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Viewers are outraged over Greg's ouster. And some have feared that the current AM anchor might replace Greg, because its ND is the wife of that anchor.

Adding to the Tegna departures, KHOU's longtime anchor Greg Hurst is leaving the station this Friday, after 18 years.

Alighty. GM appointment #18. WBTW's general sales manager Jeffrey West, has been promoted to VP & GM of the station. West replaces Randy Ingram, who was recently promoted to VP/GM of WISH-TV in central Indiana.

I haven't heard any of the departed landing at other stations.

The Washingtonian did a piece last week, on the exodus of veteran personalities at WJLA. And if it really matters to the viewer.

Kudos to Channel 9 for their overall morning win. Congrats! Well deserved. Keep doing what you're doing and don't stop. And hope that more "wins" in the AM will come your way.

And here comes GM appointments #16 & #17. Former WCIA/WCIX VP/GM Coby Cooper is the new VP/GM of Knoxville's WATE. Replacing Cooper will be WCIA's sales director, Gary Hackler.

I first checked wthi.com, it still have the LIN digital design. But when I clicked wthitv.com that's where the Heartland Frankly site.

......and Cronkite too.

GM appointment #15. Former KSLA General Sales Manager Fran McRae-Posey is the new VP/GM of KLFY. Unrelated to Nexstar, former Nexstar & MG station WCWJ has ditched the Nexstar CMS site and went to the Graham CMS site. The new YourJax page is a subpage of WJXT's News4Jax page. Content from The CW has its own page.

The DOJ/FTC has cleared the Diversified deal of any antitrust issues. Still need to get the greenlight from the FCC.

New GM appointments. This is 13th & 14th appointment, but who's counting. Midland's KMID's VP & GM J. Kyle King has been appointed the VP & GM of Little Rock station KARK. Replacing King in Midland will be Waco's KXXV VP/GM Michael Lee.

Another new Telemundo affiliate is about to launch this summer. Cox's WSOC 9 is launching Telemundo Charlotte on its subchannel 9.2 on June 1st. Laff is moving to WAXN 64.4. The Observer said that it wants to add a newscast on the subchannel in the future, but wants to conduct research first.

Actually, they're only on at 6:30am in the morning. SIX THIRTY. That's it. Are we back to 1988?

New Nexstar appointment. Former KTTV ND Bill Mondora will be the Bureau Chief of Nexstar's DC Bureau.

Another Tegna Depature. WTSP's Investigative Reporter Mike Deeson has left the station.

From that Town Hall vid, I think Sook said that he liked the LIN DIgital ones better. But I'm not sure if the legacy Nexstar is going to use that MG template or it might be a completely new template for all of their stations. We'll just have to wait and see. _______________ Looks like the first order of business under the combined entity is to have all of its stations with one "unified" licensee name. Nexstar has filed a slew of 316 pro-forma applications to change all those various MG licensee names (Media General Communications Holdings, LIN Television Corporation, Young Broadcasting of Richmond, etc; 25 in all) to (No surprise) Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.

Here's Nexstar's 12th GM appointment since the MG deal ended. Former WFXS Wausau GM Robert Raff has been appointed as new VP & GM of Tokepa station KSNT (and its in-market sisters).

That's a damn shame. I guess no one should be surprised by this outcome, but this is pitiful nevertheless. Sad. #TooMuchNews

Longtime anchor of the Nightly Business Report Paul Kangas passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 79. Will always remember him for his signature sign-off at the end of the broadcast. Video courtesy of lakesidepark2112 from YT EDIT 3/2/17: He're a full write-up obit from the Herald.

It's extremely bland at best. MG (LIN specifically) has several spectrum guzzlers in the Hampton Roads, Grand Rapids, and Austin, with all those Class As.

Okay. So remember the Gray/Hoak deal from November 2013, and Gray spun-off the Hoak outlets in Panama City & Grand Junction to Nexstar? The Grand Junction one included a pre-1996 LMA with now Parker Broadcasting owned KFQX, which was supposed to be sold to Mission. Because of Wheeler's "JSA Guidance" scrutinizing station sharing deals, it was never greenlighted under his leadership. But Parker didn't dismissed the application. They just let it sit. Fast forward to three years later (now under Pai), it has now been greenlighted as of Monday (2/27). Parker can finally close its books. EDIT: Cunningham Broadcasting has made similar deals (around that same timeframe) in Reno (KRNV/KENV) & Portand (WPFO), which is still sitting. Could those could finally see the greenlight too?

Another Tegna Departure. Longtime WWL's Action reporter Bill Capo will be leaving the station on Friday after 36 years. And from FTVLive this morning, WUSA's morning reporter Nikki Burdine is heading to Nexstar's WKRN in Nashville, where she'll be a new anchor.

They're going to add Sinclair's new action-themed diginet Charge! on that allotment. Wouldn't be surprised if Fox gets MeTV, since it already carries its other networks on WDCA. Fox also carries MeTV on Austin's KTBC 7.4.

No. The KLAS/WTVF desk here is legit. No knockoff about it. It's the mashup in between the two (you mentioned) is what's typical for Nexstar.