Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turning Point is coating this area with signs. Good golly it's the Sign of Nervousness™ 010 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ABC was a longtime underperformer in St. Louis dating to its years on KTVI. And the way the news department was built, with a lot of outside talent, failed to get the attention of a pretty stagnant set of viewers. River City's merger with Sinclair and Barry Baker's manner of exit was the last straw 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026By that, I mean in the last 25 years. KDNL was a long-suffering second indie that wavered between shooting itself in the foot (STV) and being boxed out by a better station (KPLR). River City Broadcasting was good local ownership. But then they got saddled with ABC. That didn't end well. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I stayed a night in a hotel near Forest Park last year and attended a wedding in the downtown Holiday Inn 15 years ago. That gives me more of a commitment than KDNL ever had to St. Louis. 130 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Steve Berthiaume not announcing a Diamondbacks game on TV? Blessed joy to my ears. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It has now been 2 hours plus and Axios (which will certainly have something for its morning newsletters) has no story on its site. Don't count on them for timely weekend or overnight news. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Weird but fairly true: Someone I designed a logo and Twitch overlay panels for just won the NBA Finals 020 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Does anyone recognize this ESPN mic flag? Half soccer ball, half basketball, and I can't find any reference to it online. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Tweek. Zain. Hungrybox. Cosmos. ESAM. Glutonny. ...Napoleon Solo. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Invasive song for pitchers: "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama but make it "Loose Bodies" 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026We'd have to see a preseason schedule, and the teams generally generate those things. It is not like the regular season schedule where the league generates it. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Useless sports media fact: With the Rams moving to KCBS-TV as their originating station, for the first time ever both of LA's teams have the same preseason media partner. But it's happened in the Bay Area and New York: * KBHK (49ers + Raiders), 1975 * WPIX (Giants + Jets), 1978–80, 1987–92 200 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Most of these are in metro Phoenix, a few in Tucson and Yuma, a couple in rural areas. And I didn't count either Valley (Sanders) or Valley Union (Elfrida), which fall into the rural category. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026South Mountain Mountain Pointe Mountainside Mountain Ridge Mountain View (2) Blue Ridge Gila Ridge Ironwood Ridge Shadow Ridge Deer Valley Moon Valley Paradise Valley River Valley Round Valley Santa Cruz Valley Tonopah Valley Valley Vista Vista Grande 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Cactus Cactus Canyon Cactus Shadows Canyon View Copper Canyon North Canyon Willow Canyon Desert Edge Desert Mountain Desert Ridge Desert Sunrise Desert Vista Desert View Estrella Vista Bradshaw Mountain Desert Mountain Mica Mountain Music Mountain Red Mountain Shadow Mountain Sunrise Mountain 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Seriously. There is a very strong change some combination of the following words is a high school in Arizona: Cactus, Canyon, Desert, Mountain, Ridge, Shadow, Valley, View, Vista. And a fair number more have only one of these words with something else. Not counting private schools... 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Seems Phoenix Union went for Valley School Naming Mad Libs on this one... www.abc15.com/news/region-...abc15.comPhoenix Union High School District votes to rename Cesar Chavez High SchoolThe Phoenix Union High School District voted on a new name for Cesar Chavez High School on Thursday to Cactus Canyon High School. 120 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Watch the Minnesota Lynx. They were the last WNBA team to be reliant on one of the FDSN RSNs. They still have not announced broadcasting plans for 2026 (nor have the Indiana Fever, who the last two years were broadcast by Tegna). They may also be a pilot for whatever the T-Wolves do. 001 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The number of potential rightsholders really varies in these markets. There are a few options for the Clippers in Los Angeles. There are way fewer for the Grizzlies in Memphis. 110 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026It's unclear really if any of these additional NBA teams want to go the Suns/Jazz/etc. route of starting from an OTA base instead of streaming with a small number of OTA games. Keep in mind that many of these deals, especially in re: streaming, will be one-year stopgaps per the NBA's mandate. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026...as Scripps elected retrans consent for WPXE but said it was free to MVPDs as long as it was carrying Ion. The same thing applied in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Tampa Bay, and Nashville — all cities where Scripps now has or will have hockey rights and where MVPDs have to pay now for it. