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Here's an alternate (and just as scary?) thought? If Democrats can take power in 2020, could they be so beholden to the left-wing base and demand the opposite for Sinclair - a takeover and shutdown of the company, leaving 200 (or many more?) stations shuttered? I know this is one of the lightning rod issues for the anti-Trump side, and they hate them for their politics more than anything. Such could also lead to messy court cases.

Ah. My bad! I know I had seen a 2015 July ratings report in my research and must have mistaken it for 2016 instead. Meanwhile, (before Kendall Kirkham begins anchoring next weekend) the whole weekday evening anchor team is in tonight before schools start back tomorrow. They're sure taking this "Official Back to School Station" thing pretty far!

They lost them at some point?

Spanish-language TV had some pretty unique and cool 1990s themes. Anyone know who did this or the "Univision Affiliates 1990s Theme"?

Been meaning to post this for a while, as this has actually been slowly taking place over the past several weeks: WMC has undergone a pretty major anchoring shuffle. Kym Clark asked to move from the weekday morning news to noon and 4PM, and finally received permission from the bosses. She displaces morning anchors Kendall Kirkham and Janeen Gordon at noon, and evening anchor Kontji Anthony at 4. This will be the first time WMC has a designated anchor for this shift. Replacing Kym in the morning is weekend evening anchor Felicia Bolton. But the rest of the morning team has been changed around, too. Instead of Kendall Kirkham, Andrew Douglas is now at the anchor desk with Felicia. He moves over from the "Alert Center." Weekend morning anchor Kendall Downing is currently stationed at the Alert Center in place of Andrew; not sure if that's permanent or not. This has also resulted in Kendall Kirkham being sent to anchor on weekend evenings (and of course report during the week). Unsure if that's to be permanent either, although it's possible she may have asked for a reduced shift to spend more time with her child. Weekend mornings are rotating anchors for the time being as well. All of this comes after a meteorologist shuffle I posted about earlier this year which found all but Chief Meteorologist Ron Childers swapping shifts. WMC must be trying to do all they can to beat WREG, which has been vulnerable since Richard Ransom parted ways with the station. And come to think of it, I still haven't seen any July Sweeps ratings for Memphis, which WREG normally posts in a heartbeat when they've won...

Probably the easiest way for them to achieve that is to acquire Fox News from NewsCorp.

They've been so much talk about this, months before the Sinclair-Tribune deal was made. They even said they were going to launch a national cable channel, and as you see four years later, that hasn't happened. So I take this with a giant grain of sea salt. I'll believe it when I see it.

Besides the obvious constitutional issues with the govt taking over a media company...by force... I guess the short answer to you question could be "Yes...anything is possible by 2020."... Realistically... The dems don't care about the deal...or they would have tried to stop it. Once the deal is done it's on to the next big deal. By 2020 this should be real old news. But as we have learned in the past year... Never say "No-way"....cuz we will all be wrong.

KMOV sports promo with current lead anchor Steve Savard... with Larry Van Nuys! This is so far the only video of Channel 4 using Larry's VO on YouTube, except an open using him can be heard on the NMSA.