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Cry me a river Nexstar. You broke it, you bought it, you fix it when it's ruled you should not have been able to buy it.

Hopefully the court will respond with something along the lines of, "That's not our problem. Comply anyway."

They debuted today.

For those who don’t know the history of RTV6, I’ll give you a little background. The station went on the air as WFBM-TV on May 30th, 1949, as Indiana’s first TV station. The first program was “Crucible of Speed,” a documentary about this little race called The Indianapolis 500. After the program ended, a live broadcast of The 500 followed. They started as CBS, went to NBC in ‘56, and ABC in ‘79. After the station was sold to McGraw-Hill, the call letters changed to the famous WRTV, or “We are TV,” in 1972. The station had many other first: record programming on video tape, news gathering on mini-cams, microwave relay trucks, satellite truck, digital news cameras, video on demand, website, mobile website, cable news channel, producing a newscast for a different station (WRTV6 News on WTTV4) and until the mid-80s, the number one station in the Indianapolis TV market. I could go on, but we don’t have the time or place really. Yes, RTV6 is not what it once was, but they were always proud of the history they started in Indiana. And all of that was gone in a matter of minutes.

Say hello to a forced fire sale...

That is basically the whole point of the deal, I'd imagine. WISH can now get network prices on advertising on news they were already producing. It's the reverse of a network affiliate buying a My/CW/Indy station.

KCRA June 1993 10pm

At this point - Let him have it - It's obvious he's trying to build the network from his own stations but also trying to milk off the big four for as much as what its worth - We're head to a world whether it's about to be Canada where we have all stations owned by a network - or the Big 4 (or new versions of them) are streaming-only. I'd personally love for this to blow up in the discount-looking face of J.R. Ewing!

Shared this in a separate thread - but the lawsuit is - quite the read. https://jumpshare.com/share/PKW9HMFxwTst6zuRgw9g Attorneys for the defendant haven't filed their response yet. But, when filed it will show up at https://matrix.leeclerk.org case number to search is 26-CA-001858 (Full disclosure: I was an employee of Fort Myers Broadcasting more than a decade ago, I did not work with and have never met or communicated in any way with the current GM, News Director, or the defendant in this lawsuit.)

Fort Myers Broadcasting has sued Matt Devitt. Link to lawsuit: https://jumpshare.com/share/PKW9HMFxwTst6zuRgw9g As best as I can tell, his response has not been filed.

I can't believe nobody wants to save traditional broadcasting. This is sad.

It kind of had to do with NBC's relationship with Ansin, which was terrible despite Ansin being super loyal to NBC. WSVN at the time was a 3rd placer which pre-empted NBC shows during a time when NBC was less tolerant and NBC thought they could do better and bought WTVJ in 1987, they waited 1 year and a half due to Ansin getting NBC to honor out their contract. WSVN turned out through failed CBS negotiations which resulted in them buying the then WCIX from TVX a Fox affiliate. Ultimately, WSVN had managed to propel itself in the ratings thanks to its highly successful and unique news operation while WTVJ fell due to finding itself under WSVN's shadow and NBC's inconsistent direction whether to make the news department more traditional or more tabloid. While NBC affiliated with WHDH at the time, their relationship still felt unstable and after speaking out against the stupidity of the 10PM Jay Leno show, managed to tank their relationship despite the overall failure of the 10PM Jay Leno show. 7 years later, NBC created a station (WBTS) out of thin air, leaving WHDH to become an independent similar to WSVN. Compared to Nexstar which would involve affiliation switches the likes of which haven't been seen since 1994-1996, Ansin looks tame by comparison.

I realized I was having trouble remembering all of the markets where there are likely conflicts, so I threw together a quick reference that I have to share as a screenshot because the forum doesn't accept PDFs.

And this is why:

WFAA reverted to their pre-Nexstar copyright this morning. Good Morning Texas also reverted to the pre-Nexstar legalese and TEGNA-era copyright.

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

Hopefully, CBS will stand their ground and not give in to pressure from the commie-left who hate law enforcement and the orange man. The left forgets that people DID vote for this, so demonizing half of America-- yeah, gotcha.

The account goes to post a (possibly AI) mockup of what the set would look like.

Speaking of Bari & them, Nikki Glaser called out CBS News' new editorial direction at the Golden Globes---on CBS!

Did anyone read this tool's take on the situation? https://tvnewscheck.com/regulation/article/jessell-courts-shouldnt-meddle-in-the-nexstar-tegna-deal/ Jessell is as much of a con artist as Scott Jones at FTVLive.

Nexstar has notified the court they can't comply with the TRO because certain actions they took "cannot be undone". Integration of personel and infrastructure had taken place, such as merging websites. SEC reporting rules, to report debt They're also arguing the TRO goes against FCC mandates to divest 6 stations and expand news programming. The bench hearing is still scheduled for August 7 at 2pm The judge also rolled the Plaintiff States lawsuit into the DirecTV one

UPDATE: Looks like lights out for Yakima's first television station. RIP KIMA, 1953-2026 https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/kima-newscasts-apparently-moved-from-yakima-to-tri-cities-amid-ownership-changes/article_9ee73618-04de-4129-a252-68e3be4b480a.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social A Facebook comment on the YH-R from Steve Rocha (Morning guy on 100.9 Cherry FM) says John Kennedy O'Connor was seen at a brewery yesterday, close to news time. Casually dressed. I pray he ends up either in Pasco (with Scott) or in another amazing location. JKOC could be in Boise, Birmingham, or Binghamton and I'd still watch him. He was the best thing to happen to KIMA's news department in years.

Wow this one is shocking. Did they provide a reason behind their decision to not renew Janai?

Janai Norman is out at GMA Weekend and ABC News.

Clearly it wasn't just the format Bari wanted to revamp -- it was the entire editorial tone of the news organization.