TBD (TV network)

American digital broadcast television network

Television channel

TBD

Type| Digital multicast television network
Country| United States
Broadcast area| Nationwide, via digital terrestrial television
(covering 71.32% of all U.S. television households),[1] Stirr, and Stremium
Affiliates| List of TBD affiliates
Headquarters| Hunt Valley, Maryland
Programming
Language(s)| English
Picture format| 480i (SDTV, widescreen)
(downgraded to letterboxed 4:3 on some affiliates, broadcasts in 1080i and 1080p on some stations)
Ownership
Owner| Sinclair Broadcast Group
Parent| Sinclair Television Group
Key people|

* David Amy (vice chairman, Sinclair Broadcast Group)
* Christopher Ripley
* (president/CEO, Sinclair Broadcast Group)[2]

History
Founded| December 7, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-12-07)
Launched| February 13, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-02-13)
Links
Webcast| Watch live
Website| www.tbd.com

TBD (also referred to unofficially as TBD TV; branded on-air as TBD.) is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group. From its launched in 2016 the channel focused on millennials with short-form viral video content and reality programming, but eventually shifted towards traditional :30/:60 minute-long sketch comedy and other comedic-focused programming underserved in the digital subchannel space.[3][4] With the acquistion of repeats of Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2024, the network will rebrand to Roar on April 27, 2025 to complete its transition towards comedic content.

## Background

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The development of TBD is traced to a visit by Sinclair Broadcast Group management to the Santa Monica, California headquarters of the Tennis Channel 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-based digital media company and online video service headed by co-founders Curt Marvis 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.[5]

## History

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The company formally announced the planned launch of TBD on December 7, 2016.[6][7] TBD is the third of four digital broadcast networks that Sinclair has developed and launched during the 2010s: it previously launched the sports-focused American Sports Network in August 2014 (which rebranded to Stadium in 2017, then The Nest in 2024), and science fiction-focused network Comet 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 that debuted on February 28, 2017. 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 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.[8]

Original TBD logo, used from February 13, 2017, to August 25, 2019.

In its press release announcing TBD's launch, Sinclair expressed that the network would be "reinvigorating traditional television for today's millennial audience", a demographic cohort 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.[7] 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 smartphones, tablets and smart TV devices (the network's website provides a live stream of its programming, exempting advertising and interstitial segments aired during breaks within and between programs).[7][9][10][11]

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 for "to be determined". Realizing that Sinclair's 2014 acquisition of Allbritton Communications included ownership of the TBD.com domain name (which was used for Allbritton's former Washington, D.C.-area news site 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'."[9] TBD commenced broadcasting as a "soft roll-out" on February 13, 2017, on the subchannels of two Sinclair stations: Fox affiliate WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin and CBS affiliate WTVH in Syracuse, New York (the latter of which is operated by Sinclair through a local marketing agreement with WTVH owner Granite Broadcasting).[12]

On October 16, 2018, Sinclair signed an agreement with Jukin Media 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.[13] Jukin Media would later go on to be acquired by Trusted Media Brands in 2021, a parent company of Reader's Digest.

By the start of 2024, the channel gradually shifted its programming towards comedy-based reality programming, picking up programs such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Punk'd, and Key & Peele, augmenting a schedule which already had some comedic programming carried before the shift such as truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... and FailFactory from Jukin's FailArmy. In the fall of 2024, TBD added repeats of Saturday Night Live to their schedule (carrying hour-long versions which were originally designed for the cable market), becoming the first broadcast subchannel network to carry the series as a regular offering, with the remainder of Jukin's content eventually being reduced to commercial breaks.

