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I never appreciated the NewsOn app until I tried watching on a real tv. It's pretty cool. Dumping a 70 (?) year old brand name like KX for Nexstars stupid web names is like when Macy's dumped 150 year old names like Lazarus because they thought everybody was so impressed with New York City and was dying to have a New York City department store in their town I asked some radio guys whether all the infrastructure that goes into broadcasting makes sense today cost-wise given that you can access everything on the web. You've got 2000 ft towers, tower crews and an entire plant you have to maintain just to get out a signal for people to listen to mp3s. (In radio, that is.) I was told that bandwidth is far more expensive than all the overhead you have to incur to get a broadcast signal out. Since video is far more bandwidth intensive than audio, I'm wondering what the numbers are.

Another consequence of Nexstar's past digital mishaps, their unwieldy, hard to find, and god-awful website names they launched at many of their stations pre-Media General merger. Even worse, in some cases they let the original, simple, call letter websites lapse so either they are now orphaned or have been swallowed up by cyber squatters. And to add even more insult to injury in Green Bay, their website is still WeAreGreenBay.com. WFRVLocal5.com appears to be available, why not consolidate everything under the same name? Oh wait it's Nexstar....nevermind....

How about Jane Pauley as the anchor of the CBSEN? Everyone knows her. Since can do it for 5-10 years. If someone’s who 78 can be the leader of the free world someone who’s 70 can anchor the cbs evening news.

With broadcasting, you take one stream (or multiples) on a piece of frequency and anyone within the signal contour can receive it. Broadband allows for an infinite number of streams to be sent from point a to point b wherever they are connected. In terms of a multi-channel universe, broadband is scalable because you can pick and choose what you want to watch and the provider has the ability to infinitely expand what they provide. All that is being transmitted is what the user requests to watch, and the data is sent. Whereas other providers are given a set bandwidth and have to shoehorn their content to it. Digital means have stretched this, but it is still a defined limit to how it can be sent, bandwidth-wise.

I'm not sure if Norah would leave as anchor or not. I'd rather have Scott Pelley or Jeff Glor back.

Faux News hasn't had a good pulse on its viewership since they ran off Roger Ailes. They think the average Faux News viewer worships the ideas of Bill Krystal, the late Charles Krauthammer and the rest of the neocon/globalist contingent, but that has never been the case. Faux's viewership has more sympathies with Rush Limbaugh and Trump than any of the Washington military industrial complex. By putting their thumb on the scale to try and swing the election, they urinated off a big chunk of their viewers. I haven't watched them since the election and I don't intend to. I need Washington propaganda from the right even less than I need it from the left.

When Nexstar got the "KX" empire in Western and Central North Dakota (KXMA/B/C/D) from Reiten, they changed the longtime "KXnet.com" to "MyNDnow.com". It lasted a couple of months before being flipped back. Gotta love the stubbornness or North Dakotans!

Evidently, this video suggests what the NMSA labels as the "KNTV 1985 News Theme" was intended to be used by (if not composed for) WDVM. And speaking of which, here's two opens from KNTV, which does use the theme and with Collier Concepts' animation work, so it doesn't seem like a waste. 6PM open (unfortunately someone - the person recording the tape? - overdubbed the open): 11PM open: And of course, KGMB used it too (sourced from a documentary, which I'm also posting here): And the accompanying promos:

Another thing is that Nexstar doesn't stream there stations on NewsOn. Gray, Hearst Television, Cox and Tegna stream there stations on NewsOn, but not Nexstar.

If I had a nickel for every time this has been brought up... It seems they have even squandered all of the efforts they've absorbed. Media General/Lin Digital? Hyfn? Lakana? (the former IBS and Inergize websites) All it seems to have produced is some new websites for the group and squandered any other opportunities to expand digitally. If they should learn anything from Sinclair, it's not to rely on cable and satellite to build your audience, and try and squeeze the pennies out of the digital end. At least WGN/NewsNation is minimal in value compared to the albatross that Bally Sports has become....

Then he needs to also declare it on Tegna employees who get to vote for board members.

Is it me or does Nexstar seem to be afraid of digital? What I mean is, you don't see nexstar stations trying new digital things & live streaming appears to be very inconsistent across nexstar stations . While KDVR did launch "FOX31 NOW" that is just an online stream & it's minimal effort at that, mainly traffic accidents, weather ect. For example: KXRM has very little in the way of live streaming on it's website, it does stream all of it's newscasts but that is about it. KREX & KFQX have no live streaming options available at there website. Again inconsistent across there footprint. I think that should be focus for Nexstar instead of pet projects like News Nation, which is a dumpster fire in of it's self.