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If all of the "Tegna-fication" is rooted in these allegations, then they certainly need to be undone. And if this damaged the company's value, then there needs to be a change of ownership. Get new people in there who not only can run the business effectively, as well as re-tooling the product back to it's core audience without patronizing to a particular group. A lot of us here can't stand the Tegna approach to local news, but these comments put a new stain on it that's deeply offensive to what could be their core audience in many places. It works in places where the product is halfway decent, but it's also trashed good stations and made bad stations worse.

At this point in time, I think it's safe for me to say that Mr. Kim is declaring an all-out war on Tegna leadership.

CBS3 adding the 8am hour back to Eyewitness News This Morning on Sundays.

And that's a huge difference between it and the CBS scandal. Yes the problems are similar but CBS didn't have the pressure from a Soo Kim-like investor to say/do something about that Tegna has. I think some of the shareholders who voted Tegna last year might be inclined to vote for Standard General this time around.

This 1980 KTVK open has been reuploaded to YouTube:

"Lougee mistook Hoffman for a valet, deeply offending Hoffman." So what? Everyone's not a mystic. Maybe he wasn't dressed like an executive or didn't comport himself in a way that was executive like. Maybe he doesn't speak in a way that would convey that to someone. Or when we're dealing with the cashier at Walmart do we have to now assume that we are dealing with the CEO just so that we don't offend anybody?

The elephant in the room in the Tegna/racism situation is Standard General's ongoing proxy fight. It behooves them to depress Tegna's stock price and make it more vulnerable for acquisition. Fearful stakeholders may be more receptive to Standard's offer as the situation escalates.

Cable (and network) news in general are a joke. Theres barely any news there. But I digress

Jeez move some these clips to the international thread.

First half of WAVY’s 11pm news, 5/7/92

WVIR 11o'clock report 1996 WKZO Active 3 News intro (at the end of the clip) 1979 WTAE 4 Star News 1960's KDNL 1996 promos

CLTV, Chicago; 8:30pm, 2006:

KPNX, Phoenix; 6 p.m., 1988:

WFLD, Chicago; 9 p.m., 2005:

KTVK, Phoenix; 10 p.m., 1988:

WTAE Action News 1979 KOMO 4 News 1985 KING 5 News Snippet 1977 KOMO 4 Newscast Snippet 1 1977 KOMO 4 Newscast Snippet 2 1977 KERO 23 News 1990 WSAW News 7 1992 WBZ News 4 1994

WGN, Chicago; 9 p.m., 1992:

Not because he didn't get his way, but because the company isn't run effectively.