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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.

It's called "Elevation".

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.

The WHDF deal is done. It was closed last Friday (11/9). The station's has changed its website to Nexstar's template days prior to closing.

Big news out of Michiana tonight. Longtime WNDU anchor Maureen McFadden announced that she'll be retiring from the station early next year after nearly four decades. Don't think we'll ever see another "sibling" anchor pair ever again.

They kept the "9" insignia, but it's behind a background like KRQE's. And they also got that damn desk too. [MEDIA=twitter]1058493253258014720[/MEDIA]

From Reuters. AT&T is accusing the DOJ of collaborating Dish over this carriage dispute of HBO. As you know, the DOJ has filed an appeal to try to block the sale of Time Warner to AT&T. And they suppose to go back to court next month. And the DOJ figured this situation here might help their appeal in court.

This is a first. HBO is blacked out on Dish Network. This is the first time in its four-decade history HBO has blacked out a carrier.

Surprised this paperwork was posted first before the Cordillera ones. They're also asking for continued satellite authority of its Poplar Bluff repeater, KPOB. Purchase Price: $24.5M.

New M&A from Quincy. They've announced this morning that they're acquiring the Harrisburg, IL ABC affiliate, WSIL from Mel Wheeler. WSIL serves the Paducah, KY, Cape Girardeau, MO, Carbondale, IL market. The term of the deal weren't disclosed. This comes after they'd announced that they're getting KVOA from Cordillera back on Monday.