On March 3, 2025, Sinclair announced the network will rebrand from TBD to ROAR (as in the term 'roaring laughter') on April 27, embracing its comedic-focused direction.[14]

## Programming

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Main article: List of programs broadcast by TBD

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, 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 (including content from subsidiaries Nerdist Industries and Geek and Sundry), Whistle Sports Network (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.[3][7][15] 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.)[16]

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.[5]

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 announcements and some direct response advertising (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.[5]

On May 7, 2018, TBD began carrying KidsClick, 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-owned This TV 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.)[17] The block was discontinued less than ten months later on March 31, 2019.

## Affiliates

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Main article: List of TBD affiliates

As of March 7, 2017[update], TBD has current and pending affiliation agreements with 55 television stations in 45 media markets (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).[1]

Along with WLUK and WTVH, Sinclair's "soft rollout" of TBD during the week of February 13, 2017,[18][non-primary source needed] saw the network added to digital subchannels of three other stations owned by Sinclair directly: KDSM-TV/Des Moines, KABB/San Antonio and KUNP/La Grande-Portland, Oregon. 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).[19] 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, Howard Stirk Holdings, and Cunningham Broadcasting) 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 or other competing multicast networks through affiliation agreements with Sinclair that are pending expiration.[7][20][21][11]

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.[7] 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.[5]

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 affiliates or independent stations.[22] Among its current affiliates, WRLH-TV in Richmond, Virginia – 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 weeknights (such an arrangement, which dates to the subchannel's prior affiliation with This TV, is necessary because the Richmond market lacks enough available commercial stations for MyNetworkTV to maintain a standalone main channel affiliation).[1][23]

As of January 2021, TBD is the primary affiliation on three stations (all controlled by Sinclair): WXBU in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (serving Harrisburg), KENV-DT in Elko, Nevada (a submarket of the Salt Lake City market), and WTTE in Columbus, Ohio. All three stations were at one point affiliated with major networks: WXBU (then as WLYH-TV) was affiliated with CBS (sharing that with WHP-TV until 1995; Sinclair later bought WHP-TV outright), then UPN & The CW (the latter now airing on WHP-TV 21.3), while KENV-DT shared the NBC affiliation with primary NBC affiliate KSL-TV and WTTE was affiliated with Fox before its intellectual property was moved to ABC affiliate WSYX (which Sinclair also owns outright) on channel 6.3.

