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Exactly this. The days of needing a 50k sqft purpose-built television facility are over. Do you have a space with high enough ceilings? You have a studio space. A massive high-ceiling, TV friendly newsroom where everyone has a cubicle and a row of edit bays for photogs are leftovers from tape to tape editing and limited live trucks. Should there be workspaces for field crews? Sure. But if your model is community reporters, the last place you want reporters is lingering in the newsroom. (Honestly, most newsroom shots are bleak these days because an empty newsroom is basically a well-lit Dunder Mifflin Paper Company) Do you need all the space for racks of servers that were necessary 15-20 years ago? Nope. The cloud and hubs shrink the technical operation space substantially.

It's an outdated rule that the FCC should get rid of Sinclair shouldn't have paid a fine in my opinion. But they got it down from $3 million I read last fall for the Hot Wheels ad.

Congrats Eva Pilgrim on being named the new host of Inside Edition I thought it be Mary Calvi that would've taken over even know she also works for WCBS. I wouldn't be surprised if Scrambled Up & The Perfect Line be on WOTV maybe it will go someplace else WZZM in that death spot in 10AM nothing has worked in that timeslot for WZZM.

Unless NP&G is for sale itself - and Gray now has a clean acquisition of that. But it does take Gray out of Idaho and out of Colorado. They probably also felt there were no good acquisitions in the region to complement their stations, such as Cowles in the Northwest not being for sale. KATC is a no-brainer, since I am sure for years they have wanted to get into Lafayette, and Scripps is isolated there.

Interesting move I thought it be Mary Calvi.

Scripps won't have all of the Big Three in Colorado Springs/Pueblo. KRDO-TV, the ABC affiliate, is owned by News-Press & Gazette.

Scripps isn't selling anything. This setup was deliberately engineered so KOAA can merge directly into KKTV, which recently got new studios. When it gets approved, Scripps will have the Big Three affiliations in Colorado Springs with KRXM as the only tangible competition. Likewise, when Gray buys Allen as a whole, the husk known as KADN/KLAF can easily merge into KATC.

Scripps will have to sell either KKTV or KOAA. Scripps will also have KKCO/KJCT. Gray gets a duop in Lansing with WILX and WSYM, meaning a news duo is reunited. Gray finally completes the Louisiana cycle with KATC.

And with this new wave of VR studios at CBS, they just need to pull a green cloth lol

Hopefully the show is restructured around her, because IE has needed a solid refresh for over a decade.

Good for her. I remember her locally for her stop at WPVI and always thought she was good at ABC. With the flux in the current GMA lineup this is probably a more visible and steady gig. I don’t care for the show, but respect her choice.

How much money are these companies going to throw at Carr and Trusty to pay them off is the real question. Paramount Global threw away $16M so they could merge into Skydance, after all, and Gray, Nexstar and Sinclair know how to butter up the right people so they can get their way. It's a battle of the shameless.

Five-station trade between Scripps and Gray. Scripps gets: KKTV, KMVT, KSVT-LD Gray gets: WSYM, KATC

ESPN’ers Joe Buck & Malika Andrews will co-host GMA later this month.

It totally makes sense now, it's been odd that they've been going about with GMA3 at the new studio without mentioning anything about Eva or Demarco. If you don't keep track of what's been reported on the New York Post, you think they were simply erased from the third hour altogether. My commentary on Demarco and Eva, they had tough shoes to fill replacing Amy and TJ, who had crazy electric chemistry, which made for good television. Looks like ABC News is going with a panel format for that hour (which is a much more flexible, safer alternative), or is just keeping the hour warm until they get a big talent to host the slot.

Eva Pilgrim, formerly of ABC News, will succeed Deborah Norville as the next anchor of Inside Edition. https://deadline.com/2025/07/eva-pilgrim-anchor-inside-edition-deborah-norville-1236450865/

Eva Pilgrim leaving ABC News to become the new anchor of Inside Edition

Effective today, KDFW is expanding their noon newscast to an hour. DFW will once again have an hour-long noon newscast since WFAA moved their’s to 11am in 2018 to accommodate GMA3.

I can’t see CBS spending a ton of $$$ on a new facility when they ‘could’ make the existing one work. A lot of people could be hybrid and/or WFH and not require a work space. That said, I believe there is an empty building (a clean slate) next to WUPA’s current building that they could take over and build to their own specifications. That would likely be much easier/cheaper than moving elsewhere.

WDVM/WDCW news director has been named news director for WPIX.

No one told the weekend PM director.

The time bug inconsistency saga on NBC 10 Boston continues... It's absent from Mon-Fri 11 PM newscasts but on Saturday and Sunday nights, it is visible. What gives?

Very good point you made, but even though it took CBS almost 25 years to get a news operation at WWJ. In 1999, CBS O&O were in the crapper except certain stations i.e.(Minneapolis, Denver, Baltimore) CBS' news infrastructure has been tied to William Paley, Edward R. Murrow & Walter Cronkite, and it has always been slow to change. With the pending sale that CBS is going through you do wonder how much will change. I actually thought CBS would have bought Channel 46 during their WGCL days and combine 46/69 together. I wonder how much of an investment is being made, because they will need a new building for starters.

I researched so you don't have to!!! According to Zap2it (errrrrrr... Gracenote), its C-SPAN on Blue Stream Channel 18 (Coral Springs and Weston, the only two cities it serves), and its H&I (WPLG 10.3) on Hotwire Channel 18.

Fun fact. when CBS O&O’s started rolling out the “CBScityname” websites in the 2010s they couldn’t register cbsatlanta.com since it belonged to WGCL…as such WUPA ended up with the domain CBSAtlanta.net, which still redirects to their current website