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What in the hell possessed INSP to incinerate $393M like that in less than three years? That's Enron levels of fraud. Did Marc Rowan (Apollo's CEO) have incriminating evidence against INSP CEO David Cerullo and threatened to release it if INSP didn't blow all that money on KOKI, WHBQ and a bunch of spare parts and scrap? Cause there's no other way to explain why they would engage in such a horrible transaction.

Move Closer To Your World got an official release for the first time ever last week: https://bucksco.today/2025/04/6abc-theme-move-closer-to-your-world/ (that article cites this article which might be paywalled: https://www.inquirer.com/arts/6abc-theme-move-closer-to-your-world-release-20250412.html )

We now have the complete prices paid for the Imagicomm stations. Imagicomm previously paid $488 million for the stations and has now sold them for $94.9 million. $2.9 million: KIEM / KVIQ (Eureka, CA) $1 million: KMVU / KFBI (Medford, OR) $63 million: KOKI / KMYT (Tulsa, OK) WHBQ (Memphis, TN) KAYU (Spokane, WA) KFFX / KCYU (Yakima, WA) KYMA (Yuma, AZ) $28 million: WSYT (Syracuse, NY) WICZ (Binghamton, NY) WNYS-CD (Ithaca, NY) KLAX (Alexandria, LA) KPVI (Pocatello, ID) WABG / WNBD / WXVT (Greenville, MS)

Another legendary television and radio personality passes on, this time Wink Martindale. Mr. Martindale passed away today at the age of 91, at Eisenhower Health Center in Rancho Mirage, California (near Palm Springs). He was a radio personality for many decades, but most notably he was the host of various game shows including Gambit, Debt, Headline Chasers (a show he co-created with Merv Griffin), the 1987-88 version of High Rollers, and the show that perhaps made him more famous--Tic Tac Dough. He was also one of the first media personalities that helped introduced Elvis Presley in the mid-50s, when Martindale hosted a local dance show on WHBQ-TV in Memphis, and brought Presley on as a guest performer. In later years, he and a couple of associates maintained a YouTube channel that features old and obscure game shows, including dozens of pilots that didn't become series.

Well, the trend has been (mainly with former news anchors) starting their own platforms, Substack, Podcasts, etc. She jumped on the podcast bandwagon, but also did something that may surprise some of you. She started her own AI clone to provide her own Weather AI company in partnership with The Weather Company.

You would have thought they would have rebounded after WJLA was tanked by Sinclair, but Tegna's gonna Tegna....

Isn't KIFI itself kinda lousy?

Mitch Carr (remember him from NewsNation's Early Morning before it was cancelled?) is joining WDBJ 7 Roanoke. With this, and Jean Jadhon's retirement, there will be a shuffling of anchor lineup changes at the station. This includes longtime anchor Kimberly McBroom moving to midday and 3pm. https://www-wdbj7-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wdbj7.com/2025/04/14/exciting-new-chapter-your-hometown-station/?outputType=amp

Nah. They should’ve learned their lesson by now. They tried to play fantasy football with their morning show, hiring FOUR anchors away from Fox 5 and it basically propelled them from 5th place to 4th. Plus as far as main anchors go, Lorenzo Hall is pretty darn good.

How about some Major League Pickleball? Gray Media will be offering that too! Atlanta Bouncers on Peachtree Sports Network, Carolina Hogs on Palmetto Sports and Entertainment, St. Louis Shock on Matrix Midwest, and Columbus Sliders on Rock Entertainment Sports Network. https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/major-league-pickleball-gray-media-set-local-media-partnerships/

TEGNA seems to be cash poor. Can they afford him?

I hope even if they call, he has the good sense to say no. There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by coming back. I hope Leon finds peace, sobriety, and health in his next chapter. As someone who spent 15 years in a newsroom, for every person who has a public/visible fall from grace due to alcohol or other substance abuse, there are just as many, if not more, who battle it silently or are in denial about it and manage to fly under the radar. There's no way to quantify the why - but the combination of odd hours, lack of balance, constant bad news content, and high-pressure work environment all likely play a role. Candidly, it's a big reason why I got out when I did. I saw the life outcomes of unmarried or divorced men over 40 who stay in TV news. The odds are not in your favor.

I was gonna say… No station really has the money these days to pay anchors. WUSA and Tegna is probably looking to unload.. not add.

WTLV/WJXX has finally named its replacement for Tim Deegan as its next chief... Lewis Turner got the gig.

Leon was never really a ratings draw, but WUSA9 also never really made many smart decisions either, so who knows? Can he one man band???

Not sure if I’ve just missed this for months but switching stations today while traveling and the Fox Local app listed FOX50 in Raleigh as an option and it streams WRAL newscasts. I think they are the only non-Fox O&O on the app. Thought it was a little weird… maybe they’re extending the tech to other companies who don’t want to go through the hassle of building an app to stream? Makes sense for a company the size of Capitol.

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Longtime play-by-play voice of the Milwaukee Brewers & the PBP voice in the Major League movies, Bob Uecker has passed away at the age of 90.

A Central Coast legend will soon leave KSBY around Mid-June... their chief Dave Hovde after 22 years. https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/farewell-to-a-local-legend-dave-hovde-departs-ksby-after-22-years

WUSA’s entire game plan is based on hiring anchors fired from other stations. The entire morning show is WTTG castaways.

Would WUSA even hire him....if he even wanted to work again? That would be his third station in DC after WJLA and WRC...

Deborah Knapp has spent almost 50 years in TV news, the last nearly 38 at KENS 5. Come late May, she will retire. One of the last best titan pillars of journalism is soon walking out the door.

A sad day to report on SoCal broadcasting. Ed Arnold has died. I know lists aren't allowed but please allow this exception because he truly did it all in his 60 YEARS of service to broadcasting in SoCal... Joined KTLA in the late 1960s as announcer/sportscaster. Joined KABC in 1975, but left in 1986. Returned to KTLA in 1986 and stayed until 1999. The voice of KCET. Sports personality for 1110 KRLA (now KWVE), 97.1 KHTZ (now KNX-FM), and 710 KMPC (now KSPN). Co-host and managing editor of Real Orange for KOCE. Announcer for the internationally televised Hour of Power religious program. He died last Thursday after suffering from heart disease for many years. He was 86. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-arnold-dead-broadcaster-los-angeles-tv-stations-ktla-kabc-1236189868/

I am sure WUSA9 is salivating at the chance to hire him. Kristen Pierce out at WISN after 3 years: https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2025/04/08/wisn-tv-channel-12-co-anchor-kristin-pierce-leaves-milwaukee-station/82996318007/ This really shows the state of the business that a top-rated Hearst station can’t hold onto talent anymore. WISN has become a bit of a revolving door ever since the old guard started retiring.

For some reason I thought the 6 had the same short loop, but perhaps that was just a memory from a one-off before on a busy day. I don't usually catch the opens -- and it was in the background when I first heard the switch to Philadelphia; so you may be right.