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And next weather also debuts. So much for being put on hold. Hope y’all like the new set. If they keep this one as long as the old one, It will be 2037 before they get another.

The new set is finally here.

Does that average viewer care? I always wonder...

WESH isn’t Hearst’s flagship station (even though they have their graphics hub there,) so I’m not exactly sure what you’re on about. It’s not even their largest market. In any case, this whole “X should merge with Y because reasons” discussion is absurdly hypothetical and it’s WAY off topic.

I love the news desk! I'm glad they chose not to do the trendy standing anchor desk! Something about them make me so uncomfortable/unease

Standard should've sold the TV stations that they needed to in the first place with Cox to other stations Deb & Soo Kim pulled a Sinclair in the failed Tribune merger. Maybe they can pull it off if they sell the TV stations they need to get the deal done if they don't the FCC going to deny this merger.

I tried tuning in from CBS News New York (which is in the newscast name, mind you) and couldn't obtain the feed. And to hear it was not even produced in New York with the local anchors? It seems like they're trying to make it a standardized national newscast for local news. After I typed that sentence, I even realized how wrong that sounds.

Do not talk about Orlando. Everything is staying put. The owners are happy with their stations, and SERIOUSLY have no plans to sell anytime soon. Not now, not for a long time. To put this into perspective... WESH has been owned by Hearst since 1999 (WKCF since 2006), WKMG with Graham since 1997, WFTV since 1985 (WRDQ since 2001), and WOFL since 2002 (WRBW since 2001). To think that NO major Orlando station (not counting WKCF, WRDQ and WRBW) has changed ownership in twenty years is just purely amazing, and it also tells you that these stations are not being planned on being sold anytime soon.

"Hey Hearst. Sell your flagship to get WFTV." Are you insane?! Yes, but in this little hypothetical where Kenneth doesn't understand how the industry works, Graham gets two big 4 stations and the FCC is run by Clippy.

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Once they lost most of their sports rights (Nets, Yankees, Giants simulcasts) and their newscasts, it was game over

I wonder how much that cost Soo Kim. Cox would have a nice footprint around here with the Gannett stations. WKYC, WPXI, WBNS, WHIO, WTOL, WTHR, WHAS and beyond fit like a glove.

Civil Rights organization Arc of Justice thinks the merger is a good thing, pointing to Soo Kim's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

CBS News New York on WLNY wasn't good at all. It seems like it was produced for multiple stations and the stations did a local cut in. This wasn't a good move.

Exit 10/55 hasn’t aired since Richard Rose retired and moved to the Philippines in 2018.

With a custom cut of “Strive” for 11…

Even in a Gray market with that branding, it eventually does blend in over time where they just have the one call-out in the sponsor tag, and otherwise it's scripted 'in weather tonight...'. I'm glad it's there, but that the branding overall isn't that absurd. I think this will eventually be the case with the CBS intro of the Next and First Alert trademarks.

I’d honestly rather they go by “Weather.” It’s simple, unpretentious, and it’s what everyone calls it regardless of how much money stations spend on a weather brand. Names like “First Alert” and “Next” sound awfully tacky, and it’s the exact opposite of the forward-thinking approach that CBS is supposedly going for at its stations. People check the weather, they don’t check the “First Alert Forecast™.”

It seems to me that CBS O&Os are finally taking weather seriously with either a unique weather brand (Next Weather) or an overly used brand (First Alert Weather) but at least they're not just going by Weather anymore with sounds very boring.

While that is a good idea, and I'm all for it, it wouldn't be a clean deal should that ever happen, and I highly doubt it would.

And I should have a million dollars. It doesn’t matter who buys whom. The main issue is consolidation in general. We don’t even know if the existing deal will go through as intended yet. Chances are CMG and Standard will end up merging while the conflicts get spun off (which would’ve made sense if they’d just done that from the start.) Regardless of what you call the thing, it would all be under the Apollo umbrella to some extent. Whatever legacy CMG had under the Cox family has been irrelevant since 2019, and doesn’t apply here.

Former CNN Newsource reporter Darryl Forges returns home to New Orleans to anchor WDSU's noon and co-anchor its 4 pm newscast.

To be honest, I take anything FTVLive says with a grain of salt.

Agreed. I think a significant barrier to WLNY's success is the fact that it simply isn't available over the air in the majority of the market, including the five boroughs. Despite cable availability, it's not like, mentally a channel that exists to a lot of people, unlike KCBS/KCAL. If NYC ever gets ATSC 3.0 maybe WCBS could add a WLNY subchannel, but until then I can't really envision WLNY ever being competitive really.

I think Fox made that decision years ago. I would not hold my breath. They seem to be weathering the NJ Congressional criticism since they removed any news product on the station which violated the original Ch. 9 license conditions once RKO General had to give it up.

Replace Standard with Cox.

I would hope that Cox would be the survivor, not Standard.

I'm personally not a fan of too much consolidation in the media if for no other reason than it's boring to have the same narrative repeated everywhere. What made this industry fun before was the fact that it wasn't as cookie cutter as it is today. The powers that be like it, though.

This feels like the move of a station on its last legs.

It’s not that Tegna is full of sinister suits that want to see their employees lose their jobs (though they make up for their lack of cynicism with their incompetence at running their stations.) Tegna wants the deal done ASAP for a much simpler reason. Dave Lougee and company are getting golden parachutes if this merger goes through, and there’s a significant termination fee if they cancel the deal. Why terminate the deal when you have everything to lose if you do? And it’s not evil at all to want the thing dead. This deal kills competition, and in turn kills local stations. While someone like Byron Allen would probably just do nothing with the Tegna stations, that’s still better than a hedge fund operating on a “cut, cut, cut” philosophy.

Gannett and by extension, Tegna, have a lot of allies in Washington because that's where they are based. I wonder if a lot of the employees are whispering in the ears of their buddies to kill the deal. Good for them if they are.

That's an approach for the court of public opinion. What they are providing the FCC in response to questions is probably far more detailed. if not, they have real bad lawyers and advisors.

https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/allen-media-group-to-launch-we-the-people-with-judge-lauren-lake-in-95-percent-of-u-s/ This could go to either WMYT or WAXN in Charlotte. Or even WCCB but they don’t have any court shows. This actually could be WJZY’s replacement for The Good Dish at 1pm, could lead into Judge Mathis and The People’s Court, and/or WMYT’s replacement for The Real at 4pm (leading into the same two shows).

Looks good, but they should go with a different font for the names. It just looks like something is missing.

It appears Lindsay Clein has left or is leaving WJZY. I figured this was coming when Nexstar took her out of the anchor chair at 6 and 10 in favor of Alicia Barnes. She didn’t even get the noon and 4pm spot. She did fill in when Annie Szatkowski or Alicia went on vacation but was relegated to a reporter role. Best of luck Lindsay. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgIojDVsp1y/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=