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Many choose to keep their private business just that: private. They are under no obligation to make public disclosures. We should respect that.

If you read the linked article, it says no other details are known. Don't assume unless you know the facts.

Cue it to the 1:48 mark - A partial news open from KOA-TV Denver (now KCNC). You'll see how the opening animation looks quite similar to the open from former sister station WNGE Nashville (now WKRN), see that of course both were owned by General Electric Broadcasting at the time. One difference though, the aerial shot of the Denver skyline before the iconic cash register building went up, as well as other big tall skyscrapers

Logically speaking, if the spun-off NBCU properties are gonna be under a separate entity, going with Sky Networks as a name makes sense (Sky News America, Sky Business, etc.).

WMTW TV 8 News 1987

They did not say that. Lazarus said the new company could be a buyer of stations without specifying any station groups.

WordPress (the software) doesn't "control" local news websites. It's a content management system. And WordPress VIP, which I believe the CBS O&O sites run on, is a managed hosting service built on top of the WordPress software. Neither of them has any say in what content appears on any website that uses them. I'm sure the same goes for the other CMSses out there.

I think TEGNA is doing this as part of a prospective buyout or merger. Why do I believe this? Two reasons: Meredith Corporation did the exact same thing in 2020. It eliminated creative services departments at its TV stations in favor of two marketing hubs. At that time, Meredith executives were eagerly planning to get out of the TV business, and they hoped cost cutting would appeal to a prospective buyer. Gray Television (now Gray Media) answered the call a year later. TEGNA wants out of the business while the getting is somewhat good. Under previous CEO Dave Lougee, TEGNA tried to merge with Standard General, but the FCC effectively blocked the merger. TEGNA management knows that the incoming Trump administration will likely deregulate broadcasting in whole or part, so they’re hoping 2025 is the year they can cash out and get their golden parachutes.

Classy move Tegna, even better to leave the task to your OUTGOING COO. Hopefully this will be a temporary move like it was with Meredith before they got sucked into Gray. They literally had to rebuild all of their marketing teams after Meredith tried hubbing them. For promos and image campaigns, well, that's one thing. But hubbing local commercial production is a mistake as the task is taken out of the community where this knowledge is useful, and done in some random place (any idea where the hub will be?) I"ve heard rumblings of something like this going down at Sinclair, but that's still to be determined.

Shocking-- hardly knew he was even sick.

Chuck Woolery has died. He was the original Wheel of Fortune host (before Pat Sajak took over for the next 41 years) but I remember him the most from Love Connection, Greed, and Lingo. He was 83.

Sad news out of Los Angeles. Warren Wilson, legendary Los Angeles broadcaster and KTLA reporter, dies at 90 | KTLA

Damn. His retirement didn't feel like that long ago.

Sam Rubin, KTLA's entertainment reporter for 34 years, died today (May 10) from a heart attack at age 64. https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/10/sam-rubin-ktla-entertainment-reporter-dead-dies-heart-attack/

Was not sure whether to post this here or on our radio page of the forum… a broadcaster regardless… but one of the victims in the KC Super Bowl Parade shooting was a local radio host on KKFI-FM.

Charles Osgood of CBS Sunday Morning fame passed away at 91. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-23/charles-osgood-former-host-of-cbs-sunday-morning-dies-at-91

Sad day for South Florida, Long time WSVN Consumer Specialist and Investigative Reporter Carmel Cafiero has passed away. https://wsvn.com/news/carmel-on-the-case/trailblazing-wsvn-tv-investigative-reporter-carmel-cafiero-passes-away/