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But those are separate disputes. The FCC does not allow station groups to include stations they don't own in retransmission negotiations, even if they operate the stations through sharing agreements. So Nexstar can't include the sidecars in their negotiations.

And scrolling back through this thread, Dish has had multiple spats with the sidecars before the main Nexstar spat. Dish is just such a horrible company to begin with. It needs to go away. AT&T needs to spin off DirecTV into the company it once was and unify the two into a reputable satellite TV operator. There are too many options out there to even consider this as a monopoly, especially with all of the OTT options that have been introduced in the last several years.

I would argue they are managing their money well rather than them looking to ‘make cuts’. You don’t add a newscast, re-model a studio and hire 4 on-air full-time people (in a pandemic no less) if you’re hurting financially. They may feel the need for another co-anchor (counting Payton’s spot, GDC has 6 co-anchors) isn’t necessary anymore and choose to eliminate the position.

Separate operations, aside from Master Control and other hubbed functions done from Pensacola and elsewhere. It looks like they produced separate pre-recorded newscasts for WPMI yesterday. They had Rachael Wilkerson anchoring from a remote location (they have a bureau in Loxley, AL, roughly halfway between Mobile and Pensacola) and the other segments originating from WEAR. Since ABC had football, they did their own WEAR newscast as before. On Friday, they simply added anchor Kym Anderson from the bureau alongside the WEAR anchors (in boxes), and the it was simulcast on both stations. The WPMI 10pm show simply cut off at 10:35 to join the Tonight Show, while WEAR continued as normal as they do for their hour-long 10pm show.

When CNBC's predecessor, the Financial News Network, went bankrupt in 1991, CNBC acquired its former rival. Here's how FNN covered that and other Wall Street developments on April 3, 1991, just over a month before the network signed off for good on May 21, 1991:

So they also got a new set. I noticed they changed their website to the gfx pkg that they are currently using.

This blackout only involves the Nexstar-owned stations on Dish. The shared websites only say that the Nexstar station is the one involved in the dispute. WYTV doesn't have a warning at all, since they're owned and programmed by Vaughan Media, while WKBN & WYFX are blacked out. KOLR is also unaffected due to their ownership by Mission, but their Nexstar counterparts KOZL and KRBK are off Dish.

Look G had to be the most greatest graphics package NBC has ever had

More WNYT fun: Weekend morning anchor Jill Konopka's last day at the station was Tuesday. Some clues to her fate are in her farewell Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/JillKonopka/posts/2891089431112205

I noticed that KXII finally updated the weather graphics to Gray's new style to match the newscasts graphics after using the previous graphics since 2015.

It is. Can confirm WAVE has ditched their custom look of a year after the upgrade. Apparently there's still some customization with it (mainly weather it looks like), otherwise it's the standard Gray look. Don't think they're too happy about it.

Looks like WNYT has made a partial decision to fill the big shoes being left after Jim Kambrich retires tonight. They've made a solid pick here, Mark Mulholland has gone from weekend sports to (after an absence) running the Saratoga Newsroom to now weeknights on the anchor desk.

On Jim's last day at WNYT, reporter Mark Mulholland confirms he will slide into Jim's chair on the 5 and 6pm newscasts. I haven't seen information about who will take over the 11.

This happened ten years ago tonight. That's when WPVI placed a circle around the now 53-year old "6" insignia. Vid courtesy of "ekt8750" from YT.

Him, Doug Johnson, John Johnson & Geraldo Rivera based on the Newsday article.

I know she has joined them before in studio for the weekend weather, and they have also had other O&O meteorologists come to New York to fill in. This is the first time I’ve noticed that they had weather done out of state, from another station, with Brittany broadcasting from WTVD in Raleigh, NC.

LA's popular entertainment reporter/producer is gone. https://deadline.com/2020/12/david-sheehan-dies-pioneering-tv-entertainment-reporter-producer-was-82-obituary-1234650865/