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GM appointment #26. Former WOWK sales manager Sean Banks has returned to the station to serve as a new VP/GM.

Pretty much. At one point, WLS did carry the Thanksgiving Day parade (not sure when they started carrying it, but sister-station KABC aired on a tape delay), while WGN carried the Lights Festival on Michigan Avenue. That was before they switched coverages in 2007. WLS was the original station to carry the Lights Fest, before WGN took it in the mid 90s.

WGN stop carrying the Bud after the 2011 broadcast (it was also simulcasted on WGN America). WCIU actually carried the 2012 and '13 broadcast. But since 2014, its been exclusively on WLS.

I don't even think she'd ever filled-in "solo" when she was at 'SVN. Anywho, she was paired with Karen at 10pm. Also unrelated to this, is this the first time 7 is not having its annual Air & Water Show special after the news? They're showing 190 North instead.

This is nothing new. Baca has filled in on the weekend evening, but only when she wasn't anchoring the morning show (which she did today). The question is will she be on tomorrow morning?

Not only layoffs, but they're consolidating KYTV and KSPR's news operations. Many of its shows will be simulcasted on both. _____________________________ Lawson gives a brief video update about his progress, days after surgery.

Here we go. Another (Ugh!) news expansion. Nexstar's WDTN in Dayton is adding an hourly 4pm, starting September 11.

WFLD's 10pm program was just "The TEN".

Looks like WFAA is pulling a "Nexstar" and grounding its BIRD. Could other Tegna stations follow suit?

The deal was cleared by the DOJ today. Scripps is expected to close the Katz deal by October 2.

Some anchor replacements were announced...... WKRN's weekend morning anchor Nikki Burdine will replace Davenport as new weekday morning anchor. The article didn't say when she will start. From McGuff, Spaulding is leaving next Friday (8/18). And replacing her will be former WPIX personality and current KRIV reporter Kaitlin Monte.

I strongly doubt they'll rename the top-2 MyNets (WWOR and KCOP, at least not immediately). I think what Fox is doing is rebranding its "news-intensive" O&Os into a similar branding and offer more news on its MyNet channel. Despite having a long weekday morning offering, KTTV (and WNYW) aren't as "news-intensive" as the markets that already have rebranded its MyNets like KTVU, WTTG and KSAZ. TTYTT, I personally like the "My9" branding. And to me, it's probably the only branding that's "clever-sounding" among all the other local MyNet brands.

Yeah, basically the WLWC's network and syndie programming will be move to a subchannel of either 12 or 64 (so example, 12.2 or 64.3 or whatever). All OTA has to do is turn off WLWC and "that's all she wrote" with the license.

A settlement was reached. The terms weren't disclosed. It is now disclosed that Disney paid $177M to settle the case. Remember that meat company was seeking more than $5.7B in damages.

Some GM moves. Meredith appointed former WHO GM Dale Woods to be the new VP & GM of Nashville's WSMV. Woods replaces longtime GM Doreen Wade, which she'd retired back in June. Also former LIN/MG executive Jay Howell is the new GM of CBS's Sacramento duopoly KOVR/KMAX. Howell suceeds former GM Kevin Walsh, which he's been appointed to replace the retired Bruno Cohen as the new GM of San Francisco duopoly KPIX/KBCW.

This is somewhat of a comeback for Nexstar. It had "operated" WLWC and the rest of the Four Points stations from 2009-2012, before Sinclair bought the group. They'll just operate the linear CW stream, and place it on either WPRI or WNAC spectrum.

Jerry is filling in for Phil tonight.

Why you want to put an LXTV show on at 9am? They don't want to compete with 7 on the 9am half-hour? In my view, that's pretty dumb. What's wrong with putting that show on after MTP or before the 6am news?

Okay, so check this out. Back last Thursday (7/27), the minority equity owners of the Corporate Media Consultants Group (owners of WPFO) filed a petition of reconsideration, stating they were unaware about the proposed transaction that occured back in 2013. They're basically saying that they weren't told that the station was being sold, and they just now finding it out (7/24), and have asked the FCC to rescind the 6/23 grant of the deal. I'm not sure how they're going to do it. The consummation notice was posted tonight, stating the deal was closed on Tuesday (8/1).

Unless they have big outdoor antennas on their roofs.

The WCAX deal was completed on Tuesday (8/1). Mount Mansfield TV.

I have a question. This is regarding KNEP NBC Scottsbluff. When did they change their virtual channel from 4.2 to 2.1?

INN/Media Gateway, huh. There in the same facility that use to housed the former HQ of Equity Broadcasting. Arkansas Business did a recent article about their operations.

At one point, when Tribune acquired This TV from Weigel, they would wait for the contract from a competing station in the market to expire. And then after that, it would be move it to the Tribune-owned station. KIAH doesn't carry This TV because KPRC is carrying it. And KSL is carrying This TV, instead of KSTU. So if the Lighthouse wants those diginets (the one that they don't have) on their air, they would likely have to wait until contracts expire.

Looks like Jummy is getting a co-anchor on the weekends. TVNewsCheck stated this morning that WTVJ news and sports anchor Adam Kuperstein will be the new weekend evening co-anchor/reporter at Channel 4. He will start in September.