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The BravesVision intro has a callback to the old TBS theme music

Here's hoping this is just some blithering incompetence on their end, instead of a sign of things to come...

Things are starting to get lean (read: interesting) in Austin already. The KVUE (ex Tegna) weather team will be down to just 2 people (weekday morning and weekday evening) at the end of next week. One met (weekend evening) left last month for WUSA, now another (weekend morning) is leaving and doesn’t appear to have anything lined up just yet. Neither job is posted. (They do still have — for now at least — a morning reporter who is working on her met degree.) Are they going to lean on their new sister station KXAN, which is already down a met after a recent retirement (they still have 4 though, plus occasional fill-in Jim Spencer) or maybe the Nexstar weather center out of Dallas? Curious if this is the start of an on-air KVUE/KXAN consolidation. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0T8A5PKFejGsSfLWtdQ4re4DyoEF6pModbG1uJvGqp5HqwVhd1UrnzDbyBbGHtSNZl&id=100063664986586

The Sinclair backlash was more politically-driven. After John Oliver’s 2017 feature on Sinclair and their right-wing must-runs during newscasts, backlash grew against the deal from the public. What killed the Sinclair acquisition was their slick way of putting some stations in sidecars. Nexstar wasn’t known for forcing ideological must-runs on their stations then and were still a relatively obscure company to the public.

I can't believe Nexstar surpassed Sinclair for worst ever company.

No. Nexstar isn't in the business of the public interest. Streaming doesn't pad the bottom line. While Nexstar could sell ads specifically for streaming, I suppose they calculated that it was more profitable to pump up the retransmission contracts. They don't care about "localism" at all. It's all bullshit. No indication yet. It's called lying. All corporations are good at it.

WFTS 28 News at 11:00 (September 5, 2002; rebroadcast) WTHR NewsCenter 13 Live at Five (July 12, 1988) KTTC NewsCenter: The 10:00 Report (November 5 and 22, 2001; both partials) WMBB News 13 at Ten (December 13, 2000) KTRK Channel 13 Eyewitness News Tonight (December 7, 1992)

Gene Shalit turned 100-years-young on Wednesday- and TODAY celebrated accordingly- by putting his face on a Smucker's jar. https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/today-celebrates-gene-shalit-100-130818398.html

KPTV has been on a temporary set the past couple weeks. They announced on-air that they are getting a new set. So I wonder if they'll switch graphics too when they debut the set?

I don’t have a full confirmation of this but I’m guessing KTUL NewsChannel 8 is moving from their long time home on top of Lookout Mountain to KOKI FOX23’s studios this weekend. The reason I say this is former weekend sports anchor and sports reporter Ruben Diaz posted that he hated hearing the news coming out of Tulsa on his old station.

Scott is reporting that Nexstar may be looking to rebrand their stations around the NewsNation branding.

Nexstar held its company-wide merger town hall today, streaming to employees of both old Nexstar and the now-former Tegna. The event was filmed on the WFAA set in DFW. Despite all-powerful Perry's best "efforts" to keep the meeting quiet, some topics are leaking out, including to a close source of mine. The merged company now employs about 18,000 people, of which half are journalists. He very bluntly said that jobs will be lost, and in very quick order, before... They will merge & consolidate multi-station markets' building operations within the next year or so. Everything under one roof. Joint leadership teams will be announced in the next several weeks. Email accounts and other digital communications are merging ASAP. Digital production/output is a high priority. Several minutes were spent praising and bragging about News Nation. Six stations (previously mentioned) will be sold over the next 2-3 years.