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Boy does that building look small for a news department. Yet, they made it happen.

The first full edition of CBS News Atlanta:

my crush on Brian Unger notwithstanding, this was a big bullshit reel. "Family" ... blech, they're making glue for the ads

It looks like the last After Midnight repeat will air on Friday night, with Comics Unleashed returning next Monday... But judging from WDJT in Milwaukee carrying Crime Expose through that hour with no alternate timeslot for our favorite copyright-free and evergreen-humor filled filler program, taking the show is voluntarily depending on how much you can convince CBS that you can't carry it because of sudden 'alternate programming obligations' for an entire season. We'll see if other stations do the same (many of them still have AM by default for next week in their listings).

Beat ya.

I would think they're doing maintenance or renovations to the main desk set.

So you decide to criticize her looks? Really?! How derogatory. I say, she has the experience. If she wants to go to Boston, she should. I don't want her career to end because of what's happening with this mess. Kelly is one of the most popular meteorologists in Rhode Island, and I have loved her forecasts over the many years I've gone to Southern New England on vacation. She is absolutely fantastic. I never saw her for her looks. I saw her for her forecasts, her accurate information, and the experience she has to provide complex information in an easy-to-understand way. She should be hired based on her experience, not on her looks. I'm sorry I had to rant but this comment is terrible.

What an awful thing to say. If you do not mean any “disrespect” and “think she’s great” then why qualify why you think she doesn’t have the look for a major market? This is no better than unwanted viewer letters that tear people down. And in case you didn’t notice, there have been a number of weather folks in major markets with the trait you listed, notably at WNBC and WGN. SMH.

Oh, I dunno..... station logo in the lower corner of the screen, on-air personalities viewers associate with one of the stations, the weather forecast covering a certain area....

Still, they and Disney are probably keeping an eye on how many viewers they get through Freeform. At some point, it'll be in both companies' best interest to kill the "in perpetuity" agreement and go their separate ways, likely with a notable cash payment from Disney to CBN.

Soo Kim was unlucky when he tried to purchase Tegna. He would of succeeded in this current administration but not the previous one.

It also has nothing to do with her capabilities as a meteorologist. She is highly popular. She was more than competent considering she had stability throughout NBC and Media General ownership.

I have a pretty good idea she will be steering clear from any Sinclair stations....

One possibility is a WPMI-WEAR combination (being the two strongest stations) while turning off the other two stations, or a nickel-and-dime sale - if they can't go past 2 stations.

WPMI and WJTC have until December 2027 to choose to exercise an agreement to be acquired by Sinclair per their FCC filing. It was executed in 2012. As the clock is ticking on these agreements, expect Sinclair to cash in on them while they can. This one's a 15 year option.

Since it is the only remaining non-Sinclair operated Standard Media station: KLKN's public file shows a Rincon option agreement.

There’s also just no valid or reasonable excuse not to cover the ceremony. At the very most you’re missing 20 minutes of shitty low-effort morning television.

Reading this. I do not get why Rusty or whatever his name is going to be in a few months is trying to make a point about this one station when it's obvious that the television market is becoming heavily consolidated and no new owners are popping up. It's not like Scripps could make the best out of that station so they took the ball home. If anything, Rusty should actually own a station and feel how hard it is to make a station successful in this market. Just look at the Cadillac, MI failure NewsNet.

What sort of message boards do you go to where everybody is perfectly polite all the time?

The lack of any formal announcement is surprising. I don't doubt the WLNE thing is happening, just a question of what legal form it is taking. Sale agreement with immediate LMA until it closes, non-license sale, etc. As for the Sinclair/Rincon websites, you may also be right there. Time will tell. I've seen transition service agreements that remain in place up to a year after a sale.

More and more it feels like that the Rincon deal was designed to get rid of some extra 'weight' and allow them to take over sidecars (and Rincon is a sidecar no matter how they spin it; that 'Sinclair, Inc.' badge is still on the bottom of all their Sinclair-hosted websites). It's bitter irony that Standard Media/Soo Kim tried to become a broadcast giant and failed catastrophically every single time, and now with Sinclair back in control of their Bootheel stations, the company may be coming to a bizarre end. And to see WLNE finally capitulate and become just the redheaded stepchild to WJAR because is a sad thing indeed. Two other effects of this; KLKN might end up as a part of NTV, and Sinclair could end up with controlling interests in both Marquee and CHSN if it turns out the direction I think it's going.

