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The Hill, historically center right, was unbiased. Since bought be Nexstar, they have made a far right turn, often serving up propaganda or bias supporting this regime. It's not the same objective source as it used to be. Often they just prevent one side, trump's side, which is far from unbiased. It is a shame. But it is a watch out in terms of how Nexstar creates coverage that they subtly curry favor.

Remember when Gannett was a good company that ran quality stations? It may have been posted here before, but this is a piece that WTCN (now KARE) produced after taking over the station from Metromedia, and all of the investment they made in the people, product and making them a factor in the market during NBC's rise from the basement in the early 80s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR79IZquMYo Fast forward to now, and all of the damage Tegna has done, and that was before Mike Steib took over. It's like they torched everything to make these stations easy targets to be subsumed by their competition. Failing station waiver material perhaps? Things like this SHOULD have factored into transactions so that companies don't torch their assets to make them qualify as "failing" or under the limits. But here we are now...

Nexstar is now blatantly starting to curry favor to Trump, with The Hill unironically reporting on a post in Truth Social, purportedly written by Trump, where he allegedly wants to "revoke the licenses" for NBC News and ABC News after Brendan Carr pantsed David Ellison over CBS News a few weeks ago. Inasmuch as people claim The Hill is "unbiased" there was zero mention about how their parent company owns a massive chunk of NBC and ABC affiliates and seeks even more through their upcoming ramrodded purchase of Tegna. This is absolutely insidious. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5468568-trump-threatens-broadcast-networks-in-late-night-social-media-posts/

Newsmax is far from a liberal group. Far right/MAGA, friend of trump. Wherever Nexstar operates with more than one station, they close down newsrooms and consolidate. The same news is broadcast on multiple stations. Local newsroom voices get deleted. That’s not good.

After seeing all threads started for different news about TV news or something else in Canada and for various countries, I thought of starting an international version of TVNT's popular "Out and About" thread and I wanna kick it off. First up on this thread, Global's "16x9" has been cancelled by Corus. Liza Fromer has been let go and Carolyn Jarvis (16x9 host) becomes Chief Investigative Correspondent for Global News. http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/acquisition/corus-cancels-globals-16x9/1004123322/

SUNBEAM Stations are going through an ongoing dispute with DirecTV at this time. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/18/2596172/wsvn-directv-still-slugging-it.html

Replacing a big-time legend in Tom Green, too, so I'm shocked he's doing this.

ABC News reporter Phil Lipof is leaving to become 4 & 5pm anchor at KUSA in Denver, which seems like an interesting move considering it’ll likely end up part of some unholy Nexstar KDVR/KWGN consolidation within a year.

Clara Faith has joined KMGH & KCDO from WACH in Columbia SC. She will be the weekend weather presenter.

France I just found out today that Anne Sophie-Lapix has left France 2's 20h after 8 years and France Televisions in general due to political pressure from both the left and the right. She is joining M6 for Sunday programs and major news coverage and RTL Radio for a two-hour daily program. https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/anne-sophie-lapix-axed-spats-macron-le-pen-kj3mfbpzv

And now for something unrelated to the CW or the Tegna merger...but still Nexstar being Nexstar..... Antenna TV is replacing MeTV on WKRG 5.3 on September 25th... https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/antenna-tv-gulf-coast-to-air-classic-shows-details-schedule/

MLB announced that Netflix will be exclusive broadcaster in Japan, ending five consecutive seasons of television coverage in Japan. This had been widely panned by public opinion because Netflix have no equal coverage as broadcast TVs. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/IvJrWLlG3D

Can someone please tell me why their weather logo looks god awful with the black 4??

Fox Weather debuted a new look Monday, it's basically a color palette update to their logo and graphics, and a new slogan: "For All Seasons. For All America."

Comprehensive exhibit is up for Gray/Block: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076f91989faf5b0198aff578690ddf A failing station waiver is requested for WBKI to create the triopoly. I'd argue that it should become available for Tegna --> Nexstar (WHAS) or Hearst (WLKY) first, since neither have duopolies. One way out could be to trade it to Nexstar for a market that creates a problem with the Tegna deal where Gray can take on a second station, or if combined with more pieces, for a new market for Gray (or Nexstar in a hypothetical future deal). If I were the regulators, I would put that condition on the deal.

Sinclair used to have a Newsmax widget on their websites.

Chris Ruddy can be bought for the right price, that's how they all operate. I can see Nexstar striking a content-sharing deal with Newsmax and clears their opinion channel on Nexstar station muxes. Watch as he drops his objections like yesterday's potatoes. With no functioning FTC and DOJ, what difference does it make?

They're also probably thinking of where to get wire video too, and the talent pipeline which local stations provide a lot of. Web media like RSBN can only be a few places at once and Twitter/TikTok influencers are not neutral reporters, so if their local competitors overprice local wire video and stick employees with onerous NDAs, then that puts Newsmax at a disadvantage. That's one way for a regular FTC to get some treasury revenue from an anti-trust suit, but that won't happen here, so Newsmax will get some conditions to be happy.

