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Oh.... Vaughan could very well be next....... But on the paperwork tonight, it's the Shield (WXXA & WLAJ) that's going to MIssion.

All three are LPs. And I doubt Nexstar would touch just these LPs with no news ops. The market is heavily dominated by Gray (KPLC/KVHP). Besides, Nexstar presence is big the next market over (Lafayette) and that signal (albeit VHF) stretches into Lake Charles.

Not too sure what they're going to use it for, post-build. But SagamoreHill owns the Lake Charles CBS/MyNet LP combo KSWL/KWWE. They recently bought it from Waypoint Media late last year. EDIT: I was looking at the contours of K24DX and the two LPs. And 24's contour serves the east-central section of KSWL/KWWE's viewing area. So I'm thinking is SagamoreHill will probably move that 24 signal to KSWL's tower. Because not only they air CBS & MyNet, but they also carry MeTV & Telemundo. I wouldn't be surprised if they move one of those networks on the new signal to relieve bandwidth of the two other channels.

.......Vaughan, Shield, White Knight. With Mission already getting Marshall & Tamer, they might as well scoop the remaining three.

Channel 7 has a new ND. Assistant News Director Pam Chen, has been appointed as the new VP & News Director at the station. Former ND Rob Elmore left the station earlier this year to take a position as President & GM of Durham, NC's sister station, WTVD.

New M&A. Looks like Tamer is going away. Tamer is selling Albuquerque stations KWBQ (CW) & KASY (MyNet) to Mission Broadcasting.

A small M&A. But a key one at that. Aperio Communications is selling its Fresno's MyNetworkTV station KAIL 7 to Christian broadcaster, TCT (Radiant Life Ministries) for $2.2M. Not only it airs the MyNet programming, but the station airs KFSN's hourly 8pm newscast every weeknight, and a repeat of Action News Midday at 1pm. The question would be if TCT decides to dump MyNet, which station would take the affiliation along with the syndie shows with it? KAIL also carry many diginets (H&I, Light TV, This & Ion). I asked this because while TCT would normally replace the secular shows for their own once transaction ends, it recently bought a station in the Mississippi Delta (WFXW) they have kept the Ion stream on a subchannel.

All the Dick Goddard's tributes are on this thread.

KCWO is still classified by the FCC as a satellite station of KOSA. As it says on their failed waiver request.

Adding to that, I do see on the Raycom sites, Gray has gotten rid of the "livestream" for a different streaming software, similar to the legacy Gray sites use. For example: WVUE & KCBD. __________ Also, we have another M&A. I guess Gray is going after MeTV in Midland. It wants to acquire MeTV station KWWT from Winstar Odessa, Inc., and Cozi TV LP, KMDF-LD from Martin Weiss for $1.84M collectively. They're seeking a "failed station waiver" to acquire KWWT because Gray already owns the full power CBS station KOSA and "satellite station" KCWO. KWWT was the former CW affiliate before it was moved to a subchannel of KWES in 2013.

Even her former station in Virginia (WHAG/WDVM) did a small tribute.

A small M&A. Weigel wants to expand its OTA reach in northern Utah with a couple of LPs. They're buying Logan's KUTA-LD & Ogden's KQTI-LD from Airwaves, Inc. for $375K.

Oh boy. 32 is about to add a 4pm. WFLD will be launching First At Four, beginning August 3rd. Anthony Ponce & Sally Schulze will anchor the broadcast from the main studio, while Tia Ewing will report from the new Studio 32.

What I forgot to mention is the Telemundo affliation agreement is included in this transaction. From this RBR article about the sale:

Oh boy. KFSN is about to get "pinned". Wonder where they got that idea from........

New M&A from Gray. And we're going back to Hawaii. Gray is acquiring the Telemundo affiliate KSIX-TV from Mauna Kea Broadcasting for $1M. We all know what Gray has in the Islands. Honolulu's KGMB (CBS) & KHNL (NBC). And KHNL satellite's KFVE (formerly KHBC) Hilo and KOGG in Wailuku. KSIX's signal primarily serves the western sections of the Big Island. Gray is saying the station's signal doesn't overlap with their Honolulu station or KFVE, which that serves the eastern part of the big island. Here's the contours of both KFVE & KSIX signals in the Big Island.

That's not legit. It's just a regular mask with someone drawing the "Circle 7" logo with a permanent marker.

Shirleen filled in on World News Now earlier this AM.

They switched to Aerial. Graphics are a status quo.

Morning anchor Mary Calvi has been appointed as new weekend anchor of Inside Edition. She will still anchor the morning & noon broadcasts on Channel 2. But she will also fill-in for Deborah Norville on the weekday IE broadcasts. Channel 2 airs IE Weekend Sunday mornings at 4:30am. Maybe they should move it up to 5:30am, leading to the local show at 6am.

It appears that Sinclair is making its first TV station purchase since the consent decree. They're buying two LPs in the DC area. WDCO-CD in Woodstock, VA & WIAV-CD in Washington from WMTM, LLC for $8.5M.

But would Lockwood be willing to blow most of their budget just to start an in-house op for WTNZ? I strongly doubt it. In fact about it, I don't they've ever started an in-house news op from scratch. The only reason why they have it on KAKE, WCAV & WFXG is because it was already established by those respective station's previous owners.

Follow up. Robb is now recovering at home.

Here's WDFX's promo

Pulsar was used..... Especially in this Al & Jerry promo at the beginning of this vid. Vid courtesy of "eyeontv" from YT,