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Some thoughts on the FDSN demise as it pertains to basketball... Scripps Sports is not much of a contender, except in Detroit and Milwaukee. Scripps has said they must own a Big 4 affiliate to make a Spot independent work. Milwaukee has been earmarked for this technically for years... 111 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Hockey, yes. Basketball, no (the new NBA rights deal gets rid of this). 010 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Yeah. Messaged me and someone else I know on Discord without any regard for neither of us being interested. I'm particularly wary with the DX scene for some personal reasons. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026hi, I don't know you @strawburri.bsky.social, @wynn.pink, but the account that followed you named Brian is a chaser and should be blocked. I blocked him on his main and he just created that one. 220 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026If your profile description says "second Bluesky account, do not block this account", and I blocked your first account because quite frankly you're acting like a chaser, you have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. 110 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Why do the Lady Vols have a negative number of players? How many do they have?" "Minus. One." www.espn.com/womens-colle...espn.comOliviyah Edwards decommits as Tennessee roster shrinks to 1On the same day that Tennessee guard Jaida Civil announced she's entering the transfer portal, Oliviyah Edwards, the No. 2 recruit in the SC Next 100 class of 2026, requested a release from her nation... 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Very few things in my life have made me viscerally, truly, angry at the world. What happened to Anthony Bourdain is one of them. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The guy who was hospitalized tweeted about it. 010 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026They also postponed the game, the conference opener against Florida (not a typo). www.gainesville.com/story/sports...gainesville.comBees?! Swarm forces unusual postponement of Arizona State-Florida lacrosseThe postponement of Florida lacrosse's Big 12 opener vs. Arizona State has created quite a buzz. Here's why. 110 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The bees were serious, too. www.azfamily.com/2026/03/28/m...azfamily.comMan hospitalized after being attacked by bees at Tempe’s ASU soccer stadiumA swarm of bees went on the attack at ASU's soccer stadium in Tempe Saturday morning, sending a man to the hospital. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Most of the bees were at the Polytechnic campus, a 23-mile drive from the Tempe campus, so a lot of the warnings were irrelevant. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I still have an archive of all the warnings I got. Bees at the West campus. Bees at Poly. Bees in the stairwell. Bees in the parking lot. There's a page about bees at ASU, for crying out loud. cfo.asu.edu/bee-sightingscfo.asu.eduBee awareness | Arizona State UniversityArizona State University campuses are home to thousands of students, faculty and staff, as well as many bees, which use ASU facilities as resting areas during certain times of the year.Bees play an es... 140 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Bee warnings in the spring used to be an ASU pastime. They used to send bee alerts out to everyone no matter what campus the bees were at. 170 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Francisco Cervelli, a Venezuelan of Italian origin, probably didn't see an ITA-VEN semifinal in the WBC coming. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Is there a site that collects all of Pokopia's human records in one place? I'd like to read them and not just in scattershot tweets and skeets. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Kenny Albert is such a workaholic that the only winding down he thinks about is penalty time. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026What type of antenna are you using? That may also play a role. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Also WGME is closer to you than the other two stations. 000 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026My other question would be what type of antenna you are using. In the direction of Portland, WMTW is a VHF signal and WCSH and WGME are on UHF. 200 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026WVII is similar to WLBZ (left), but WABI has a site that is just far better for reception in your direction. Your field strength would be better from WCSH. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Ah OK. Somehow I thought you were in Brunswick. Since you're in between Portland and Bangor, I'll point out that WLBZ is a tougher catch than it should be. It's on RF channel 2 (low-VHF is tough to receive in digital) with an ERP of 3 kW. That'd actually qualify as a low-power TV station! 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Have you contacted the engineering department at News Center Maine? Strange issue to have. Brunswick is about 37 miles (60 km) from the WCSH transmitter site so I presume that's the one in question. 100 0
Monique Sammi Brie @sammi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Age verification? I remember the NSider Forums. In 2003. And I was almost certainly the youngest poster on the NSider Forums in 2003. 010 0
