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Actually, former sister-station KJCT uses Counterpoint for its Daybreak (simulcast on KKCO) & 5:30pm shows. EDIT: KKCO & KJCT uses The Rock (the rhythmic cue without the NBC chimes) for "The 10".

Looks like the RNN deal was completed last Friday.

Let them keep that old theme. KEYC & KNVN/KHSL are the only two clubs that's using it. While Inergy, Aerial & Guardian are being way overused.

PIX has been using the new website design since December.

It's getting a bit silly with all these News Nows..... Hawaii News Now, Dakota News Now, 16 News Now, etc.... They should've just call it KEYC News and just leave it at that. But now they've incorporated.... the play button.

Can't say I'm surprised of this news. From Feder, Longtime anchor Steve Sanders is retiring, after 37 years at Channel 9. His last day will be February 28th.

A couple of notes tonight.... The FCC granted them the waiver last Tuesday. And were able to close the WYCI & WYCX-LD sale on Friday. Also, not sure when it launched, but it appears Presque Isle's new NBC Affiliate WWPI-LD is on the air. The FCC granted an STA to launch the LP back in December. It appears some cable customers complained that didn't like them replacing that nearby Tegna station (WLBZ) for this new station.

No new graphics on Fox 8 tonight...... Why do they need a new set, when they just got that a few years ago?

Looking at the pic closely, there's a little sticker where it states that city. It looks like its says "LACROSSE" Yep. From the "wiproud" website....

Feder says its WFLD. Also WGAL reporter Brittany Garzillo is also joining the station as a reporter.

New M&A. Tegna is acquiring KTBU in Conroe, TX, from Spanish Broadcasting Systems (owners of Mega TV) for $15M. Once the deal is complete, it will become the sister to KHOU.

A couple of M&As. One is TV-related, the other is paper-related. Lowcountry Media, owner of Savannah GA's Independent station WSCG is selling its station to religious broadcaster, TCT for $3M. Lowcountry tried to sell the station last year to HC2 Holdings for $2.6M. But the deal fell through back in November, despite getting FCC approval that July. WSCG was the former CW affiliate under the callsign WGSA. ____________________________________ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is selling its newspaper business to Lee Enterprises for $140M. Lee has been managing BH's papers since 2018. As you may know, Buffett bought most of these papers from Media General in 2012.

Okay. The Sinclair/Nexstar settlement talk is in this thread.

WAFF, WTVM & KCBD are also using the Gray Ticker, while still using the Raycom L3s. I know KCBD have been using the ticker for like a few months.....

As of now, KCPM is not a top-4 ranked station in Fargo. KVLY is a top-4 outlet. But because of the reinstatement of eight voice test (which mean it suppose to have 8 unique owners after a deal is completed), Gray can't acquire KCPM without acquiring the "failed station waiver". The 8-voice test was nullified under Pai 2017 dereg order, until the courts vacated that order back in September. It would be speculative to say which programming (either new or existing) to be moved to KCPM, since they haven't made any post-closing plans. But they do plan to change the callsign of KCPM to KXQK once the deal is over. Here what they said in the press release almost two years ago: When they'd announce they were acquiring KNCT in late Summer 2018, they didn't announce that they were going to move The CW from KWTX to that stick under the deal was already finalized. But the question is why the deal is still pending almost two years after the deal has been announced? The FCC could've easily gave this deal a greenlight, given the regulatory relief throughout most of that time. That's because the deal was challenged by the current owners of KRDK-TV (which was the former KXJB-TV). They say that the current owners of KCPM kept the signal off the air for more than a 12 month period. And that would trigger an automatic forfeiture of the station's license, if it stays off the air for a full calender year. So in their eyes that station's license should be revoked.

What? Gray is not stupid to give up an LP station/CBS affiliation to a group that's not even in the market. I'm sure if the KCPM deal falls through, the market will stay a status quo. It would be a better chance that KCPM would be shut down completely than to be acquired by another broadcaster.

So follow-up regarding the KCPM deal, which has been going on for almost two years. They posted an amendment tonight and they're now in a process of filing a "failed station waiver" to acquire the station. This is because FCC ordered last month to go back enforcing the 2016 ownership rules after the Third Circuit struck down Pai's 2017 dereg order last fall.

Certain shows listed (More In Common, Bite Size) are already airing on LWN right now. This will be in direct competition with NBC's LX diginet launching on their O&Os later this year.

This is getting silly. WADL is launching a new half-hour 10pm news program entitled News Now with Kevin Dietz, hosted by former WDIV reporter Kevin Dietz. But this will not be your typical news program. As explained by station owner Kevin Adell: The program premieres tonight, one day before WKBD's new 10pm show (produced out of Fort Worth, TX) premieres.

The B&C article states that KTVT will only produce the Detroit show (WKBD). The other two, WCBS will produce the Atlanta show (WUPA); and WFOR is going to produce the Tampa show (WTOG).

Also from Feder, the station's PM executive producer Dominick Stasi will replace Lyons as ND for the Channel 9 broadcasts.

This is really interesting. Remember Rockford, IL CBS station WIFR gave up its full-power signal during the spectrum auction? Its now on a LP signal. Back in November, it moved from its out-of-core RF 41 signal for RF 28. And after that move, viewers in the northeastern portion of the area complained that it can't get the new signal. RF 28 is also used in adjacent markets (WISN Milwaukee & WEDE Chicago). So after a few days, it temporary went back to RF 41. Starting Wednesday (1/15), the station is going back to RF 28 signal. But it has also announced that Weigel Broadcasting's WFBN-LD (RF 23) will simulcast WIFR's main signal on virtual channel 23.11. If this sounds familiar, that's because Weigel has also simulcasted Chicago's CBS-owned outlet WBBM for about a few years on WMEU-CD 48.3. This is due to some viewers who aren't able to receive WBBM's main VHF signal.

New M&A. Weigel continues its buying spree. They're acquiring Hartford's WHCT-LD from Venture Technologies for $1.5M. Shockingly enough, Hartford is currently one of the very few markets that don't carry MeTV. But WZME in Bridgeport did carry the network to portions of the market prior to 2015.

I'm fully aware of what the press release says, as I first posted it last night. I was just mentioning what the guide said, and only questioned if that was the proposed name of the show before the release. We'll I'm glad they didn't. In my view, having a weekend midday show is kind of silly, given the lack of viewership in that time of day (I don't see how WSB, WSOC or WPVI (Sundays) can do it). And I don't think the weekend morning crew would want to stay on a couple of hours just to do another broadcast very few people are going to watch.

I looked further into their guide, and looked at Saturday the 18th, and it list WGN Weekend Evening News an hour. I'm hoping that's an error on their part on the 11th, because they're showing that same Living Healthy New Year episode at 4:30pm. Why reair it at 5:30pm? I also see on the guide a show Sunday at 9am called "Chicago Pulse". Was that the original proposed name of new political show? IMO, that would be a better name than the generic "Political Report".