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Someone screengrabbed their TV. And the bug is their old logo with the new Tegna graphic. Let's hope it stays that way.

On the same day Scripps-Cordillera was cleared by the FCC last Friday, they also greenlighted the Gray-United TV sale as well.

A New M&A. Sun Broadcasting (owners of CW affiliate WXCW) is buying Univision LPs WUVF/WLZE & Azteca LP WANA from Media Vista Group for $9.75M. Sun is currently operating the LPs under a LMA while it awaits approval from the FCC. Tegna recently added Bounce TV on KONG 16.2, clearing the diginet in Seattle for the first time.

Nexstar is now involved in a new lawsuit, against one of its own sidecars. Marshall Broadcasting Group. From the release:

New retrans issue. Cox Television & Dish Network. Stations could be blacked out by the carrier as early as 7pm/ET tonight (3/31).

Big follow up. WCBS's AM reporter Janelle Burrell will be traveling down the turnpike to replace Rahel as new AM & midday anchor.

Gray completed the KNHL sale on March 1st. But the consummation notice was posted tonight. But not sure when the station will restart carrying NBC on channel 5 for the first time in five years.

WTTG is adding a new 4pm hour in the spring, competing against WRC & WJLA. They didn't announce an exact date. But could they be launcing before the May books?

Uncle Perry showed up at ol' No. 9 this morning. Let's just say he wasn't all that ready for the pomps & circumstances.

Here's the full write up from the ALJ. A grilling could also come if they do attempt to buy or sell a TV station. Some don't want to wait next year to have the license renewal preceeding to discuss their serious character issues. That includes new FCC commissioner Geoffrey Starks,

And we have another expansion from Fox. WAGA is expanding Good Day Atlanta on the 10am hour, beginning April 15.

NBC has completed its acquisition of the Serestar Telemundo stations. Consummated yesterday. Bye-Bye Serestar.

Part of the Schurz deal in 2015. Although they did not swap their incumbent WNDU for Schurz flagship WSBT. But neither one were underdog stations like KAKE.

You forgot a couple: Meteorologist Chris Franklin as "Where's Waldo" & AM Anchor Leslie Spoon as "Carmen Sandiego". And Reporter Meghan Kee as "Little Red Riding Hood". The Times-Picayune have the rest, including the ones from WVUE.

There's some non-Gray stations that stream on Syncbak. Including some Brady & Morgan Murphy outlets. I'm surprised that I haven't see any just-acquired Raycom stations on that app.

The Fort Myers properties weren't mentioned on the press release.

This is kind of strange. Gray is changing stations in Charlottesville. They're divesting it's longtime CBS affiliate WCAV & ABC affil WVAW to Lockwood Broadcasting. In turn, Gray will acquire the NBC station WVIR from Waterman Broadcasting.

I'll keep this thread alive. Remember back in November, WABC commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Eyewitness News brand. Well last night, the LA counterpart did their own EWN @ 50 commemoration. Videos courtesy of KABC's YT Page.

It's been greenlighted. Some actually wrote an objection over the deal between the complainer & the seller about two weeks ago, but the FCC denied that objection today.

For the second time in over three years, KITV in Hawaii will be airing the 91st Academy Awards live at 3pm Hawaii Time. They first aired the broadcast live in 2016. But in the last two years, they went back to airing the broadcast tape-delayed at 7pm local time.

Sounds like WCL will stay on Channel 7 this fall. Tamron Hall's talk show will be aired on WCIU after EWN @ 7pm.

Looks like NBC will come back to channel 5 in central Nebraska. The FCC has greenlighted the KNHL deal and allow them to operate it as a satellite of KSNB. Wonder if they'll resurrect the "KHAS-TV" calls?

Scripps is only taking the full-power station in Stuart. They're not acquiring the LP repeater in MIami, nor the station in Boston. Anywho, the FCC just greenlighted the deal.

Speaking of getting out of everything (well damn near everything). Remember Schurz? The group Gray bought the TV outlets from almost three years ago? Well, Schurz is now getting rid of its paper biz after 147 years by selling it publishing arm to Gatehouse Media, one of the leading consolidators of small newspapers. Makes me think that they should've sold it right at the time they sold their stations because they never really expanded their paper holdings. All they'll have left is their cloud-managing IT business & a few small broadband providers. Might as well sell those too, because they're lacking scale in that too.

With United's footprint, this should've been Prather's for the taking, since he owns stations in both those states (KIMT - MN & WKTV - NY). Could Heartland be taken by Prather's former employer (Gray) next? They haven't really expanded since they'd acquired some the spin-off properties from the Nexstar-MG deal two years ago. EDIT 7:30pm/ET: Gray will operate the United TV stations under a LMA, while it awaits regulatory approval starting March 1.