TBD (also referred to unofficially as TBD-TV; branded on-air as TBD.) is an American
digital broadcast
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television network
A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or multichannel video programming distributo ...
owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, t ...
and operated by
Jukin Media
Jukin Media, Inc. is an entertainment company that operates by identifying shareable or otherwise compelling user-generated videos, negotiating with the video owners, and then licensing the videos for third-party use and/or featuring the videos i ...
. Targeting
millennial
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audiences, the network focuses on
viral video
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and
reality
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shows.
Background
The development of TBD is traced to a visit by Sinclair Broadcast Group management to the
Santa Monica
Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to ...
,
California
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headquarters of the
Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is devoted to events and other programming related to the game of ...
in early 2016 (Sinclair purchased the cable network in January of that year). While touring Tennis Channel's
main control room, company executives spotted a monitor carrying the foreign feed of The QYOU, a
Dublin
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-based digital media company and online video service headed by co-founders
Curt Marvis
Executive experience
Prior to his role at The QYOU, Marvis was President of Digital Media at Lionsgate, where he oversaw its digital business portfolio.
Before joining Lionsgate, Marvis was the co-founder and CEO of CinemaNow, for which Lionsgate ...
and Scott Ehrlich, which curates various online video content aggregated from various producers for European audiences. Seeing the QYOU feed sparked a conversation among the executives about developing a similar service for television viewers in the United States, which Sinclair proceeded to bring to concept.
History
The company formally announced the planned launch of TBD on December 7, 2016.
TBD is the third of four
digital broadcast
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networks
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Science and technology
* Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
* Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks
Mathematics
...
that Sinclair has developed and launched during the
2010s
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: it previously launched the
sports
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-focused
American Sports Network
American Sports Network (ASN) was a sports brand owned by the U.S. television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group through its Sinclair Networks subsidiary. Formed in July 2014, the multicast network component of ASN produced broadcasts of sp ...
in August 2014 (which rebranded to
Stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in 2017), and
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
-focused network
Comet
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in October 2015, and around the time of the TBD announcement, it also disclosed plans to launch action-adventure network
Charge!, a joint venture with Comet partner
MGM Television
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that debuted on February 28, 2017 (since January 2016, Sinclair has also operated a 24-hour feed of the
Stadium
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network, which is otherwise structured as an
ad hoc
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Com ...
syndication
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* Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside the network system
* Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips
* Web syndication, ...
service aired on an event-driven basis on either the primary channel or subchannel of carrier stations that maintain a conventional entertainment format). To assemble programming and help provide creative support for TBD, Sinclair has retained the services of The QYOU, marking the first venture into advertiser-supported broadcast television for the company, which already operates a
pay television
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service in Europe; The QYOU has not ruled out developing a similar subscription television service in the U.S. or ad-supported networks modeled after TBD in other countries.
In its
press release
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announcing TBD's launch, Sinclair expressed that the network would be "reinvigorating traditional television for today's
millennial
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the Western demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000 ...
audience", a
demographic
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Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as edu ...
cohort
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* Cohort (floating point), a set of different encodings of the same numerical value
* Cohort (military unit ...
that tends to enjoy video content via online sources other than traditional broadcast or cable television, although some within the demographic do supplement online content with over-the-air television.
[ The network's more contemporary programming ( digital-first series and videos) and younger-skewing target audience makes TBD unique in comparison to many other digital multicast networks that feature classic television programs and movies aimed toward older audiences or niche audiences based on gender, ethnicity or genre interest. As part of that reach to millennials, TBD takes a "screen agnostic" approach to delivery, appearing not only on broadcast television, but through an online platform and eventually through apps for ]smartphone
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s, tablets and smart TV
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devices (the network's website provides a live stream
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of its programming, exempting advertising
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and interstitial segments aired during breaks within and between programs).
The "TBD" name came in a sort of roundabout way for Sinclair: early in the network's conception, Scott Shapiro, Sinclair's vice president of corporate development, referred to it by the abbreviation
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for "to be determined". Realizing that Sinclair's 2014 acquisition of Allbritton Communications
The Allbritton Communications Company was an American media company. Based in Arlington, Virginia, Allbritton was the leading subsidiary of Perpetual Corporation, a private holding company owned by the family of company founder and former Riggs B ...
included ownership of the TBD.com domain name
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(which was used for Allbritton's former Washington, D.C.
