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At last!! Nearly fifteen months after it was greenlighted by the FCC, the Nexstar acquisition of KCWI is finally DONE!!! It was consummated on Monday.

And guess who's at their Good Day set......TONIGHT????!!! [MEDIA=twitter]709905482878754817[/MEDIA] With a new set in the works upstairs, it shouldn't be far behind for a close sister station to the north to get one as well.

So a small follow-up to this B&C stated today that a group of U.S. Senators among both parties were not happy about Wheeler requiring station groups to unwind its JSAs just to get deals to go through.

Looks like the Pappas trust could be winding down soon. The FCC greenlighted the WLGA deal to CNZ (Caballero) today. They also greenlighted the KDMI deal to TCT on Feb. 24. Now KCWI's deal was approved on 12/19/14, but that hasn't been finalized as of yet. And the KFXL/NTV deal with Sinclair is still waiting for the greenlight.

TVNewsCheck posted this morning that WANE will expand it's Saturday morning show to two hours, from 7-9am. The change will go into effect March 26.

Hate to correct you, but did you mean the Sarah Wallace situation??

Small change regarding one HSH station. Yesterday, its Vegas station KVMY changed its calls to KHSV.

According to FTVLive, Those voluntary buyouts are companywide.

Following the trend like the other Hearst stations, KCCI will add a new 9pm newscast on its Me-TV subchannel, beginning March 21.

It's been heavily-speculated here, but now it's official. TVNewsCheck posted minutes ago that WDCW will have a new 10pm newscast beginning April 18th. The new 10pm newscast will be produced out of Richmond's WTVR, with reporters & multimedia journalists being based out of DC. The anchor will be WTVR's 6 & 11pm anchor Candace Burns.

Now that's just plain pitiful. So going to a speaking engagement in Jackson after visiting your ailing parents in TN means you're a liar? I mean, why in the hell would she lie about that? Hell, she even showed pictures of her very sick father at the press conference on Sunday, but was never given an opportunity to show proof to her bosses. They obviously didn't care about seeing her side of things. They only cared about trying to find a slick way to push this veteran & well-liked personality out the door. And that's just sad. I wished she would file a wrongful termination lawsuit against these two assholes for firing her.

A new M&A regarding Sinclair tonight. It wants to acquire WDKA outright for $1.9M. It already owns Fox station KBSI.

Was it a graphic that said "Storm Mode" and had a callsign with that graphic slate. Or was it displayed on the bottom of the screen while Spann was doing the weather? Either way, it wouldn't be Spann's fault for that error. That error would belong to someone from the master controls.

Here's a follow-up from this thread. The Daily Variety posted last night that former host of long time Saturday night program Sabado Gigante, Don Francisco, has landed a new job as senior national correspondent at Telemundo. He will also be involved in a new joint production venture with the network.

This ain't nothing new. Katie Fehlinger have filled-in at Channel 2 before.

A new retrans fight. This time is NPG & Dish Network. The stations operated by News-Press & Gazette will be pulled from the Dish Network systems at 6pm/ET tonight if there's no retrans deal.

Another day, another partnership. This time it's Scripps & Raycom forming a partnership to develop new programming for its stations. These two groups (plus Cox) already developed syndicated program RightThisMinute.

The FCC greenlighted the WABG/WXVT transactions today. They also approved KZUP-CD transaction from White Knight to Nexstar proper.

Competing with WCVB, Sunbeam's WHDH will launch a new 7pm newscast on March 7th.

That is basically their intention.

And the other two translators that'll serve north of that LP are K28MA-D Argusville & K30LR-D Grand Forks.

Sister-station WSOC also have a 12pm show on the weekends as well.

TVNewsCheck stated last night that Miami's ABC station WPLG will be adding a half-hour to it's weekend morning newscast. Beginning this Saturday, WPLG's weekend morning show will start airing at 5am, instead of 5:30am. Now the article doesn't state that the show ends at 8am for GMA, and comes back on at 9am.

Yes.

New M&A tonight. It looks like Brady will be acquiring Frontier's KPVI & KVIQ.