All three are in the top 20 (#s 11, 17, and 19) and should be considered large markets. Perhaps we should consider NY, LA, and Chicago very large markets.

KXII is rebranding their News 12 AM to KXII News 12 Daybreak starting this Friday along with adding additional newscast starting September 8th from 7-8am on FOX and See tv channels of theirs. They will also be dropping the Weather Authority branding and going to First Alert Weather.

This is pretty well maddening; Times Shamrock is selling its Milwaukee stations, including WLUM and WLDB, to EMF They are literally the last alternatives to iHeart and Audacy basically turning Milwaukee into a voicetracked music market, so suffice to say, nobody outside EMF will be happy with the loss of a locally-based voice.

Also... in honor of the new news director, 9 reasons as to why WGN is better than WMAQ.

Congrats are in order to Doug Kammerer for 15 years at WRC-TV. It also brings out an excuse to showcase old clips of the late, great Jim Vance.

France BFM TV launched a new look today. It also brought in former TF1 and France 2 news presenter Julien Arnaud to launch a new mid-morning program, Arnaud Direct, from 10am-12pm. https://x.com/lenodal/status/1960012473005990226?t=wru6M9a7INRIevMyCIEzkw&s=19

WTVJ has released a promo branding themselves as the stable station despite the changes in Miami tv. Ironically in the 80s and 90s they were the center of instability with the affiliation and channel dial swaps. From IG, hopefully you can open: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNDWs7WuQcB/?igsh=eGZiemNrZTU5NGpr

This is my problem. I have no issue with a national/international-focused show that deviates from the endless hours of local, but damn. It's uninspired and lazy, and setting themselves up for potential legal action if they don't tone down the ABC beef.

Ok, yes … their “World News” is cringey. Comical in its attempts to emulate ABC. And the anchor is totally trying to sound like Muir, which is just sad. I didn’t think it would be this bad.

It seems that SWR Fernsehen will ditch Landesschau Aktuell branding and replace it with SWR Aktuell in November this year: http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/56694/swr_aktuell_ab_november_einheitliche_infomarke/

Well, that was quick. I hope that the next time they negotiate with Fox Sports over their RSNs, they finally add YES Network, as Fox is now the majority shareholder.

TVSpy says Hearst has reached a deal with Dish. All 29 stations have returned to the network. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/hearst-and-dish-reach-retrans-agreement_b118937

LOL. Lets hope they get to an agreement before the Super Bowl in 2 weeks. If not, than there will certainly be a lot of New Engladers pissed.

I wonder what Newsmax's goal is,here? I can assure you that they do not care, in the slightest, for "localism" or local news. Are they running interference for Sinclair, who was alleged to also be gunning for Tegna? Do they think this is sucking up to Trump? Or, maybe, they want local news to fail (and soon) so these companies have to liquidate their assets, giving Newsmax a chance to gobble up some stations so they can really capture the 55-dead demo. No more diginet trees for them! They can get a nice full-power signal to broadcast Newsmax 2 on. Whatever it is, it is not caring so much about local news being so important.

Unless Elaine wanted to retain some network duties, it was strange to utilize a network talent only on weekend mornings. i'm surprised they didn't put Elaine in the slots vacated by Dana Tyler, or later on Maurice Dubois.

Brent Watts is planning to retire from WDBJ 7, though not retire completely as he'll soon enter public service for Botetourt County. https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/08/25/brent-watts-retire-wdbj7-names-new-chief-meteorologist/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMZyjJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlZbIKXM3GkNBZiNeZIvtfCSPdu2Q8l8qLIn65Djf5QTd6OzTR8Bgoool7f9_aem_TpoggMijfPneODIf7RYe0Q

More grist for (at least an interim month of) Fox One.

Tampa, Denver and Cleveland aren't 'mid-sized' markets

Fox and it's cable neworks could go dark on YoutubeTV at 5pm on Wednesday. Just in time for the start of college football season (including Texas vs. Ohio State): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fox-fox-news-may-be-pulled-from-youtube-tv-in-carriage-dispute-1236353110/

Other than the big markets like NYC, LA, Chi etc, where there is 5+ newsrooms mid-sized & small markets will only have 1 or 2 newsrooms in my opinion and that is the reality in my opinion. I don't see Newsmax and the other liberal groups that don't like media mergers is going to stop this merger from happening in my opinion no matter the letter campaign isn't going to change minds.

UTV Ireland will soon have a new owner... AGAIN. It went from UTV to ITV earlier this year and now its being sold to Liberty Global through Virgin Media. This will put UTV Ireland together with TV3, whom Liberty Global currently owns and took over TV3 earlier last year. http://www.a516digital.com/2016/07/virgin-media-buys-utv-ireland-secures.html

29 Hearst stations went dark yesterday on Dish Network, says MultiChannel News. The two parties failed to reach a retransmission consent agreement. http://www.multichannel.com/news/news-articles/29-hearst-stations-go-dark-dish/373743

^^ To quote Belkys, "Don't make me turn this newscast around!..." :awesome: