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Details to be worked out. One reason they said it will take a year to implement.

NY-bias, that's what it is & it's not an ABC-only issue, CBS & NBC are guilty of this too, that's what being based in the no. 1 market can do.

TEGNA owns a powerful and heritage station in my market. It will be painful to watch as this move will probably lead to production mistakes, going to black, unscripted camera swings and other discreps. The business is becoming all about the bottom line and less about what's on their screens.

"Handful"? More like "way too many".... And, yet, FX still devotes way too much of their primetime schedule to endless repeats of popular genre movies from the last few decades, while multiple flavors of HBO keep chewing up cable companies' bandwidth.

Sophie Erber is soon leaving KCAU 9 and Siouxland for Colorado Springs. Could KXRM be in her future? https://www.siouxlandproud.com/about-us/kcau-9-insider/anchor-sophie-erber-soon-departing-kcau-9-news/ WAVY loves delivering homeruns. This is probably a no brainer either. Aesia Toliver moves from mornings to evenings at WAVY News 10. https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/aesia-toliver-moves-from-mornings-to-evenings-at-wavy/

That's not a Nexstar decision, it's a Fox 56 decision.

It's inevitable that it happens at all of these station groups. It makes sense... your stations all look the same, they essentially have similar brands that were all developed by the same agencies/consultants. When I was at Hearst, you could see this starting to happen with their cookie-cutter promos being swapped between markets and this was over a decade ago. So many TEGNA stations have similar brands at their core... you could easily build a single campaign, have local news photogs shoot your talent and b-roll and have some editor in Iowa stitch them all together and upload to Dropbox. I know everyone here loves the idea of local identities, but that concept is dead. You can get your black and gold graphics package... that's about it. Woof. It sounds like it's going to be all remote. I saw a few former colleagues already posting on LinkedIn looking for their next gig. Some really talented people too, which makes you wonder who they're going to keep around...