I guess by now everybody has heard what will happen to WNPX 28. If not, you can click on the link below to read the full details. I am going to go over what is going on. WNPX is going to be rebranded as "The Spot - Nashville 28". They will start airing Nashville Predators games on WNPX starting this fall. Now, what "The Spot" will be? I do not know. I don't know if it is going to replace a channel on 28 or if it is going to be a new subchannel. I have emailed for more information. Once I will get a reply, I will post it here. I did catch one thing from the NewsChannel 5 (NC5) article. They said there was going to be "news and entertainment programming in addition to the Predators games". Will that include newscasts from NC5? I don't know. I have included that in my email. Until more news breaks (or new information from the reply I get back), that's all for now.
NewsChannel 5 creating new TV home for the Nashville Preds
Update: 1:15PM - After looking at the other markets that Scripps has implemented this on, I have summized that they will place the ION network on an SD subchannel and make the primary channel - "The Spot". Whether they will make room for ION or ION will take the place of another network, I don't know at this time. Until more news breaks, that's all for now.
WNPX Changes Coming
- Posted April 8th, 2026 at 10:36am
9 Comments
RFCCLebanon
- Posted on April 8th, 2026 at 11:20am
Scripps has other "Spot" indies that house NHL teams since those teams have left Fox/Bally/FanDuel regional sports networks: Salt Lake City (Utah Mammoth), Tampa (Tampa Bay Lightning) and Las Vegas (Vegas Golden Knights)
Leatherneck97
- Posted on April 8th, 2026 at 2:05pm - Edited
Good to hear more sports are coming in OTA to the Nashville market. I think ION will take the place of Court TV when it disappears on WNPX so it may work out that ION may stay HD. The news article states that it will happen during the Summer of this year and I think that is when Court TV will be moved off of WNPX. EDIT: I wonder who Scripps Sports will be partnering with to carry the program to all 5 states that watch the Nashville Predators? I suspect that WNKY-LD will carry the new network along with WNPX to give the Panthers as many viewers as possible. Just a theory though. WNKY owner Marquee Broadcasting owns the stations and already carries ION, ION+, Start, MeTV Toons in Bowling Green. They could give the .1 channel space to Scripps Sports if they wanted to and let it be 1080i or 720p based on the bandwidth changes needed for a 720p channel.
haydenhooper
- Posted on April 9th, 2026 at 5:25pm
Perhaps nobody has thought about this, but do you think this means the death of NewsChannel 5+, currently on 5-2? It would make zero sense for Scripps to operate two "independent" stations in the same market. I'm hoping 5-2 would become a simulcast of "The Spot" because I can't get WNPX from my home in West Nashville. I assume they'll bring more syndication, likely reruns of older shows based on other Spot stations, so what happens to the current plus shows? Do some get killed altogether, while some go on a podcast only? Does WTVF relaunch the 7 AM news on WNPX? Does WTVF start 9 PM news on non-Preds nights on WNPX? Does MorningLine stay while OpenLine gets killed? I'm sure more will come out this summer. And perhaps an entire OpenLine will be devoted to this in the future. In addition, September will be a VERY interesting month as that's when TV stations revamp daytime syndication & local schedules. There could be a lot of competition between Sinclair (WZTV, WZTV2 & WUXP) and Scripps (WTVF/WNPX) in the coming months, especially with many syndication cancellations this year.
Leatherneck97
- Posted on April 9th, 2026 at 6:14pm
I don't think WTVF will carry the Spot since it already has 1 1080i channel and 5 480i subchannels. If anything it would have to be on WNPX because of the bandwidth it would use. The Spot is usually 720p and WTVF couldn't support it right now.
haydenhooper
- Posted on April 9th, 2026 at 6:46pm
I've always thought that whenever the contract to host WNAB comes up (if there even is one), it should be canceled so 5-2 can go 720p. There's nothing valuable on WNAB for WTVF to keep hosting it, in my opinion.
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