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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,

How about the music at the beginning & the ending of that NMSA sample? That's different from the now-identified music on the middle of the sample.

The deal of the Wyoming trio (KFNB, KTWO, KGWC) was completed 6/1, but the closing papers was posted yesterday (6/8).

I don't think WGN used their own Skycam9 for the coverage. I say ths because WMAQ uploaded their raw footage of the chase, which was the same feed WGN used.

Who could forget Nancy Loo & David Ushery on the morning show?! That was two decades ago.

New retrans fight. AT&T/DirecTV & Lilly Broadcasting. The Lilly stations could be dark as early as June 10.

They were later released.

Looking at this guide, DBL is on at 12:30pm after the Noon report.

Hey y'all. They got 'em.

Here's the full consent decree posted yesterday (5/22). The decree also includes that its has to abide by a four-year compliance plan. If this was any other broadcaster, that $48M would've been just. But with Sinclair?! Even if the fine would've been $100M (which should've been the preferred fine), that still would've been a slap on the wrist. FCC should've at least put the matter to a hearing anyway. Without the hearing, this shows that they can just buy their way out of trouble. And once four years elapses, how do we know they won't re-offend again? Remember Glencairn? Anywho, the FCC did approve their long-awaited transaction of KOMO-FM from South Sound Broadcasting. The deal was first made in June of 2017.

The new "10" logo went live on the noon show. Vid courtesy of "dma37dude" from YT.

Well let's see which stations have yet to switch. I posted this back on Christmas Eve. I've scratched the ones that gotten "Gray'd" since then.

Yes. Once the FCC greenlights a deal, the parties have 90 days to complete the sale. That's with any transaction. But the parties can file an "extension of consummation" to add another 90 days if they need to. That's a rare though.

I had a feeling this second half hour was just an O&O thing. But KTRK is not carrying it. They're showing their regular local 6:30-cast.

KGWC & KTWO was also greenlighted.

If you post another post within a short period of time, it will automatically merge.

The DOJ only told Nexstar to divest WEVV, because that would've gave them too much control in Evansville with WEHT/WTVW. WEVV was originally proposed to be ran by a new female-ran shell Rocky Creek Broadcasting. But it was eventually sold to DuJuan McCoy's Bayou City Broadcasting with no sharing agreement attached. It was Wheeler and the Democratic-ran FCC that didn't act on the original Mission proposal because at the time Wheeler had a strict guidance on scrutinizing deals with sharing arrangements. So Nexstar amended that application to assign those stations to Marshall.

So follow up. Last year, Pluria Marshall filed a lawsuit against Nexstar. Months later, Marshall filed for Chapter 11. Now by a bankruptcy court order, Marshall is going to sell his three stations to Mission Broadcasting.

Usually the FCC would approve all three-related transactions concurrently. But I remember back in 2014, when the FCC approved the Gray/Hoak transaction, but not the related KHAS & KXND/KNDX deal to sidecar "Excalibur Broadcasting". Those stations would be spun off to minority broadcasters later that year. We'll see what happens. But remember, the FCC just went back to the 2016 ownership rules, after the Third Circult vacated Pai's 2017 dereg rule last Fall. One of the rules was the relaxation of the JSA attribution rule from the Wheeler-era.