9/11 Ceremonies in the NYC area aren't going away. It's part of the fabric. It was real to us, whether we were in the City or not that day. I'm in NJ, but also on LI and throughout the 5 boroughs, there isn't a community that didn't lose someone. I remember it like it happened yesterday, as do most. I remember the caravan of ambulances racing into NY thinking there would be people to save. I remember the empty NJ turnpike, the black smoke off in the distance where the towers once stood, with no cell service until I got south of the airport. I remember being lucky I had cable, over the air broadcasting was lost when the towers came down. I remember the cars in the commuter lot up the street, left for months because their owners never came home. All that rushes through us each year. It is appropriate that each station honor the fallen (and the first responders and lower Manhattan residents still falling due to what they breathed in). And each station carrying it allows each of us to feel comfort in watching it on our preferred station, even though it is mostly a pool feed. Stations also go beyond the ground zero ceremonies, showing local ones held in most towns. Will at some point it move to a rotating schedule among stations, maybe, but not anytime soon. And we are fine with that. Today is a solemn day, and as I describe it the most surreal day of my life.

Sadly, the protections that were put in place regarding non compete clauses, was reversed in the last couple of weeks. It could impact the ability to litigate this (though hopefully they do since this is extreme).

I ain't tryin' to change your mind but okay... Southwest Florida isn't a small market, it's more medium sized. Plus, if both parties (In Question, the Waterman family, especially Edith who wanted to sell WBBH and the LMA for WZVN before her 100th birthday; and Hearst) are okay and approve it, it's a deal. Come on, it's a sale that had already been completed, why be so troublesome about it? Plus, Hearst rarely even buys (or sells) stations. Just calm down and appreciate that it wasn't SINCLAIR acquiring them.

EDIT: Can we all take a collective pause and assess the culture of this website. This is one of the only online discussion boards I've been on where several members regularly feel the need to be sarcastic, condescending and nasty in expressing disagreement and offering corrections. There has to be a way to articulate disagreement or correct others respectfully. Our super interest in news is esoteric enough, so this should be a forum to connect with people of similar interests. This shouldn't be a place the one-up each other with industry knowledge or belittle others.

The IndyStar has used the WayBack Machine to see who is and isn’t at the station anymore. To have one or two people leave is nothing. But when 14 people either quit or are fired, it will raise red flags.

Exactly. Excessive amounts of local news only works in LA and even then those channels use the almost-daily live high speed pursuits as agonizing filler. More local news only shows the sheer brain rot from overpaid high-ranking executives who have no other ideas. It never translates into better working conditions or higher wages among the staff that have to front the burden while the fatcat owners don't give a rat's butt. Unlike others who seemingly are unable to ever see the point, I don't need to know where you live. Cleveland has an excessive amount of local news, as does Toledo or even Tuscon, Arizona. It's endemic.

I wanna play this game. Your market is not Los Angeles because they're missing the 2 p.m. hour. Not Cleveland because they're still missing 10 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Not Boston either, because while WFXT did add 1 and 3 p.m. news this week, WBTS also offers a 2 p.m. option under Boston News Daily. Its not Vegas (no 10 a.m.), nor Phoenix (no 4 a.m., 10 a.m., or 2 p.m.) I wonder which one it is?

In my market, if you combine all of the channels, you can watch live local news with an antenna from 4 a.m. until 8 p.m. M-F, except for the 3 o’clock hour. There isn’t that much news to report anywhere.

Maybe ABC News Live, CBS News 24/7 and NBC News Now, for a given definition of "straight"? Also Reuters and the remnants of Scripps News have streaming channels.

Where is there straight news on streaming?

I doubt there is any audience for a straight news channel on cable anymore. Every cable channel is partisan to certain degrees. The only place to get straight news now is on streaming.

Circle City is the only owner, other than Allen, that I can think of that's perhaps even worse than Sinclair.

Or at least its stations will.

If you really wanted to see a show, imagine if theyd have been sold to Sinclair, Apollo or Allen.

So, basically, you think Hearst, wasted MONEY on the "unnecessary" purchase of WBBH and the LMA of WZVN? Imagine saying that to the face of the Waterman family in 2023 when they sold them off. Hearst is more reliable. Also... At least Hearst isn't dumb and wanted to trash the stations.

I think she is a great weatherperson. But as someone (me) who has been onair talent in major markets.. I can tell you.. certain markets.. one’s weight is definitely a factor in hiring. Many an agent and news director have told me so.

are you serious? A boston station hiring her? no disrespect to her, but she does not have the onair look for a major market. she is too heavy. i think she’s great. But no way she goes to Boston.

corporate would like for you to notice if there's any difference between the two images.

how will people be able to tell the difference between the two stations now?