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You're not missing anything. Other than the desk, its your typical Nexstar set.

So NPG's flagship TV properties in St. Joseph includes Fox, The CW, Telemundo & NBC. Come June 1st, they'll be adding CBS.

Might as well appoint a new GM there. They already replaced eleven GMs since the MG deal ended.

FTVLive mentioned earlier this week that KOIN 6 in Portland could be doing away with its weekend morning newscasts. Not too sure if this is going to stick, but a good chunk of the legacy Nexstar outlets don't do them. And if it does stick, could this happen to the other MG stations? Oh and while we're at it, nearly one month after the MG deal ended, I'm surprised that Nexstar hasn't grounded any BIRDS at the MG stations yet. You know what I'm talking about.

The KCNC's guide says that Rachael Ray is aired at 9am.

We don't know if they're keeping VHF 10 post-repack or not. We will know eventually when the FCC releases the new post-repack allotments after the assigment phase of the forward auction concludes. Eventually most stations are going to move anyway. As a heads up, the FCC mailed the broadcasters a confidential letter, stating which new allotment the station(s) are moving to, so they could get a headstart in their repacking plans. I doubt these stations are going to say which RF channel they're moving to, only to further confuse the public. Only one station I've seen announced its post-repack channel and that was WBGU (RF 22).

I know Live goes live at 9am/ET. I should've clarified more, "one hour later than most stations in the central time zone". That's what I meant when I said one hour delay on that. I doubt any of the central stations air Live at the early hour of 8am.

Can't believe they're switching in the middle of the sweep period (the books is halfway done). Maybe 9 is worried about the shift in ratings because of 6's LMAD move, so there doing this out of desperation? And why they didn't put Harvey on at 3pm in the first place? I'm not a fan of moving LMAD to 3pm, because that breaks the Game Show block with Price at 11am. But in the areas west of the eastern time zone (unless that station airs it after CTM at 9am), you don't really have a choice. You're stuck airing it after The Talk at 2pm. _______________ Unrelated to this, there a big shift coming for one San Antonio station. On Monday, March 27, KSAT 12 will be adding a new (Ugh!) 9am newscast. They're shifting Live with Kelly & The View to 10 & 11am, respectively. The Chew (which aired at 11am, on a 23-hour delay, like WFAA currently does) moves to 2pm (airing same-day shows; albeit on a two-hour delay). General Hospital (which was already airing on an hour delay at 2pm) moves to 3pm. The station says this was the "original" timeslot for GH on Channel 12 (I wonder how long they'd aired it on that timeslot). T.D. Jakes (which currently airs at 3pm) will be off the daytime schedule. No word if will be placed in the overnight periods or if it would be completely off the schedule. I thought this was a Tegna show. KENS 5 couldn't clear it on their air? 9am - KSAT 12 News Good Morning San Antonio @ 9am 10am - Live With Kelly (might as well say 1 hour delay, even though its not a network show) 11am - The View (1 hour delay) 12pm - KSAT 12 News @ Noon 1pm - SA Live 2pm - The Chew (2 hour delay) 3pm - General Hospital (2 hour delay) 4pm - Inside Edition 4:30pm - Entertainment Tonight 5pm - KSAT 12 News @ 5pm 5:30pm - ABC's World News Tonight 6pm - KSAT 12 6 O'Clock News (Full Hour) Also to point out is that they air Jimmy Kimmel at 11:05pm (instead of 10:35pm) because its 10pm broadcast is 65 minutes at length each weeknight. I'm sure ABC is loving KSAT 12 airing its entire daytime lineup completely out-of-pattern. But I guess since they're the top station in the market, I guess the network has no problem with this new lineup.

More Spectrum Auction News: One of the spectrum-guzzling broadcasters, Univision announced in its Q4 earnings report that they'll receive $376M in proceed from the auction. Still waiting of what TBN & Ion got. In what could be a big surprise, a FORWARD auction bidder revealed how much they bought in the auction. In a filing to the SEC, U.S. Cellular made $327M in bids in the clock phase of the auction (it could get more in the assigment phase, which will start 3/6). Even though the FCC lifted the quiet period for the broadcasters, the wireless carriers (as of now) are still under the quiet period. Howard University owned-WHUT, withdrew from selling its spectrum in the auction. This is also a first, as this broadcaster announced its channel number for its post-repack. Bowling Green State University's WBGU in Ohio announced it is moving from RF 27 to RF 22. The station also withdrew from participating in the auction. Sonoma County, CA PBS outlet KRCB will receive $72 million in the auction. The station will move to the VHF dial. The station said it will use the proceeds to buy equipment for the repack, and the remaining of it to start an endowment. And PBS station WVTA in Vermont will receive $56M in the auction. It has said it will "re-engineer" its three remaining PBS outlets in the state to fill-in the gap lost from WVTA.