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Stations for Network - TBD". RabbitEars. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
2. ^ Lorraine Mirabella (November 11, 2016). "Sinclair Broadcast shuffles top management in second round of changes". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore Sun Media Group (Tronc). Retrieved December 28, 2016. "On Friday the company said Chief Operating Officer David Amy, who has served in that role and as executive vice president since 2014, will become vice chairman and oversee human resources, corporate marketing and the networks group."
3. ^ a b Mark K. Miller (December 7, 2016). "Sinclair To Launch Internet-Based Diginet TBD". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
4. ^ Cynthia Littleton (December 9, 2016). "Sinclair Broadcast Group Adds to Content Portfolio with TBD Channel Launch". Variety. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
5. ^ a b c d Simon Applebaum (February 2, 2017). "Sinclair Plays a Web TV Hunch With TBD". MediaVillage.com.
6. ^ John Eggerton (December 7, 2016). "Sinclair Launching TBD Multicast Net". Multichannel News. NewBay Media. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
7. ^ a b c d e f "Online Video Goes Primetime as Sinclair Prepares to Launch New TV Network 'TBD'" (Press release). Sinclair Broadcast Group. December 7, 2016 - via TVWeek.
8. ^ "The QYou in deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group to launch new channel". Digital TV Europe. December 7, 2016.
9. ^ a b Lorraine Mirabella (December 8, 2016). "Sinclair launches first-of-kind TV network featuring digital content". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore Sun Media Group (Tronc).
10. ^ Wayne Friedman (December 7, 2016). "Sinclair Kicks Off TBD, New Digital Multicast TV Network". MediaPost. MediaPost Publications.
11. ^ a b Geoff Herbert (February 15, 2017). "Syracuse gets first look at new TV network 'for people who love the internet'". The Post-Standard. Syracuse Media Group. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
12. ^ Luke Bouma (February 19, 2017). "Meet TBD TV The Newest OTA/Online TV Station". Cord Cutters News. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
13. ^ Mark K. Miller (October 17, 2018). "Jukin Media Operating Sinclair's TBD Network". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media.
14. ^ Winslow, George (March 3, 2025). "Sinclair's TBD TV Multicast Network to Rebrand As Roar". TVTechnology. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
15. ^ David Lieberman (December 7, 2016). "Sinclair To Launch TBD, A Multicast Channel For Short-Form Programming". Deadline Hollywood.
16. ^ "QYOU Media Provides Corporate Update and Management Update Call". QYOU Media Inc. (Press release). September 13, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018 - via CNW.
17. ^ @KidsClickTV (July 5, 2018). "We were sad too, but the good news is we are still on TV on TBD. You can check their market list to see where we are in your area: http://tbd.com/watch-on-tv . You can always watch on our app or site as well: https://kidsclick.com" (Tweet). Retrieved July 19, 2018 - via Twitter.
18. ^ "TBD is rolling out this week!". TBD. Sinclair Broadcast Group. February 13, 2017 - via Twitter.
19. ^ Lorraine Mirabella (March 8, 2017). "Sinclair Broadcast rolls out TBD network targeting millennials". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore Sun Media Group (Tronc). Retrieved March 9, 2017.
20. ^ "New WUTV sub-channel coming aimed at millenials". The Buffalo News. BH Media. January 10, 2017.
21. ^ "TBD-TV is coming to Channel 23.4". WUCW. February 1, 2017.
22. ^ Deborah McAdams (July 17, 2014). "Sinclair Launches Sports Network". TV Technology. Archived from the original on July 21, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
23. ^ "TitanTV - 3 Day Schedule View for WRLH-DT2". TitanTV. Retrieved March 13, 2017.

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* WSTM-DT2
* WSWB 1
* WTTO / WDBB
* WTVX
* WUCW
* WVTV
* WWHO 1

Fox|

* KABB
* KBFX-CD
* KBVU 1
* KCVU 1
* KDSM-TV
* KFOX-TV
* KFXL-TV
* KMPH-TV
* KOKH-TV
* KPTH
* KPTM
* KRXI-TV
* KSAS-TV / KAAS-TV / KOCW
* KSCC
* WACH
* WBFF
* WEMT 1
* WFXL 2
* WGXA
* WLUK-TV
* WMSN-TV
* WOLF-TV 1
* WPFO 1
* WPGH-TV
* WRLH-TV
* WRSP-TV / WCCU 1
* WSMH
* WTAT-TV 1
* WTGS
* WUHF
* WUTV
* WWCP-TV
* WYDO 1
* WZTV

NBC|

* KECI-TV / KCFW-TV / KTVM-TV / KDBZ-CD
* KMTR / KMCB / KTCW 1
* KRNV-DT 1
* KSNV
* WCYB-TV
* WEYI-TV 1
* WJAC-TV
* WJAR
* WNBW-DT 1
* WNWO-TV
* WOAI-TV
* WPBN-TV / WTOM-TV
* WPMI-TV 1
* WSTM-TV
* WTOV-TV
* WTWC-TV

MyNetworkTV|

* KMYU
* KNSN-TV 1
* KRVU-LD / KZVU-LD
* WABM
* WCIV
* WFGX
* WMYV
* WNYO-TV
* WQMY 1
* WRDC
* WSTR-TV 1
* WTCN-CD
* WTVZ-TV
* WUXP-TV
* WVTV-DT2 3

Spanish|

Azteca
WWHB-CD
Univision
KEUV-LD
KUCO-LD
KUNW-CD / KVVK-CD / KORX-CA
UniMás
KKTF-LD