)
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-area news site
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Going online created more opportunities for newspa ...
and also briefly for its associated regional cable news channel NewsChannel 8), the network was officially bestowed the TBD name and TBD.com domain as, according to Sinclair's press release announcing its launch, "TBD's entertainment promise is always 'To Be Determined'."[ TBD commenced broadcasting as a "soft roll-out" on February 13, 2017 on the subchannels of two Sinclair stations: ]Fox
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affiliate WLUK-TV
WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). Both stations share studi ...
in Green Bay, Wisconsin
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and CBS
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affiliate WTVH
WTVH (channel 5) is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is the only station whose broadcast license continues to be owned by Granite Broadcasting, a moribund company (controlled by Greenwich, C ...
in Syracuse, New York
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(the latter of which is operated by Sinclair through a local marketing agreement
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with WTVH owner Granite Broadcasting
Granite Broadcasting LLC is a broadcasting holding company in New York City which owns one television station in the United States, in Syracuse, New York. Granite was founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988, ).
On October 16, 2018, Sinclair signed an agreement with Jukin Media
Jukin Media, Inc. is an entertainment company that operates by identifying shareable or otherwise compelling user-generated videos, negotiating with the video owners, and then licensing the videos for third-party use and/or featuring the videos i ...
to assume operational responsibilities for TBD, effective immediately. The agreement will also result in content supplied by Jukin being expanded on TBD's programming lineup. Jukin Media would later go on to be acquired by Trusted Media Brands
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in 2021, a parent company of Reader's Digest
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.
Programming
TBD's schedule features various web-originated films, scripted and unscripted series, showcase programming, and featurettes – featuring a wide range of topical and themed categories including but not limited to science, fashion, lifestyle, travel, music, comedy, gaming, esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although orga ...
, and viral content – through deals with various online content producers and distributors which license their content for broadcast on TBD including: Canvas Media Studios, Jukin Media, Filmhub (formerly Kinonation), Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC (doing business as Legendary Entertainment or simply Legendary) is an American film production and mass media company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. The company has collaborated ...
(including content from subsidiaries Nerdist Industries
Nerdist Industries, LLC is part of the digital division of Legendary Entertainment. Nerdist Industries was founded as a sole podcast (The Nerdist Podcast) created by Chris Hardwick but later spread to include a network of podcasts, a premium conte ...
and Geek and Sundry
Geek & Sundry is a commercial YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch channel and multimedia production company. It was launched on April 2, 2012 by actress Felicia Day with Kim Evey and Sheri Bryant as part of YouTube's YouTube Original Channel Ini ...
), Whistle Sports Network
Team Whistle (formerly known as Whistle or Whistle Sports) is an American digital media company focused on sports-related and entertainment content.
History
Since its launch in 2014, Whistle Sports has raised more than $56 million in funding to ...
(which also provides short segments aired during certain commercial breaks) and Zoomin.TV.
From the network's launch, through its partnership with The QYOU, TBD carried daily "preview" blocks of the service's daypart-based video compilation programs, which regularly aired four times per day each weekday, including during the overnight and morning hours seven days a week and during the afternoon and early evening on weekdays (and initially, Saturdays until September 2017). (TBD did not carry sample blocks of The QYOU's weekend programming, opting instead to air rebroadcasts selected from the weekday QYOU blocks that the network aired over the prior week in the morning and late night on Saturdays and Sundays.) In September 2017, TBD began scaling back the daily QYOU blocks carried within its schedule, ceding certain weekday prime time and weekend mid-afternoon time slots to the network's other entertainment programs. As a result of an agreement reached between QYOU Media and Sinclair Digital Group to terminate their content agreement for TBD, the network ceased carrying all QYOU programming on September 17, 2018. (The time periods occupied by the QYOU sampler blocks were replaced with additional airings of existing short-form-content-focused compilation programs in TBD's inventory, with feature films replacing ''QYOU Prime''s former weekday early evening slot.)
Sinclair is also negotiating agreements with other web content producers, distributors and application developers to provide programming for the network. Another possible content avenue for TBD may come via resources from the news-producing stations among Sinclair's stable of 172 owned-or-operated television stations and their websites, which would bring the various local lifestyle and various features that they produce to a national audience through TBD, as well as through its digital news service Circa News.[
The network currently holds exclusive responsibility for advertising sales, setting aside three to six minutes per hour of advertising inventory within its program breaks; advertising on TBD at present consists mainly of ]public service announcement
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s and some direct response advertising
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(the remaining time is usually filled by Whistle Sports-produced interstitials), though the network encourages prospective national sponsors to develop experimental advertisements tailored to appeal toward the network's key demographic. Sinclair plans to review allowing TBD's affiliates to be able to lease time for inserting station promotions and commercials for local businesses in the future.[
On May 7, 2018, TBD began carrying ]KidsClick
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, a multiplatform children's programming endeavor launched the previous year featuring long-form and short-form animated content from various production studios. The move resulted in TBD transitioning into being the block's national subchannel carrier, which had been asserted by Tribune Media
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
-owned This TV
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Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally fo ...
since the three-hour morning cartoon block debuted in July 2017. (TBD became the exclusive network carrier of KidsClick on July 1, 2018, as a result of This TV discontinuing carriage of the block, one month before the collapse of the proposed merger between Tribune and Sinclair.) The block was discontinued less than ten months later on March 31, 2019.
