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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.

Another New Station Group. And this time this group have some stations. B&C states today this new California group, Yellowstone Holdings will acquire SagamoreHill Broadcasting's KGWN (CBS) Cheyenne, WY, KSTF (CBS) Scottsbluff, NE and KGNS (NBC) Laredo, TX for $20.5M. So far SagamoreHill has sold now four full power stations. They also sold Florence, SC station WWMB to Armstrong Williams's Howard Stirk Holdings as a part of the Sinclair-Barrington Acquisition. This will leave SagamoreHill with just four stations, all except for one, have LMA with other stations. KXLT Rochester (Quincy), KZTV Corpus Christi (Cordillera), WLTZ Columbus & WNCF Montgomery (Bahakel). B&C states that it appears that they have reached a deal, to avert the signals for coming off of the TWC systems.

SMH. Here's what happen earlier this morning. They aired a pre-packaged Sylvia Perez's HealthBeat segment about certain things males can do to increase their changes to become a father. And this what happened afterwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echtJs4AL7k Video Courtesy of brand babu from YT

It would be nice to see someone do just Saturday & Sunday morning shows. I never thought it was right for Phil to do almost an entire weekends worth of news. I mean, doing the Saturday Night show, then sleep at the station, then wake up and do the Sunday Morning show? I know many stations in other markets do that, where anchors do all the weekends shows. My reasoning is how much sleep do they get? Or do they even go to sleep? I remember last August during the Olympics where the ABC O&Os were doing the 7 minute Midnight/11pm newscasts. All they did on the weekend was extend the show an extra 7 minutes (from 10pm to 11:07pm). Karen started her maternity leave, and Ravi & Phil was off that day. So Stacey Baca fill in, along with Mike Caplan. Then a few hours later when the morning news came on, there was Stacey & Mike along with Judy, because Hosea & Tracy wasn't there. It was like they never looked tired an such. Or for the last six years Baca would be on the field Friday Nights at 10pm and then anchor the Saturday morning news. That's being a trooper. But damn. I'll be like, do they even get any sleep at all?

I actually saw that. After the last 4pm tease, they should just less then 10 seconds into the new segment and just immediately, went to the next set of commercials. So basically one of the segments was skipped. Then they had to show those minutes of ads before the beginning of the 4pm show. I was like what its up over there. My theory is they're might be some new folks are running the controls tonight and not the regulars who might be jumping early on their holiday plans.

It's basically the same thing when they show the map with all the spots temps. And if they touch the one in O'Hare, the number expands/highlights. It's like the same thing. They now doing it with the 7-day graphic as they touch the bar and showing the AccuWeather graphic. I'm not sold with the new 7-Day graphic. Looking out to the right doesn't look right. ____ What's up with the lack of commercials on the 6pm tonight? A commercial wanted to come one and the second it shows, it goes back to the look of the Buckingham Fountain. And since there's a lack of ads, they're now re-airing Roz Varon's Weekender segment from the 4pm show. Okay As of 6:22pm/CT, the ads are back.

Retrans Battle Again!!!! This time is Time Warner Cable & LIN Media. Multichannel.com is posting that if a deal doesn't get reached by Friday, May 31st at 5pm/ET, the stations in 14 markets including Buffalo, Green Bay and Hawaii will lose their signals on the cable carrier. TWC stated that LIN is seeking a 50% increase of retransmission fees after they'd reached a deal two years prior. TWC stated that it was hopeful that it can make a deal by that time, but LIN isn't saying anything, at this time.

TVNewsCheck is stating today that WTAE's general sales manager Charles W. Wolfertz, III will become the new President & General Manager of Channel 4 in Pittsburgh. His appointment will go in effect on June 1st. Wolfertz replaces outgoing GM Michael J. Hayes, who will be appointed the next Senior Vice President of Hearst Television.

The Tampa Bay Times is stating that longtime WTSP morning anchor Ginger Gadsden will be leaving the station on June 30. And by the looks like it was her decision to leave.

