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Damn, this pretty much seals the fate of the Glendive market. Since it's basically a no-man's land for local TV (since the local cable/internet company seemingly ended TV service, DirecTV never started local service, Dish's channels are mostly out of South Dakota and the only "local" station on YTTV aside from KXGN/CBS was WMAQ in Chicago), it will probably be merged into the Billings market and all of their stations will now serve Dawson County, Montana. Then again, Denver may step in for another far-off remote orphaned county like they do across Wyoming, Utah and any other state they pick up the slack for any other market that won't serve them. Also, this is the end of Stephen Marks' company since they are his (estate's) last two stations since the others have been sold. Marks' former radio stations in Glendive were sold to an entity owned by Andrew Sturlagson, the son of (soon to be former) KXGN-TV station manager Paul Sturlagson. Keeping things in the Sturlagson family, Paul's wife Dorothy was the host of KXGN's last local program "Let's Talk About it", and was also their public affairs manager.

"Live" doesn't need to be live... KARE airs it on tape delay at 11 central in Minneapolis, and that's Market 15.

NBC hasn't been in Glendive since KXGN dropped the subchannel on January 1. While KYUS-TV has been silent since that same time, KULR does has a translator in Miles City, a tiny one at that.

It creates a problem in the eastern time zone, at least so far as their own stations are concerned. The 10 am newscasts are seemingly important to them, and you can’t realistically move the existing noon newscasts to 1 to create that separation around The View. For now, there is no compelling need to put GMA3 nearer the mothership. Live serves the company’s purposes well, and eventually this transition period will settle down.

The application says it will be converted to a non-commercial license, but of course a channel sharing agreement with the translator can be made to round that little obstacle.

Not the first time that it’s happened. Mike Marza was solo the first 1/2 hour a few times too. Not sure where she lives but seems like Shirleen was delayed because of last nights weather

Jessica Moore will officially replace Maurice DuBois as 5pm anchor, effective immediately

Seems like he bounces around a lot. He only stays at most jobs 3-4 years, so he was due to leave again. I think GMA3 would work better if it was on at 9AM, but that would likely bump LIVE to 10AM on the east coast, but would create a problem in the other time zones unless THE VIEW and LOCAL NEWS also get bumped back an hour.

It sucks for Demarco as he was really enthusiastic --brought to tears even -- when he got the job. But in all fairness this program was unstable from its iteration so he had to have seen this revamp was a possibility. Seems he can land jobs easily so he'll probably be fine. Compared to Good Afternoon America, The Chew, and The Revolution ABC has really tried with the 1pm ET slot. Surprisingly GMA 3 hasn't been cancelled yet.

Someone will probably lease subchannels to continue to pump CBS and NBC into these areas (or maybe offer them through some arrangement unknown) but yeah, RIP, Glendive.

So both KXGN and KYUS are joining Montana PBS later this year. Both were sold to Montana State University for $375,000.

Former sports reporter is suing Gray/KVLY-TV for unpaid wages, Gray is countersuing for a breach of contract. https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/mcfeely-former-sports-reporter-sues-valley-news-live-saying-it-broke-his-contract Full disclosure- The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead is owned by Forum Communications, who also owns WDAY-TV in the market.

Interesting that Michelle anchored the 4:30am half hour alone.

Rolled out the new talent intro with Pedro. I always wondered why they never did one with Mike (or really the whole morning crew) even many months before his switch. https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/17031465/ Ironically the day they do it, he's not in and Michelle is filling in.

Correction: Both networks are also being added to additional Gray stations. Between Scripps and Gray, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs and Tucson are the only markets with new 365BLK and Defy affiliates where both groups overlap.

Free TV Networks has finally realized that their coverage for Defy outside Gray is absolutely terrible (not a single full-powered station in California for either network outside KRON!), so they put their tail between their legs and Scripps (which killed it for Ion Plus last year, with FTVN getting the name and branding rights literally last minute for their male A&E rerun farm) is now carrying Defy again on some of their stations. Some contract expirations on Gray stations allowed the expansion of 365BLK and Defy to more markets.

I mean, KOAA's branding until 2009 used to be 5/30.

I suspect that such will be the case if the deal otherwise cannot go ahead. They probably designed the deal with potential "out" options. Grand Junction, Lafayette and Twin Falls have no concerns. KKTV could also go to 30.2 for better coverage in Pueblo as well.

A loophole in Colorado Springs. Scripps has K30JM-D, a longtime translator of KOAA. Even past branding has branded them as 5/30. Scripps could sell off/shut down KOAA itself and use KKTV to rebroadcast "NBC 5" as a subchannel. The only hitch would have to be converting "30" to a Class A station if it isn't already. Then a duopoly is perfectly legal since "30" is low-powered and not subject to FCC regulations.

KKTV has a newer building...with a Gray logo sign out front. I'm really not eager for one of KOAA or KKTV to be gutted...

And as for the PBR, there's a happy ending for them; Fox Nation (who is doing much better and can pay for the rights) will pick up their weekly events.

I wonder if they have more (physical) assets than Allen Media. Either way, good riddance.

Nexstar operated, Cunningham Broadcasting*-owned station WYZZ in Bloomington–Peoria, Illinois absolutely MeritTV on 43.2. * Cunningham Broadcasting could just be considered an offshoot of Sinclair.

Agreed. I loved Ryan's joking "what time is it? Am I on the right show?" Though too bad they replaced the sports as usual, missed whatever he was going to say as it got cut off. https://abc7ny.com/videoClip/17011185/

Yes, WILX did do news for WSYM before the Scripps takeover. I think this is great for WSYM.. They totally got the shaft from Scripps... Especially when they were having WXMI do their weather for awhile. The only good thing that KKTV will get out of it is hopefully a brand change. Some point this year, they changd their branding to KKTV 11 Alert News and Weather... Not sure what is worse, First Alert News or Alert News....