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Please do us a favor, "dzonershow", "Darrenvision" or whatever your name is: Stop commenting.

Please don't post walls of text irrelevant to the topic thread for the sake of posting walls of text. It's honestly deeply aggravating. This is a thread about Sinclair Broadcast Group, not an invitation to spout off verbal diarrhea about whatever the CBS stations are doing. Who freaking cares? Like Scott Fybush said in reply to you in RadioDiscussions: "Going forward, the discussion on this site needs to more than just 'lists of things.'"

With all do respect, the only purpose of commerical broadcasting is to make money. "Public good" is secondary, if it is even a factor.

Why? Because they are the only ones who would want to buy these stations that, for the most part, have no local news presence, little viewership or zero infrastructure. The spectrum hogging would matter more, and it does with a bottom-feeder like INSP. Well, I live in the real world, and these stations being sold are those the megachains or the networks would not want. Hearst is not going to spend money on a bunch of fixer-uppers or total rebuild projects, and neither would Gray, Graham, Scripps or Tegna.

Did you forget what he said– You know what? Please refain from talking about this topic. Like, actually refain. My mind can't take your nonsense talking anymore.

Totally irrelevant to the topic field. Disney won't be looking at these stations. Stop this magic wand wishcasting right now. I'm not "cheering" anything, I'm just not engaging in magic wand thinking and foolishly spouting off "Hearst! Graham! ABC!" when the facts state otherwise. They aren't buying a bunch of laggards, or anything else, for that matter. You are really getting on my nerves and I would strongly suggest refraining from making more posts like these.

Exactly. It's about the SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP for Pete's Sake, not some dumb list which gets off-topic easily.

Only one station you named is even a CBS affiliate. you took a question I am posing and added nonsense and irrelevance to it. When CBS used "CBS Texas" on KTVT instead of "CBS DFW", some of us wondered if it was purposeful for a broader plan (going back to February 2023) in their implementation. We all believe that CBS is looking to divest rather than buy, which made my question a long-shot (and probably gave some here a headache on its' own); but your add-on nonsensical.

Way too much going on in here that I can't keep up with. That said, I know these are mostly stations losing money now and rated very low in markets.

Irrelevant to the topic at hand. They also have money and incentive. That's why EMF, Relevant Radio and Daystar have vacuumed up oodles of stations over the years. I'm not "beign jealous" of anything, I'm simply existing in the real world, not fantasy-driven wishcasting of groups buying a bunch of basketcase stations from a bush league owner. Have you ever heard of "return on investment"? Again, totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. With all due respect, do better.

Correctly said. I wanna also say that station owners like Hearst, and Graham Media rarely aquire stations.

INSP, Coastal and Daystar are the most likely buyers of these stations. Standard General is a company in limbo since they failed to get Tegna (with the current farce that is MediaCo, Standard clearly has no idea what their plans are in any aspect of mass media) and the stations they currently have are low-budget, low-rated dumps. Plus Apollo is not going to spend money on stations that sorely need investment in or need totally new infrastructures altogether.

Even without the links to Old Scotty's blog, it's fairly obvious that Byron Allen is overleveraged and likely is being crushed by debt. One could argue that his fruitless "bids" to buy ABC, Tegna and Paramount Global have been simple distractions to hide what is a much more serious problem.

FTVLive is reporting the Freeze and Frazier are both essentially leaving at the end of their contracts...

No no. They are going to crap too: https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/5/1/more-on-the-allen-media-massacre https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/29/allen-media-swings-the-ax https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/5/7/no-more-401k

Bold of you for assuming that Nexstar thought any of this through to begin with when they wanted to be the leader of forgettable Z-level sports. But "all part of the plan," I guess.

There are some potential scheduling conflicts with Xfinity races. Who gets bumped to NewsNation?

Last I checked, we weren't in Speculatron here...

Shut up. I'm not magic wanding anything. You have no idea what in the hell you're talking about. This is not a speculation thread. You are clueless and have no idea how things work. They will buy these stations and you will be disappointed when reality slaps you across the face. I will only ask this once. Do not quote me and try to prolong this as your time here may be severly limited.

There is a Speculatron thread for Sinclair’s possible station sales that a lot of these comments can be put into.

That's really irrelevant for this matter. *Facepalms from the stupidity of the comment.* Bro... He's not cheering INSP or Coastal/Vision. (The raccoon, Nathan Obral) He's just saying that the ones that are likely to buy KATU is Coastal Television/Vision or INSP.

I loved Jason and Amy. It’s sad if they’re both leaving, especially since Jason essentially kicked off FOX weather by being the first person to speak when they signed on.

This ain't PBS, this is about Commercial Television Stations. They make money, that is the PURPOSE. Were talkin' about the owners of KOMO-TV and KATU, not Oregon Public Broadcasting or KCTS-TV.

Not trying to speculate- somewhat legitimate question here- but is there any chance CBS might buy KEYE back from Sinclair since it's mentioned in the article? Yes- I get CBS O&O's are already in a potential sale situation depending with what happens to the mothership, but Austin has grown since CBS sold 42 in 2007, and it would make "CBS Texas" sound a lot more "Texas" than just having KTVT in Dallas.

INSP ≠ Godcaster INSP is not and will NEVER be an Godcaster for these stations, and won't turn to an Godcaster.

The studio is now empty. According to sources they should be on the new set in late June.

Is there a link with the details of the new lineup?

Here's some more information as to which cities are on the selling block. https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/cnbc-sinclair-considering-selling-some-broadcast-stations

Byron Allen is too badly overleveraged and has acquired a bad reputation for talking up deal after deal and failing to actually make them. He is not a credible candidate for anything.

Pretty simple here: the CW winds up without a Detroit affiliate.

The primetime games would have to air during the week given NBC has college football on Saturday nights (Big 10 Saturday Night) and of course... SNF on Sunday during the Fall. Once football is over, they could then mix things up. The prospect of NBC airing sports 3 (or 4) nights a week would be interesting to say the least...

pannoni4 was terminated due to community guidelines like the pannoni10 channel that got terminated. It's likely a hacker got in and disabled it.

That’s too bad regarding Jason Frazier. I thought something might be happening with him when they pulled him from the early mornings….

rumor but i think it's going to happen. https://basketnews.com/news-206165-tnt-lose-nba-media-rights-to-nbc-report-states.html

Is Weather Unfiltered a new show or just a rebranding of Weather Underground? Considering the show was created when TWC and the Weather Underground website were under the same ownership, it sounds more like a brand licensing agreement to use the WU name for the show lapsed (separate from TWC’s existing content agreement with The Weather Company) and they rebranded the show accordingly. It always struck me as odd that AMHQ had been extended to the noon ET slot during severe weather situations, rather than extend WU one hour early, given AMHQ’s (as its full and abbreviated names indicate) intended as a morning show. (Granted, it’s still morning in the rest of the country while it’s noon in the Eastern Time Zone, but up until now, dating back to at least the 1995 creation of WeatherScope (although there was no daypart-based titling for that program from 1996 until the relaunch of its forecast shows under the Weather Center brand in 1997), noon ET was usually the delineation between TWC’s morning and afternoon schedules.) And, at least, the network added an hour of non-documentary programming on weekends, even if it’s not technically a weather forecast program.

I am still shocked and saddened by the passing of Sam Rubin. As Frank Buckley said, Sam was KTLA. He had a genuine quality every time he was on air. I admired how he would call as he saw it, even at the risk of getting in trouble. If anything, I thought he gave the best insider perspective of the television news business by reporting on the comings and goings at rival stations. I remembered this particular story that he shared on his Facebook page about the time KABC's GM squashed his live interview with Regis and Kelly on KTLA's air. Nobody did more to lift up the curtain on the news business, and it seemed that he genuinely felt that the viewers deserved transparency when it comes to the people they invited into their homes regularly. https://www.facebook.com/samrubinktla/posts/pfbid0BfA7XYxxkwqTFx6bacpcaz6tBaxuCH7WZXFF5f8kwnWraY6oZGjBH3NwgadkmaAil On a personal note, I had the honor to meet him briefly at the LA Festival of Books at the KTLA booth and get a personalized autograph that I will cherish forever. I'm thankful I got to shake his hand and thank him for brightening up my mornings. RIP Sam.