I know I couldn’t take the bumps I’d get seriously injured. The wrestlers are athletes as well. I don’t watch wrestling stopped watching 20 years ago where I’d watch every week for Raw & Smackdown fazed out over time on watching WWE.

It could also be a way for Scripps to eventually attract prospective buyers. Yes, as far as I know, Scripps is NOT for sale. But it’s common for companies to cut costs and say, “Hey, potential buyer, our balance sheet shows lower operating costs and higher revenue. How about some merger and acquisition activity?” I worked for a now-defunct broadcaster that used the same strategy.

Scripps deserves credit for at least trying something different. But this is as much — if not more — about money as it is about viewer trust.

I want to share my dissertation on this platform https://eduhelper/essay-samples/feminism. Perhaps some girl will read it and realize, just like I did, that women are strong too. This will be my contribution – help for student girls in shaping their destinies.

I am confident that women like Emily will continue contributing to society after retirement.