The owners of former CW affiliate WGSA in Savannah, GA, has now filed for Chapter 11.

Th sale fell through after Wheeler issued that "JSA Guidance" srutinizing deals with sharing arrangements. And this was before the JSA attribution rule came about. Because of the "Guidance", they figured that the deal wouldn't get the greenlight, so they backed out.

Sad news. Condolences to her family.

No. It looks like this was extremely rushed. Anyone can make a logo like that these days. I wouldn't even call "that" a logo. But as always, it's Sinclair we're talking about.

I saw this earlier this week. It appears that Sinclair has replaced its longtime "SBG" logo and placed its "SINCLAIR" in big letters on the header of its website. How uninspiring. But the big shocker is that its shell Cunningham Broadcasting now has its own website, and it looks like Deerfield Media might be getting one too. But I'm thinking what's the point in making these website now?

Pittsburgh's PBS outlet, WQED, received $9.9M for its spectrum. And it will move to a lower frequency in the repack. What Scripps is getting in the auction? Nada. Zilch. Meanwhile, the clock phase of the forward auction was closed today, racking up $19.6B. Now after the assignment phase of the forward auction (which that could take up to a couple of weeks), then the FCC will release the final Public Notice stating the results of the auction (winners of both reverse auction sellers & forward auction bidders), and the post-repack table of allotments. Hmmm... Wonder why our "Spectrum Speculators" are so quiet. How much of the $10B they got? 50 cents per station? LOL!

The groups probably won't say which stations was sold, until the FCC releases its post-repacking "Table of Allotments". That'll happen at the completion of the auction. EDIT: Two college-owned PBS outlets are going away. WCMZ & WUSF announced that they're going dark once they receive the auction proceeds.

......another Tegna departure. Shame.

Programming Changes are happening at Orlando's CBS station WKMG. The Orlando Sentinel stated that the station decided to move Let's Make A Deal from 10am to 3pm (after The Talk). The station hope this show would lead viewers to its 4pm newscasts. Rachael Ray will move from 9am to 10am, and Crime Watch Daily will move from 3pm to 9am. The changes will go in effect next week. _____________________ What was not mentioned in that TVSpy piece, and mentioned from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser is main anchor Yunji de Nies, who'd recently had a baby late last year, will be leaving the station at the end of the month. Also Mike Cherry (I thought he was the main anchor for the late news) will be sports anchoring the 5pm show, while Higa will do the 6 & 10pm shows (why they need two sports anchors, I don't know). The question is who's going to anchor the 5pm with Paula? Every since the ownership change, there been a slew of on-air folks that have left KITV 4. Yunji becomes the latest one to leave the station.

They've been using that (fleur-de-lis) variant for nearly a decade.

The FCC has partially lifted the "quiet period" among the broadcasters. The lifting of the hush period, broadcasters can now communicate amongst themselves on post-auction issues such as repacking. But this will also open up the floodgates for new M&As. Full write-up from the FCC.

I think WJW is just "Cleveland's Own". But KWGN's slogan was "Colorado's Very Own" for years too; now just "Colorado's Own".

And the "E" stands for?....

Okay. So remember about three years ago, the FCC (under Wheeler) made a public notice to scrutinize transactions involving stations with sharing arrangements (LMA/JSA/SSAs and the like)? Well new Chairman Pai's FCC has rescinded that provision today. And Commissioner Clyburn wasn't pleased. Remember because of this notice, Sinclair had to modify its deal to acquire Allbritton several times.

Another one of the greats is going away. That's a shame. All the best in his new endeavor.

Yeah. I thought that same way when WSYR with News Station after the Newport deal. And look what happened months later... We'll just have to wait and see. Anywho, Nexstar has (finally) closed its acquisition of West Virginia Media Holdings today (1/31). Its only publication The State Journal, was acquired by a local firm called NCWV Media back on December 1. WVMH.