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Flew under the radar and found out about it when it was added to the 'junk drawer' tier of my Spectrum system; apparently Herring and Spectrum came to an agreement to add both OAN and AWE to their systems in May, and they're starting to add it now. Not questioning Spectrum because I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank with whatever little viewership OAN/AWE will provide to make that carriage deal (or maybe Herring finally realized overpricing his channels as 'premuim' was stupid in the long run).

I would expect many news staffers at all the soon-to-be Scripps stations to be shown the light straight to the unemployment line as the result of downsizing. It's also a good thing that Coloradans are used to pre-recorded news. I'm sure 11 News and the others will be Scrippscasted as soon as the deal closes.

At this point, if it weren't for Live and The View being #1 in their respective ratings, the network might as well move to officially make GMA a full three-hour show.

I'm sure KUSA and KTVD would have to be pried from TEGNA's cold, dead hands. KUSA has been their baby for decades.

And now the other shoe has dropped. Demarco is departing GMA3 and ABC News altogether. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/demarco-morgan-exits-gma3-abc-news-1236308249/

I think Colorado Springs would be where the biggest cuts would be. The other two markets don't have any Scripps presence, so I don't expect much change personally.

I feel bad for the employees of soon-to-be former Gray stations.

WSYM had its news come from WILX until Scripps acquired WXMI if I recall correctly, so it is like back to square one there. I think the Colorado issue for Gray was that they had zero pathway into Denver. They would have either had to deal with Tegna (who might be looking for assets themselves) or with CBS (which would have been an expensive acquisition or would have required trading crown jewels).

Lansing is a 2 market with Nexstar/Mission CBS/ABC/CW, Gray WILX/WSYM as the only media owners in the Lansing market. Samatha Mesa has left WXMI FOX17 and is now working at WHO13 the Nexstar station in Iowa, Samatha was only with FOX17 for a year & half although I didn't see her until she became the anchor for 6PM newscast when I checked the weather. All the best Samatha I hope that you will return to West Michigan in the near future which isn't going to be Scripps.

Same, really expected Mary to get the role.

Sure enough this new market 7 newsroom is hiring MSK's (MMJ's)! I was surprised to see a multimedia journalist posting for WAGA Fox 5 as-well. The days of top 10 markets being a relief from one man banding are slowing fading away.

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.