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Yeah everyone at wrtv needs to get exit plan

How the heck did Circle City get WRTV instead of Hearst, Graham, Weigel, or even Gray?

I got a lot to say about the celebrity kids part. But I didn’t see this coming there getting younger everyday. But at least she’s in her hometown again. But I’ll keep the first part to myself, congrats to her! I would say something about this but I’ll keep it to myself. Because I have an opinion on it.

Oof. I was hoping Circle City was the one being put out of their misery, but WRTV has been a mess for a very long time. Probably even a clean transaction before any of the rules need to be changed.

Another bombshell: Circle City Broadcasting (owner of WISH) is picking up WRTV from Scripps for $83 million.

Oh wow. I'm surprised they're going with The Spot - MTN instead of The Spot - Montana, but I guess that MTN is a powerful brand there.

This one is sad. His voice resonates and was SYNOMOUS with WISN and Milwaukee television. May God forever rest his soul in peace. He will be sorely sorely missed.

This will be true until Versant stock is distributed to Comcast shareholders (including the Roberts family who will still own about a third of both Comcast and Versant and don't intend to sell either) sometime either at the end of the year or in the next.

Sounds like the WGN Morning News was referenced in a new promo for WFLD's morning newscast. WGN had a great response to that...

A year and some months after the shutdown, an auction has popped up for the assets located in the Farmington Hills studio. The auction provides some insight on their plans before the shutdown. The Farmington Hills facility seems to have been outfitted with two complete studios and control rooms (we only really ever saw pictures of one studio), fully equipped with Ross Carbonite Ultras and Ross Xpression. Both had matching desks, but different LED wall configurations. They definitely seemed to think this was going to be a huge operation, if they invested in two complete fully-equipped studio/control rooms.

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.

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.

Who knows... Maybe our FCC will actually show a backbone like Ajit Pai did by forcing the Sinclair-Tribune merger into an administrative law judge review. Whoever saw that coming? If there's any hope, maybe Chris Ruddy will convince Brendan Carr that all this consolidation is bad and sentence all of this forthcoming consolidation to the same fate... We can only hope...

No I'm not dum dum

It's really important to remember that Hearst paid $220M for WBBH and only WBBH. WZVN remains owned by Montclair, and while that LMA likely added to the value of the station, they still do not own it.

I think it's a crazy take, there's no way the McBride's is going to bully Hearst out of the Fort Myers market despite the internal issues that typically comes up in the Fort Myers market. If they have to settle for playing 2nd fiddle to the McBride's so be it, they're used to being in that role in other markets they're in anyway.

Jerry Taff, who anchored at WISN from 1979 to 2005, passed away last night. He was 85. Had the opportunity to meet him once (my time at WISN was long after he had retired), but he was kind and gracious to me.

WINK is run like a Gray station.

Weekday morning anchor Leslie Sykes announced this morning she’ll retire in about a month from now following 30 years at ABC 7 https://abc7.com/post/leslie-sykes-announces-plans-retire-more-30-years-abc7/17662382/