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New FCC Approval. And this one was filed seven months ago. WLOV, the Fox Station in Tupelo, Mississippi filed an application of consent to Assign the License from Lingard Broadcasting Corporation to Tupelo Broadcasting, Inc. For $500K. Lingard Broadcasting is owned by Jack Lingard. From this attachment in this application, it explains the interest in terms of the people involved. Lingard is the brother of the majority owner of WTVA Inc, Jane Spain. Tupelo Broadcasting is owned by Matthew Dee, the son of Jane Spain. So basically the stations is being exchange from one next-of-kin to the other. Anyway, the application was posted on the FCC site December 26, and just today, after almost seven months, the FCC has finally greenlighted the application. If we remember back in late January, it took nine months for the FCC to approve WXVT's app from Saga to the sons of the owner of WABG. __________________________________________________ NBC is reorganizing its local TV division. The B&C is posting that the 16 stations from Telemundo Station Group and New England cable news channel, NECN will merge with the 10 NBC O&Os from NBC Owned Television Stations, will merge to form the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division. NBC Owned Stations president, Valari Staab will head the newly form division. ________________________________________________ It looks like Litton will rule Saturday Mornings. First ABC, Now CBS. TVNewsCheck stating that Litton Entertainment will produce six new E-I compliant shows that will air on Saturday Mornings on CBS. The brand will be entitled "The CBS Dream Team, It's Epic".(I hope they change the name overtime). B&C stated that Litton is expected to announce the lineup of season 3 of Litton's Weekend Adventure, which airs on the ABC affiliates. They're going to think of something because one of the current shows will be moving to the CBS block on September 28th. This will be the second time where a programmer is involved in two Saturday morning programming blocks for two different networks. Remember 4Kids Entertainment with 4KidsTV (Fox) and The CW4Kids (CW)?

DAMN!!!! 30%??!!!! The unemployment rate will not help much once Brady starts consolidating 11 & 13. All Pappas need to do now is to find the who should buy the Nebraska cluster (maybe Sinclair can complete the former Pappas Nebraska chain, like they got KPTM/KXVO). They can give KAZA to that firm that's buying the Una Vez Mas stations. And sell the remaining stations (KDMI/KCWI, WLGA, WIWN) to those speculators who want to see them turn into those wireless broadband towers. And are they even out of the woods yet, as in terms of their debt, even if they sell the remaining assets?

Follow-Up Time. And it looks like Brady didn't want to get KYMA for nothing. It appears that he will acquire KSWT from Pappas for $900K. And will use the 'failed station waiver' card to get it. If this sticks, it would be the third time a true Big-3 network duopoly has formed, after Gannett's WTLV/WJXX Jacksonville & Nexstar's KSEE/KGPE Fresno.

From the Bakersfield Californian today, It looks like the building of Nexstar's KGET was partially collapsed on Saturday. It didn't stop the folks fron getting their 11pm show on time.

Damn. I don't think I ever remember Kemberly being a fill-in anchor. Have she ever filled in before?

Good Luck being in the Sincrap's dungeon. All the best for her.

I just thought of something. Since they have a Hampton offices (as well as their hub in Richmond), WSKY could be the group's new flagship station. ________________________ We have a consummation and another new M&A this morning. Hubbard has consummated its sale of Pittsfield MA's WNYA from Venture Technologies. Hubbard has operated this station under a joint sales agreement since their acquisition announcement back in Febraury, and applied for a failed station waiver to acquire it (similar to what Freedom & Sinclair did for WCWN). And it appears that the largest Azteca America affiliate group, Una Vez Mas Holdings has agreed to transfer control the licenses (including KAZD) to Northstar Media, LLC for $700K. Here's the full transaction description.

New M&A today. Lockwood acquires WSKY 4 Manteo, NC for $1.1M ($1,104,944.20). I'm not too sure if they are going to benefit anything with this station. Based on their schedule, it looks like they get what's leftover syndie shows the other stations didn't want or not have room for.

The videos may be a repost. But today is the 18th anniversary of the devastating and deadly Heat Wave in Chicago. The mercury reached 104° at O'Hare Field and 106° at Midway Airport, with heat indecies at Midway reached a scorching 122°. Here's WBBM's 10pm news open from July 13, 1995. And a follow up special report about the Heat Wave, eight days later on July 21. Videos Courtesy of GillSB8109 from YT. ____________________________________________ Of course last year, Chicago had three straight days of 100+° temperatures (July 4-6), but thanks to the preparedness of Heat Emergency Advisories & Warnings (which they never used until the last day of the heat wave), and many cooling facilities, the fatality levels were greatly reduced.

Oh it's going to be more than that before its all over. Or at least, when they finish construction of the new set at the KSEE facilities in the fall. Even though they say both will have separate brands, anchor pairs and whatever, what I said earlier, I still think we will see some sort of a la Nexstar's Eyewitness News kind of brand where they would end up simulcasting news on both 24 & 47. I mean anything can happen between now and when the changes get implemented in the fall. And you have to look at Nexstar's very first market where they currently simulcast news on both WYOU & WBRE, and they're 1 DMA higher than Fresno. I wouldn't be shocked if Nexstar would do the same thing in Fresno.

New Retrans Battle!! This time its Time Warner Cable & Journal. B&C is posting that Time Warner & Journal have until June 30 to come up with a new deal or the Journal stations will be yank. It includes Journal's flagship station WTMJ. Time Warner is pointing out that Journal is seeking 200% of their programming, and has taking a stance on broadcasters' egregious demands from without delivering more value.

That happened last week, as those Luna shortened ads became widescreen as well.

