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Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t understand this elevated perception of Deb McDermott. She runs just four godawful stations, yet I get the impression that people view her as some sort of broadcasting royalty. The only thing she’s known for is turning Young/Media General into a massive behemoth that got sold off to Nexstar; that does not count as a positive contribution to journalism or the industry in my book. I don’t really give a pig’s fart if she’s collateral damage of Soo Kim’s irresponsible greed.

Sooo Is this over now?? Can Tegna get back to gee I don't know, running TV stations & focus on it's news departments??

Lesson learned: you can't get sneaky around the rules. They made ZERO effort to explain why they can run two companies or mitigate it through divestments to other companies in the markets affected, instead whined about it. I think the Graham Media petition last year was the big killer. (Also, having foreign money involved in the hedge funds is a no-no as well). Soo Kim needs to be banished from the industry completely.

The last thing the industry needs is yet another 'token' company operating a few do-nothing TV stations for another broadcaster which is being operated just to round clear caps and otherwise owns perennial cellar dwellers (somehow they've managed the impossible and made WLNE much worse). More Center Citys fighting against RTC laws for good and positive Black management are needed, and many fewer White Knights, Vaughns and Deerfields should exist, whose minority ownership's biggest role is to sign FCC statements and nothing else, outside having to convince providers that the $4/month for a low-power Baton Rouge indie Nexstar wants is a proper rate. Glad this deal is dying.

So what? What's so special about her? I was just going to post a link. The FCC has long established administrative procedures. Absent proving some kind of wrongdoing on the part of the FCC, the courts aren't going to force it to speed up.

RIP Tegna/Standard General

Standard General's second appeal to force the FCC to vote on the Tegna deal was denied by the DC Circuit today.

Not necessarily. CNN is trying new things on Friday with the Bill Maher "Overtime" and now Chris Wallace. Not sure it'll be successful but I think they want it to be.

NABET-CWA chief Charlie Braico wrote a guest blog for NextTV explaining why Soo Kim is full of it.

I'm not going to say its officially over. But any chances of Standard General getting the deal done at this point is pretty much moot. We're exactly one month away from the outside date (May 22nd). That day in which [the current owners of] Tegna can walk away from the deal without paying the breakup fee. Also the financial obligations from the banks would run out on that date as well. That's why Soo went on and filed those two suits to the DC court. And let's not forget the FCC Hearing with that ALJ likely won't happen until after that May 22nd date. But given how desperate Soo's been throughout this whole process, why am I'm thinking he could attempt to appeal to highest court of the land?!! There's no way he would win, but could he be that gutsy to go all the way?......

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Oh she was at Young well before that, when Vincent still ran it.

In keeping with the sign-off theme, a extremely rare WDRB sign-off from the late 70s/early 80s:

A rare sign on from KOAA-TV, Ch. 5, Pueblo, CO, from 1987, featuring both the a variation of the 1979-86 & 1986-current NBC logos! Did KOAA-TV come up with the "Proud N 5/30" logo a year, or so, before NBC debuted their current logo & KOAA-TV decided to tack the current NBC logo onto their "Proud N 5/30" logo?

Understand just saying what KOTV and the pilot said why it was there.

Ion will air a weekly Friday night WNBA game starting this upcoming season: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/wnba-scripps-ion-friday-night-basketball-1235589597/

I'll repeat, since some of you are running with that screenshot... WBBM has not debuted the new look. That image is from a promotions department video from last fall. It is not necessarily a sign of their final branding.

I'd whack his transaction just because he's playing the race card. He's a bankster parasite that was pushing the limits of the law. It has nothing to do with his heritage.

Friday at 10 is the official CNN Death Slot (it's where Rachel Nicols was burned off when CNN decided to stop covering sports), so...not a very good sign.