Other
stations|

Antenna TV
KXVU-LD
WYME-CD1
Comet
KTES-LD
Dabl
KBTV-TV 1
KFXA 1
KMEG 1
KMTW 1
KMYS 1
WMYA-TV 1
WNAB 1
WRGT-TV 1
WWMB 1
Catchy Comedy
WVAH-TV 1
TBD
KENV-DT 1
KXVO 1
WDCO-CD / WIAV-CD
WHOI
WTTE 1
WUTB 1
Ind.
KJZZ-TV
KOCB
KUNP
WJTC 1

Defunct|

* KTOV-LP
* KXPX-LP
* WCGV-TV

Channels|

| Subchannel
networks|

| Current|

* Charge!
* Comet
* TBD
* The Nest

|

Defunct|

* American Sports Network

Cable channels|

| Current|

* Marquee Sports NetworkJV
* Tennis Channel
* Tennis (magazine)
* WJLA 24/7 News (DC metro)

|

Formerly owned|

* FanDuel Sports NetworkJV
* FanDuel Sports Network app
* YES NetworkJV [20%]

Defunct|

* Stadium College SportsJV

Programming|

News
Full Measure w/ Sharyl Attkisson
The National Desk

Defunct
Circa News
KidsClick
News Central
Ring of Honor Wrestling

Acquisitions|

* Act III Broadcasting
* Allbritton Communications
* Barrington Broadcasting
* Bonten Media Group
* Dielectric Communications
* Fisher Communications
* Four Points Media Group
* Fox Sports Networks
* Freedom Communications
* Guy Gannett Communications
* Heritage Media
* Newport Television
* River City Broadcasting

* 1 These stations are operated by Sinclair through an LMA.

* 2 Owned by Sinclair; Marquee Broadcasting operates this station through an SSA.

* 3 Formerly separately licensed as WCGV-TV and merged with WVTV's spectrum, but remains on its former channel number as a separate station

* JV Joint Venture

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Major|

* ABC (state/table/former)
* CBS (state/table/former)
* The CW/The CW Plus (state/table/former)
* Fox (state/table/former)
* MyNetworkTV (current)
* NBC (state/table/former)
* PBS (current/former)

News|

* Newsmax TV
* WeatherNation TV

Classic/Scripted|

* Antenna TV
* Buzzr
* Charge!
* Comet
* Cozi TV
* Catchy Comedy
* Fave TV
* Get
* Grit
* Heroes & Icons
* Ion Mystery
* Ion Plus
* Laff
* MeTV
* MeTV+
* MeTV Toons
* Movies!
* Rewind TV
* Start TV
* Story Television

Sports|

* Rev'n

Ethnic|

* Bounce TV
* Dabl
* Diya TV
* TheGrio.TV

Lifestyle/Reality/Shopping|

* Create (state/table)
* Defy
* HSN
* Merit Street
* The Nest
* Localish
* Quest
* TBD

Music|

* The Country Network
* Heartland

Legal/True crime|

* Court TV
* Oxygen
* True Crime Network

Other|

* Ion Television (O&O/autonomous)
* NASA TV
* PBS Kids
* World
* Youtoo America

Spanish-language|

* Estrella (O&O/current/former)
* LATV
* Telemundo (O&O/state/table (current)/former)
* UniMás (O&O/current/former)
* Univision (O&O/state/table (current)/former)

Religious|

* Daystar
* Family Channel
* Hope Channel
* 3ABN
* TBN
* World Harvest Television

Defunct|

* ACC Network (Raycom Sports)
* America One
* American Sports Network
* Azteca América
* Cheddar
* Circle
* DuMont
* MHz Worldview
* MTV2
* MundoMax
* NET
* NTA
* Network One
* NewsNet
* NHL Network (Hughes)
* The Works
* TheCoolTV
* PTEN
* Qubo
* Soul of the South
* SEC TV (ESPN Plus)
* Stadium
* Tuff TV
* Twist
* UPN
* Urban America Television
* V-me
* WB

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