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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.

Yeah, and they can save all that time and worry, by unloading all of its portfolio and fold it up. They may not even have to see the judge (doubt it, is there still in bankruptcy?). Pappas was done when they sold its flagship KMPH Fox 26 to Titan. They'll probably get more dough if they sell the remaining and they can tend to other business elsewhere.

Pappas is all but toast. It's a matter of who will be willing to buy the remaining stations. Stations like KCWI/KDMI, WIWN & WLGA could be very well be sold by those Spectrum Speculators like LocusPoint, OTA Broadcasting & NRJ TV, who are willing to sell the spectrum to the FCC for next years incentive auctions. This will no doubt be the likely result for two stations merging, obviously since KECY have both Fox & ABC in the same frequency. Since I just predicting Pappas' fate, I wished a respective owner can acquire Pappas' KSWT, KHGI/KWNB & KFXL. Let Una Vez Mas have KAZA.

Looks like Brady has acquired another station. In a rare Sunday TVNewsCheck posting, it appears that Brian Brady has acquired Intermountain West Communications-owned, Yuma's NBC affiliate KYMA 11. Brady announced that he was going to acquire the low-power stations in Medford, as he already have a full-power Fox affiliate, KMVU. The stunning thing about this is unless, it becomes the new licensee name for KYMA, what is this company's name. Is it Blackhawk, Stainless or Northwest? It's just mind-boggling.

Yeah, and it wasn't no midnight deadline, it was a 5pm early evening deadline. That would've been critical to lose primetime programming if they lose those signals.

Can't believe this was ten months after Weigel dealt with an unfamilar affiliation switch in Chicago. Nice to see the now late longtime owner of Weigel Broadcasting Howard Shapiro on the vid.