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Why am I, and everyone else here, not surprised? I legitimately called it.

I think they may eventually make Zollener Media (old cox radio) leave the building and redo the space to make it bigger. Zollener has an office building that he may move the radio stations into if he needs.

I'm still at a loss for words for why Sinclair/Rincon is choosing to consolidate at KOKI's facilities and not KTUL. My assumption is that KTUL currently has the superior building and studio space - notwithstanding the cuts and partial merger with KOKH for newscasts. An absolute tragedy for Tulsa is the only way to summarize this.

An update on Tallahassee ever since Gray took their newscast on "Fox 49" home... "Fox 49" News at 10 launches on Monday the 9th. It will be an "in-house" newscast....(meaning that Sinclair will now produce it). The catch? It will be done out of WEAR over in Pensacola. Melanie Levi and Allen Strum will be anchoring it. Melanie is also a WEAR reporter and has anchored over at "NBC 15" in Mobile when needed, since they're down to like 3 people. And as for NBC 40? Still no news on the horizon aside from Today Show weather updates (also done by Allen Strum, WEAR's chief met)

Where did you see that they are doing well in the ratings? The CBS press release only says the station is up 150%, well yeah, of course ratings are up switching from an independent station to a CBS station. That doesn't mean ratings are good. they are probably still dead last in the Atlanta market for local news ratings and CBS News programming probably has terrible ratings like it does in most of the country. I don't think any of the Atlanta stations have anything to worry about, the CBS News brand has become toxic. If CBS Atlanta was actually doing good in ratings, they would be saying so in the press release, if they were beating another station in a time slot it would be in the press release. There is zero mention of any local news ratings in the release, just that CBS programming rates 150% higher than extremely low rated programming the former UPN turned independent station used to air.

Did the sponsorship really have to be mentioned in the OPEN? I'm almost certain that's a deal sales worked out for extra money. Cheapens the product right off the bat. That kind of stuff should be limited to commercial bumps.

FOX23 is moving to KTUL 8.2 on Monday, simulcast for 3 weeks on KOKI 23.1 and KTUL 8.2, and then KTUL 8.2 will become the permanent home on March 2nd. https://www.fox23.com/news/fox23-tulsa-moving-to-ktul-8-2-in-february/article_3c59dfb2-6623-43e6-9bf0-94be9695dcd6.html