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No. KDKA is CBS Strongest station and a AFC market.

Money talks as loud as a punch in the face.

Seems like WANE had met halfway. They changed its voiceover, yet kept the old graphics. Could that be renamed to The Ever Evolving Nexstar Graphics and Voice Situation Thread? WSAV already changed its voiceover and graphics.

wut? Who told you Christians don't or can't enjoy MMA? I personally do not, but some of the most prolific MMA, boxing, etc contact sports fighters are Eastern Orthodox Christians. Our priests get in on it, either as spectators, some known to train/practice contact sports, Serbia has several bishops who are karate black belts.

And I thought the Paul & Jan era of TBN was bad..... Can someone show me somewhere in the bible where Trump was anointed by Jesus Christ himself, and that Christians love Dr. Phil, MMA, and whatever garbage TBN is trying to pass off as "Christianity?" CBN is no better. Newsmax2 is a diginet they carry on their stations.

Lots of amazing talent from the networks, too. Matt Carothers, Ken Rudulph (who also spent time at KOVR/KMAX during his career), Todd Schrupp, Mike Joyce, Simon Bray, Christina Blacker, etc., are just a few I can think of who I watched over the year. For the record, when the networks were once separate as TVG and HRTV, I preferred TVG and their coverage every single time. Plus, it was available in more homes than HRTV so there was a better chance you'd get TVG over the other. Daily Racing Form (one of the most successful, if not THE most successful, horse racing newspapers out there) has a great article on its upcoming demise. Some bullet points: Starting in late 2026, it will simulcast feeds from its partner tracks instead of accompanying them with live studio shows within its Live Racing! banner (in the past, there were shows like Television Games, the network's former namesake, Trackside Live, :58 Flat, Drive Time, The Morning Line, and more). TVG will continue to operate as its account-wagering company, so the brand is not going away entirely. It will actually direct customers of its sports betting app, FanDuel, to TVG for horse racing bets, since there is a separate one for FanDuel Racing. Simulcast feeds from TVG's partner tracks (such as Gulfstream Park in my backyard) will continue to be available on the apps. Because of contractual obligations, onsite coverage and studio productions will continue through the end of the year at select locations, including Keeneland, Del Mar, the three Triple Crown races (Kentucky, Preakness, Belmont), and the Breeders' Cup. Some studio personnel will begin to be laid off in July, though some will be retained to produce that on-site coverage from those locations (mentioned above) through the end of November. https://www.drf.com/news/fanduel-tv-cease-operating-after-2027

Hopefully any states that intervene will prevail, and any former Tegna operations that are in the same markets as Nexstar (that would have qualified as divestitures in prior times) will be forced to sell to an unrelated third party.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2026/3/24/nexstar-eyes-kdka Sounds like Nexstar isn’t done yet. Apparently they want KDKA in Pittsburgh too. Although unlikely, maybe CBS can arrange a swap of KDKA and WPKD for either WUSA or KHOU.

"Nexstar must permit Tegna to continue operating as a separate and distinct, independently managed business unit from Nexstar, and Nexstar must put measures in place to maintain Tegna as an ongoing, economically viable, and active competitor. Tegna shall have separate management that operates Tegna in the ordinary course consistent with pre-closing practices." It better NOT be anyone from Mission!!!

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 only imagine how pissed the people at Sinclair must be since their antics were kept in check by regulators and government officials, while Nexstar is getting a free pass from everyone.

When has Soo Kim ever won a proxy fight? They would have to rip Sinclair away from David Smith's cold dead hands for that to happen.

ACCUWeather Network seems to have gone home they seem to just air segments when they stop airing the pretape forecast in a loop maybe an hour or 2 is live then put it on a loop. And also just showing the national maps late at night & most of the weekend guessing they may air forecast in the morning before it's just the national maps in a loop. ACCUWeather needs to do better. FOX Weather is light years better than ACCUWeather in my opinion I like the local forecast seeing 48 hours seeing the radar & minutecast as well.

Ahhh that would explain why most news branding just goes with Southwest Florida. As @MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie pointed out, WXTF only covers a small fraction Florida. IMO, a statewide branding feels off when the newscast doesn't cover a majority of the state. Same with CBS Texas, they're just covering the Dallas Metroplex in a state with 20 DMAs. Arizona's Family, for example works as the state only has 4 DMA's, and Phoenix's market takes up most of the land area/population. My question is, do they begin laying off some of the Fox 4 staff? Second, is it that adding FOX 4 to WINK and WXCW doesn't station ownership rules.

CBS Texas and FOX Carolina say hold my beer.

When Nexstar acquired KRBK in 2018 and upon moving the station to KOLR/KOZL's studios, they changed its branding to Ozarks Fox. It was a great decision, as the brand was used years ago in the KSFX era and seemed like a natural fit. In this case, they dropped a longtime brand (Fox 4) in favor of this one. The name itself doesn't really bother me much. It's hard to simply negate a brand that's been in place for decades. It's obvious that WINK management* doesn't have the most astute common sense as of lately (their handling of the Matt Devitt fiasco), so them dropping a well-established brand doesn't surprise me that much. (*Disclaimer: I know that Sun Broadcasting holds the license for WFTX, but we all know that is in name only to get around potential legal issues with Fort Myers Broadcasting owning outright.)

