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Great to see CBS doubling down on their stupidity. On the bright side, maybe this will finally bankrupt Byron Allen once and for all.

Sue them for what exactly?

Comics Unleashed is moving up to Colbert's slot as Funny You Should Ask is taking the 12:30 position: https://deadline.com/2026/04/cbs-late-night-plans-the-late-show-comics-unleashed-1236782678/

Chimed in without reading the lawsuit with the screenshots. I wonder if he's got reputation too, awful TV people stick up for each other The sycophantic boomers in the comments are hilarious though

https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/consummationDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff39d432e7c019d4448efd70073&id=25076ff39d432e7c019d4448efd70073&goBack=N The deals were consummated April 1 for those three stations, so Gray now owns them.

At least Kara Kenney gets to remain on WRTV's airwaves, joining CCB and WISH-TV. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1353184526634940&id=100058302151427

An attempt to disparage him

And what does the jab about him going to the casino have to do with the lawsuit.

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.

KWCH's Always On StormTeam 12. A very good underrated channel that's been around for decades. Probably better for 24/7 local weather coverage than TWC's partial coverage.

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.

They only offered employment though, which is a big difference, and outside a few who probably had no seniority/choice in the manner, most of them probably laughed at the terms on sight. Also putting the logos like that in the footer as '8-6' is probably one of the most ironic touches I've ever seen in a press release announcing how they fired people and how they can maybe come back (good luck with that).

Don”t forget Griffin in Oklahoma.

Painful. The ticker telling people “You are watching WISH-TV Indianapolis” is laughable. If you’re gonna fire everyone, just simulcast.

It wasn’t meant to last forever. All the mergers and consolidations since 2013 from LIN and Media General to Belo and Garnett to McGraw Hill and Scripps they were all signs that the business was changing I saw this coming since. Local ownership won’t last long.

My personal guess is that there was direct outreach between the parties involved in these sales and these stations were never on the open market. Whether Scripps approached purchasing companies first or vice versa is something we’ll likely never know. That’s strictly speculation, but based on the two operations and the single market owners Scripps sold to. In both cases, those operations only paths to better operating costs were buy a competitor or be sold to one. And if you look at Scripps debt load and stock price … cash is a good thing to get. (Even if they announced the Inyo and Lexington purchases which eats up a solid amount of the money made from these sales. But those are both purchases where the long term operating costs will be substantially lower than the properties they sold.)

What I want to know is why Scripps chose to sell to Circle City. Did no one else (Gray, Hearst, Sinclair, etc.) show any interest? Did any of them even know Scripps was looking to sell this one station?

There was a separate thread posted for WRTV adopting the WISH graphics. That is, frankly, such a secondary part of this story, especially since the implementation has been so bad. Everything about the change can be discussed here.

I'm not even from the DMA, but man, that is brutal! This is a sad sign of the times in the traditional broadcast TV world. I feel so sorry for everyone who was let go on such short notice...

WRTV has a new logo (basically WISH's spinning logo, but with a blue 6)

I looked at serveral WRTV Facebook/X profiles and those that posted said it was their last day... Disgusting

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

I had a feeling when we hadn't heard anything about it this year, but it's official that NATPE is no more.

She's been shadowing for two weeks, and filled in for Anita Blanton for a couple hours of Friday's afternoon stream.

Not quite. New inserts, but in-game graphics are still the same as last year.

Circle City Broadcasting now owns RTV6 in Indy. And early word is, just about everyone at RTV6 minus a few people, won’t be around for the late news this evening.

Well as of this weekend KOKI has taken over KTUL’s weekend newscast from KOKH in OKC. But KOKH is still handling weekday mornings.

It seems like everyone at WRTV was fired.

Another Jacksonville giant is gone. Former longtime WJXT anchor and reporter Rob Sweeting has passed away. He spent 30 years with the station (1985-2015), the longest stop of his career. He was 73.