I assume KENV in Elko (somewhat a satellite of KRNV) will stay in the Nevada fold, with KVBC I mean KSNV. The only station they haven't sold yet is Beartooth NBC. And KFXP will probably stay being assigned by Compass Communications. This should be open season for Bonten to acquire Beartooth NBC to connect with Missoula/Butte's KTVM/KCFW/KECI. Or Yellowstone could acquire Bonten's Montana properties.

Thank you for telling me. I knew they weren't buying all the Makos for nothing. All those stations are will be toasted after auction time. None of those station have any significants anyway, but its still bad nevertheless. I thought we dealt with this spectrum crunch after the 2009 DTV transition four years ago. And now they want 120khz of more spectrum off the Broadcast TV grid? And then stations that keep their stations, are going to have to move channels again. Where's the money for those stations to reallocate. And some stations would have to share the same frequency. I know I've been preaching this on this board almost regularly and I do apologize. But this what I think this is just as important than the over growing media M&A consolidation craze. It's pitiful to see Sinclair gobbling stations up like Pac-Man. But its even worst for these 'speculators' NRJ, OTA Broadcasting, LocusPoint, Local Media TV and now Landover are even at their own buying sprees, but we know what they're going to do with them. They don't care about the future of broadcast television. They only care about how much a broadcaster is willing to sell for their spectrum, instead of the long-lasting future of over-the-air broadcast television. and that alone is just plain pitiful.

Yellowstone gets another Sunbelt station. Last night was the Idaho stations KXTF & KPVI. Tonight, its Wyoming's KCWY, for $2M.

Awww man! I thought about that logo with map of the Montana in dark blue, and the first thing that came to mind was Bluetooth. I wasn't thinking about that thing you put in your ear, however. I assume the program would still air on WFAA, possibly after Nightline. Many stations execs across the country are having their doubts about the show, with some are saying that the show isn't living up to the ratings expectations. Some are even doubting that this show would even last after season two. Steve Harvey, Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Oz have all been inked with multi-year deals, and Katie is the only one that hasn't signed on to a multi-year deal. And even worst many of the show's forerunners have all left, all in the first season. The new co-EP Rachel Miscowiec promises to change up the show for Season Two. But I don't think it would change the minds of some station execs. I guess WFAA is the wise one by not waiting it out. Good for Belo8.

Checking the FCC apps tonight and it appears a lot of 314 & 345 (Assignment Of License) filings. It appears many of those are Low-power stations owned by Mako Communications. That and its subsidiaries are being sold by Landover 5, LLC for $46.5M. But the big news tonight is Yellowstone/Frontier Radio has appears to have acquired two more stations. From this rbr.com posting and FCC paperwork that was just posted to the FCC site about an hour ago, it appears that Intermountain West Communications stations KXTF Twin Falls and KPVI Pocatello/Idaho Falls will be sold to Idaho Broadcast Partners, LLC for an 'el-cheapo' $1M. That will be the subsidiary of Yellowstone Holdings, LLC. So this same firm will have KGNS, KGWN/KSTF, KXTF & KPVI; along with Frontier's WGXA. IWCC recently sold its Yuma station KYMA to Brian Brady's Blackhawk Broadcasting for $1.3M. So Sunbelt has unloaded three stations for $2.3M in the last two weeks? That's very cheap. If they want to unload any more, they could sell off Beartooth NBC & KCWY to Bonten, since they own most of the NBC cluster in Montana.

This is not the first time that happen. Just a few years ago. Maybe it was around 2008. But I know they were downstairs at that time. Sylvia was filling in for Alan that day on the 4pm show. At the end of the show, instead of saying "that's it for ABC 7 News at 4....", she's said. "That's it for Eyewitness News at 4, I'm Sylvia Perez". The EWN brand have been gone since 1996, but there will always be a time someone will say "Eyewitness News". Talk about Throwback Thursdays!!!

Its a dark ABC Logo, similar to WABC's and the rest of the O&Os that jumped (KABC, KGO & KFSN). The Circle 7 don't have many darker shade effects like WABC's.

So far it's been aired three times, It first aired during the 8am hour of Good Morning America, then it aired again during Windy City Live, then once during the 11am news. Since the station is so promo-heavy, you won't miss it later on. It's basically a 15 second promo. The logo picture is similar to the profile Pic on the Facebook wall. But I can easily tell its the new logo. You'll get a chance to see it. And what do you mean Just for giggles, what do you think that amusing? Don't tell me it aired yesterday and you didn't tell me about it. LOL.

WLS is airing a new short promo, plugging its Facebook Wall, and the logo appears to be the new ABC logo. And its been almost a year when they started using that 2007 design, and they use it extensively. It's only on the promo, not anywhere else at this point.

Maybe because of a better signal, so the Michiana folks can see the Bears Games. Not only Weigel acquired ABC from WSJV but they'd acquired the CBS from WITI in Milwaukee, also ten months prior (12/11/94). So Weigel dealt with three affiliation switches. They lost Univision in Chicago to WGBO (12/31/94), and gained ABC & CBS in South Bend & Milwaukee, respectively. All within a year.

Here's the paperwork for both KGNS & KGWN. Based on the Yellowstone ownership structure, both stations will be sisters to Macon, GA's Fox/ABC station, WGXA. So this is 'more or less' a slight expansion.

I actually posted it on this thread back on Friday. B&C was first to break that news. TVNewsCheck just posted the news today. This is SagamoreHill's lowest market stations they're selling.

Here's the paperwork. And it shows the stations licensee names that Brady owns. Anyway Sunbelt is selling KYMA to Brady for $1.3M.