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Nothing new. The current graphics package was supposed to launch with Aerial. That didn't happen for some reason, but they apparently paid SAM for the rights to the package, so it pops up randomly.

YUCK.

KRON 4 is using Aerial (Stephen Arnold) during the commercial break of KRON 4 News.

Noticed NBC changed up the graphics they've been using for the COVID coverage, MSNBC included. They look a lot more like the election graphics, and I honestly wouldn't mind if they kept this look full-time because its pretty sharp.

Full CBS News coverage (w/local coverage from KPIX in San Francisco) of the Bush/Dukakis election from November 8, 1988:

Maybe you should talk to Soo Kim about it. He did say yesterday after the results that he does want to engage with Tegna's board and give them ideas for how to maximize their shareholder value and that probably means exploring any and all alternatives (including a sale) But let's also be honest here, any potential sale ain't going to happen at least for the next several months largely because all the media stocks (Gray, Scripps, etc.) have ALL taken massive hits and have lost nearly 50% of its value since February 21st. When almost half of your value is pretty much wiped out that makes any sale in general (not just this one) very difficult to obtain.

WCHS from 1993:

One thing I do hope is that both Kim and Lougee can move forward from this by ending the proxy fight and that means resolving the legal issues too and eventually moving towards a sale in some form. I think that especially toward the last month of this it turned pretty nasty between the two and not in a good way. Here are two examples of how this proxy fight turned nasty: Tegna: https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/tegna-standard-generals-stock-sales-are-troubling Standard General: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/standard-general-responds-to-tegnas-attempt-to-deflect-attention-from-sustained-underperformance-301038482.html

Julie Unruh joins WGN-TV's midday team. https://wgntv.com/community/press-releases/julie-unruh-named-co-anchor-of-wgn-midday-news/

Hiring advisory firms and such didn't result in them having to furlough people. Extravagant spending by the company's board just to retain board members (and that's not automatically the same thing as "defending" them against Standard), combined with the questionable (at best) circumstances regarding their shareholder voting process are just two of the long list of reasons I don't see this as a deathblow to Standard. This isn't over by any means.

Shareholders have re-elected all 12 TEGNA directors. https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/248363/shareholders-re-elect-all-12-tegna-directors/ This campaign lead by Kim was ill-timed and honestly, comes off as desperate. I'm glad the shareholders saw that. I'd go a step further and say that Kim is responsible for the furloughs due to the cost TEGNA had to endure to hire advisory firms, etc, but this is out of my area of expertise so I'll leave it at that.

And on top of everything else they're spending millions of dollars ensuring that their precious board of directors maintain their seats at the expense of furloughing their own employees oh and btw they're facing possible legal trouble as it's been posted in the speculation thread. I think today is a make or break day for Tegna, Soo Kim, Deb McDermott and others from Standard General get elected and real change can take place at Tegna however, the same Board of Directors that's resisting anything and everything that's good and they risk eventually going under. It's up to the shareholders whether they want real change or see Tegna go under.

WLWT "Eyewitness News 5 at Noon" open from 2001 (surprised to hear Bill Ratner's voice instead of Scott Chapin):

Bravo, I say. Anyone who puts the public interest ahead of personal or corporate gain gets an A+ in my book. Also, like the article says, I'd be interested to know how TEGNA characterizes this "breach" of furlough, since he was acting as an independent meteorologist. Just scrubbing through the stream, he doesn't appear to use any TEGNA graphics, but I'm not going to sit and watch all 2 1/2 hours just to see how diligent he is to not mention WCNC. At any rate, I think we can all agree that when multiple tornado warnings are happening in and around the main city in your market, you have to pull out all the stops. I'm sure the other meteorologists did a fantastic job, but you need your Chief in an outbreak, big or small, to really drive the coverage.

Even WJZY as well, and oddly enough WCCB covered it.

Hooray hubbed everything.

From sidecar to another

So basically Nexstar is just transferring the Marshall stations to Mission.

Why do you keep pushing for a sale? What does a financier have to offer anybody in the broadcast industry? Anytime there's a sale, companies are forced to take on debt. When they take on more debt, usually the employees suffer the brunt of it. But that's beside the point. If somebody comes up to you and demands to buy your house, you're under no obligation to sell it to him. What makes Kim so special? The other shareholders see what his agenda is. They're not going to sell if they don't want to.

KARE-TV just fired one of its meteorologists.