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Gray makes a post-Raycom buy. Gray is acquiring three stations owned by United Communications of Kenosha, WI for $45M. United owns the CBS-Fox affiliate KEYC Mankato, MN, CBS affiliate WWNY & Fox affiliate WNYF in Watertown, NY.

From Deadline Hollywood. The final total was that 98.2M viewers watched the game on the network. And that was below the 2009 total of 98.7M, the last time the game reached below 100M viewers. I myself am not all that thrilled of NOLA's 26.1 rating (despite being half the total of last year's rating). It should've been way lower than that (like a 15 or below), and by watching this vid from WWL's late show last night, some actually did watch the game.

So the DOJ did get involved with the KGWC deal. And the Rapid City signals were repeaters of Gray-owned ABC affil KOTA-TV. They would've replace those signals for KTWO. Remember Gray was going to operate KTWO & Fox affils KFNE/KFNB (with Legacy Broadcasting holding the license).

Well, color me surprised. Not that they'd completed the sale of WSIL earlier today (1/15), But the fact that the FCC has "accepted" the filing of its consummation notice tonight. Since early January, they've only accepted the filings of certain applications relating to the spectrum auction & repacking (i.e., the move of channels/frequencies, etc.) This is because of the prolonged partial government shutdown.

September 10th of last year.

TVNewsCheck states that WWL-TV evening anchor Natalie Shephard will become the new evening anchor for WDJT., She will start in late January.

Alot of affiliate renewals among the station groups this week. On Monday, Tegna Media renewed it agreement to carry ABC in nine of its markets. On Tuesday, Scripps renewed its agreement to carry NBC in five of its markets. And on Wednesday, Gray renewed its agreement to carry ABC in 25 of its markets (that includes eight of the former Raycom markets)

Probably a split between David Tillman & Myers? Something tells me that they're not going to hire a new fifth weather anchor in the near term.

And to no surprise, it's Herzog that's the new Chief at 13. KTRK's morning meteorologist Travis Herzog will replace the retiring Tim Heller as the new Chief Meteorogist at the station. He'll be weather anchoring the 5, 6 & 10pm shows starting one week from Monday. Elita Loresca will take over Herzog's morning spot.

Follow up regarding KNCT. This is exactly what Gray is going to do. The station just filed an app to move its signal to KWTX's tower. when they repack to RF 17. The contour would damn near match KWTX's with the move.

The notice didn't mention about KBTX. But since Bryan-College Station is part of the Waco market, I wouldn't be surprised if Gray has the Telemundo affiliation in that part of the market as well. And should that be the case, the question would be where it be placed, Will it be 3.3 (while keeping the CW on 3.2)? Or will they light up the LP (K49LC-D) and place it there? Remember they also have MeTV so they might place it on either 3.3 or on the LP.

Follow up. It's The CW that will be moving to the new stick. KWTX posted that The CW will be moving to KNCT 46.1 from KWTX 10.2. In its place will be the Telemundo affiliation they acquired from the Raycom deal (moving from KXXV 25.2), It has also acquired the MeTV affiliation from KCEN. They'll carry H&I on 6.3 as a replacement The lineup will be like this come Wednesday (1/2): KWTX 10.1 CBS 10.2 Telemundo 10.3 MeTV KNCT 46.1 The CW 46.2 MeTV 46.3 Start TV

I mean't that deal is still pending. It hasn't been approved yet. They wrote the paperwork a couple of months ago. It takes time to get approval.

The KVOA deal to Quincy hasn't been greenlighted yet. And the big Scripps deal hasn't been greenlighted. Given that big $520M price tag, they'll probably have to wait for the DOJ to give them an "early termination", before they get the greenlight from the FCC.

Quincy was granted the greenlight of the WSIL deal yesterday.

Gray has completed the KNCT acquisition, as of Monday (12/17). It'll be interesting to see what programming there be putting on this new station.

Now that original link is now streaming CBSN NY.

Okay,. when you go to cbsnews.com/live, there's some square icons on top of the page. "CBSN", "CBSN New York", "CBS Spors HQ", "ET Live". Click the one that says "CBSN New York". That first link I posted earlier "newyork.cbslocal.com/live" should've been streaming the local CBSN and not the national one.

I checked out this link. On the header its says CBSN New York. But they're streaming the main CBSN Network.

The Katz Networks (owned by Scripps) is resurrecting Court TV as a new digital subchannel network. The new diginet will launch on May 1.

I forgot to mention. Serestar also operates the NBC-owned Telemundo outlet KNSO. That LMA will be terminated in the early part of the new year, so NBC will gain full control for that outlet.

Some New M&As. NBC is acquiring Telemundo affiliates in Sacramento & Salt Lake City, owned by Serestar Communications for $21M. Also, Scripps is buying independent station WHDT in Stuart, FL, from Gunter Marksteiner, for $25M. It already owns the NBC station WPTV and operates the Raycom-owned Fox outlet WFLX. No telling what they'll be using the new channel for, once the deal is done.

A shareholder has filed the first lawsuit over the failed Tribune deal. Wouldn't be surprised of more followed suit.

Liberman Broadcasting, owners of the Spanish TV network Estrella TV, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday (11/21).

It's been greenlighted.