Again... why?!?! They barely cover a fraction of the state?!?! I would see this more for WOFL or heck even WSVN

the FCC isn't looking at regulating streaming, you are not reading. It's literally in https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-188A1.pdf It's asking if the antitrust exemptions the leagues get is a threat to local public interest and how it's affecting broadcast TV financially. The FCC points to the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, when the government allowed the NFL and other leages a defacto monopoly to negotiate rights collectively without triggering the Sherman Antitrust Act. That same year the NFL made an attempt to negotiate broadcast rights with CBS for all teams, it got sued and the court invoked the Sherman Antitrust Act saying the league is restricting competition. The NFL commissioner at the time went on a lobbying blitz arguing large teams like the NY Giants selling their rights individually would make them rich while someone like the Green Bay Packers would barely get anything potentially causing smaller teams to cease existing. Congress passed the act in mere weeks. SBA permits the leagues (actually the carveout is written as football, baseball, basketball, and hockey) to sell rights as a package without being considered an antitrust violation, which it would normally be that. As a condition of that, the money from the rights is split evenly among teams regardless of size, popularity, etc. It prohibits airing of games on Fridays and Saturdays to protect college and high school attendance/viewership. College sports (NCAA) and NASCAR, are not afforded this privelege. Soccer funny enough being football to us Europeans is also not exempt so the MLS had to own all the teams. NCAA are lobbying for the Safe Act for that reason so they too can negotiate rights as a pool. The FCC is asking if the NFL/NBA/NHL/MLB are abusing their exclusive privlege to paywall games and make more money. Whether the antitrust exemption should apply today when games are moving to exlcusive distribution while at the same time eating up so much of the revenue local stations need for news and other content. Particularly in light of two things happening: courts have already ruled that the SBA does not apply to pay TV. And the NFL currently facing a class action lawsuit by almost 50,000 businesses and 2,400,000 subscribers over the 'Sunday Ticket' bundle arguing it's overcharging people by bundling, it costs ~$400 per season. This trial exposed internal emails showing the NFL denied ESPN's offer to sell Sunday Ticket for $70 to protect TV ratings of CBS and FOX. The jury found the NFL guitly, ordered $4.7B fine which trebled to $14.1B because it's an antitrust case, but the judge struck the amount down on grounds the jury was irrationally calculating damages based on flawed expertise. It's now pending at the 9th circuit wtih argument set March 9, the judge agreed plaintiffs might still win an injuction, so the monetary damages might stay and teams will have to negotiate on their own. Retrans (which has been rising because of sports) is another thing the FCC are looking at. You can leave a public comment on MB Docket No. 26-45. Just make a cogent, reasoned argument or the leagues could end up using it as evidence

I just had to post the reaction of a local viewer about her post

Well, to bump this thread one last time with the fate of the Glendive market.... Montana PBS consummated the sale of KXGN and KYUS on October 22nd. So the Glendive market still exists, it just doesn't have any commercial stations inside of it anymore. YouTubeTV has replaced KXGN with KTVQ as the CBS affiliate of record for Glendive customers.

remember cox and charter are merging. So it’s kinda a moot point. Once cox customers are transferred to spectrum branded service it will probably carry necn

It looks like NECN will be saved!!! This is better than shutting it down altogether.

My goodness, is that a mouthful of branding that probably means nothing to viewers. Whatever happened to keeping it simple!

The opens are bad. These look like opens one would see for a fictional station in a movie. I never thought that a Sinclair open was better but in this case it was.

I probably wasn't super clear with my last post - I think they put that memo out to staff with the mentality the inevitable screengrab leak of their version of events would be a feature, not a flaw. If they didn't want it out there, it is really easy for any company's IT admin to block screengrabs from the Outlook app and force people to only use that app for work email.

The fact the station put out an internal statement that anyone with a single brain cell knew would QUICKLY end up being screengrabbed and shared externally is wild. Just. Absolutely. Wild. From my experience, any post termination communication beyond "so and so is no longer an employee of station" with a possible "we wish them well in their future" second sentence used most likely in the case of a budget layoff is unheard of. I had GMs and NDs who thought even that written communication was too much potential legal exposure and only communicated abrupt employee departures verbally.

I used to be opposed to talent developing a personal following on social media. I thought it encouraged reporters to be celebrities rather than journalists and encouraged the audience to seek personal narrative over professional work. I've evolved to think that it's good for journalists to build a following as linear tv gets more irrelevant and content creators get larger viewership. It also allows journalists to get monetization and cover stories they like without the intercessor of a news organization or the control of a news director. Social media can also be a source of income and an outlet for one's work during periods of unemployment like being in between contracts. I'm an advocate of separate social medias pages. A private page for all your personal stuff, and a public page for the journalist's work and brand. Totally agree that social media boundaries must be set. News stations literally leave the comments sections open with no check on sexual comments or racist trolls. Just some thoughts, not the gospel.

They still have 'Sinclair, Inc' on the website footer so my skepticism that Rincon is just a Sinclair sidecar, but dressing KTVO up in another graphics package, remains strong (especially with what they did in Providence).

In the future lawsuit WINK: "we communicated internally to protect staff..." Who are apparently getting harassed in DMs. It goes both ways Devitt chose to go online and lie he was blindsided, when in reality he wasn't. WINK warned him repeatedly going back to 2024, and coworkers reported him to HR. He could have gone to his page and said he decided a year ago not to renew, that he and WINK decided to separate 2 months early before his contract expired, and that he will have an exciting announcement soon. Now he's making it sound as if his FB page was taken by WINK, when it could be Meta disabling it because he was verified as a WINK News asset. I wonder if his agent dropped him, he's not behaving like someone who is being advised

He Used company time, tried poaching employees while actively employed - meaning those he approached reported him to HR WINK will have to sign away their rights to whatever he was building. if he really did sign an acknowledgement letter, his agent/lawyer cleared it, anyone partaking with equity in the venture is fully exposed to litigation and more than likely doesn't own what they invested in And he keeps talking, after WINK took his Facebook page

And now WINK has escalated to some kind of DEFCON since the station possibly has removed his Facebook page; it's standard operating procedure but a little petty.