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And Weigel was granted its greenlight from the FCC yesterday.

They've been airing the 11am news repeat at noon on 7.2 since WCL moved from 11am to 1pm. EDIT: TTYTT, I used to love 7.2 before they added Live Well. When they didn't air alot of ads at the time (late '08-early '09), during the breaks on the news repeats, they would air the classic "People Make A Difference" promos with the 10pm anchors, and later replaced with the "Your News, Your Way" promos.

Follow up. Sinclair has re-upped four more (Portland (ME), Cedar Rapids, Brownsville & Syracuse)

New M&A. Weigel has made TWO more buys. They're acquiring L.A. "spectrum-less" station KAZA from Southern California License, LLC for $9M. They're also getting St. Louis religious station, KNLC from for $3.75M.

Besides College Football and the NBA, ABC don't carry alot of live sports events these days. Whenever sporting events roll after 5pm, the news would be pre-empted. I remember WABC started the new weekend 5pm after ABC cancelled ESPN Sports Saturday. But I do think that these endless hours of news is unnecessary, especially when its hardly any viewership that early on the weekends.

I believe it is. Unless there was another time we didn't know about. You would think after three years, he would fill-in a bit more often. But 9 has a heavy bench of reporters that fill-in anchor from time to time.

Longtime owner of Salisbury, MD's CBS station WBOC Thomas Draper passed away yesterday due to injuries sustained from a bicycle accident. Draper was 76.

I thought they'd carried The CW since August 1st (I think it aired on 10.4?). The sister station in Lafo, WLFI is also carrying it (18.2).

The FCC has greenlighted the WZRB/WRBU & KTRV deals to Ion on Friday (9/1).

After nearly twenty months, the KJWP sale to the owners of WFMZ was closed on Thursday (8/31).

Shouldn't be that long before CBS moves its Morning News to the 3:30am slot. Wonder if WSTM (who's been airing news @ 4am for a few years, pre-empting Early Today) would move the program from their CW subchannel to the main channel, since the live feed move to 3:30.

Now I'm wondering whether KIAH in Houston would acquire This TV, since they're only a handful of Tribune stations that don't carry it along with WITI and WJW. From KPRC's FCC ownership report, it looks like their carriage deal expires next month. Not sure if they've renewed it with the station or not.

So follow-up. The assignee of the KVIQ app is not Redwood. It's a name we have not seen since the Hoak deal nearly four years ago. Brady is selling KVIQ to Prime Cities Broadcasting (former owner of KNDX/KXND) for a measly $10K. It also says on the purchase agreement that they have to apply for a new callsign by the deal's closing. This makes me think that CBS programming could be moving to either KIEM's sub or on an LP.

New M&A. Our lovely Eureka station is about to get a new owner. KIEM 3 owners Pollack/Belz is selling the station to Bryan Brady (Redwood Television Partners) for $3.5M. But wait a minute. Don't they currently own CBS station KVIQ? But I find this interesting at the bottom of the paperwork. So could this mean, they're going to "refile" a KVIQ app and apply for a failed station waiver? This would be a first if this happens.

Former ABC News correspondent Diana Alvear is now the new weekday evening anchor of Charlotte's Fox O&O, WJZY.

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.