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A settlement was reached. The terms weren't disclosed. It is now disclosed that Disney paid $177M to settle the case. Remember that meat company was seeking more than $5.7B in damages.

What I still don't understand is why Sinclair looks at successful stations like KUTV and WKRC and say "you keep doing what you're doing, we won't mess with you and we'll even give you special graphics". Then they look at other successful stations like KOMO and WJLA and say "we are going to meddle with your operations as much as possible, slash your budget, fire all of the people that made the station successful, fire the popular anchors, and give you the same cheap graphics everyone else gets"

until somebody else takes over the job. It seems like being a news director at both WOIO/CBS 19 & WGCL/CBS46 should come with a warning sign. DANGER! Do This Job At Your Own Risk!

Very Interesting...adding more people is always a plus. Corey is back on GDC today w/ Anita in studio anchoring (and doing Facebook Live).

Raycom Media now has full ownership of WVUE. http://www.fox8live.com/story/36091663/raycom-media-completes-purchase-of-wvue-from-tom-benson

KVUE in 1988...

WKYC doesn't run news at noon, 4 or 5. (Live on Lakeside is infotainment with a brief news segment thrown in.) WKYC does lead the pack at 11pm, the only time WJW doesn't have a newscast.

The article might be referring to this promo campaign... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6QeNeP9uc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc9WX9avwDI However, I had no idea it was by Robbin Thompson & Steve Bassett! ("Sweet Virginia Breeze") The Mission was definitely used as early as 1986 and as late as 1993, probably up until the logo change in 1994 which is likely when Signature was picked up. WWBT did use a couple of other themes here and there during the time, such as the mysterious 1989 theme and the NBC Affiliate Package, but they were all used alongside The Mission.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is still the station that runs like a small market station in a large market. They still send MMJs everywhere when all the big boys have a reporter and photog in an ENG truck at the same event, and they still whore themselves out by producing paid programming features during newscast breaks. If Fisher Price ever got into news, their news channel would look a lot like KRON.

Straight out of left field, but WTVH 1988 is...Non-Stop!?!?!?!? (Syracuse Herald-American, June 26, 1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=8e2ysL77FiE;t=166 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=29OlXchoU9Y;t=1634 ——— The KCRA 1991 10pm theme is custom and local. Turns out they wanted something different, actually...a theme from a Miami station. (September 16, 1991) I wonder what is being described. Either WSVN's Real News (which had already hit Sacto airwaves by this point on KRBK) or WTVJ's Watch Our Team Work. Someone whip up a resync! ——— Please notify me when we get 1995-era KPLR. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 24, 1995) For searchers: Alspach goes by the name Scott Spock. ——— WHYY's Delaware newscast in 1982 had a theme composed by Ken Rosenberg. (Philadelphia Inquirer, December 22, 1982) ——— WLTV 1985 debuted in 1983. No mention of the composer, but the music is custom. Potential lead: "The new set, "pulse" concept and station identification were created by Media Vision of Miami at a cost of $80,000." ——— WTVQ began using Hello News in 1986. ——— Was Gari ever based in Boston? Or is this something else? The station in question is KWCH, in 1989: (Wichita Eagle October 21, 1989) ——— Who in Atlanta might have been responsible for WPCQ 1988? (Charlotte Observer, April 2, 1988) ——— WWBT was using The Mission in 1990, but it looks like they also had something else going on... (Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 16, 1990) ——— Date: September 7, 1993. Can you guess the station? (Note the "this year" line. News Station indeed debuted in 1993!) ——— Boston Herald, October 18, 1993: ——— The Enforcer package never was used in 1994. Robert Feder, Chicago Sun-Times December 29, 1994: ——— WKJG 1992/93 is local as well: (Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, August 20, 1993) (This cannot be WKJG 1995 which I once heard as a production track on a promo that aired on KMGH in 1993) ——— Not an ID, but this quip about KUSI from 1992 might still apply to KUSI in 2017: -John Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune

Which probably means Gray is already operating WCAX under agreement, as was the case in the Diversified acquisitions.