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They been doing this practice for over four years now.

Thirty years ago tonight, was that Max Headroom incident, which it hijacked WGN & WTTW's signals. The person that did this was never caught.

What did I say earlier? If you've seen the successes of operating independents in Chicago & Milwaukee, KOFY's shows would be a perfect fit for Weigel. In fact about it, after getting the shows, drop the KTLN calls and make that station KOFY. ________ Anywho, Brady is unloading one of its stations. Brady is donating its Twin Falls station, KXTF to religious broadcaster, TCT.

New M&A Tonight. CNZ is buying another station. They're getting Granite Broadcasting's KOFY-TV through its Stryker Media subsidiary for $6M. KOFY has channel-share agreement with CNZ-owned Class-A station KCNZ-CD. I was hoping Weigel would've gotten it and move all the programming to their newly acquired outlets. After all, KOFY carries Me-TV on its sub.

It's been greenlighted.

This schedule confirms it.

WTXF is already using Beyond for its "Breaking News" stingers.

That stinger sound like 360 Music's Breakthrough package.

GMA weekend is back at TV3 this morning,

Remember, they placed a condition in KYES transaction that it couldn't acquire another big-4 affiliate on KYES for two years (ending in mid-2018). If this condition was never made, I wouldn't been surprised if Gray would've tried to turn KYES into a Fox affiliate and would've probably kept Fox in Fairbanks. But the only issue is Gray doesn't have presence in the capital. And KYUR owners already had Fox in Juneau, so it seems that it was a great fit. But for a big broadcaster in the state with massive national scale to lose the Fox affiliation in one of the markets, this is nothing more than a headscratcher nevertheless. Makes me wonder if they might lose Fox in North Platte, since Sinclair has Fox in most of the Cornhusker state.

Since the new graphics debuted four years ago.

She made her on-air debut yesterday evening.

It looks like the weekend show is back at the Times Square Studios this morning. Not sure if this is permanent. It would be the first time since 2009 the weekend show is broadcast from TSS.

Weigel has finally launched its own website.

WSB VP/GM Tim McVay has announced that he will retire at the end of the year. He has been GM of Channel 2 for six years but has associated with Cox for 39 years.

The deal of WZRB/WRBU & KTRV to Ion was completed. And we have a new Weigel M&A. Controlling their own destiny, Weigel has bought the OTA Broadcasting stations in Seattle & San Francisco for $23.2M. The Seattle stations (KVOS & KFFV) are for $13.1M and the SF stations (KTLN & KAXT-CD) for $10.1M. EDIT 11:54am/ET: Write-up from TVNewsCheck.

Hosea Sanders and Liz Nagy are anchoring the Sunday morning show this AM. Pathieu was back on the field.

And the FCC has greenlighted them both. Could Sabin and company strike again with another station buy?

She was actually doing traffic "behind the booth" for a couple of weeks. But her on-air debut was Monday. Glad that they didn't stick with that "bimbo". You know who I'm taking about.

A small M&A. Looks like CNZ (owner of WLGA & WIWN) is buying silent Del Rio, TX station KYVV for $450K.

He has never stopped doing that. Where have you been?

The KIEM/KVIQ deals were greenlighted Tuesday (10/17). And a New M&A tonight. This is pretty unusual. Lilly (owners of WENY, WICU/WSEE, & KITV) is acquiring Marquette, MI station WZMQ for $103,475. And they're currently operating the station under a time brokerage agreement while it's awaiting the greenlight from the FCC. I'm not sure why Lilly would want a station that just have diginets, unless they're trying to snag the ABC affiliate from Stephen Marks (who owns WBUP/WBKP).

That's a real shame.

WGN did this last year with their old logo. Not only the "W" was blue, but they had a white flag behind it.

Follow-up. The owner of WGSA (Southern TV Corporation) has sold its station to Low Country Media 35, LLC for $1.2M.