Local CBS affiliate chose to air "Young Sheldon" over President Biden.

[AngryOldDem]

I dropped them a polite e-mail asking why.

Not expecting a reply.

[Bobstandard]

1. Name the station!

Name them, shame them

[dem4decades]

2. Sounds like Texas?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. If you are comfortable giving away your location, and you may not be.

Please provide the name of these fuckers.

But it may not be safe, NOWHERE is safe from trumpers.

[AngryOldDem]

10. This is in Indianapolis.

WTTV. This afflliate is owned by something called Nextstar. It strikes me as Sinclair Broadcasting Lite, but after a Wiki search, I’m not quite sure what it is. They have another syndicated news show called News Night, which strikes me as very Fox-like — “no spin, just the facts, allows me to make up my own mind.” Fox buzzwords.

[demtenjeep]

4. and a rerun at that I'm sure

it is June

first runs are over

[Hekate]

5. Good for you. I used to call the viewer comment line and leave a voicemail message...

This was a good long time ago, but there was one topic that I thought their lead anchor was very wrong about. * It took awhile to have an effect, but I made it my mission to call every single time that dimwit held forth on abortion, and eventually she changed her presentation. I was polite, and chock-full of real facts.

* Best example: the local Planned Parenthood was besieged with protestors, and she, the anchor, interviewed one of the protestors but none of the PP defenders. So far okay, but her comment to the protestor was a gooey-voiced, “So what you are saying is they are killing little babies?”

[onenote]

6. Name and location of station?

We need to call them out specifically.

[rockfordfile]

7. Interesting Name? location?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. Young Sheldon was on CBS at 8pm. Speech was over.

Jeopardy was preempted at 7:30 for the speech.

This was Cleveland market.

[AngryOldDem]

9. They have syndicated reruns of "Sheldon" at 7:30.

[Deminpenn]

11. Is this an old UHF channel that is a sister station to the real CBS station?

That's the case here. The CBS station is KDKA, but it has a sister station that has its own programming, but can be used to show regular CBS shows if KDKA isn't available.

[AngryOldDem]

13. Don't believe so.

It does share news staff with the local Fox affiliate. All I know is it shows CBS programming, including news shows, so I was surprised that it didn’t show the address.

As I said, I sent an email. Not expecting an answer.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Indiana is where many "Chicagoans" get their guns.

Just saying.

[Deminpenn]

14. Maybe it's related to Indiana's time zone disparities?

nt

[AngryOldDem]

16. No.

Far western Indiana is on Central time and cities there have their own stations.

I’m thinking this probably has to do with their ownership. I’m getting a very Sinclair Broadcasting-ish vibe here. Reminds me of when a Sinclair-owned station in my hometown showed the John Kerry swiftboating bullshit. I called to complain and was told they were just following orders from on high.

[Hugin]

15. Even though the broadcast teevee in my area is the right wing dregs...

My non-discerning sibling calls the CBS affiliate here “stupid fox”. I tried to stomach it one evening and it’s a correct assessment. Imagine if you will a station run by the most tantrum prone two-year-olds with a fascist agenda and you would be in the ballpark. I’ve never seen anything like it. What’s even more debilitating is that it carries over into their choices of programming and ads beyond the newzes. I swear they have been waiting breathlessly to break the Hunter Biden thing wide open for months.

It makes the CW look like PBS.

Maybe it is the start of TFG’s long promised branded media giant.

[Torchlight]

17. I've got over-the-air reception only in my household.

CBS, NBC and ABC each have rider-channels, at least in major markets. Last night CBS played the address on its rider channel and played the scheduled broadcast on its major broadcast channel (or vice-versa).