Affiliates
, TBD has current and pending affiliation agreements with 55 television stations in 45 media market
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s (all of which are owned or operated by Sinclair) across 25 states and the District of Columbia. The network has a combined national reach of 22.44% of all households in the United States (or 70,129,858 Americans with at least one television set).
Along with WLUK and WTVH, Sinclair's "soft rollout" of TBD during the week of February 13, 2017, saw the network added to digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compress ...
s of three other stations owned by Sinclair directly: KDSM-TV
KDSM-TV (channel 17) is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and has studios on Fleur Drive in Des Moines; its transmitter is located in Alle ...
/Des Moines
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, KABB
KABB (channel 29) is a television station in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual NBC/The CW, CW affiliate WOAI-TV (ch ...
/San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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and KUNP
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/ La Grande-Portland, Oregon
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. The network is being rolled out in three phases to work out any technical and transmission issues; 52 stations owned or operated by Sinclair became TBD charter affiliates at the conclusion of the first phase of affiliate rollout in early March 2017 (most of which joined the network on February 28). Other stations among those which Sinclair owns or operates (including stations it operates through sharing agreements with third-party licensees, and partner groups Deerfield Media
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, Howard Stirk Holdings
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, and Cunningham Broadcasting
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) are expected to begin carrying TBD during the late winter and spring of 2017, either on newly created subchannels or existing ones that were affiliated with Grit, GetTV
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or other competing multicast networks through affiliation agreements with Sinclair that are pending expiration.
Sinclair's launch of TBD – as well as Comet and Charge! before and after it – is part of the company's aim toward "expanding our business with new digital multicast networks that leverage our broadcast spectrum and household reach", as expressed by the company's President and CEO, Christopher Ripley, in the press release announcing TBD's launch.[ The "soft rollout" on Sinclair stations during the first half of 2017 is also intended to work out any technical and transmission issues. Once those issues are worked out and TBD begins to gain footing, Sinclair will begin offering the network to individual stations and station groups in markets where Sinclair does not have a broadcast presence.][
Some of Sinclair's stations (as well as others not owned by Sinclair or its partner groups that are affiliated with the syndication service) may elect to use the TBD subchannel as an alternate outlet for the American Sports Network, pre-empting certain afternoon and/or evening programs within the national TBD schedule to carry sports events not carried by the main channel of its CW and ]MyNetworkTV
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affiliates or independent stations. Among its current affiliates, WRLH-TV
WRLH-TV (channel 35) is a television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it has studios on Westmoreland Street in the North Side (Richmond, V ...
in Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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– which carries the network on its DT2 subchannel – does not carry TBD's full programming schedule, airing the MyNetworkTV prime time lineup in place of TBD programs that air from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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weeknights (such an arrangement, which dates to the subchannel's prior affiliation with This TV
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Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally fo ...
, is necessary because the Richmond market lacks enough available commercial stations for MyNetworkTV to maintain a standalone main channel affiliation).
As of January 2021, TBD is the primary affiliation on three stations (all controlled by Sinclair): WXBU
WXBU (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of the digital multicast network TBD. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner c ...
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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(serving Harrisburg
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), KENV-DT in Elko, Nevada (a submarket of the Salt Lake City
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market), and WTTE
WTTE (channel 28) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network TBD. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broad ...
in Columbus, Ohio
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. All three stations were at one point affiliated with major networks: WXBU (then as WLYH-TV) was affiliated with CBS
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(sharing that with WHP-TV
WHP-TV (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of CBS, MyNetworkTV, and The CW. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has st ...
until 1995; Sinclair later bought WHP-TV outright), then UPN
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& The CW
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(the latter now airing on WHP-TV 21.3), while KENV-DT shared the NBC
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affiliation with primary NBC affiliate KSL-TV
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and WTTE was affiliated with Fox
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before its intellectual property was moved to ABC
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
affiliate WSYX
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(which Sinclair also owns outright) on channel 6.3.
References
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