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Again, I said if ABC really wants to sell, and it goes back to where Robert Iger said in print that they were entertaining the idea to sell their O&O. So, it a crap shoot, but nothing in present day broadcasting business is set in stone. There always the unknown to anything, and nothing ever last forever.

That's what everyone in the media industry said about Sinclair and Albritton

So let me get this straight, Nexstar owns so many stations that their acquisition of Media General to get even more stations will put them over the limit for the number of stations a company can own, so they'll have to sell stations in order to acquire MG in order to get more stations in the end?

ABC is likely to start hubbing things in the next few years too, so I don't know what you imagine ABC "saving" them from. I've already heard rumors that ABC is tired of these shitty graphics packages and are looking at building out a graphics hub and going the group package route. They kind of did in the mornings for a while in 2008. There were a few months where WGBA simulcast "Live at Daybreak" and "Live at Noon" from WTMJ and inserted their own local weather. It bombed, because who would have thought Green Bay locals don't care about what crime is going on in Milwaukee???

Since when are you a moderator?

Yes. Which makes this deal a disaster in the making. If you think of sheer news departments owned, post-merger Nexstar would have nearly 100. Sinclair doesn't even have 60 news departments currently running. Given the headaches Sinclair has had with their rapid growth and that some stations still don't have upgrades, how Nexstar will navigate a far larger mass will be problematic.

Also remember when KNBC provided weather for the evening broadcasts to KNSD. Didn't the arrangement last a year or so?

It's probably used as a metaphor to motivate employees. All the little cogs and gears make the big one move. The executives all see themselves as the biggest gears. The employees roll their eyes and don't think about the gears again.

Sinclair adds eight new stations to NewsOn: KUTV in Salt Lake City, WOAI and KABB in San Antonio, KEYE in Austin, WLOS in Asheville, WPEC in West Palm Beach, WZTV in Nashville and WSYX's sister station WTTE in Columbus.

So wait, you're now advocating ABC buying some or all of Scripps stations? What happened to your theory of Scripps buying ABC? Or is the new theory that Sinclair is buying ABC?

And I still think the only way to save most of the scripps stations at this point is by selling them to ABC, and I had to clarify that I meant most because they'd have to divest some stations or they'd end up over the 39% cap. But as much as I want it to happen I doubt it will anytime soon seeing as how Scripps has to cut costs, or do they?

Greg Easterly had a long and very successful tenure as GM for WJW "Fox 8" Cleveland. PIX is getting a very good leader.

Wow! Good for her, though. Was just thinking that I haven't seen her much recently, I think her health issues made it difficult for her the last few years.

Regarding Pride Inside, rather than the version that WBAL (and to a degree CHCH) used for the newscasts, I actually preferred what WTMJ did, which was a instrumental cut from the main promo package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSasxrKbMmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=cHvBmdB4hQc;list=PLPUVZMrfQlmxq8YvcKou0kY1i4aaOu2Eq and from NewsActive3. a nearly full newscast from this era: