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More than the graphics and music and branding (which all will suffer if New Nexstar goes Old Nexstar), WAVY has a lot to lose if the axe comes down too hard. Those names (give or take Andy, lol) are a lot of high-quality on-air talent. Losing even one of them would be almost immediately detrimental to their product. Too many changes, and I predict you'll see the cratering of their ratings dominance.

I'm a little torn on all this reignited Russia spat. On one hand, a lot of it seems credible and fits in well to the narrative, though intelligence that's credible and fits into a narrative yet isn't confirmed and fully vetted doesn't . As for the C-SPAN stuff, the router issue seems reasonable, though it is strange that it only affected the web stream. Then again, the Ruskis have scrambled American television signals before:

By the fall of 1993, KREM had finally ditched the Palmer package: And this 1993 WBAL open is an unholy matchup of some KPRC-esque things, the CBS news graphics of the period etc... No presentation, but how did this WCBI logo survive into the 90s??? And KENS in 1998: