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A sale-leaseback deal may help them now, but it could come back to haunt them when that sale money runs out. They will now have to pay rent to the owners of the building. This was one of the expenses that helped bury Red Lobster because the rent was an additional expense on top of sagging sales. If the property becomes more valuable, then the rent goes up too.

They do own the property. And in fairness to Scripps WXYZ moved from Downtown Detroit to Southfield and had Broadcast House built in 1959 so you do have to do routine Maintanance and upkeep sometime.

Scott is most likely referring to the real estate and physical plant, and not the station and its operations itself. If Scripps owns the property, as they likely do in Detroit and Phoenix, then WXYZ and KNXV become tenants. CBS has done the same thing at Television City in Los Angeles, and possibly at the Broadcast Center in New York. It's not something I agree with, but it's apparently a new trend.

I agree that ktla should have created a subchannel for ktla + and maybe they will in the future. I also think kabc should as well.

You know I'm glad you brought up sexism word a word that often used to much and loses meaning. I have been waiting for someone to bring this up see personally I thought some white female would bring up sexism with the 2 male co-anchors getting the job and my feeling was at some point there’d be so much outrage CBS will cave and that they'll end up demoting Maurice and keeping John Dickerson. Because personally I believe the feminst movement has been detrimental to black men (especially when it's perpetrated by white females) and since Mauruce doesn't have a huge profile they'd let him go though and keep Dickerson but maybe they let him go too. These 2 qualified people deserve it. Now obviously this is theory in my head but I knew someone would try to make a big deal out of this new lineup, and I knew it be done white female and Im glad it was brought up in this forum.

Hearst stations, based on reporter feedback and posts in this thread, seem to be well run, and look good aesthetically. Their format can be a little stiff however.

After suffering a mild stroke over Memorial Day weekend, KTLAs legendary morning weatherman Mark Kriski returns tomorrow morning. He will ease into his duties….only doing 7-9am. He usually does 7-11am. This is a welcome return since Mark had his stroke shortly after Sam Rubin’s passing. https://ktla.com/morning-news/mark-kriski-announces-his-return-to-the-ktla-5-morning-news/

Which was already established in the post your quoted and all the posts that followed.

That's disappointing. He was a good fit for CBS Saturday Mornings, and the ratings have been quite strong. Bounced from CBS Evening News and yet another anchor position at the network.

I will never understand how they completely missed this cost and crew efficiency opportunity; Tonight in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, there were skeletal remains found and it's likely those of a child that went missing this winter. You have WGBA in the market, while WTMJ gets some coverage in the county, but certainly not in Two Rivers. There is absolutely nothing happening at 10pm in front of the Two Rivers Town Hall. Most stations would either just mention that they're waiting for new details and send nobody out, or have someone pre-tape a report in front of the town hall for the 10pm because the only news broken is literally contained in a sheriff's department Facebook post. WBAY did send their reporter devoted to it out live, but she has been with the story since day one and you would expect she'd want to be live for any piece of breaking news arising out of it. That move I won't question. Guess what the Scripps station did? If you said that they both wasted gas, reporters and crew and made them wait out football, and then go live after the game's end just to say 'we know just as much as the sheriff's Facebook post', with WGBA's reporter at Two Rivers Town Hall and then the WTMJ reporter at Two Rivers City Hall...you must be a Scripps station (WTMJ) that doesn't trust their sister station (WGBA) enough to report the story in a coordinated live shot simulcast on both stations. I know WGBA has really cut back, but I think they'd still know how to time a live shot with 'TMJ. That way, they didn't needlessly go 75 miles north to just read a Facebook post and get some generic 'oh I hope they found them' interviews with locals just because your station's ego is that wounded if you had to depend on your sister station to report on it. I'm just shaking my head; this is beginner's stuff and they've been sister stations for twenty years now. I'm less mad at WGBA here than WTMJ because the former did have an interest in being there, but either way, this isn't a good reflection of Scripps even able to get one of their prime stations to stop treating their sister like a red-headed stepchild.

That won't happen though. In the CNBC article that I shared, it said, In that case, Sony would have kept Paramount and the studios, while Apollo would have taken CBS - and likely would have started to sell it for parts like they have done with Cox stations, maybe even reorganizing Cox stations around CBS.

They really did a good job though.

Downloaded a game I thought was kind of interesting from an ad on TikTok (warning the game sucks lol). The game started with a fake newscast. Can you tell where their inspiration came from? FullSizeRender.MOV