And the deal is done. The New Age is out in Southern Maine. The Iron & The Cotton is in. Just this Monday, the Assignment of License of WPXT & WPME from New Age Media & MPS Media to Ironwood & Cottonwood Communications was consummated. The question I'm pondering, will New Age Media will unload more properties in the remaining markets like Tallahassee, Gainesville, Chattanooga and their home base in NEPA?

I wasn't aware that they'd use that cue early on. At that time, they'd already over two years into using the new EWN theme. I also don't think that cue included that WABC melody in the beginning at that time. I think someone attach that melody onto the 1994 Series 1 breaking news cue, like recently.

Okay they just played the regular 6pm talent open, then they played the Breaking News stinger. Not the breaking news opening they've been playing at the start of the 5 & 5:30 shows.

I captured the audio of the breaking news open. I captured it as they were finishing airing that police press conference. I knew they were going to air it because of that story and the developments of the Tornado in OK area. That breaking new cue has been used on KABC for god knows how long. Even after they used the NG1 theme in 2006.

No it was a different one. That cue with the one you're talking about is one of those 5 second tag from another theme Series 1. This one was a different one. It was aired at the start of the 6pm open with Charlie Van Dyke stating "This is Breaking News from Channel 7 Eyewitness News" or something along those lines and then they showed what happened in Oklahoma. The cue begins with the WABC Melody, and then you'll hear that . It's like someone smack-dab that melody on there. This obviously had to be customized. They played that open twice, on the 6pm & the 11pm. I missed the open on the 11pm because I saw the stream too late to see it. When I saw it at six, I didn't even notice the vamp part because it was played kind of quietly, until like the 10 secs. into it and then I noticed it. On a different note, when I saw the Sunday morning 9am broadcast online, I was shocked that they got rid of the Series 1 bumper they used to play all the time on the weekends. When did they stop playing that bumper? Was it when they moved to new studio?

I just seen the live stream of WABC's newscast just now and during their 6pm show. When did they start using that customized KABC Breaking News cue for their special "Breaking News" news open? The cue, which they attached the WABC EWN Logo at the beginning. That is very tight.

Like I stated, last night was the last time they'd used the 2007 mic flags. As of this morning, and probably last night at 10pm, that's when the newer WABC's, I mean WLS's mic flags are being used. All the reporters on the field used the newer flags tonight on the 5pm show. Now I wonder if they're going to send the 2007 mic flags to WJLA, since they've been using those mic flags, alone with the circle-7 by itself flags for a minute. But I would love to see them use WABC's mic flag. But serious, when I first saw WABC's new flags in 2011, I fell in love. Now WLS is now using their version of the flag, its almost like pre-1997 all over again. Kudos to WLS for getting a custom WABC flag. I wish the other two Circle 7's to the west get it, but I'm asking for too much.

And I'm not sure if it was used on the 10pm last night, but just this morning, they are now using the new mic flags. And they are a custom version, similar to that of WABC's. On Friday Night, most of the reporters on the field who were reporting from the spots of where the upcoming Dan Ryan rapid transit shutdown will happen, were still using the old 2007 mic flags.

Follow Up Time and some new info relating to Sainte Partners. It appears that the consent to assign the license of KVIQ from Raul to Sainte Partners was approved yesterday. Now while we wait for this to be consummated, B&C states it appears that Sainte Partners will be selling its Medford, OR properties to this new firm by Broadcasting Communications Company, operated by former board chairman for the Fox affiliates, Brian Brady. The properties include MyNetworkTV stations KFBI-LD Medford & K41ID Klamath Falls and Telemundo station KMCW-LP. Just to go deeper the paperwork states that Broadcasting Licenses, L.P. will buy the stations for just $200K. Also come to find out that Broadcasting Licenses is the same licensee of Fox station KMVU 26. So these LPs are being sold by Northwest Broadcasting (aka Stainless).