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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.

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)